Sky Blues On The Road - Sheffield United
Last updated : 28 October 2010 By Covsupport News Service
SHEFFIELD UNITED V COVENTRY CITY
SATURDAY OCTOBER 30TH AT 3PM
AT BRAMALL LANE,SHEFFIELD,S2 4SU
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MATCH DETAILS
Kick off at 3PM. The goals will be on the Football League Show at 11.50pm on BBC1
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TRAVEL
Club Coach Departs Ricoh Arena at 11am and costs £16.50
SKY BLUE ARMY For more details, phone Dave on 07919 662919.
By car from North/South/East
Exit M1 at Junction 33 following signs to Sheffield (A57). Continue along the Sheffield Parkway until the Park Square roundabout. Take the 3rd exit and follow the A61 (Chesterfield road) with the train station on your left. Follow the 'Brown Information' signs for Bramall Lane.
By car from West
Take A57 into Sheffield and take 2nd exit at roundabout. At 2nd roundabout, take 3rd exit into Bramall Lane.
By rail, The ground is a few minutes in a taxi from Sheffield train station (1 mile). For details to and from Sheffield, call National Rail Enquiries on 0845 7712 5678.
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ADMISSION
The allocation has been sold but you can pay on the gate.
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THE LAST TIME
This is the 51st time the two sides have met in league and cup matches. City have won on 16 occasions with 16 draws and have scored 60 goals compared to The Blades' 62.
The last game was on April 10th and saw the Sky Blues go down to a 1-0 defeat in a woeful performance where man of the match votes went to the City supporters who paid to watch. Richard Cresswell scored the only goal of the game in the 47th minute.
The teams that afternoon were:
Team Westwood, Wright, Wood, Barnett, Cranie (Clarke 83), Clingan, Gunnarsson, Baker (McIndoe 63), Bell, Sears, (Eastwood 55), Morrison. SNU Hall, Konstantopolous, Grandison, Jeffers
Sheff Utd Simonsen, Connelly, Nosworthy, Morgan, Taylor, Little (Williamson 72), Montgomery, Harper, Quinn (Yeats 82), Cresswell, Henderson. SNU Naysmith, Seip, Bartley, Geary.
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MATCH OFFICIALS
The currently appointed referee for Coventry City's Championship game at Sheffield United is David Foster from Tyne & Wear.
This Newcastle based fan of the Xbox 360, he was promoted to the National List of referees in 2006. He has six games so far this season and had shown seventeen yellow cards with no reds.
His last Coventry City game was the 1-0 win over QPR at the Ricoh Arena on February 13th 2010 and his only other previous City matches was the 1-1 at Burnley on February 17th 2009.
The Assistants are Matt Dicicco from Cleveland & Alf Greenwood from North Yorkshire. The Fourth Official is Nigel Murphy from Nottinghamshire.
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