CHESTERFIELD FC V COVENTRY CITY
SATURDAY MARCH 14TH AT 3PM
AT PROACT STADIUM, 1866 SHEFFIELD ROAD, WHITTINGTON MOOR, CHESTERFIELD, S41 8NZ
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MATCH DETAILS
Kick off at 3pm.
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TRAVEL
Club Coach: Leaves White Street Car Park at 11am and cost £14
From the M1. Leave the motorway at Junction 29 at the roundabout take the second exit A617 its dual carriageway for 7 miles or so. At the end of the A617 get in the right hand lane and at the roundabout take the 4th exit the A61 north dual carriageway. At the next roundabout take the first exit at the Tesco's roundabout. Gordon Lamb garage on the left. Donkey Derby on the right. At the next roundabout take the 3rd exit and drive along the B6057 Sheffield Road. You should be able to see the ground on your left just past Tesco's entrance.
From the A61:
Follow the A61 Derby Road. (Warning: Speed Cameras!) towards the town centre. Pass the cinema complex and at the roundabout take the third exit to A61 dual carriageway. At the next roundabout take the first exit at the Tesco's roundabout. Gordon Lamb garage on the left. Donkey Derby on the right. At the next roundabout take the 3rd exit and drive along the B6057 Sheffield Road. You should be able to see the ground on your left just past Tesco's entrance.
From the Railway Station follow the 'Stonegravels Way' footpath and cycle route that leads past the Chesterfield Hotel and up Brewery Street over the dual carriage way. Turn right down the steps and proceed along Infirmary Road past Chesterfield College and straight ahead along Canal Wharf. Where this joins Hazlehurst Lane bear right onto a new footpath which runs alongside the dual carriageway. Proceed until the footpath runs along the boundary of the Casa Hotel to emerge at Lockford Lane where there will be the first sighting of the Proact Stadium.
More directions and information - http://www.chesterfield-fc.co.uk/club/proact-stadium/
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ADMISSION
City have an allocation of 1,012 tickets which are priced at
ADULT (18+) £22.00
SENIOR (65 and over) £15.00
YOUNG ADULT (17-18) £15.00
JUNIORS (16 AND UNDER) £11.00
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MATCH OFFICIALS
The currently appointed referee for Coventry City’s League One game at Chesterfield is Dean Whitestone.
Dean started refereeing in Northampton in 1992 and it was his father who was a class one referee, who got him interested. He progressed through the United Counties League, The Southern League, The Conference and onto the Football League as a referee in 2005/2006.
He was in charge of City’s 2-1 win over Yeovil Town on September 13 2014 and the pre-season defeat at Stevenage which left City manager Steven Pressley slightly critical of his performance as he was when Mr Whitestone was in charge of the 1-1 draw against Oldham Athletic on December 29th 2013.
Mr Whitestone was also in charge of City's Capital One Cup defeat at Leyton Orient back in August 2013 when he sent off Carl Baker and in the charge of the Boxing Day win at Stevenage in December 2012 and the League Cup win over Birmingham City in August 2012.
Before that, he has been in charge of the 3-0 win at Portsmouth in April 2011, the 1-1 draw against Blackpool on January 30th 2010, the 2-1 win at Northampton Town in a Jackson Grundy Cup game in July 2009, the 2-1 win at Charlton on December 9th 2008, the 1-0 home win over QPR on September 20th 2008 and a 1-1 home draw with Southend on December 30th 2006..
This season, he has had 23 games, shown 51 yellows and 3 reds.
His assistants are Steven Copeland and Matt McGrath. The Fourth Official is Danny Gratton.
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THE LAST TIME
Saturday will see Coventry City travelling to the Proact Stadium at Chesterfield for the first time in a league match.
City have played at Saltergate before, winning three times, drawing twice and losing on six occasions, scoring sixteen goals to Chesterfield’s 24.
The last time City played at Saltergate in a league tie they were beaten 4-1 in October 1959.
The Sky Blues have played once at what is now the Proact Stadium. It was the B2net Stadium on July 26th 2011.when City grabbed a 2-2 draw thanks to a late Lukas Jutkiewicz goal after a brace from Dean Morgan had cancelled out Chris Hussey’s goal.
The teams that night were:
TEAM: Murphy, Christie, Keogh, Wood, Hussey, Clingan, Bell, Thomas 54, Jutkiewicz (Jeffers 60), McSheffrey, Eastwood (O’Donovan 72) SNU Dunn, Jeffers, Wilson, Cameron.
Chesterfield: Lee, Talbot (Dariwka 84), Ford (Lowry 57), Mattis (Downes 57), Smith, Ricketts (Niven 57), Randall (Holden 57), Abbott (Clay 65), Whitaker, Bowery, Morgan (Boden 76)
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MATCH BETTING
The bookmakers are making Coventry City the under-dogs at Chesterfield on Saturday.
The bookies have City at 3/1to win with Chesterfield at 10/11 and 12/5 the draw.
If you are planning on having a bet on the game, make sure you shop around for the best odds as some bookmakers can be rather tight with their odds. You can check the prices by clicking on http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-1/chesterfield-v-coventry/winner