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Four Games, Three Defeats: Part 2
By CovSid67 March 10 2008
Coventry City failed to build on the much needed win over local rivals Leicester City, managing to lose away to both Burnley and Scunthrope. The reward for defeat against the latter was double training sessions - quite right too! - though apparently not as a punishment.
v Burnley
Well, for a long time now I've wanted so see a Coventry City side without Stephen Hughes and Michael Doyle, but, unbelievably the side seems worse without them than with them! Only a few hundred die-hards/lunatics made the midweek journey for this fixture, and most of them probably wish they had stayed at home. A dodgy goal gave the home side the lead on 20 minutes (McCann being the beneficiary), with Grey having a goal disallowed for offside soon after. Steven Caldwell made the match safe for the home side on eighty-four minutes, though the reality was, despite Coventry enjoying decent periods of pressure, the Burnley goal rarely looked under threat. This was only Burnley's fifth home win of the season, and was achieved without Andrew Cole, who had spent the previous evening in the company of the boys in blue.
Team: Marshall, Osbourne, Fox, Ward, Hall, Mifsud, Tabb (Simpson 70), M. Hughes, Thornton, Gray, Best. SNU: Konstantopolous, Dann, Birchall, Andrews.
v Scunthorpe
One league win in 2008 (A record not helped by blowing a 2-0 lead against Stoke, before losing 3-2!), stuck at the foot of the table? Never fear, the Coventry City fixture is near. And so it proved to be, as once again we lost to bottom-of-the-table strugglers. Paterson gave the home side the lead on 14 minutes, with a Kevin Thornton penalty (Won by and scored by!) giving the away side a glimmer of hope for five minutes later (With KT booked for his goal celebration). A point away to such a team would probably have been classed as not good enough, but in the second half, it got worse. Jack Cork scored one of the flukes of the season to help the home side to all three points (Fairly sure he's notched goals for whichever reserve side he's played for against us too), though had it been Ronaldo or Ronaldinho, it would have been described as a wonder goal'! (The only thing I'm wondering is 'how the hell did he beat Marshall with such a shot?' It makes Van Basten's goal versus England seem like a tap-in from a yard off the goal-line). Marshall came up for a late corner with the intention of changing from villain to hero, but it took some quality defending to stop Scunthorpe adding an embarrassing third.
The slide down the table continues....
Team: Marshall, Osbourne, Fox, Dann, Hall, Mifsud, Tabb, Thornton, M. Hughes (Andrews 70), Gray, Best (Simpson 77). SNU: Konstantopolous, Ward, Birchall.

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