Football for a Fiver at Coventry City

It was Coventry City's £5 ticket offer for their home games in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy two seasons ago that gave me the idea for this blog. The atmosphere that was created for each of the three matches, as crowds progressively increased to the point where 30,000 attended the area final against Crewe Alexandra, created a buzz around the city's football club that hadn't been seen for quite some time.

A lot has happened since then, of course, but the recent return to the Ricoh Arena created a similar feelgood occasion and the club have decided to offer £5 tickets to everyone for the JPT tie against Exeter City on Tuesday 7th October.

Chief executive Steve Waggott told the official club website: "We will look at anything we can do for supporters to make football more affordable and hopefully this will help that."