Sky Blue Time Machine — Official Matchday Programme. A Coventry City podcast. Real football. Real memories. Real time travel.
Two Wembley finals, thirty years apart. The 1987 FA Cup and the 2017 Checkatrade Trophy — two seasons, two paths, one question: what did it mean?
Listen NowWho were these two Coventry sides and how did they end up at Wembley? The 1987 squad built on passion and belief. The 2017 squad built on survival. Set the scene, introduce the characters, and ask the question the whole season answers: what does a trophy actually mean?
Sillett and Curtis built something against the odds in 1987. Robins stabilised a club in freefall in 2017. Both men took over squads that needed belief more than tactics. A double portrait of management under pressure — and what happens when it works.
The cup runs happened inside full league seasons. How did each side balance the distraction — and what did their league form reveal about their real quality? This episode grounds both Wembley stories in the messy reality of a 46-game season.
Round by round through both cup runs — the upsets, the close calls, the moments where it nearly ended. In 1987, giant-killing. In 2017, grinding past League One opposition with a League Two squad. Two very different roads to the same stadium.
Deep profiles on the players who defined each run. Keith Houchen's overhead kick is one of the great FA Cup final moments. In 2017, different heroes — players most neutral fans had never heard of, playing the best football of their careers in front of 40,000 Sky Blues.
Sky Blue Time Machine is a Coventry City podcast. Each week, Danny and Sarah work through a season of Sky Blues football — and a second one, twenty-five years away from the first. Sometimes the parallel rhymes. Sometimes it doesn't. The show is the conversation about which.
Whether you've been there for thirty years or you came to the club last week, the show is for you. It explains what it needs to and trusts you with the rest.
Coventry-born, Bedworth-based, has been at Highfield Road and the CBS Arena for forty years. Watches a defensive shape the way a production engineer looks at a system. Was at Villa Park on the fifth of May 2001 and won't talk about it unless you ask him.
American. Journalist. Came to football late and rebuilt the foundation from data after inheriting it from her dad — a Coventry kid who emigrated in 1979 and never stopped following the club from across the Atlantic.