COVENTRY CITY VERSUS OLDHAM ATHLETIC FC
SATURDAY DECEMBER 29TH AT 3PM
AT SIXFIELDS STADIUM, UPTON WAY, NORTHAMPTON, NN5 5QA
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MATCH DETAILS
Kick off is at 3pm.
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TRAVEL
Coach from White Street at 1pm and the club are laying on five free coaches.
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/city_v_oldham_hospitality_819670/index.shtml
Family Zone: http://www.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/news/tmnw/family_zone_open_for_city_v_oldham_819817/index.shtml
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THE LAST TIME
Sunday will be the 19th time that Coventry City have met Oldham Athletic.
Of those eighteen previous games, City have won nine with four draws. Coventry have scored 31 goals against Oldham and conceded 25 goals.
City's biggest win over Oldham at home is a 5-1 win in October 1924. Oldham have never won a match played in Coventry.
Oldham have had three wins and a defeat in their matches at Sixfields.
The last time, the Latics came to Coventry was on January 19th 2013 and saw a 2-1 win for City with James Bailey snatching the winner in the fourth minute of second half stoppage time.
The teams that day were: City:Murphy (GK), Adams, Edjenguele, Wood, Christie, Jennings (Elliott 54), Bailey, Baker (c), Fleck (Moussa 57), McSheffrey (Thomas 86), Clarke. Subs: Dunn (GK), J. Clarke, Cameron, Bell.
Oldham Athletic: Bouzanis (GK), Grounds, M'Voto, Croft (Sutherland 77), Simpson (Taylor 64), Smith, Byrne (c), Baxter, M'Changama, Wabara, Mellor (Brown 77). Subs: Cisak (GK), Tarkowski, Millar, Winchester.
More head to head - http://www.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/head_to_head/coventry_city/vs/oldham_athletic/index.shtml
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MATCH OFFICIALS
The currently appointed referee for Coventry City's League One game against Oldham Athletic is Dean Whitestone from Northampton.
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 Capital One Cup defeat at Leyton Orient back in August, when he sent off Carl Baker and had two City games last season. - the Boxing Day win at Stevenage and the League Cup win over Birmingham City.
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, according to Soccerbase, he has had 16 matches and shown 41 yellow cards and three red His last game was Millwall's 2-2 draw with Nottingham Forest on December 3rd.
His Assistants are: Stephen Finch and Matt Foley. The Fourth Official is Ian Dudley
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BETTING ODDS
The bookmakers are making Coventry City the favourites for their League One game against Oldham Athletic at Sixfields Stadium on Sunday at 3pm.
City are priced around 4/5 with most of the bookmakers whilst the odds for Oldham to win are around 3/1. If you fancy the draw, you can get odds of around 5/2.
If you are having a bet on the game, make sure you shop around before placing any bets. You can check what the leading bookmakers are offering by clicking http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-1/coventry-v-oldham/winner
Leo Clarke is the 3/1 favourite to score the first goal with Callum Wilson at 7/2. More on this
http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-1/coventry-v-oldham/first-goalscorer
Correct Score - http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-1/coventry-v-oldham/correct-score
HalfTime/FullTime - http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-1/coventry-v-oldham/half-time-full-time
All markets - http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-1/coventry-v-oldham/betting-markets