8 Responses to Aviva Premiership: Cockerill cops lengthy ban

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  Scrumdown on 2 July 2013 at 9:49 am

  Hey I know that hotel VERY well. Stayed there on many occasions, and went drinking at the pub a few hundred metres up the road more than a few times. Can’t remember the name of it now, but it was great sitting in the bay window drinking copious amounts of Captain on late summer evenings.

  It’s been turned into a Hungry Horse restaurant now.

  Oh yeah, Cockerill, you’re a chop!
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  Bullscot on 2 July 2013 at 9:53 am

  1 @ Scrumdown:
  Hello Scrumdown gosh its a small world, sounds like you have good memories of the place. So it seems Cockerell was literally sent to Coventry
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  Bullscot on 2 July 2013 at 9:58 am

  Good morning GBS sorry lekker vaak here I hit the publish button a bit soon, then realized it needed tagged and categories fixed but you got to it before I could
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  Scrumdown on 2 July 2013 at 10:01 am

  2 @ Bullscot:
  That hotel is actually not too far from Leicester. Probaly 10 minutes on the Motorway.

  I was actually born in Coventry and was there until I was 14.

  Then I had a job in Swaziland, where our most critical supplier was based in Coventry, so in 2008/9, I was there literally once every 6 weeks.

  It was quite strange, were driving to have lunch with the supplier and I asked him where we were going, when he told me I asked him why he hadn’t turned at the last turning, he looked at me with a 1000 mile stare and asked how I knew the way.

  The place was 2 miles from the last house I lived in over there as a kid. Then it turned out that this bloke went to school at the arch enemy of the school I went to, although he was 3 years older.

  Gee we had some MASSIVE pitched battles back then.

  Yobbos I tell you.
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  Scrumdown on 2 July 2013 at 10:06 am

  2 @ Bullscot:
  The phrase “send him to Coventry”, really means that no-one speaks to you.

  It originated in medieval times when Coventry was very much a religious centre with many “silent orders” of priests.

  White Friars, Grey Frars, Black Friars to name but a few. Many of the old buildings are still within the old city walls, and areas named after them.

  Hence no-body spoke to each other at all.

  Coventry is actually a very old City, with the old cathedral that was bombed during the blitz of WW2 having been mentioned in the “doomsday book” commissioned by William the Conquerer after the battle of Hastings in 1066.

  And here endeth the history lesson of the West Midlands.
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  Bullscot on 2 July 2013 at 10:08 am

  4 @ Scrumdown:
  Very interesting man, so you will be a Sky Blues fan then. Sounds quite rough area there hey, think you call it East Midlands.
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  Scrumdown on 2 July 2013 at 10:30 am

  6 @ Bullscot:
  Yeah still a Sky Blues fan, even though they’re languishing.

  Although I was never much of a football fan.

  I went to a Comprehensive school that didn’t play football, only Rugby, so spent more Saturdays at the old Coundon Road watching the likes of David Duckham than at Highfield Road.

  Guess I was “privelidged”.

  Coventry is in the West Midlands. Used to be in Warwickshire but got “moved” somewhere in the 70’s I think.

  Leicester and Northampton both in East Midlands.
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  nortierd on 2 July 2013 at 3:46 pm

  Scrumdown wrote:

  2 @ Bullscot:
  The phrase “send him to Coventry”, really means that no-one speaks to you.
  It originated in medieval times when Coventry was very much a religious centre with many “silent orders” of priests.

  Thanks for that bit of trivia
  I remember years ago Topsy Smith, who wrote the Trompie books, had English books about a kid named Leon
  The 1st book I remember he was ” sent to Coventry” and no one was allowed to speak to him
  First time I heard of the phrase and now more than 30 years later you have enlightened me.
  Never to old to learn