SHEFFIELD UNITED V COVENTRY CITY
SATURDAY MAY 03RD AT 3PM
AT BRAMALL LANE, SHEFFIELD, S2 4SU
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MATCH DETAILS
Kick off at 3pm.
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TRAVEL
Club coaches depart Fairfax Street at 11.30am and costs £14.50
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.
There is very limited street parking around the ground - There are a number of private/council run car parks in & around the town centre, all well signed as you arrive off Sheffield Parkway.
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
http://www.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/feat/ed15/sheffield_united_away_tickets_on_sale_831472/index.shtml
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THE LAST TIME
Coventry City play their 28th game at Sheffield United on Saturday.
Of those previous twenty seven matches at Bramall Lane, City have won eight, drawn nine and lost ten.
The last win came last season with a 2-1 win with a brace from Leon Clarke on Friday February 1st 2013 and the biggest is a 3-0 win on December 26th 1991.
The teams for City’s last win at Sheffield United were:
Murphy, Baker, McSheffrey (Fleck 73), Jennings, Elliott (Thomas 69), Clarke, Christie, Wood, Edjenguele, Moussa, Adams. Subs: Clarke, Cameron, Dunn, Barton, Ball, Bell.
Sheff Utd: Long, Higginbotham, Maguire, Flynn, Doyle, Porter (Forte 54), McDonald, Kitson, Collins, Murphy (Robson 71), McMahon. Subs: Westlake, Cresswell, Ironside, Coyne, De Girolamo.
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 at Sheffield United on Saturday (3pm kick off) is Darren Bond from Lancashire.
On his third season on the Football League list, Mr Bond has not been in charge of a Coventry City match before. He has been a Fourth Official for the 0-0 draw against Shrewsbury and has been an assistant in a number of games including the League Cup tie at Morecambe in 2010 and a game against Peterborough United at the Ricoh Arena in 2009.
This season, Mr Bond has had 29 matches and shown 100 yellow cards and four reds. His last game was Charlton's 3-1 win over Watford on Tuesday night.
The assistants are Jon Hunt and Jason Whiteley and the Fourth Official is Paul Graham.
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BETTING ODDS
Coventry City are 3/1 to win at Sheffield United on Saturday.
The bookies have City as the under-dogs with United at 4/5 and the draw at 12/5.
If you are planning on having a bet on the game, make sure you shop around for the best odds as some of the bookmakers can be very stingy with their odds. You can check the odds being offered by the leading bookmakers by clicking on:http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-1/sheffield-utd-v-coventry/winner