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Entry: Coventry City Football Club - A902350
Author: McKay The Disorganised - Lost in S.H.A.D.O.W - Luddite - U200618

Well, its been longer in gestation than a baby elephant, and its nearly as big, but here it is.

Hey McKay I see what you mean about the gestation of a Elephant.

I'll get to see what I can say about the clubs whose floodlights once shone in to my bedroom when I lived on the Walgrave Road

Interesting that in the history of football clubs (eg the one on Charlton) Bury (my home town) seems to feature quite strongly. The glory days were over long ago!

I'm afraid the Great Bury Bung Scandal was long before my time, in fact I'd never heard of it until I started researching this.

Bury is also one of the few (traditional) grounds, in England, I've never visited.

*bookmarks for a future, detailed, read...*

Mmm a long detailed entry - my favourite.. may I nitpick?

I take it that's a yes-

You've used double quotes throughout - they really should be single ones..

The opening sentance - in italics - is it a quote or an introduction? If it's a quote it should be in blockquote tags, followed by a tag and a source.

The first paragraph is missing a paragraph tag...

Would it be possible to have some of the footnotes worked into the text. 24 is a bit too many I think, and the comments would get noticed more if they were in the text itself.

There's no need to put the headers in capitals.

This is a really really really good entry - sorry to find so many faults!

Err just one thing... Robbie Keane went to Inter Milan not Real Madrid. Other than that Top entry!

A few more spellings... I think Mr Blockley was a Jeff rather than a Geoff, Mark was definitely a Hateley rather than a Hately, and Mick Harford seems to have acquired a superfluous 't' in his name.

John Sillett's down with one and two 't's in different places (perhaps one of them migrated to join Mick Harford? and was Don McKay actually a Mackay? Of course, if anyone will know that one, it's you!

Glad you like it Z - I think I've corrected most of the things you spotted

No need to apologise for finding my mistakes for me - that's what Peer Review is all about. (At least I thought it was.)

I've reduced the footnotes a little, and will work on getting rid of more.

The opening.... They are quotes - sort of - Sky referred to Coventry as The Entertainers due to the number of high scoring matches they feaured in when televised, and the sleeping dwarf tag was I believe in the Daily Mail, The carbunkle remark has been attributed to two different television pundits (following Prince Charles notorious comment), though all three quotes have been taken to heart by Coventry fans.

Whoops Robbie Keanes brief continental dalliance corrected.

Thanks number 6 I think I've got them all.

Mr MacKay does indeed have a totally unrequired 'a', Jeff definately wasn't a Geoff, Mr Schnozz requires all his tt, and Tony's son was more hated then Hately.

One turn of phrase I saw somewhere once that I thought was lovely and might be worth replicating was along the lines of 'and so it came to pass that Big Fat Ron (BFR) was succeeded by WGS (Wee Gordon Strachan).

Also perhaps how Ron went from being 'Big Ron' to 'Big Fat Ron' as he failed to come up with the goods...

I've added that snippet on BFR & WGS - for some of us he was BFR when he arrived. Some of us looked at his Sheffield Wednesday days, rather than his Villa or WBA days.

Is that it then chaps ?

As Z said, there ain't no need to have the headers in capitals.

Apart from that, I'd say good to go

* coughs politely *

Finally notices the 3 headers all in capitals and corrects them - I'd always forgotten what I was looking for by the time I'd got that far down the entry.

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YAY!!!

Good skill and congrats!