 The change of colour came with an associated nickname change, the "Bantams" moniker being dropped in favour of the "Sky Blues", and Hill wrote the "Sky Blue Song", sung to the melody of the "Eton Boating Song", which was still being sung at matches by Coventry supporters fifty years later.They made a number of new signings such as Peterborough's Terry Bly and John Sillett from Chelsea, made possible by a £30,000 injection of funds by Robins.The club did not achieve promotion that season, with a fourth-place finish, but had their most successful run in the FA Cup for many years, beating Bournemouth, Millwall, Lincoln, Portsmouth, and Sunderland en route to a quarter-final defeat by Manchester United.