Sky Blues On The Road - West Bromwich Albion
Feature by Covsupport News Service
Updated Wednesday, 24th March 2010
City off to West Brom
WEST BROMWICH ALBION V COVENTRY CITY
WEDNESDAY MARCH 24TH AT 7.45PM
AT THE HAWTHORNS, WEST BROMWICH, B71 4LF
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MATCH DETAILSKick off at 7.45PM.
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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 West Brom.
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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.
Departs Ricoh Arena Car Park C at 5.30pm
Season Ticket Holders and members £14. Concessions £12
Non Season Ticket Holders or members £20 Concessions non members £17.
BY ROAD
From M5 junction 1 and West Browmich, take the A41 East, sign posted
Birmingham City Centre. The stadium is visable immediately after the motorway island is cleared, and stands about 600 metres to the Birmingham side of junction 1.
From Birmingham, follow the A41 West towards the M5 junction 1. The stadium will be located on your left-hand side.
Car parking can be found on your left-hand side just before you approach the stadium directly opposite McDonalds Restaurant or Turn left through the black club gates with the club crest on, where you will find over 300 car parking spaces.
Parking can also be found along the road side, in the Tom Silk car park, which can be found 100 metres further on the right-hand side, or you can park in the East Stand car park and walk around to the glass doors.
By Train & Metro
The Hawthorns Station is five minutes walk from the ground. Metros run from Snow Hill Station which is a five to ten minute walk from Birmingham New Street.
More information:
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ADMISSION
£23 for adults, £14 for seniors over 60, under 18s and students with a vaild NUS card and £11 for juniors under 16.
Tickets for both ambulant and wheelchair-using disabled supporters are priced at £11 with a personal assistant going free.
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THE LAST TIME
This is the 63rd league and cup meeting of the two sides. City have won 16 matches and drawn 16, scoring 68 goals compared to West Brom's 115.
Back in October, the game finished 0-0. In the corresponding fixture in December 2007, City won 4-2. Leon Best and Michael Mifsud both scored twice for City with Roman Bednar and Chris Brunt replying for the Baggies who had pulled it back to 2-2 before they had Robinson sent off for a second bookable.
The teams that night were:
TEAM Konstantopolous,McNamee,Ward,Turner,Borrowdale,M.Hughes.Doyle (Osbourne 87),Tabb, Best (Adebola 85),Mifsud,McKenzie (Gray 81) SNU Marshall,Cairo
West Brom Kiely, Hoefkins,Robinson (sent off 70),
Barnett, Koren, Greening, Bednar,Teixeira (Pele 70),Cesar (Hodgkiss 46),Brunt, Gera (McDonald 46) SNU Beattie,Steele
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MATCH OFFICIALS
The currently appointed referee for Coventry City's Championship game at
West Bromwich Albion is Colin Webster from Tyne & Wear.
Mr Webster, whose hobbies include learning to fly, was appointed to the Referees List in 2000.
He has had 21 games this season so far including City's 2-0 defeat at
Sheffield Wednesday in October and has shown 49 yellow cards and 4 red.
Previous City games include the 2-0 win over
Norwich City on the opening day of last season. The 5-1 win at Colchester in April 2008, the 1-0 home defeat to Sheffeld United in 2007, the 3-0 defeat at Leicester in February 2007, the 3-1 defeat at Leeds in December 2005, the 2-1 defeat at
Sheffield United in August 2005, the 1-0 win over
Watford in December 2004 and the 2-1 win against West Ham in August 2004.
