Recently by Kevin Halls

WATCHING all the drama and excitement on the final day of the Premiership on Sunday and seeing the tension then the huge smiles on fans faces made me feel really envious.

Most Coventry supporters are totally alien to all that joy of watching our team win a title or get into the play offs or even just gain promotion unless your a fan like me who saw us win the Cup or have success under Jimmy Hill all those years ago.

We have to watch other clubs on the television playing in huge games and I'm pretending to enjoy watching it all when deep down I feel like screaming with frustration and shouting out at the top of my voice " I don't care who wins ! "

THE Sky Blue Army did themselves and the club proud in the final game of our rotten and miserable campaign at Southampton on Saturday.

They went there determined to enjoy the day which deserves a medal for gallantry and courage in itself as deep down all us City fans are hurting but are hiding it as best as we can.

Last season we gate crashed Norwich's party celebrations and here we are again turning up at Southampton's place and looking on at their fans running on the pitch in mass excitement while we stare on thinking I wonder what that feels like ?

SO the inevitable happened and the City got relegated to League One but what a way to go down with no real fight or passion which left us fans feeling short changed again as if we haven't been ripped off enough financially and mentally this season and a lot more too.

When we hit the post and Macca missed an easy chance the fans started singing "That's why we're going down." In other words the lack of goals and poor finishing are a big part as to why we are down.

But Andy Thorn has tried his best considering what he has had to put up with and that's why the majority of City fans haven't given him vitriol and he remains a popular manager.

MILLWALL come to the Ricoh tonight knowing they are safe for another season in the Championship while the Sky Blues need the win to have any chance at staying up.

Our rivals are Bristol City who are at home to West Ham United so the nerves will be jangling no doubt this evening and all eyes will be fixed on the scoreboard at half time and the end of the matches.

We all know what a strange division the Championship is when anyone can beat anyone on the day and would we all be that shocked to see Bristol causing an upset while we implode once again ?

DEVASTATED and low was how I felt after the defeat by Bristol City on Easter Monday and I still can't believe how poor we played in what was probably the biggest game of this miserable season.

And Andy Thorn after the game said in an interview that the players were tired and leggy but surely a match as crucial as that one adrenaline should be pumping through the players veins which would get you through a full ninety minutes.

But Bristol played on Saturday evening but they didn't say they were nackered did they ?
No I'm sorry Andy using the tired excuse won't wash anymore he would be better off just facing up to the truth and admitting the players bottled it and played poorly.

THE Sky Blues finally get that elusive first away win this season at Hull City on Saturday with a two nil victory.

Andy Thorn has been saying for weeks that it would come so his positive attitude has at last been rewarded and it has rubbed off on his players.

He also said after the Hull game he wants the team to go unbeaten now till the end of the season which obviously would keep us well in the Championship and that would make it twelve games without a loss which is promotion form let alone enough to keep us in this division.

THE Sun was shining on Saturday at the Ricoh Arena and as it was Legends Day as well you could sense it was going to be a good day for us fans too.

And although they took a while to settle down the team eventually got a grip on the game and scored two cracking goals and they were worthy winners in the end I thought.

Portsmouth manfully gave it their best shot and their fans were as usual very vocal and they do get behind their team but then again our singers corner were on form as well and the atmosphere was good.

But I felt there was more than Fifteen thousand in the ground so where they got that attendance from baffles me as it looked a lot more than that,but the main thing was the result and the three points.

THE Sky Blues needed the six points from the last two home games against Palace and Birmingham City and not the two they ended up with.

I know two draws isn't too bad and a lot better than two defeats but relying on teams in and around us to slip up is a dangerous and nervy game to play at this time of the season.

Because you can guarantee that one or two sides will start to win and lo and behold Forest and Doncaster seem to have hit a little bit of form which isn't what us City fans want to see or hear about is it ?

THE Sky Blues still can't get a win away from home and it's hard to see where they will get that elusive first win at and we could go the whole season as the only team in the Football League without a single victory on the road.

That is an embarrassing statistic and it's only down to our recent good form at home that is keeping us afloat at the moment as otherwise we would have been long gone by now.

Why the City can't win on their travels is on all Sky Blue fans minds and we all have our own answer to that poser and it would be easy just to say that they aren't good enough and lack confidence.

THEY left it late against boring Barnsley but three points is what was needed on Saturday so we can't complain too much about the team huffing and puffing their way to that target.

Barnsley were a very poor outfit and if someone had come to watch the two teams for the very first time they would surely have said we were the mid table side and Barnsley were the side at the bottom of the division.

But once again it just shows what a strange league the Championship is as other than say the top three or four clubs there's not much between the rest I reckon,and all it takes is a club to win a few games on the trot and they can move well away from the nether regions.