Coleman Looking Forward To Season Opener

Last updated : 21 June 2008 By Covsupport News Service
Coventry City manager Chris Coleman is looking for the Sky Blues opening game of the Championship on Saturday August 9th when Norwich City visit the Ricoh Arena.

Coleman who is still sorting out the club's pre-season programme with matches in Switzerland and a home friendly,still to be announced,much to many supporters annoyance, said to the CT: "Our first match is a home game and it wouldn't have mattered who it was against.

"Norwich are a good footballing team and I imagine it will be a good atmosphere. I don't think you can ask for more than the first one a home. But it is a good one for us as we finished last season badly.

"So I am looking forward to the first game of the season and hopefully we will start with a bang. We have got to start positively and I hope the supporters will like our new players and accept them.

"We won't go into any game thinking it is Doncaster who have come up from League so we should beat them or Reading who have come down from the Premier League so we won't win this one. We will look at every game and treat them the same. We will try to play positive football like we always do and looking at the squad of players I think we are going to have, I think we will have the chance to beat anyone we play.

"It is a tough league but I am excited about it because we finished in a fashion I didn't want to finish in. That leaves a bitter taste and I am looking forward to gettign rid of that."