Recently by Kevin Halls

FOLLOWING on from the Phyllis Pyle blog it got me thinking about all the players and teams she's seen over all those years watching the Sky Blues, I bet she's got lot's of stories to tell ?

I never got tired of listening to my father telling me about the matches he'd seen and how it was so much better in "his day."

But we're all like that I guess because myself I always go on about the sixties and seventies because to me they were great decades especially for football.

IN the Coventry Telegraph today there is an article on a lady called Phyllis Pyle who has just celebrated her one hundreth birthday.

She is a Coventry City supporter and has been since the age of twelve making her probably the oldest living Sky Blue fan, and longest too I should think with a staggering eighty eight years of support.

And in 1987 she was at the F.A.Cup final to see the City win the Cup,and she got told off for standing on her seat celebrating the victory, she was 76 years old at the time.

ALL this talk over Marlon King has got me thinking back to when the City bought Speedie from Chelsea.

Speedie turned into a bit of a Sky Blue legend, but at the time his signing was a little controversial because he had a reputation as a hothead who was forever getting sent off and booked.

And for that reason a lot of clubs were put off by that but not the City thankfully, because he quickly became an Highfield Road favourite.

THE SKY BLUES aren't playing beautiful football at the moment but they are grinding out the points nevertheless.

As Aidy Boothroyd quite rightly says we are a work in progress, and watching from the stands you can see that the players are really putting in a shift which is pleasing to see.

There is still a problem in midfield though I feel they don't dominate that area of the pitch enough, they can certainly tackle well enough, but maybe we need some flair there as well ?

I THOUGHT the Sky Blues were dead and buried at two goals down to Watford on Saturday, but they showed some true grit and determination to draw level.

But until Bell's cracker Watford were much the better side as the Sky Blues were very average much like they were against Morecambe in the Carling Cup, but would a better team than Watford have let the City claw back a two goal defecit ?

Still to play poor and get a point away from home can be a positive sign and something to build on.

THREE points from the opening game of the season and a brace from Freddie Eastwood, so a good start to the new campaign.

Then forward a few days to the Carling Cup at Morecambe and the Sky Blues turn in a very poor performance, a case of here we go again ?

But I guess that's what can happen when the manager experiments with his squad and making ten changes from the Pompey match.

NOT long to go now till the new season starts again and I'm really looking forward to it, then again I say that every season, a fresh start with the slate wiped clean full of optimism and high expectations.

Every team in the Championship and their fans will be feeling the same and if they aren't then something must be wrong.

Aidy Boothroyd has done a lot of positive talking since taking over as manager, he's one of the most upbeat talkers I've heard in football for a very long time.

THROUGHOUT the World Cup the Telegraph had an online contest of their own going on, in which thirty two Sky Blue players battled against each other in a knockout competition to seew who is the greatest Sky Blue legend.

And the player who got most votes was Ronnie Farmer beating Bill Glazier into first place.
As I'm in my fifties I am old enough to have seen a lot of the players in the hall of fame, and Ronnie Farmer was a very good midfielder although he would have been called a wing half then.

FOLLOWING on from Sky Blue Kev's blog, I've always been of the mind that watching England isn't a lot different from viewing the Sky blues.

They both build up your hopes call it hype if you like, then just when you think something good is about to happen BANG they deflate you big style.

THE results of the Sky Blue fans survey 2010 in the Telegraph made interesting reading.

I say interesting but not surprising, as ninety per cent backed the sacking of Coleman,and sixty per cent rated the season as poor,while Keiran Westwood took almost all the votes as the favourite player.