Sky Blues (band)
Sky Blues may refer to: * Coventry City F.C., in the English football league * Sydney FC, in the Australian A-League * Magherafelt Sky Blues F.C., in the Ballymena & Provincial Intermediate League of Northern Ireland * Duke of Buckingham's Light Infantry ("The Sky Blues"), a fictional regiment of the British Army See also * Sky Blue (other) * * Blue Skies (other) Blue Skies may refer to: Film and television * ''Blue Skies'' (1929 film), an American drama film * ''Blue Skies'' (1946 film), a musical film starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire * ''Blue Skies'' (2002 film), a Canadian short drama film directe ...

Coventry City F
Coventry ( or ) is a city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ... in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its city status until the Middle Ages. The city is governed by Coventry City Council. Historic counties of England, Formerly part of Warwickshire until 1451, Coventry had a population of 345,328 at the 2021 census, making it the tenth largest city in England and the 12th largest in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest city in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, after Birmingham, from which it is separated by an area of Green belt (United Kingdom), green belt known as the Meriden Gap, and the third largest ...
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Sydney FC
Sydney Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier men's competition, A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The club was founded in 2004 and entered the A-League as one of the eight original teams for the inaugural 2005–06 season. Sydney is the most successful association football club in Australian history, having won five Championships and four Premierships in the A-League, as well as one FFA Cup and the Oceania Champions League in 2005, prior to Australia joining the Asian Football Confederation. The club has become a dominant force and consistent performer in recent times within the top-flight, a surge led by managers Graham Arnold (2014–2018) and Steve Corica (2018–present). Since 2015, the club has achieved a top-two finish (thereby winning qualification for the Asian Champions League) in six out of eight seasons, appeared in five A-League Gran ...
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Magherafelt Sky Blues F
Magherafelt (, �mˠaxəɾʲəˈfʲiːlt̪ˠə is a small town and civil parish in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 8,805 at the 2011 Census. It is the biggest town in the south of the county and is the social, economic and political hub of the area. It is part of Mid-Ulster District. History Magherafelt has been documented as a town since 1425. An earlier name for the area was ''Teach Fíolta'' - ‘Fíolta’s (monastic) house’. This would suggest that there was a monastic settlement here under the leadership of Fíolta. The site of the medieval parish church may be marked by the ruins of a later church and graveyard at the bottom of Broad Street. The Salters Company of London was granted the surrounding lands in South Londonderry in the seventeenth century as part of the Plantation of Ulster. Subsequently, the town began to take on its current shape with a central diamond forming the heart of the town. During The Troubles in the late 20th c ...
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Duke Of Buckingham's Light Infantry ("The Sky Blues")
The Duke of Buckingham's Light Infantry is a fictional regiment of the British Army depicted in a series of historical novels by John Mackenzie. They are nicknamed "The Sky Blues" from their sky-blue facings. They bear the chained-and-collared Swan badge of the Mandeville family superimposed over the Bugle badge of the Light Infantry as their cap badge. History of the Regiment It was raised and founded in 1685 as ''Buckingham's Foot'' by John Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, by order of King James II. It served in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) and fought at the Duke of Marlborough's victories of Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, and Malplaquet. It was renamed ''Villier's Foot'' when it was commanded by Major-General Sir Ambrose Villiers, a colonel from 1742 to 1748. It served in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748) at Dettingen and Fontenoy. It then returned home to battle the Young Pretender's forces at the battles of Falkirk and Culloden in 174 ...
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