Max Biamou had an
interesting week. Despite receiving a red card on Saturday for a bad
challenge against Accrington on Saturday the club circumvented the
rules to play him in the EFL trophy game against Southampton on
Tuesday evening. The three-game suspension for the red card was
temporarily forgotten as the French striker scored a hat trick to
virtually guarantee the club’s place in the knockout stages of the
competition. Let’s hope those stages generate bigger crowds for a
competition that is really struggling to attract the fans. The crowd
at St Andrews on a bitterly cold Tuesday was only 375, the smallest
for a competitive home game since 1900, although I did find a crowd
of 306 at Highfield Road in November 1940 for a War League game which
was strictly speaking not a competitive game.
Max is the first Coventry City
player to score a hat trick in a Cup competition since Gary
McSheffrey netted three in a 8-0 home victory over Rushden and
Diamonds in the League Cup in 2002-03. Since 2000 there have been
only ten Sky Blue hat tricks, as follows:
2000-01. John Aloisi v Preston (h)
League Cup
2001-02. Lee Hughes v Crewe (a)
2002-03. Gary McSheffrey v Rushden
(h) League Cup
2009-10. Freddy Eastwood v
Peterborough (h)
2015-16. Jacob Murphy v Gillingham
(h)
2015-16. Adam Armstrong v Crewe
(a)
2017-18. Jodi Jones v Notts County
(h)
2017-18. Marc McNulty v Grimsby
(h)
2017-18. Marc McNulty v Cheltenham
(a)
2019-20. Max Biamou v Southampton
(h) EFL Trophy
Older City fans may remember
Robert (Bob) Dobbing, a full-back who was a regular in the reserve
team between 1967-69 but never quite made the first team.
Sunderland-born Dobbing joined City straight from school and played
in the same youth team as Willie Carr, Jeff Blockley and Trevor
Gould. After emigrating to Australia in the 70s he was chosen to represent Australia but broke his leg before the game. He lives in Melbourne but still has family in the North East and they have been in touch
with the bad news that Robert has prostate cancer. He had an
operation this week and everybody is hoping that he has a successful
outcome. CCFPA have sourced a 1960s style City shirt for him and that
is winging its way to him in Australia.
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