COVENTRY CITY V CARDIFF CITY
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 13TH AT 7.45PM LC1
AT SIXFIELDS STADIUM, UPTON WAY, NORTHAMPTON, NN5 5QA
MATCH DETAILS
Kick off in this Capital One Cup tie is at 7.45pm. The game is live on Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 1 HD.
If required, there will be extra time and penalties to decide the winner.
The Second Round draw will be made on Sky after the game.
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TRAVEL
Coach from White Street at 5pm.
By Car; From The South:Leave the M1 at Junction 15A and take the A43 towards Northampton and you will come to the ground on your right.
From The North:Leave the M1 at Junction 16 and take the A45 towards Northampton and you will come to the ground on your right.
There is a fair sized car park located at the ground, which costs £4. Make sure though that you arrive early as it has been known for it to get full for the more popular games. Parking in the nearby cinema and restaurant car parks is not allowed, and parking there will probably result in your car being given a £60 ticket, or worse still clamped! So make sure that you only use the official football parking provided at the ground.
By Train, Northampton train station is over two miles from the ground, so it is probably best getting a taxi. There is an hourly train service from Coventry.
If you want to walk it: 'Come out of the main station entrance, go across the car park, up the steps and then turn right onto Black Lion Hill. Go over the railway bridge, and straight on along St James' Road. At the HSS Hire outlet (and the handily placed Thomas A. Beckett pub on the opposite corner) turn left onto St James' Mill Road. After about 400 yards turn right at the Fabric Warehouse (opposite Jewson) onto Harvey Reeves Road, which further on becomes Edgar Mobbs Way. After about a mile this road brings you out at Sixfields Stadium.
ADMISSION
Tickets are priced at: Adults - £10, Senior Citizens (60+) - £5, Young Adults (16-21) - £5, Juniors (Under 16) - £1
The game is part of the Football League and Capital One's Kids For A Quid promotion and for every adult ticket you can bring up to five children for a pound.
However, to do this, you need to go on www.capitalone.co.uk and get an offer code which you must quote when purchasing the tickets which are available from the usual outlets.
For more information, please click on http://www.ccfc.co.uk/news/article/cardiff-city-tickets-capital-one-cup-coventry-city-030714-1714399.aspx
Coventry City have confirmed that the North Stand will not be open for any cup matches that City play at Sixfields this season.
The stand, which is only being used for City supporters following a fierce supporter campaign, will not be open for the League Cup First Round tie against Cardiff City on Wednesday August 13th and the club have confirmed that the stand will not be open for any more cup ties this season.
Hospitality
THE LAST TIME
Coventry City will meet Cardiff City for the first time in a League Cup tie on Wednesday night at Sixfields.
City and Cardiff have met 48 times before with the Sky Blues winning on eighteen occasions, Cardiff winning on nineteen occasions and eleven draws.
Thirteen of those wins have come when Coventry have been at home.
The last time the sides met was at the Cardiff City Stadium on March 21st 2012 and the game ended in a 2-2 draw with Jordan Clarke scoring a stunner and Oliver Norwood scoring an equaliser four minutes into second half stoppage time.
The teams that night were:
City: Murphy, Keogh, Clarke, Cranie (Hussey 87), Cameron, Clingan, Thomas (Deegan 87), Norwood, Nimely, McDonald (Platt 70), McSheffrey. SNU Dunn, Christie.
Cardiff City:Marshall, McNaujghton, Taylor, Hudson, Turner, Cowie, Lawrence (Earnshaw 72), Mason, McPhail (Gestede 57), Gunnarsson, Whittingham. SNU Heaton, Conway, Blake.
HT CCFC 1-0 CCFC FT CCFC 2-2 CCFC ATT 20,564
Referee B.Madley. Assts J.Ferries & A.Hendley:
MATCH OFFICIALS
The currently appointed referee for Coventry City's League Cup tie against Cardiff City is Simon Hooper from Wiltshire.
Simon started refereeing aged 15 and was appointed to the National Referees List in 2008.
He has only had three City games in his career. The last was the 2-1 win at AFC Bournemouth in February 2013.
The other two were the 1-0 defeat at West Ham United on Jan 2nd 2012 and the home defeat to Cardiff City on March 16th 2010.
His assistants are Michael George and Nigel Smith and the Fourth Official is Oliver Langford.
BETTING
Coventry City are clear under-dogs for the League Cup First Round tie against Cardiff City on Wednesday night.
The Sky Blues are quoted at 5/2 to win with Cardiff at 11/10 and 5/2 on the draw.
If you are planning to have a bet on the game, make sure you shop around the best odds before placing any bets.
You can do this by clicking on http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-cup/coventry-v-cardiff/winner