I don’t usually drink at all if I’m driving but with an invitation to join Tom and his mate Murgy pre-match in the Riverside fanzone I brought dry January to an end fourteen hours into the month. Mind you, I’m not entirely convinced that a single pint of 3.8% Theakston’s Best Bitter is sufficient to count.
Harry and Alistair were with me and as we chatted to Paddy and his missus, we discovered that their granddaughter was in Harry’s class at school. Small world.
Pre-match conversation centred around the injuries, as it so often does. We also had the international call ups for the African Cup of Nations and the Asia Cup to add a further disruption to team selection.
Josh Coburn put us a goal up after a spell of sustained pressure. He’s looking a handful for defenders these days and has a nice trick of grabbing them but making it look like they are fouling him. Some refs fall for it. Rogers looked good again and seems to have gained the confidence to run laterally with the ball if there was nothing on ahead of him. I think he’s probably our best option at ten, although when Crooks is fit I’d like him back in somewhere too.
Coventry equalised soon after we had scored and then notched another two in the second half when we weren’t nearly as good as before the break. I think a lot of the players are tired and there’s little prospect of rotation with the current absentee list. Ali wasn’t impressed with the result and reminded Harry and I on the way out that he’s still a Man City fan. Hopefully we’ll get a few returning players and a couple of new signings in January to turn the corner and convert him.
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