COVENTRY CITY 1-2 SWINDON TOWN
City:Murphy, Dickinson, Cameron, Martin, Christie, Bailey, Baker (c), Jennings, Moussa (McDonald 87), McSheffrey (Bell 79), L Clarke
Subs: Dunn (GK), J Clarke, Thomas, McDonald, Fleck, Edjenguele
Swindon Town: Foderingham, McEveley, Flint, Ferry (L.Rooney 65), Collins (A.Rooney 71), Roberts (De Vita 81, McCormack (c) , Thompson, Williams, Miller, Ward. Subs: Bedwell (GK), Devera, Navarro, Thompson.
HT CCFC 1-0 STFC FT CCFC 1-2 STFC
ATT 14,280
Goals Franck Moussa 2, Andy Williams 84
Referee M.Heywood
Booked Thompson, Murphy, Moussa, Jennings
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Coventry City's miserable home form continued with a 2-1 defeat to Swindon Town.
Yet again, its been another difficult week Sky Blue wise and took away the importance of a visit of Swindon Town who hadappointed former Sky Blue Kevin MacDonald on Thursday.
Lee Carsley named the side that had started at Bournemouth on Tuesday for this game played in sunshine on Legends Day.
Not one of the 49 players invited to the seventh annual Legends Day expertly run by the Coventry City Former Players Association, but we we saw former City captain Tim Sherwood walking into the Ricoh and he plus City supporters as far away as from Northern Ireland and a big Swindon support which prompted a large police presence, saw Leon Clarke, who was booed by the visiting fans, find Franck Moussa who got the ball inside the area and drilled a low shot past Foderingham to give City a 64 second lead.
Swindon had a couple of corners but it really should have been 2-0 when McSheffrey got on the end of Baker cross.
Murphy pushed a Ferry shot for for a corner two minutes later and in the 28th minute, Andy Williams was not on song as he got past Nathan Cameron but fired into the side netting.
Eight minutes later and the much booed Coventry kid Collins got round Cameron and hit the post. Ferry came in and it took a good save by Murphy to ensure that City still had a lead.
Carl Dickinson, who had a tidy game, drilled wide in the 40th minute and this was followed by City's first corner of the game which Leon Clarke headed wide of the goal at the North Stand end.
At the interval, the 49 former players were paraded in the centre circle with such luminaries as Tommy Hutchison, Colin Stein, Bobby Gould, Ernie Hunt and Ian Wallace amongst those introduced to an appreciative crowd.
As the sun moved over the main stand, Joe Murphy pushed over a shot from Alan McCormack, who was clearly frustrated by this and began punching the ground.
Kevin MacDonald made his first change as Swindon manager in the 65th minute and then saw his side get a free kick on the edge of the area when Williams went down.
That was cleared as was a free kick by Dickinson in the 70th minute.
Some of the refereeing decisions were infuriating the crowd with a fantastic tackle by Nathan Cameron being seen as a free kick rather than the cracking tackle it actually was.
Flint headed over that free kick but City were soon forced to defend their lines again when the highly capable Arron Martin cleared for a corner.
In the 79th minute, Gary McSheffrey went off for David Bell who was cheered by some but not all.
It had been clear to every City supporter in the ground that If the Sky Blues were going to win then they needed a second goal and in the 84th minute, the Robins drew level when the ball hit Murphy's right hand post and Andy Williams scrambled in from a couple of feet out.
A minute and a bit later and the City fans were heading for the exits when Darren Ward headed in from the corner to send City to yet another home defeat.