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Sphinx

13 Monday Jul 2015

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Tuesday 7th July 2015 ko 19.00

Pre-Season Friendly

COVENTRY SPHINX 3 (Thompson 51 Evangelinos 80 Jayes 90)

RACING CLUB WARWICK 0

Att 41 at Pitch 3, Sphinx Drive

Entry FREE

Programme FREE

I have to confess that I tend to read “Sphinx” and think of “Carry on Cleo” and the appalling joke, “Why the sphinx in Egypt? That’s because they have no drains.” The unusual suffix is due to the ground being the former Hawker-Siddley Motors works ground; the Sphinx was the firm’s badge. Continue reading →

Cagefighter

19 Sunday Apr 2015

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Saturday 18th April 2015 ko 15.00

Midland League Division Two

COVENTRY UNITED 1 (Stokes 80p)

BARNT GREEN SPARTAK 1 (Semple 44)

Att 98 at “The Cage” Alan Higgs Centre, Allard Way

Entry FREE

Programme £1.50

Badge £2

As the patrons walked across the car park towards the caged grass pitch at the side of the Alan Higgs Leisure centre they walked past a minibus decorated in full Coventry City insignia. It served as a salutary reminder to all on how tenuous a club’s links to its roots can be with City only recently returned after a period in exile in Northampton.

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