COVENTRY CITY VERSUS COLCHESTER UNITED
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 8TH AT 3PM
AT SIXFIELDS STADIUM,UPTON WAY,NORTHAMPTON,NN5 5QA
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MATCH DETAILS
Kick off at 3pm.
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TRAVEL
Coach from Whte Street at 1pm.
By Car; From The South:Leave the M1 at Junction 15A and take the A43 towards Northampton and you will come to the ground on your right.
From The North:Leave the M1 at Junction 16 and take the A45 towards Northampton and you will come to the ground on your right.
There is a fair sized car park located at the ground, which costs £4. Make sure though that you arrive early as it has been known for it to get full for the more popular games. Parking in the nearby cinema and restaurant car parks is not allowed, and parking there will probably result in your car being given a £60 ticket, or worse still clamped! So make sure that you only use the official football parking provided at the ground.
By Train, Northampton train station is over two miles from the ground, so it is probably best getting a taxi. There is an hourly train service from Coventry.
If you want to walk it: 'Come out of the main station entrance, go across the car park, up the steps and then turn right onto Black Lion Hill. Go over the railway bridge, and straight on along St James' Road. At the HSS Hire outlet (and the handily placed Thomas A. Beckett pub on the opposite corner) turn left onto St James' Mill Road. After about 400 yards turn right at the Fabric Warehouse (opposite Jewson) onto Harvey Reeves Road, which further on becomes Edgar Mobbs Way. After about a mile this road brings you out at Sixfields Stadium,
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ADMISSION
Tickets are available on the day via the booths outside the main stand.
Hospitality: http://www.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/news/tmnw/coventry_v_colchester_match_hospitality_804847/index.shtml
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THE LAST TIME
Sunday's League One game will be the 30th meeting between Coventry City and Colchester United.
In those 29 league and cup matches between the two sides, Coventry have won fourteen with eight draws, scoring 47 goals to Colchester's 34.
Of the fifteen matches played in Coventry, City have won nine and drawn five with one 4-2 defeat on January 26th 1957. City's biggest home win was the 3-0 League Cup victory at Highfield Road on September 11th 2002. and there was a 3-1 home win in 1960
Last season's League One game finished in a 2-2 draw, watched by a crowd of 9,431. The goal scorers were Gavin Massey 39, Michael Smith 71, Callum Wilson 76, Carl Baker 91. and the team line ups were as follows:
City: Murphy (GK), Dickinson, Edjenguele, Martin, Christie, Jennings, Bailey, McSheffrey (Fleck 72), Baker (c), Moussa (Wilson 72), McDonald. Subs: Dunn (GK), Thomas, Bell, Willis, Stewart.
Colchester United: Walker (GK), Garmston (Compton 89), Okuonghae, Morrison (Lapado 84), Bond, Wilson, Massey, Smith (White 76), Porter, Thompson, Clifford. Subs: Cousins (GK), Wright, Heath, Bean.
More head to head - http://www.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/head_to_head/next/vs/match/index.shtml
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MATCH OFFICIALS
The currently appointed referee for Coventry City's League One game against Colchester United on Sunday is Stephen Martin from Staffordshire.
Mr Martin has only refereed one competitive City game before and that was the 2-2 home draw against Colchester United last season. The only other City game he has refereed was the 1-0 win at Kettering Town in a pre-season friendly in 2011, although he has been on the line for a number of matches.
This season, he has had five games so far and his last was the Capital One Cup tie between Tranmere Rovers and Bolton Wanderers.
His Assistants are: Ian Dudley and Jake Hillier. The Fourth Official is Geoff Law
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BETTING ODDS
The bookmakers are making Coventry City the even's favourites for their League One game against Colchester United at Sixfields Stadium on Sunday.
City are priced at evens with most of the bookmakers whilst the odds for Colchester to win are around the 5/2 mark. If you fancy City to get their third successive draw, you can get odds of around 9/4.
Leon Clarke is favourite to score the first goal at 7/2 with Bet Victor. Callum Wilson is at 5/1 with odds of 13/2 on Jabo Ibehre You can get odds of 10/1-11/1 on no goalscorer and those who fancy a City Old Boy to score first can get 8-1 on Freddie Sears and 9/1 on Clinton Morrison.
Correct Score - http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-1/coventry-v-colchester/correct-score
Half-Time/Full Time - http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-1/coventry-v-colchester/half-time-full-time
All markets - http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-1/coventry-v-colchester/betting-markets