COVENTRY CITY V SHEFFIELD UNITED
SATURDAY AUGUST 16TH AT 3PM
AT SIXFIELDS STADIUM, UPTON WAY, NORTHAMPTON, NN5 5QA
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MATCH DETAILS
This League One fixture kicks off at 3pm.
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TRAVEL
Coach from White 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.
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 for the game on Saturday August 16th see single Adult tickets starting at £14 in the standard zone and £16 in the premium zone for tickets bought in advance. These rise by two pounds if purchased on the day of the game.
For more information, please click on http://www.ccfc.co.uk/news/article/sheffield-united-tickets-sixfields-coventry-city-league-one-110714-1744216.aspx
Sheffield United have sold their allocation and no more tickets will be made available to them.
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THE LAST TIME
Coventry City meet Sheffield United on Saturday for the 57th time. The Sky Blues have won eighteen matches, drawn nineteen times and lost on eighteen occasions including the final game of the 2013 season at Brammal Lane.
The last time, Coventry City played Sheffield United at Sixfields was on October 13th 2013 and saw a 3-2 win for the Sky Blues.
The teams that day were: City: Murphy, J Clarke, J Willis (Phillips 77), Webster, Adams, Baker (c) (Daniels 67), Moussa (Barton 81), Fleck, Thomas, L Clarke, Wilson
Subs: Burge (GK), Manset, Barton, Garner, Haynes
Sheffield Utd: Long, Westlake, Maguire, Hill, Flynn (Hall 73), Doyle (c), Baxter (Taylor 41), Collins, Coady, King (McGinn 56), Brandy. Subs: Howard (GK), Lappin, Murphy, Ironside
HT CCFC 2-0 SUFC FT CCFC 3-2 SUFC ATT 2078
Goals Leon Clarke 6 & 49, Callum Wilson 32, Lyle Taylor 61 & 80
Referee Mike Dean
Match Highlights - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVY4_Vgra6Q
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MATCH BETTING
Coventry City are the underdogs for the League One game against Sheffield United at Sixfields on Saturday.
City are priced at odds of up to 2/1 with Bet Victor to win whilst The Blades are priced at 6/4 with 12/5 the draw.
If you are planning on having a bet on the game make sure you shop around for the best odds before placing any bet as the odds greatly vary between bookmakers.
You can check what some of the leading bookmakers are offering by clicking on http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-1/coventry-v-sheffield-utd/winner
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MATCH OFFICIALS
The currently appointed referee for Coventry City’s game against Sheffield United is Graham Scott from Oxfordshire.
Mr Scott got in to refereeing when his playing career petered out and he wanted to stay involved in the game and keep fit, and refereeing for him fitted the bill.
He was appointed to the referees list in 2008.
His last City game was the 1-0 win at Stevenage in October 2013, Other games he has been in charge of are the 2-0 JPT Northern Area Final Second Leg win at Crewe on February 20th 2013, the 2-1 home defeat to Burnley on October 22nd 2011 where he showed eight yellow cards and one red and the 1-1 draw at Leicester in February 2011 where he showed four yellow cards and one red.
His assistants are Nick Greenhalgh and Stephen Ross. The Fourth Official is David Plowright.