Saturday 2nd
April 2016 @3pm
Sky Bet League One
GILLINGHAM 0-0
COVENTRY CITY
Priestfield Stadium,
Redfern Avenue, Gillingham ME7 4DD
Admission: £24
Programme: £3 (84pp)
Attendance: 7,200
Refreshments: Didn’t purchase
any.
We were invited to my Mums for a birthday lunch and my
stepdad treating (?) me to a match in the afternoon as he has been an avid
Coventry fan since going to university there 30 years ago. We queued up for our
seats in the Medway Stand from 2.30 and actually got to our 2nd row seats
near the away dugout as the teams walked out onto the pitch. The ground was my first of the 92 back in
1975 and is much changed in the 30 odd years since although I have been back
many times. The Gills are in the hunt
for promotion but were without Dack, McDonald and Egan were only fit enough to
be on the bench and neither played a part in the match.
It was a game of 2 halves where Gills had the upper hand in
the first, with Coventry reorganising themselves for the second half and
playing the better football in the 2nd 45. For me it wasn’t the best of games, with some
enjoyment coming from Tony Mowbray on the touchline, shouting throughout at his
team, earning a colourful reply at one point from his centre back and continual
berating of his own playmaker no7.
Justin Edinburgh had his hands tied on subs by injuries forcing 2
substitutions by the start of the second half.
The 2 best chances actually tip onto the bar by the keeper and he again
did the same from a closer 10 yard shot which hit the underside of the bar and
bounced on the goal line and cleared.
A draw didn’t really help either side but other results mean
Gills didn’t lose ground.
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