Sky Blues On The Road - Leicester City
Feature by Covsupport News Service
Updated Friday, 19th March 2010
City face Leicester on Sunday
LEICESTER CITY V COVENTRY CITY
SUNDAY MARCH 21ST AT 2PM
AT FILBERT WAY, LEICESTER, LE2 7FL
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MATCH DETAILSKick off at 2PM.
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MEDIA COVERAGE
Commentary available on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire plus Mercia FM but not on-line unless you pay for Sky Blue Player as well as the radio stations covering
Leicester City.
The game is live on BBC1 at 13.45.
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TRAVELOnly book the club coach if you intend to travel on the coach as refunds now take the form of vouchers.
BY Official Club Coach
Departs Ricoh Arena at 11.30pm
Adult members including season ticket holders £14 concessionary members £12. Non members Adults £17 Non Concessionary members £14.
By Road
From North & South (from the M1/M69 Motorways): The M1 and M69 Motorways interchange at Junction 21 (M1), where you should exit and follow the signs for the City Centre via the A5460. After 3 miles turn right onto Upperton Road, go over the bridge and take the first right down Western Boulevard and you will see the Stadium on your right-hand side.
By Rail
The Stadium is five minutes drive, or 20 minutes walk from British Rail, London Road, Leicester.
By Air
The Stadium is 35 minutes drive from East Midlands International Airport at Castle Donnington, and 45 minutes from Birmingham International Airport.
By Coach
There are many services to and from the City Centre. The most frequent are the Leicester City Bus Service number 36 (which departs from the Haymarket Bus Station on Charles Street in the City) or the Midland Fox services 52, 52a, 52b, 52c or 53 (which depart from the Clock Tower in the City). Other services are Midland Fox, Pam's Coaches and Woods. Please ring bus operators for further details.
More information:http://www.footballgroundguide.com/leicester_city/
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ADMISSION
£25 for adults, £21 for seniors, £15 for students and U22's, £10 for U16's, £5 for U12's and £3 for U8's. Adult disabled and ambulant disabled are £25 with the carer free.
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THE LAST TIME
This is the 82nd league and cup meeting of the two sides. City have won 25 matches and drawn 21, scoring 94 goals compared to Leicester's 114.
Back in October, the game finished 1-1 with Sammy Clingan scoring for City with Martin Waghorn scoring for Leicester.
City's first team have not won since Leicester moved to the Walkers Stadium. On January 12 2008, City lost 2-0 at Leicester - Steve Howard and Barry Hayles got the goals.
The teams were:
City
Konstantopolous, Borrowdale, Ward,Turner,Osbourne, M.Hughes, Thornton (Davis 77), Birchall (Simpson 37),Mifsud,Adebola,Best (Kyle 71) SNU Page,Hildreth
Leicester
Alnwick,Stearman,Kisnorbo,McAuley,Mattock,Bori,Oakley,Clemence,Laczko (Hayles 80),Hume (Wesolowski 91), Howard SNU Fryatt,N'Gotty,Chambers.
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MATCH OFFICIALS
The currently appointed referee for Coventry City's Championship game at Leicester City is Lee Mason.
Hailing from Bolton, Mr Mason is Chairman of the Bolton Referees Association and his brother played for Bolton and Boston. He was promoted to the Select Referees list in 2006 and his first Premier League game was
Middlesbrough's 4-0 win against
Aston Villa.
He has had thirty matches this season including City's 3-1 win over
Barnsley and shown 92 yellow cards and five red.
Mr Mason has been in charge of City's 1-0 defeat at Wolves in October 2006, the 3-2 defeat at
Sheffield Wednesday in October 2005, the 1-1 v Cardiff at home in March 2005, the 2-1 win at Rotherham in January 2005, the 6-1 win at
Walsall in January 2004, the 4-2 home win against Stoke in September 2003 and the 1-0 defeat at Rotherham in February 2003.
