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Rarely do Coventry City deprive their fans of the well deserved, rough and tumble excitement of a thrilling relegation battle. Promoted in 1967, Coventry were the third longest survivors in the top division (behind Arsenal - 1919, and Everton - 1954) until they were relegated in 2000-2001. In spite of this they never surpassed the 6th place they achieved in the 1969-70 season.

Hence, this 1970-71 squad is amongst Coventry City's finest ever. Only the F.A.Cup win of 1987 could definately be considered a greater achievement (see Coventry Football Club official WebSite). On the way to that victory they beat Billy Bremner's Leeds United in the Semi-Final in a thrilling end to end game. But that was a time of English teams being banned from European competition, so the 1970-71 Fairs Cup campaign remains Coventry City's only visit into any European Competition.

Only the oldest Coventry City fans will remember a promotion year rather than a relegation battle. Unfortunately, for now it seems that Coventry City have replaced the end of season survival battles, with end of season promotion misses !

World of Soccer Star Players ...

Manager: Noel Cantwell.

Born: Cork (Ireland), 28 December, 1932. Died 8 September, 2005.

Where are they now ? November 2002 and Caught In Time (1), and Caught In Time (2)

See Obituary

61. Roy Barry.

Born : Edinburgh, 19 September, 1942.

62. Jeff Blockley.

Born : Leicester, 12 September,1949.

Where are they now ? Caught In Time

63.Dietmar Bruck.

Born : Germany, 19 April, 1949.

Moved to Charlton Athletic in October 1970

Where are they now ? Caught In Time

64. Willie Carr.

Born : Cambridge, 6 January, 1950.

Read about Willie and Ernie Hunt's famous goal in October 1970

Where are they now ? Caught In Time

65. Chris Cattlin.

Born : Milnrow, 25 June, 1946.

Played : 1964-67 Huddersfield Town, Coventry City, Brighton and Hove Albion.

Coventry City League appearances : 217 games, 0 goals.

Career League appearances : 373 games, 2 goals.

Where are they now ? : See January 2000 Where are they now ?, and Caught In Time

66. Dave Clements.

Born : Lame (Northern Ireland), 15 September, 1945.

Where are they now ? Caught In Time

67. Mick Coop.

Click to see a picture of Mick.

Born : Grimsby, 10 July, 1948.

68. Ian Gibson.

Born : Newton Stewart, 30 March, 1943.

Where are they now ? Caught In Time

69. Bill Glazier.

Born : Nottingham, 2 August, 1943.

Where are they now ? Caught In Time

Bill has a panal on the Sky Blues Wall of Fame at Coventry City's Ricoh Arena, see Statues

70. Ernie Hunt.

Born : Swindon, 17 March, 1943.

Read about Ernie and Willie Carr's famous goal in October 1970

Video clips of the famous goal, see February 2003

Where are they now ? Caught In Time

See Books

71. Brian Joicey.

Born : Blaydon, 19 December, 1945.

72. Ernie Machin.

Born : Swinton, 26 April, 1944.

Where are they now ? Caught In Time

73. Neil Martin.

Born : Tranent, 20 October, 1940.

Where are they now ? June/July 2003 and Caught In Time

74. Dennis Mortimer.

Born : Liverpool, 5 April, 1952.

See Where are they now ? December 2001 and November 2002

Interviewed on the Championship, 11 February 2007

Dennis is part of the Aston Villa European Cup '82 winning team reunion at Villa, see Spring 2007

On other sites see

Nobok Football Player Profiles Dennis Mortimer

Interviewed by Birmingham Mail, see icBirmingham - Mortimer will never tire of Rimmer questions

75. John O'Rourke.

Born : Northampton, 11 February, 1945.

Other squad players included in Rothmans 1970-71 book.

Ivan Crossley. See Obituary

Alan Dugdale

See Sons and Daughters: Uncles

M. Goodbourn

Trevor Gould: future Northampton player, Aylesbury manager, Coventry City youth team coach and Bobby's brother.

Where are they now ? Caught In Time

Brian Hill

Where are they now ? Caught In Time

David Icke

Click to see a picture and more information on David.

Future Hereford goalkeeper, t.v. personality, Green Party politician and religious weirdo, .

Mick McGuire: future Coventry City, Norwich City, Barnsley and Oldham Athletic midfielder.

See Where are they now ? April 2003

On other sites see...

Mick is on the board of FIFPro

F.McMahon.

Eric McManus: future Notts County and Bradford City (amongst others) goalkeeper.

See May 2000 Where are they Now ? and Caught In Time

Eric took temporary charge of Bromsgrove Rovers, see November 2000 News.

Career 2005- : see 2005-2006, 2006-2007

Bobby Parker: future Coventry City and Carlisle United defender,

Bill Rafferty: future Coventry City, Blackpool, Plymouth Argyle, Carlisle United, Wolves, Newcastle United, Portsmouth and Bournemouth (!) forward.

On other sites see ...

Rafferty

First Team Players Signed Through the 1970-71 Season...

Les Cartwright (Signed professional forms May 1970)

See Sons and Daughters

Jimmy Holmes (Signed professional forms November 1970)

Where are they now ? January 2002

For links to other Coventry City sites try...

Click to see A&BC Gum Cards
plus all the details of the 1970-71 Coventry City season at:

Nigel Mercer's Galleries of English Football Cards 1965-75

Click to see Coventry City 70-71 autographs at Lennart Kristiansson's site:

English Football League 70-71 Autographs

RememberThere's loads more pictures of Coventry City past and present, and discussion, too, at
Yahoo! Groups the_seven_steps

The Coventry Football Club official WebSite is an excellent one, and includes futher details of six of the players listed above.

Look up Coventry player's careers at Coventry City FC - Skyblues

Note: Birth information and League career statistics from:
"The PFA Premier and Football League Players' Records 1946-1998"
Edited and compiled by Barry J. Hugman. Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1998.

Thanks once again to Thomas Kuhndt for sending the Coventry team picture.

Bob Dunning

15 June 2007

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