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MY FIRST TIME…

KEVIN HALLS recalls his ‘real’ Coventry City debut – and how a disastrous beginning didn’t put him off

KEVIN HALLS

GOING to your firstever football match is usually a memorable occasion which will remain with you a lifetime.
Yet for me, as I was barely out of nappies when my late father started taking me to games, I have no recall who was playing.
My father was a big Coventry City supporter and he would sit me on his lap in the stands at our then home ground Highfield Road.
His psychology must have been that I’d subconsciously take it all in and when I was a...

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