Matchday Memories: On This Day 2016 – See Sky Blue Stokes Score In Saddlers Stalemate
On this day (12th January) in 2016 the Sky Blues under ‘gaffer’ Tony Mowbray were doing fine in League One with only one league defeat in the last sixteen games and in the play-off spots. Today they faced Walsall FC at the Ricoh looking for revenge after going down to them 2-1 at the Bescot in August. City kept the unbeaten run going (but would go one to win only once in the next nine games)!
A glancing header from (now CCFPA member) Chris Stokes, taking advantage of a Joe Cole free kick, gave the Sky Blues the lead after 34 minutes and the Saddlers had quite a few close calls subsequently. However, the visitors fought their way back level nine minutes from time from Tom Bradshaw glancing shot to snatch a point in front of 15,671 at the Ricoh (including nearly 1,400 fans from Walsall).
Reice Charles-Cook, Aaron Phillips, Ryan Haynes, Sam Ricketts (c), Chris Stokes, Romain Vincelot, John Fleck, Joe Cole (sub. James Maddison -65), Adam Armstrong, Jacob Murphy and Jim O’Brien (sub. Marc-Antoine Fortune -82).
Thanks to CCFPA’s Mike Young for sourcing the images.