He has been watching Coventry City since he was 10, becoming a season ticket holder and then taking over as the full-time fans’ drummer.<\/p>\n
Disaster struck when the club travelled to Swansea on 21 March, a game Coventry won 3-0.<\/p>\n
Matthews was drumming to a Matty Grimes chant, set to the tune of Zombie by The Cranberries, when the Sky Blues got a penalty.<\/p>\n
“We scored and I looked down at the drum and there was a hole,” he said. “And I’ve still no idea how it happened.”<\/p>\n
The fans have had the original drum for some years and it is covered in stickers from its experiences in the stands. When not in use, it is kept in a storeroom at the home ground.<\/p>\n
“It’s really nice for people to come and put stickers on and stuff. it gives it that bit of personality that is more than the drum itself,” Matthews said.<\/p>\n
“It’s something the fans have adopted.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He has been watching Coventry City since he was 10, becoming a season ticket holder and then taking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-506786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}