Coming home on Tuesday night from watching Coventry lose 2-1 at Brentford, going down to a penalty conceded in the 4th minute of injury time, I thought, "How has it come to this?" To think, I once watched City win an FA cup final against Spurs. And now reduced to this, below Shrewsbury, Crawley and Stevenage in the league! No parrot has ever felt as sick as I did after this game. (Well apart perhaps from the Norwegian Blue of Monty Python fame).
"We weren't good enough", says the manager, but he is talking about the performance. The real problem is that the players just aren't good enough. With the exception of Robert Fleck and striker David McGoldrick (who isn't even a City player, only on loan) they just didn't seem to have the quality needed to play at this level, and this level is what in old money is Division Three! Its the basic inability to kick the round thing to the place they want to that they aren't good at. And that is pretty much all the game is about. Oh dear.
On the plus side, Griffin Park is quite a nice ground to visit. They give all of one end to away fans, allowing those who want to stand the ability to do so on the terrace behind the goal, and for those of us who prefer a seat, we can take up the stand above, giving a very decent view. Only gripe is the lack of a scoreboard, not for keeping count of the goals which isn't too hard, but for the time and the players names, for which one has to rely on a muffled tannoy.
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