Keeper signs new contract
have done as much as you can, don’t miss training, when you are training, train properly, for the whole session.
“When you do that, you can look into the mirror and say that you’ve given it your best shot.
“Football gives you more than just money. It’s not just about money I don’t think anyway. It never used to be! To me it’s the social aspect of it, the team bonding that you get that gives you so much pleasure or it did for me, that was my journey. I made so many friends and people who I am still in touch with now who I used to play with 30 or 40 years ago.”
“I spoke to Oggy yesterday, I gave him a ring and he was very quick with his reply in telling me he was playing golf and he was on the first tee and couldn’t talk!
“We haven’t stayed in touch as much as we usually do but that’s for obvious reasons and certainly not met up. But we’re certainly all looking forward to when that day comes again, when Boris allows us to get together. All we do is talk about what used to happen years ago, obviously we’ve got views on what’s happening now.
“Brian Borrows is still there, Oggy has just come out of the club.”
“I do intend to go to some games. I’ve mentioned it to the wife. Every Saturday I won’t be going to a football game but I will be picking some out and that includes Coventry.
“I know so many people there, as I do with Leicester, I’ll be watching. I can’t ever think of a life without football in it. I was like a little kid when the Premier League just came back, waiting for the first game. Although it was a bit of a disappointing game!
“It feels firm but never say never. I might be able to do a bit of scouting for clubs which is just, again, watching the game, it’s just a bit more processed. At the moment that is not in my mind, I am just going to be a spectator, around the Midlands, and down at Luton as well.
“There’s been ups and downs obviously, like I go back to, if you’d have asked me when I was 10 what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, I’ve been able to do and been paid a bit of money here and there, not quite as much as they got there, I would’ve been very happy with that.
“The three or four clubs I played for are all very close to my heart. It has been a very fortunate and successful career, even if there was only one trophy that came from it. It has been such a terrific journey.”
“Apart from watching the World Cup, after that when I was growing up, I think the FA Cup had a bit more meaning to it, that actual day is still very good to look back upon. I’ve probably forgot half of it and we get together, sometime on a Sunday some time soon, I am sure we will be going through it again!”
GOALKEEPER Cian Tyler has agreed his first professional contract with the Sky Blues.
The 18-year-old has risen through the youth system having joined the club 10 years ago as an under-8s player.
Tyler has signed a two-year deal to run to the summer of 2022. He has represented Wales at Under-17s level and has had loan spells at non-league Barwell and AFC Rushden & Diamonds.
Coventry’s under-23 goalkeeper Tom Billson, who is 19, has been offered a new deal that the club hopes will be completed in the coming days.
Billson has risen through the ranks in the youth set-up at Coventry, with a breakthrough last year in the Under 23s.