Mowbray Used To Last Day Dramas

Last updated : 30 April 2015 By Covsupport News Service

Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray has said that he had been involved in lots of last day scenarios.

Mowbray will be in charge of a City team which needs a result at Crawley Town and told the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner: “I’ve been involved since 1982 or something and had lots of last day scenarios.

“I was manager at Hibs when Celtic were trying to win the league and we were going for Europe.

“We were playing Rangers at home and they were hearing Celtic were being beat 1-0 so it ended up that we had the point we needed and didn’t need to score because we’d beaten Aberdeen to third spot, and Rangers had enough to win the league.

“When the Celtic fans heard that Hibs weren’t trying to score against Rangers they were massively upset, but really we were just not trying to lose another goal because goal difference was significant.

“I was at Middlebrough as a player on last day of the season when all the fans turned up with faces painted hoping to get promotion but Gary McAllister scored a 25-yarder in the top corner, Leicester beat us 2-1 and we had to go into the play-offs.

“I was relegated with Boro in 1989 at Sheffield Wednesday in what is now the Premier League. They scored a late goal and I remember the shock in the dressing room afterwards and me and Gary Pallister were going away with England B team straight after the game.

“At Ipswich it was almost every year because we had four years running on the last day to decide whether we would get promoted automatically or get to the play-offs from sixth or seventh.

“I have got lots of experience of this type of last-day drama but all you can really do is go out play the football match.”