The greatest Sky Blue set piece?
IN CASE you didn't notice, Sammy Clingan put a penalty wide of the post against Swansea on Saturday.
Clinton Morrison noticed, and following the miss he proceeded to stand angrily in the penalty area to express his disappointment at Clingan's failure to convert the spot kick. You tell him Clinton.
The Sky Blues haven't always been the best at set-pieces. Before Danny Fox came along we lacked a "dead ball specialist", and now that he's departed it could be argued that we find ourselves in this very predicament once more, although Leon Best's goal against Barnsley is evidence on the contrary.
You only have to look at the number of set piece goals that Cristiano Ronaldo provided for United last year to see that having someone to make the most of dead ball situations is crucial.
Best's goal against Barnsley was a good free kick, but there's one sky blue set-piece that stands out from the rest...
Cast your mind back to October 1970. It's City against Everton at Highfield Road, in a game that will mainly be remembered for a piece of magic from Ernie Hunt.
This free kick has to be one of the greatest in Coventry's history, purely due its cheekiness and the skill involved. It takes a brave man to attempt something so audacious, and egg would have well and truly been on his face had it failed to succeed.
But it did. And we're grateful. There are so many ways in which that set piece could have gone wrong. Willie Carr's flick may have been wayward. Hunt's volley could have been scuffed.
The referee, who must have had doubts as to whether it was legal, may have ordered a retake. As it happens, it all went swimmingly, and we were left with cracking goal.
So, Ernie Hunt's volley against Everton in October 1970. The greatest Sky Blue set piece ever?
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