Old boy news

Last updated : 14 February 2006 By Covsupport

Former City defender Sean Cooney has joined Finn Harps. The Australian centre half whose career at Coventry was plagued by injury will join the Ballybofey club who played the Sky Blues in 1995 on a season loan deal from Bohemians.

Meanwhile,Ron Atkinson is in hospital with a rare form of blood poisoning. The former City boss who took over from Phil Neal, acquired an infection on holiday in Barbados and was rushed to the Priory Hospital in Edgbaston, Birmingham. After a race to find an antedote,Attkinson's recovery is being monitored by hospital staff.