Our final Coventry City Vintage post features yet more images of the club’s movers and the shakers during the late 1970s and early 80s. The Sky Blues were by now a fairly well established Division One club, albeit one prone to major and unpredictable swings in form from year to year: a very narrow escape from relegation in 1977 was transformed into a 7th placed finish the following year for instance.

Coventry had a historically poor record in Cup competitions which they only started to address during the 1980s. In the League Cup of 1981 the Sky Blues came close to their first Wembley appearance before West Ham edged them in the semi-final. Just six years later however…..