Play Up Sky Blues

Champions 1967: Coventry City's Rise to the Top

Jim Brown

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785313752
• Year: 2018

Play Up Sky Blues is the story of the unforgettable season when charismatic manager Jimmy Hill led the Sky Blues to the First Division for the first time in the club's history. It describes the ups and downs of an incredible season, and the stories behind all the men who brought about this unprecedented success.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• The Sky Blues Cast
• 1. Preparations for new season
• 2. August – a stuttering start for Sky Blues
• 3. September – Lack of goals a worry as Sky Blues fail to impress
• 4. October – Dark clouds over Highfield Road
• 5. November – Gibson is back!
• 6. December – League leaders toppled as City start surge
• 7. January – City hit the top but exit Cup
• 8. February – ‘Physical’ City unrelenting
• 9. March – City move closer to the goal
• 10. April – Promotion achieved
• 11. May – Champions!
• 12. The summer of ’67
• What became of the cast?
• Appendices
• Bibliography
• Photographs