Recently by Kevin Halls

AWAY to Blackpool on Tuesday evening then at home to Ipswich on Saturday this could be a massive week in the Sky Blues season.

If they can win both of these games that would be a welcome six points and a huge boost to our fight towards staying in the Championship but lose them both and come away pointless would be a huge blow and leave the City stuck at the bottom and favourites for the drop.

As we are the only club in the whole Football League still without an away win all season surely we have to start changing that now and why not at Bloomfield Road tomorrow night ?

But even though there's a lot of doom and gloom around the club and supporters are totally cheesed off with everything concerning Coventry City,and this season has been a disaster on and off the pitch,in a strange way all this has made me more determined to carry on supporting the club.

I know a lot of fans will say I'm deluded and what's the point anymore as the club is on a downward spiral and getting relegated and we are a laughing stock.

All of that may well be true but I know there are still Thirteen to Fourteen thousand Sky Blue hardcore who will still keep on turning up getting behind the team.

That's not a large number but enough to make some noise when they are all in it together just like the fans who went to Derby who were brilliant and who out sung the large Derby contingent and there were just under a thousand of them !

It all boils down to one thing now and that is who's up for the fight ?
On the pitch with the players and in the stands with the fans the saying goes : When the going gets tough the tough get going.

This was summed up nicely after the Southampton cup tie when I was talking to a group of die-hard City fans when asked if they will still be following the Sky Blues next season if they were in League one,they said in an instant of course they will.

I bet Coventry City Football club would love to hear those words coming from Twenty odd thousand fans right now wouldn't they ?

ONCE again Coventry City have shown what we have all known for many years that they are a selling club of the highest order and they have sent out a clear message to other clubs that if you fancy one of our players just be patient and you will get him.

We all knew Jukebox would leave but that doesn't make it any sweeter though as when your bottom of the division and fighting for survival you do everything in your power to hold on to players not get rid of them.

Andy Thorn is doing his best to keep us all positive by saying he's got replacements ready but he's becoming like a stand up comedian and not the strong leader he tries so hard to be.

AS the saying goes: It's not over till the fat lady sings,and I haven't heard her just yet that must mean the Sky Blues are still in with a chance of staying up.

Two wins and a narrow defeat shows the players are still fighting and giving it there all and the fans at the Brighton game were also getting behind the team too so all is not lost as yet.

Will the Southampton cup-tie be a break from the Championship and a chance to progress in the competition or will it be a hindrance as the players want to keep the momentum going in the league ?

GREAT to get the much needed win over Bristol City on Boxing Day and it felt good to leave the Ricoh on a high instead of the usual low we have had for most of the season.

Although the three points was most welcome seeing the position we are in it won't count for nothing unless we carry on now and keep the habit going starting with the must win game on New Years Eve against Brighton.

The Seagulls got off to a flying start pardon the pun but they aren't doing so well lately so if the Sky Blues can take their second half performance against Bristol and extend it to a full ninety odd minutes they can beat Brighton I feel and continue their fight for survival.

FIFTY years ago Jimmy Hill started his Sky Blue revolution when the City were a Third Division club and it looks like his beloved club are going back to where it all began as the League One is the third tier of football.

His statue has been erected outside the Ricoh Arena as a fitting tribute to all the great man did for our football club so how ironic it could be that it goes up in the season we got relegated.

None of us Sky Blue faithful obviously want that to happen but we may have to face reality now that it doesn't look good for us and the dreadful relegation is on the cards.

WHAT a load of rubbish said one fan on his way out of the Ricoh on Saturday while another disgruntled City fan went even further and said what a bunch of fairies.

And this was ten minutes still to go as they like me had seen enough by then and we were just glad to get away from the place as it isn't a theatre of dreams like Old Trafford is but more like a house of horrors !

But what angered and irritated me as well was to see Hull City move into the top six when I thought they were very poor and both teams served up football which wouldn't have looked out of place in the Conference.

TO quote William Shakespeare it's looking like a winter of discontent for the Sky Blues as sadly Andy Thorn is proving not to be a man for all seasons.

Andy says he can't wait for January to arrive so he can bring in some new players to tighten things up but will he be still in charge then anyway and furthermore will anyone want to come to a struggling side ?

But before those January sales begin we have the December fixtures to worry about because lose all those which could happen we will be so far adrift from the pack above us that even the signing of Lionel Messi wouldn't be enough to save us.

AS the football world is still in shock at the dreadful news at the weekend of the death of Gary Speed it seems that our problems here at Coventry City pale into insignificance as to how the poor family of Gary Speed are feeling right now.

But as in life football carries on with all it's ups and downs and twists and turns so as sad and upsetting the news is now I guess you just have to continue on and talk and concentrate on all things relating to our club.

And as the Sky Blues keep on searching for some wins it doesn't look too good for our chances at staying in this tough and unforgiving division unless we can hit a winning run taking us into the new year.

FOOTBALL can be a very cruel game at times and you often come away from matches scratching your head and wondering why didn't we win that game ?

And that's what I did on Saturday after the West Ham fixture because we dominated for a good seventy minutes and we made them look average I thought,and without doubt if we had got a deserved second goal we would have secured the points.

But once again we switched off and let them back in the game and lost to two goals that should never had happened which left us all frustrated once again because make no bones about it we should have won.