‘THIS WILL WILL BE A BIG TEST FOR MY DODGY TICKER!’

By John Wragg

JOHN Sillett saw Coventry City play for the first time in 18 months last week. Today his memories will go back even further, 30 years to a sunny May day and one of the best FA Cup finals ever.
“To hear people say that it was one of the best finals…I can’t say that because they’ll say I’m biased. But it was some match, wasn’t it?” says Sillett. “Some day.”
Coventry, massive underdogs, beat Spurs 3-2 with an extra-time Gary Mabbutt own goal.
“The atmosphere, everything about it,” says Sillett, now 80, of that ...

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