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Remarkable
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Sky Blues 4-2 away win and 10 points clear !
Little by little.
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Re: Remarkable
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Amazing.
And the goals they score as well. They have scored 47; next highest is 26!!!
Attendances just below 30,000 as well.
Just one league defeat.....wrexham........ who?
My youngest has become a Palace supporter (been to most their European games)..... I have booked my tickets :)
If they get promoted I hope they act sensible. I would be amazed if they last more that one season and too often clubs drop quickly.
I don't know much about the current team, but the thought of them facing the likes of Haadland every week is frightening.
>>>> Former Nuneaton Boro fan <<<<
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Atmosphere at Selhurst Park is superb
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I went West Ham vs Chelsea last season.
£1/min it was - £90.
HORRIBLE experience.
>>>> Former Nuneaton Boro fan <<<<
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Re: Remarkable
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ref Cov. wud not be surprised if one of the real big boys make a move for him ( the manager that is )
wouldn't bet against them at present.
good luck to em they have had their lean yrs
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Re: Remarkable
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Weird as it sounds Cov success is slightly impacting are attendances, Nuneaton based fans are likely going their than coming to the oval. I'm hoping Lampard gets approached for an Premier League job, Leeds United maybe looking for a new manager soon.
#BoroFanof50years#
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Slightly-only?
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I have always supported both. I know dozens who do the same. Half my family, for a start . Generations have lived and worked in all three towns=so they don't have a problem with it. Bet that ruins the new armistice between AV and I.
I prioritise Boro games over Cov ones and have done for almost the last 40 years. I go to The Oval, not because I'm a tightwad but because Boro's football over the last two seasons in general has been so enjoyable. I've had several Boro' Season tickets, (including this year), but I've never had a Cov one. The only time I stopped going to any football games was towards the end of the JG era when I'd just lost all interest in football full stop. I wasn't alone there, was I?
There is an additional reason I prefer Non League. I'm 76 next week. The whole matchday experience at The Oval is so much safer for me. Easier parking. Better transport links. Good all round vision. Nice people.
I've been to two games at the CBS this season. I have two more to come before the New Year. Both will see me in the posh seats because tbh the steps up to the ordinary CBS seats "up in the Gods" are just too bloody dangerous for me to climb now, with my dodgy knees. One slip and its curtains.
The Aylestone game is spooking me out a little after our mini slump. Definitely squeaky bum time. But I'll be there. With my Granddaughter. Boro games are the highlight of her week. And mine!
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Re: Slightly-only?
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I’ve often wondered how many Nuneaton residents actually support local league clubs and attend games. There seems to be lots of Cov city fans and Villa fans and many of these seem to watch Boro/town when big games occur.
Suppose it’s just the way it is.
I’ve also always wondered why in the late 60s Boro were so well supported and why those crowds tailed off during the 1970s.
Lots of theories and if you wanted a definitive answer you’d have to do some proper academic research.
As for Nuneaton heritage I can only claim 50 percent Sauce as mother and all that side of my family landed on camp hill in 1964 from country Durham.
What I do remember though was when Brendan Phillips won the Southern prem and took us back into the conference I spoke to more than one regular cov fan from Nuneaton that started watching Boro more regularly.
Never had a problem with CCFC myself but that changed a tad after working with a few Cov lads in the building industry- once they found out you were from Nuneaton they began to destroy you. White socks, treacle town, fish fingers and so much else. I responded by calling them lathe monkeys and car bolters and told them if it wasn’t for the Nuneaton fire brigade in 1940 the place would still be on fire today! Joking aside they’ve gone through hell the last few years and have turned it around and fair play to them.
But my football interests have never really looked down the A445 - they lie in the north east - they used to include Nuneaton Boro first and foremost but that took a real ponding during the horror show years we are all well aware of.
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ive been a Boro supporter since the 52/3 season.
been a football fan from when i was 10-11yrs old
from the the days of the mid-50,s when you went on Monty Morton to the Cov games
LLoyds done the villa etc, always at a match WBA Leicester Villa Cov Brom even the Wolves
sang happy birthday to Stan Mathews at the villa on his 45th birtday, used to go leicester on the train from Abbey St
Chapel end coaches used to run to matches trying to place Wainfleet i think done Leicester.
tbh it all gets a bit foggy these days
ive seen the busby babes etc great footballing side spurs famous push and run side
all the Englands 1966 games, in truth a football nut.
fa cup Man C. V Leicester final hence ive seen every round of the fa cup.
sat on the top of a wooden tea hut to watch Cov V Sunderland FA cup
one of the last to get into Millmoor for the replay.
wherever whatever i always returned to my first football love despite all the shit years.
my good lady used to tell all she was a widow... a football widow ;-)
ps. my biggest sporting regret had nothing to do with football
i turned down the chance to see Henry Cooper fight Cassius Clay in that famous fight when clay beat the count
got up and pummeled Cooper
happy happy days
Edited by Joe at 10:05:31 on 27th November 2025
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Great memories Joe!
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My first ever League game ever was WBA v Man Utd at The Hawthorns on one of those coach trips you describe. 1950's.
First ever Non League Game was at Atherstone. 1960's. Called Town, at that time and Monty Moreton was playing!
Taken to both of those by an adult.
First Cov game was Div 4. 1950's . Dad took me. Blue and white quarter shirts and called The Bantams.
First Boro game? Can't remember. So many-but nowhere near some of you other long-serving veterans. 1980's ( I was late to the party). MP (obviously). The CABE won me over immediately. I loved it. Even with 400 in the ground. Later, with 1,000+ in the CABE -wow!
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Re: Great memories Joe!
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my first Boro HOME game was a 350 mls round trip with my dad
mother ran a guest house
on the train changed at Yarmouth ( loop line ) Ely, Leicester to Abbey st.
return journey straight through from abbey st.
last 2 coaches from Yarmouth on the loop line.
ps just to add ref crowds Swansea 18600 Rotherham 22100 the ground record
best era; IMO. the Graham Carr - Trev Morley etc, though subjective, one or two close contenders
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The Truce continues
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Because that's a fair enough answer.
My son, daughter ,wife, granddaughter nephew and grandson have all followed both clubs. Paternal roots? Nuneaton-Bedduff-Cov: then round again, anti clockwise. Ma's side? Yorkshire. (West Riding). For a few hundred years at least. No affiliation-but I did enjoy our away day at Guiseley.
To have both clubs scoring so many goals and both top of their leagues is fairly unique. Under JG I'd almost forgotten what it felt like to celebrate a goal or see a home win.
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Cov deserves their success after their troubled times. Let’s hope something similar happens to us - a Wembley final perhaps?
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