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Trevor Peake lines up at the Ricoh

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Trevor Peake in Action 1988

Cup Final hero Trevor Peake will be the Association’s special guest at the Sky Blues next home evening match with Cardiff City on Tuesday 16 March 2010. Trevor will be visiting the Ricoh again hoping to see the Sky Blues continue their excellent recent home form against a club with play-off aspirations.

We hope Trevor will be able to meet supporters both in the corporate lounges and G-Casino after the game and will be introduced to the crowd at half-time as well as being the subject of various media interviews that evening.

Look out for an announcement about who our special guest will be for the important game with Plymouth Argyle the preceding Saturday 13th March 2010. Plymouth too are desperate for points but this time City’s opponents are at the wrong end of the Championship table.

March 1, 2010 · Tagged with

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Wilf Smith returns to the Ricoh

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Wilf in Action 1971

Wilf Smith was our special guest at the home game against Scunthorpe United yesterday (27th February 2010).

Wilf, born in Germany yet capped for England at Under 23 level, was at one time the most expensive full back in Britain when City signed him from Sheffield Wednesday for £100k in the close season of 1970. Wilf played over 150 games for the Sky Blues both at full back and in the midfield before moving to Bristol Rovers in March 1975. On retirement Wilf built up a retail chain in Leicestershire where he still lives.

Wilf reminisced about his time at Highfield Road and though the Sky Blue never managed to gain any silverware or finish above 10th in the top division he thought the teams he played with were both hardworking and entertaining both containing flair players and ’characters’ like Tommy Hutchison, Ernie Hunt and Willie Carr.

Wilf thoroughly enjoyed his day doing the usual honours in and around the Ricoh meeting fans and corporate guests and was pleased to see a hard fought Sky Blue 2-1 victory


February 28, 2010 · Tagged with , ,

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New CCFPA Website up and running!!!

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Welcome to the new version of our website! We hope you will enjoy it and think it a big improvement especially to move around the site and find what you want. We have worked hard to make it bigger, brighter and more interactive giving you much better opportunities for us to contact you and you to contact us.

We have the usual News and Future Events pages but there is much more room for pictures of our members and the various events we put on. In the next few days we will be downloading many more photos than we have previously had space to show from previous Legends Days, Golf Days and Fans Forums. Why not take a look at our Galleries pages in the weeks to come? Jim Brown’s player’s database is featured again on our Players Search page. The Where Are They Now feature is again with us as well as a Gone but Not Forgotten series about Former Players who have passed away. We are also in the process of expanding exciting new features on City’s vintage Programmes and current Books. There is even a Video page (currently showing a snippet of a 1937-8 Division Two game between Spurs and City!!

We are even accessible through Facebook and Twitter if you are an up to date communicator!! Please have a good look round and let us know what you think. We are always open to new content ideas!

February 24, 2010 · Tagged with ,

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Legends Day: Members Please Get Your Replies Back Soon!

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All of our Full Members should have received their formal invites in the post to our

Annual Legends Day Dinner and celebrations at the Ricoh Stadium on

Saturday March 27th 2010 (if you haven’t please contact us immediately).

Full Members:   Please get your completed forms (and payment for any guests you wish to bring) back to us as soon as possible so that we can firm up arrangements to accommodate all your needs for the day. There is considerable interest already so please do not delay if you wish to join us for a complimentary lunch and fantastic seats at the Sheffield Wednesday home game.

We will be writing to all members who have accepted our invitation with further details of the day and joining instructions next month. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet up with your colleagues from your own playing days and other eras as well as offering fans and supporters the opportunity to meet you.

Please also let us know by post or email if you are unable to attend (you can now also contact us via this web site).

Associate Members: Please watch this space for details of your own opportunity to attend the Legends day festivities.

February 23, 2010 · Tagged with ,

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