Heath Looks Forward To Stoke Game

Last updated : 02 November 2005 By Covsupport

Coventry City assistant manager and self confessed "Stokie" admits he is looking forward to tonight game between the Sky Blues and Stoke City. Heath told This is Staffordshire": "I know Jan De Koning (who scouted for Heath at Sunderland) will want them playing football, but that's not easy when you are losing games."We've got to make sure we are right on top of them from the first whistle and hopefully impose ourselves. "If the crowd get behind us again, which they did on Saturday, then hopefully we can take that into the game.

"Stoke have some good players - Paul Gallagher, from Blackburn, for instance - but at the moment they are struggling to score goals and are playing nervously. "If we play at full tilt and get an early goal, we will hopefully take control of the match.

"It's a special game for me because I have family and friends who have been season-ticket holders at Stoke for more than 40 years, so it's the first result I look for every week. "But I'm professional enough and I have always wanted to win when I've been up against them.

"Three points is obviously more important to me than Stoke ending their disappointing run. "I've got a lot of fond memories, but that's all history now."