PRESTON NORTH END V COVENTRY CITY
SATURDAY MARCH 19TH AT 3PM
AT PNEFC, SIR TOM FINNEY WAY, DEEPDALE, PRESTON, PR1 6RU
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MATCH DETAILS
Kick off at 3pm
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TRAVEL
Club Coach leaves the Ricoh Arena at 11am and costs £16.50 per person.
TNS Coach is not running
By Car
From North, South and East: Exit M6 at junction 31. At the roundabout take the first exit (s/p Preston A59) onto the A59. At mini-roundabout after 1.0 miles, by the Hesketh Arms, take the second exit (s/p Ring road, Blackpool A583, Football Ground) onto the Blackpool Road A5085. Carry straight on for 1.2 miles, then filter left before the lights (s/p Town Centre, Football Ground) into Sir Tom Finney Way. The ground is on the left-hand-side.
From the Railway Station
It is about 1.6 miles from the station to Deepdale. If you catch a taxi from outside the station it will cost approximately £5. You should come out of the station and turn left in front of the Fishergate Centre, passing The Railway pub. Turn right at the T-junction. The road forks left and becomes Corporation Street, which you should ignore. Instead walk straight down Fishergate - the main shopping thoroughfare - After 0.75 miles the road becomes Church Street - with the Parish church on your right-hand-side. Carry on until you reach the junction with the A6. Cross over the road, the prison will be on your right-hand-side and a pub on the left, called the County Arms. Turn left so The 'Arms' is now on your right - this is Deepdale Road. The Ground is on the right-hand-side after 0.75 miles.
By Bus: All buses from the train station go to the bus station. From there, numbers 5, 6 and 19 run a long Deepdale Road. The number 19 is the most frequent, running every five minutes or so. It will cost approximately 80 pence to get to the ground from the bus station but have plenty of change because the bus drivers ask for the exact money.
There is currently no official club parking for away supporters, however, local schools such as Moor Park High School and Deepdale Primary School offer parking for around £5.
To Blackpool
For those planning to get to Blackpool after the game, the train costs £7.10 or £6.20 if you catch the 6.02pm train.
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ADMISSION
Tickets are priced at £10 for adults, £8 for senior citizens over 60 and ages 16-20, £3 for ages 7-15 (when bought with a senior or adult) and FREE for under 7's (when bought with a senior or adult).
There are a limited number of wheelchair-using supporters' tickets available priced at the relevant age bracket above with personal assistant going free.
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NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM
Please note that this has closed down and moved to Manchester
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THE LAST TIME
This will be the 33rd time the two sides have met in league and cup matches. City have won on nine occasions and drawn ten times. City have scored 49 times to Preston's 51.
City have never won a league match at Preston and the last game played at Deepdale in September 2009 between the two sides brought a 3-2 defeat for City.
The teams that day were:
Team Westwood, Cranie (Eastwood 84), Hall, Turner, Wright (Ward 69), McIndoe, Cork (Cain 76), Osbourne, Clingan, Best, Morrison SNU Ireland, Grandison, Clarke, Gunnarsson
Preston Lonergan, Jones, Chilvers, Collins, Nolan, Sedgewick, Chaplow (Shumulikoski 69), Carter, Wallace, Brown (Parkin 26), Mellor (Elliott 64). SNU Henderson, Hart, Mawhene,
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MATCH OFFICIALS
The currently appointed referee for Coventry City's Championship game at Preston North End on Saturday is Geoff Eltringham from Sunderland.
Mr Eltringham got into refereeing thanks to a work colleague. He had packed up playing after leaving secondary school but wanted to remain in football and thought refereeing was the best way to do that.
This is his third season on the list and so far this season he has been in charge of 25 matches and shown 68 yellow cards and a staggering twelve red.
This will be his third Championship game of the season and the fourth of his career. He not been in charge of a City game before but was in charge of Preston North End's 4-3 win over Crystal Palace.
The assistants are Matt Diciccio from Cleveland and Ryan Johnson from Manchester and the Fourth Official is Kevin Mattocks from Lancashire.
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