COVENTRY CITY VERSUS GILLINGHAM FC
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 15TH AT 3PM
AT SIXFIELDS STADIUM,UPTON WAY,NORTHAMPTON,NN5 5QA
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MATCH DETAILS
Kick off at 3pm.
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TRAVEL
Coach from Whte Street at 1pm.
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.
http://www.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/feat/ed14/avoid_the_train_for_city_v_gillingham_game_806096/index.shtml
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,
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ADMISSION
Tickets are available on the day via the booths outside the main stand.
Hospitality: http://www.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/news/tmnw/city_v_gillingham_hospitality_806268/index.shtml
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THE LAST TIME
Sunday's League One game will be the 45th meeting between Coventry City and Gillingham.
In those 44 league and cup matches between the two sides, Coventry have won twenty one with ten draws, scoring 95 goals to Gillingham's 61.
Of the twenty two matches played in Coventry, City have won twelve and drawn five. City's biggest home win was the 7-1 Third Division South victory at Highfield Road on August 26th 1933. In the away game of that season, City won 7-3 at Gillingham!
Gillingham's last win Coventry was a 2-1 win on February 2nd 2002 and the last game against the Gills, who have not played at the Ricoh Arena, in Coventry, was on Wednesday September 15th 2004. This finished in a 2-2 draw with Andy Morrell and Stern John giving City a 2-0 lead just after the restart before Patrick Agyemang struck in the 64th and 76th minute to equalise.
The City team that night was:
Steele, Whing, Staunton, Leacock, Shaw, Hughes (Gudjonsson 79), Doyle, Sherwood, Barrett (Suffo 71), Morrell, John SNU Shearer, Johnson, Giddings
More head to head - http://www.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/head_to_head/next/vs/match/index.shtml
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MATCH OFFICIALS
The currently appointed referee for Coventry City's League One game against Gillingham on Sunday is Trevor Kettle from Berkshire.
Mr Kettle, is no stranger to Coventry City. The RAF Air Traffic Controllor refereed a number of reserve team matches, sometimes controversially on his way up onto the National List which he joined in 2003.
His last City first team game was the 4-0 loss Walsall on April 1st 2013. Other City matches include, the 3-1 win at Colchester United on November 20th 2012, the 2-2 draw at Vicarage Road, Watford in August 2010 when he had to go off injured after 67 minutes, the 0-0 draw with Reading at the Ricoh Arena on April 4th 2009 in which he cautioned seven players, the 2-1 defeat at Sheffield United on March 11th 2008 (7 cautioned again), the 4-1 defeat at Ipswich on September 22nd 2007 (3 cautioned), the 3-0 defeat at Birmingham on April 1st 2007 (2 cautioned), the 3-1 win over Cardiff on April 30th 2006 (3 cautioned), the 4-0 defeat at Watford on Feb 11th 2006 (5 cautioned), the 2-2 at Ipswich on October 18th 2005 (3 cautioned), the 1-1 home draw with Ipswich Town on January 31st 2004 (4 cautioned).
This season, he had had five matches (two of which have been League One matches) , shown 14 yellow cards but no reds.
His Assistants are: Simon Knapp and Stephen Ross. The Fourth Official is David Phillips
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BETTING ODDS
The bookmakers are making Coventry City the odd's on favourites for their League One game against Gillingham FC at Sixfields Stadium on Sunday.
City are priced at 4/5 with most of the bookmakers whilst the odds for Gillingham to win are around the 3/1 mark. If you fancy City to draw, you can get odds of around 5/2.
It's no surprise that Callum Wilson is favourite to score the first goal at 4/1 with Bet365., the same price as Leon Clarke. Mathieu Manset is at 13/2. You can get odds of 12/1 on no goalscorer and those who fancy a City Old Boy to score first can get 7-1 on Cody McDonald.
Correct Score - http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-1/coventry-v-gillingham/correct-score
Half-Time/Full Time - http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-1/coventry-v-gillingham/half-time-full-time
All markets - http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-1/coventry-v-gillingham/betting-markets