The Coventry Sphinx Podcast: Recent Episodes
Chris Nee
This is the official podcast of Coventry Sphinx Football Club. In this episode, programme editor Chris Nee talks to joint manager Shaun Thomas and first team coach Nigel Starkey about a rollercoaster start to the 2021/22 season and a busy October to come.
This is the official podcast of Coventry Sphinx Football Club. In this episode, programme editor Chris Nee talks to central defender and club vice-captain Louis Guest about the team's start to 2021/22, the all-important first clean sheet, and his roles as the middle man in the back three and a senior voice within a young squad.
This is the official podcast of Coventry Sphinx Football Club. In this episode, programme editor Chris Nee talks to joint first team manager Shaun Thomas about the team's pre-season development, the friendlies matches within, and how Shaun and John Woodward have worked with their staff to prepare Sphinx for a new life in the Uhlsport United Counties League.
This is the official podcast of Coventry Sphinx Football Club. In this episode, programme editor Chris Nee talks to joint first team manager Shaun Thomas about the team's two post-season friendlies against AFC Coventry Rangers and FC Stratford, and the plan for the summer ahead. With two seasons lost to the pandemic, what are the challenges facing non-league managers as they approach a summer like no other?
This is the official podcast of Coventry Sphinx Football Club. In this episode, programme editor Chris Nee talks to football club trustees Dannie Cahill, Joey Fletcher and Neil Buswell about the joint planning application that would see the club gifted the freehold on its ground as part of a new development. You can support application OUT/2021/0104 by searching the planning portal on the Coventry City Council planning website.
This is the official podcast of Coventry Sphinx Football Club, with programme editor Chris Nee and joint manager Shaun Thomas. Sphinx’s run in this season’s Buildbase FA Vase came to an end with a Third Round defeat by Anstey Nomads at Sphinx Drive. Chris and Shaun speak in the aftermath to analyse the loss and bring the year to a close.
This is the official podcast of Coventry Sphinx Football Club, with programme editor Chris Nee and joint manager Shaun Thomas. After an enforced break from football, Coventry Sphinx returned with a win at Dudley Sports in the Buildbase FA Vase Second Round. Chris and Shaun pick over the details of that victory, on penalties again, and look forward to the next round.
This is the official podcast of Coventry Sphinx Football Club, with programme editor Chris Nee and joint manager Shaun Thomas. This week we’ve given Shaun a night off and spoken instead to Louis Guest after he captained the team against Lye Town. Guesty joined the club at the age of 6 and made his first team debut at 17, and in this episode we talk about his progress from the junior ranks through to vice-captaincy of the first team.
This is the official podcast of Coventry Sphinx Football Club, with programme editor Chris Nee and joint manager Shaun Thomas. In this week’s episode Chris and Shaun are joined by first team coach Jim McClean to talk about Sphinx’s last few matches, including Saturday’s FA Vase Second Round Qualifying victory over Shifnal Town.
This is the official podcast of Coventry Sphinx Football Club, with programme editor Chris Nee and joint manager Shaun Thomas. In this episode Chris gives Shaun the night off to focus on goalkeeping. To that end, he’s joined by Sphinx goalkeeper Tom Cross to talk training, defensive formations and saving seven penalties out of fourteen in the first month of the season.
This is the official podcast of Coventry Sphinx Football Club, with programme editor Chris Nee and joint manager Shaun Thomas. In this episode Chris and Shaun are joined once again by Shaun’s first team management partner, John Woodward, to talk about Sphinx’s FA Cup Preliminary Round win (on penalties again) over Coleshill Town.
This is the official podcast of Coventry Sphinx Football Club, with programme editor Chris Nee and joint manager Shaun Thomas. In this episode Chris and Shaun are joined by the club’s other joint manager, John Woodward, to talk about working together, the penalty shoot-out win over Romulus in the FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round, and the upcoming MFL Premier Division season.
This is the official podcast of Coventry Sphinx Football Club, with programme editor Chris Nee and joint manager Shaun Thomas. In this episode Shaun talks about the team’s last two pre-season friendlies — wins over Chelmsley Town and Nuneaton Griff — and looks ahead to the start of the season and the FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round clash against Romulus.
This is the official podcast of Coventry Sphinx Football Club, with programme editor Chris Nee and joint manager Shaun Thomas. In this episode Shaun talks about a couple of pre-season friendly defeats and a much-improved win against Bedworth United as well as three new signings and the importance of the FA Cup and FA Vase.
This is the official podcast of Coventry Sphinx Football Club, with programme editor Chris Nee and joint manager Shaun Thomas. In this episode Shaun talks about last Saturday’s pre-season friendly at home to Coleshill Town, and introduces us to the coaching staff that enable the players, Shaun and his joint manager, John Woodward, to do what they do.
This is the official podcast of Coventry Sphinx Football Club, with programme editor Chris Nee and joint manager Shaun Thomas. In this episode Shaun talks about his role as a coach and the baseline expectations placed on every player at the club, and we welcome four new first team signings. We also look ahead to Saturday’s pre-season friendly at home to Coleshill Town.
This is the official podcast of Coventry Sphinx Football Club, with programme editor Chris Nee and joint manager Shaun Thomas. On the eve of the club’s first pre-season friendly of the delayed 2020/21 season, Chris and Shaun talk about a summer of unusual preparations.
This is the official podcast of Coventry Sphinx Football Club, with programme editor Chris Nee and joint manager Shaun Thomas. First episode coming soon. Available everywhere.