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    Never Mind the Sky Blues: The Ultimate Coventry City Quiz Book
    Never Mind the Sky Blues: The Ultimate Coventry City Quiz Book
    Never Mind the Sky Blues: The Ultimate Coventry City Quiz Book
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    Never Mind the Sky Blues: The Ultimate Coventry City Quiz Book

    By Michael Keane

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    This is the ultimate quiz book on Coventry City Football Club. The perfect gift for Sky Blues fans of all ages, it is sure to brighten up long match-day journeys and provide some entertaining trips down memory lane. From the earliest days of Singers FC, to the glory-filled promotion years under Jimmy Hill, from cup calamities to winning at Wembley, and from the thirty four unbroken years of top-flight football to recent relegations, all Coventry City topics are covered here.This book will test your knowledge of all shades of Sky Blue history. If you know it, or think you know it, check it out here and settle your Sky Blue scores.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe History Press
    Release dateJan 6, 2016
    ISBN9780750968515
    Never Mind the Sky Blues: The Ultimate Coventry City Quiz Book
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    Michael Keane

    Michael Keane is a Fellow of National Security at the Pacific Council on International Policy. He was embedded in Iraq with the US Army's 101st Airborne Division, under the command of Gen. David Petraeus, and in Kabul, Afghanistan at the headquarters of the ISAF Commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Keane is a former Fellow of the US Department of Defense's National Security Education Project. He has apeared on CNN, CNBC, FoxNews and the History Channel and has been profiled in BusinessWeek magazine. Keane is also the author of The Night Santa Got Lost: How Norad Saved Christmas and the Dictionary of Modern Strategy and Tactics. He earned his JD from the University of Texas School of law, and MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA from the University of Southern California. He lives in Santa Monica, California.

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      Never Mind the Sky Blues - Michael Keane

      Contents

      Title

      Round    1    Around the World

      Round    2    Banana Skins

      Round    3    Odd One Out

      Round    4    Glory Days

      Round    5    Narrow Escapes

      Round    6    Home from Home

      Round    7    Over the Hill

      Round    8    Heading for the Exit

      Round    9    One-hit Wonders

      Round  10    Hat-trick Heroes

      Round  11    Through the Ranks

      Round  12    Between the Sticks

      Round  13    Debuts

      Round  14    Bargain Basement

      Round  15    Big Mouths

      Round  16    The League Cup

      Round  17    The 1987 FA Cup

      Round  18    The Dreaded Drop

      Round  19    Make the Link

      Round  20    The Bosses

      Round  21    Who am I?

      Round  22    Spot Kicks

      Round  23    Big Mouth Strikes Again!

      Round  24    Take Your Pick!

      Round  25    Would You Believe It?

      Round  26    The Numbers Game

      Round  27    Absent Friends

      Round  28    Premier League

      Round  29    Countdown

      Round  30    What Happened Next?

      The Answers

      Copyright

      Round

      Around the World

      Although the club has concentrated on academy players in recent cash-strapped years, City managers have often recruited from far and wide to bring the best overseas talent. See how many of these global stars left a lasting impression …

      1  Which City striker from the mid-1990s, once nicknamed the ‘new Pele’, was the Golden Ball winner at the 1991 U17 World Cup in Italy?

      2  Name the ex-Bosnian soldier who patrolled the Highfield Road defences from 1999–2004?

      3  Which Icelandic ex-handball player did City boss Chris Coleman bring to the Ricoh Arena in the summer of 2008?

      4  Two stars of the 1998 World Cup were brought to Highfield Road by Gordon Strachan twelve months later. Name them.

      5  Which Romanian striker became the first Coventry City player to score at the World Cup finals in France in 1998? Do you know who he scored against?

      6  After hitting 32 goals in his native country’s top flight, which Peruvian striker was snapped up by City at the turn of the millennium?

      7  Name the two City players who represented Trinidad and Tobago at the 2006 World Cup.

      8  Name the Maltese-born City striker who was nicknamed the ‘Mosquito’, and once memorably put Manchester United to the sword?

      9  Which Sky Blues Faroes Island international became the first player to score at the newly opened Ricoh Arena in August 2005?

      10  Name the Zimbabwean striker spotted by John Sillett on a pre-season tour in the late 1980s, who went on to terrorise premiership defenders for nearly six years?

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      Round

      Banana Skins

      While the Sky Blues have now been away from the top flight of English football for a decade and a half, their scalp is still a sought-after one for lower-league opposition. Sadly, the days of slipping up on cup-tie banana skins seems to be showing no sign of stopping any time soon …

      1  In November 1961, Third Division City hosted King’s Lynn of the Southern League Premier Division in an FA Cup second-round match. Which guest watched the nightmarish 2–1 defeat to the part-timers from the back of the stand, and why was he there?

      2  City’s next non-league disaster came against Sutton United at Gander Green Lane in January 1989. What was the profession of Sutton’s very well-read manager, Barrie Williams?

      3  Unlike most managers, Williams liked to include lines penned by famous writers in his programme notes. Try and complete these famous Kipling lines that Williams presciently included in his programme notes that day:

      It ain’t the individual nor the Army as a whole,

      it’s the everlasting ________ of every bloomin’ soul

      4  Matthew Hanlan rocked City to their foundations with his winning goal at Gander Green Lane. He wasn’t a butcher, a baker or a candlestick maker, but what was his job?

      5  For what reason did City boss John Sillett declare that Sunday would be an even worse day for his players?

      6  What position were City in the old First Division when they played their cup tie at Sutton?

      7  Unfortunately, Steven Pressley’s 2014 Sky Blues vintage were at it again, losing a first-round cup tie against Worcester City. Rookie keeper Lee Burge was playing in his first FA Cup tie, but how many senior appearances had he made, up to and including the Worcester debacle?

      8  Why

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