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18 Tuesday Jun 2019

Posted by laurencereade in C

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Anthony Smith, Continental Star, Coventry Plumbing, Football, groundhopping, Midland League, Non League, Spartans, Sporting, Westwood Heath Road

Tuesday 1st May 2019 ko 18.45

Midland League Division 3

COVENTRY PLUMBING 1  (Gardner 2)

CONTINENTAL STAR 3 (Smith 25p 33 84)

Att 42

Entry £2

Programme £1

It would appear that Westwood Heath Road in Coventry is something of a footballing hotbed. There’s the ground formerly known variously as Kirby Corner, and the David Sinclair Sports Ground, and was home to both Coventry Sporting and more recently Coventry Amateurs. Just a few hundred yards down the road is the University Sports Ground, that apart from being the first ever entry in this blog, was home to the now defunct Coventry Spartans, themselves a splinter from Coventry Amateurs.

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05 Monday Sep 2011

Posted by laurencereade in C

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Coventry Amateurs, COVENTRY SPARTANS, Dennisur, Enville Athletic, Kabongo, Midland Combination Division Two, Poole, Westwood Heath Road

Midland Combination Division Two

COVENTRY SPARTANS 2 (Kabongo 6p Dennisur 26)

ENVILLE ATHLETIC 1 (Poole 41)

Att 22 (h/c)

Entry FREE

Programme £1

Tea 60p

An interesting one this. Last season Coventry Amateurs played a few hundred yards way, down Westwood Heath Road. The reserves split from the first XI, and retained the name, so the firsts moved to the University Sports ground and renamed themselves Spartans. Crucially for the paperchasers, its Spartans who have continued to issue, although I doubt it they actually sold more than 5 on this occasion.

Spartans at kick off were rock bottom of the league, without a win, so you would have expected their visitors to have attacked from the off. Not a bit of it, they sat back allow Spartans to walk all over them. By the time they had scored with their only attack of the first half, the tie had already been settled. A shame as I felt that if Spartans had been tested, their spirit may well have been exhausted quickly.

Still, a good visit to a friendly club.




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