Keith Houchen has said that he is impressed with the current Coventry City side.
When the words Coventry City and FA Cup are mentioned, the media go straight to the scorer of one of the most famous goals in Sky Blue history and Simon Hart of the Independent spoken to Houchen who said about the current City side: “There are a lot of young kids coming through and they are in there together. He [Pressley] has got them playing a very slick passing game.”
ITV's current FA Cup television programme might not show Houchen's goal, which is surely one of the most iconic goals ever scored in an FA Cup Final in its opening title sequence, but most City supporters who were either at Wembley on May 16th 1987 or watched it on tv or on dvd or You Tube since, will be happy to hear about that goal and Houchen said: “The only way I could get on the end of the cross was to dive.
“You don’t go into it thinking, ‘Right, I’m going to do a spectacular diving header and people are going to be talking about it for 30 years’. You’re probably only in the air for a split second but the whole thing looks so spectacular – it looks like I’m flying.
”I can be anywhere in Britain and even abroad and people come up and talk to me.
“It was still in that era when everything stopped for the FA Cup. It was the big competition when we played it. I’m pleased it has gone down as one of the classic FA Cups.”