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Just read the Pre-match view from but thought I might as well answer it on here given the Coventry fan attendance on this thread.
I, and I suspect most United fans don’t hate Coventry. Dislike? Yes. Disdain? Sure but not hatred. Why the dislike and disdain I hear you asking? Well, Over the years, teams of yours have come to the lane, fouled and time-wasted for 90 minutes and generally contributed to some of the worst games of football I’ve seen in history (the worst example being a Gary McCallister side in the championship- boxing day I think. Never seen a side so determined to not play the game). Then, the one time we have the cheek to do it to you (last season, 1-0 win at the lane), you’re all over our forum bitching and moaning about how it’s not fair but you’re not worried, you’re still going up automatically apparently. Had to chuckle at how that turned out. Then in the summer, we sign John Fleck. One of our posters collects views from fans when we sign one of their players. Only Coventry fans have shown such a level of bitterness. Pretending that he won’t be missed simply because he turned his back on you lot and claiming some other shit midfielder you had was better anyway (I can’t remember said shit midfielder’s name- probably because he was shit). Very strange and extreme case of sour grapes just because the best midfielder in the league wanted to move away you’re your diseased club. Fast forward to this season and your fans bring the game into disrepute completely ruining any chance of a proper game of football with the whistles and pitch invasions. Before it was just your players that did it but now your fans too? Could have cost us big in the promotion race. Fortunately, our lads rose above it, got the job done and didn’t look back. Just because your club is fucked, doesn’t give you the right to sabotage us or compromise the integrity of the game. But we take the piss out of you for it with a pro-SISU song and you’re off crying again to the media or anyone else who’ll listen about mean, horrible Sheffield United not sympathising with you. Fast forward on a couple of months and I hear that Coventry have sold 40,000 tickets for their big Wembley final with quotes of “fantastic support”. Quick look at average attendances see you’re at 9k for the season and only 12k last season when you all thought you were the dog’s bollocks. Then I discover that you’ve failed to sell 390 tickets for tomorrow. Fantastic support my arse. No wonder you lot like to align yourself with our pork neighbours. They also like to pretend they have fantastic support because they get one off big crowds for a big game whilst most of them can’t be arsed the rest of the time. They also think winning a cup nigh on 30 years ago makes them a massive club. Then there’s stadia. Highfield Road was a decent, old fashioned football ground of sorts (no Bramall Lane but not bad). Then you moved to the Ricoh. Of all the away days I’ve ever been to, I think the Ricoh might be my least liked football ground. Soullessness epitomised. Plastic, in the middle of nowhere. Zero atmosphere. Horrible, horrible place.
Then there’s personnel. Lee Hughes. Marlon King (darkened our door for sort time too). Horrible individuals who leave a stain at any club they play for. Chuck Bellamy into that mix as well.
Then there’s just the utter boringness of your club. What have you ever been involved in since 1987? Cup runs? Promotion/ title challenges? Anything of any excitement whatsoever? Even your relegations are boring as you whimper out with time to spare. The only good thing about your lot is that you gave us a very enjoyable night when Alan Kelly made Dion Dublin cry saving his penalty in your biggest game of the last (nearly) 30 years.
But you reckon your glory days are back because you’ve won the most despised trophy in all of professional football. The trophy where half of the clubs involved deliberately went out in the group stage even taking fines so as to not have to play first team players. The competition whose rules reek of a lack of integrity. Before this year, it was a shit trophy for shit teams. Now, in it’s latest incarnation, it’s a stain on our national game. A trophy so unwanted, that football literally, sent it to Coventry. Very fitting.
But despite all of that, I don’t want you to go bust and I don’t think most blades do either. I’m sure you have some normal, sensible fans to whom football means a lot who just had the misfortune to be born in Coventry. As we all know, supporting your team becomes a part of you and I wouldn’t want to see that ripped away from any football fan. All that said, I’m glad we won’t be playing your boring, wretched club for a long time.
I, and I suspect most United fans don’t hate Coventry. Dislike? Yes. Disdain? Sure but not hatred. Why the dislike and disdain I hear you asking? Well, Over the years, teams of yours have come to the lane, fouled and time-wasted for 90 minutes and generally contributed to some of the worst games of football I’ve seen in history (the worst example being a Gary McCallister side in the championship- boxing day I think. Never seen a side so determined to not play the game). Then, the one time we have the cheek to do it to you (last season, 1-0 win at the lane), you’re all over our forum bitching and moaning about how it’s not fair but you’re not worried, you’re still going up automatically apparently. Had to chuckle at how that turned out. Then in the summer, we sign John Fleck. One of our posters collects views from fans when we sign one of their players. Only Coventry fans have shown such a level of bitterness. Pretending that he won’t be missed simply because he turned his back on you lot and claiming some other shit midfielder you had was better anyway (I can’t remember said shit midfielder’s name- probably because he was shit). Very strange and extreme case of sour grapes just because the best midfielder in the league wanted to move away you’re your diseased club. Fast forward to this season and your fans bring the game into disrepute completely ruining any chance of a proper game of football with the whistles and pitch invasions. Before it was just your players that did it but now your fans too? Could have cost us big in the promotion race. Fortunately, our lads rose above it, got the job done and didn’t look back. Just because your club is fucked, doesn’t give you the right to sabotage us or compromise the integrity of the game. But we take the piss out of you for it with a pro-SISU song and you’re off crying again to the media or anyone else who’ll listen about mean, horrible Sheffield United not sympathising with you. Fast forward on a couple of months and I hear that Coventry have sold 40,000 tickets for their big Wembley final with quotes of “fantastic support”. Quick look at average attendances see you’re at 9k for the season and only 12k last season when you all thought you were the dog’s bollocks. Then I discover that you’ve failed to sell 390 tickets for tomorrow. Fantastic support my arse. No wonder you lot like to align yourself with our pork neighbours. They also like to pretend they have fantastic support because they get one off big crowds for a big game whilst most of them can’t be arsed the rest of the time. They also think winning a cup nigh on 30 years ago makes them a massive club. Then there’s stadia. Highfield Road was a decent, old fashioned football ground of sorts (no Bramall Lane but not bad). Then you moved to the Ricoh. Of all the away days I’ve ever been to, I think the Ricoh might be my least liked football ground. Soullessness epitomised. Plastic, in the middle of nowhere. Zero atmosphere. Horrible, horrible place.
Then there’s personnel. Lee Hughes. Marlon King (darkened our door for sort time too). Horrible individuals who leave a stain at any club they play for. Chuck Bellamy into that mix as well.
Then there’s just the utter boringness of your club. What have you ever been involved in since 1987? Cup runs? Promotion/ title challenges? Anything of any excitement whatsoever? Even your relegations are boring as you whimper out with time to spare. The only good thing about your lot is that you gave us a very enjoyable night when Alan Kelly made Dion Dublin cry saving his penalty in your biggest game of the last (nearly) 30 years.
But you reckon your glory days are back because you’ve won the most despised trophy in all of professional football. The trophy where half of the clubs involved deliberately went out in the group stage even taking fines so as to not have to play first team players. The competition whose rules reek of a lack of integrity. Before this year, it was a shit trophy for shit teams. Now, in it’s latest incarnation, it’s a stain on our national game. A trophy so unwanted, that football literally, sent it to Coventry. Very fitting.
But despite all of that, I don’t want you to go bust and I don’t think most blades do either. I’m sure you have some normal, sensible fans to whom football means a lot who just had the misfortune to be born in Coventry. As we all know, supporting your team becomes a part of you and I wouldn’t want to see that ripped away from any football fan. All that said, I’m glad we won’t be playing your boring, wretched club for a long time.
