The Coventry City Former Players Association are delighted to announce that our special guest for the Sky Blues last home game of the season will be the Club’s former shot stopper Andy Marshall. Andy will see the Sky Blues face Crewe Alexandra, a team desperate for points in their own attempt to avoid the drop on Saturday 25th April 2015.
Andy, who became an Association member in December 2010, started out professionally with Norwich City and built his professional career with the likes of Bournemouth, Ipswich, Gillingham and Wolves before impressing with Millwall sufficiently to attract the attentions of Coventry City FC. An England U18 and U21 International, Andy was a popular member of the Sky Blues teams between 2006-09 and made 62 first team appearances between the sticks for CCFC before moving to the Villa in August 2009 (via a trial with QPR).
In 2013-14 he returned to Millwall to provide goalkeeping cover but hung up his boots in January 2014 to concentrate on his role as Footballing Director of the SGA (Sells Goalkeeping Academy). Last February, as Aston Villa’s goalkeeping coach, he also found himself in temporary charge for four days at Villa Park (as part of a duo with first-team coach Scott Marshall) becoming caretaker manager on Paul Lambert’s departure (winning their sole match in charge)!
Welcome Andy – we hope you see the Sky Blues consolidate a position of safety above the relegation zone before their last match of the season at the home of another Club fearing the drop, fellow strugglers Crawley Town. Look out for Andy ‘around the lounges’ at the Ricoh before the game, in the press box with the BBC CWR matchday commentary team during the game and on the stage of the G-Casino’s Lady G’s Show Bar after the final whistle.