Attention! Inside Coventry City’s maddest-ever pre-season
01.07.26, 20:19 Updated 19.07.26, 17:01 2 Minute Read
Rich Chamberlain
In the great pantheon of ridiculous pre-season preparations, Coventry City’s warm-up for the 1993/94 season will surely take some beating.
The Sky Blues eschewed more modern go-tos such as far-flung trips to the Far East or the USA. Instead, manager Bobby Gould made the unusual choice to take his crop of top-flight footballers to an army barracks in Aldershot. Yeah, that’s not exactly textbook, is it?
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Rich Chamberlain Rich is a lifelong Coventry supporter and the author of several books about the club, including When The Sky Was Blue, Benno: My Life in Football and Sky Blue Fall.