Coventry City goalkeeping legend Steve Ogrizovic tells the hair-raising wartime story of how his father came to be a miner in Nottinghamshire, the “embarrassment” of queuing for school dinner tokens during a strike, joining the police force and bowling out Viv Richards in a lesser known cricket career. As a footballer he sat on the bench while Liverpool won Europe’s most prestigious trophies, but spent the rest of his life at Midlands clubs - including a remarkable 16 years as Coventry’s number one. 

Midlands Memory: The Open Top Bus Parade through Coventry after CCFC won the FA Cup in 1987: "It was supposed to take 45 minutes but three and a half hours later we still hadn’t reached the council offices...That particular day, the whole of Coventry, and some more, came out to applaud the team home and it just became absolutely an incredible place.”

Commissioned by Coventry City of Culture 2021 and proudly produced by Loftus Media.

Music by Maia Miller-Lewis.

Image of Steve Ogrizovic courtesy of Coventry City Football Club.

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