Tag: Coventry

Frank Lampard: Coventry boss talks key to future amid Premier League links
1 May 2026 Off

Frank Lampard: Coventry boss talks key to future amid Premier League links

By Total Football News

Lampard continues to have admirers behind the scenes at Crystal Palace, who need a new head coach as Oliver Glasner is leaving.

The level of Palace’s interest will become clearer in due course as the club accelerate their efforts to identify Glasner’s successor. Departing Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola, former Nottingham Forest manager Sean Dyche, ex-Spurs boss Thomas Frank, Lens head coach Pierre Sage and Ipswich’s Kieran McKenna are among other

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Coventry City promoted: The ‘unsinkable’ Sky Blues back in the Premier League
26 April 2026 Off

Coventry City promoted: The ‘unsinkable’ Sky Blues back in the Premier League

By Total Football News

Kim McQueen perfectly encapsulates the feelings of most Coventry fans that day in 2001.

“I was excited going in and in tears leaving,” she said. “I don’t think there’s any shame in loving your club that much that it leaves you in tears when you go down.

Like Graeme and Rick, Kim never anticipated what would happen to her club in the 25 years that followed.

“I think being unsinkable

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Coventry City: Chairman Doug King says Frank Lampard links to Chelsea out of my control
23 April 2026 Off

Coventry City: Chairman Doug King says Frank Lampard links to Chelsea out of my control

By Total Football News

Coventry chairman Doug King says Sky Blues fans shouldn’t worry about “what may or may not happen” after head coach Frank Lampard was linked with a return to former club Chelsea.

Lampard steered the Sky Blues to a top-flight return in August for the first time in more than 25 years after sealing the Championship title with a 5-1 win over Portsmouth on Tuesday night, having earned the point which

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Coventry City 5-1 Portsmouth: Frank Lampard’s men secure Championship title
22 April 2026 Off

Coventry City 5-1 Portsmouth: Frank Lampard’s men secure Championship title

By Total Football News

A draw at Blackburn on Friday ended Coventry’s 25-year wait for Premier League football but the players showed they were keen to secure the Championship title to go with promotion.

The Sky Blues last finished top of the second tier in 1967 and this is the first time they have finished top of a completed table since then.

They went up as champions on points-per-game in the Covid-19 curtailed League

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Coventry City opinion: One final hurdle for Sky Blues to face
20 April 2026 Off

Coventry City opinion: One final hurdle for Sky Blues to face

By Total Football News

Coventry City fans have waited a generation for nights like this.

It has been 25 long years since the Sky Blues last graced the top flight, and now with promotion sealed, it’s all eyes on the Championship title.

All that separates them from glory is one final hurdle – Portsmouth.

And they get to face it at a near sold out CBS Arena – a stadium which has become a

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Frank Lampard: Coventry boss’ resurgence ends Sky Blues’ Premier League exile
18 April 2026 Off

Frank Lampard: Coventry boss’ resurgence ends Sky Blues’ Premier League exile

By Total Football News

Topping the table with essentially the same squad highlights Lampard’s powers of recovery. It has allowed him to finally feel like a manager first, rather than player, for the first time when he has been speaking with staff.

To observers Lampard seems more comfortable in his skin at Coventry, not carrying the weight of expectation and his legend at Stamford Bridge, where he is Chelsea’s 211-goal record scorer.

His move

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Championship promotion race: Who’s going up with Coventry City?
17 April 2026 Off

Championship promotion race: Who’s going up with Coventry City?

By Total Football News

Southampton – fourth on 72pts

When Southampton lost 2-1 at home to Hull on 17 January, they were marooned in 15th, winless in seven and four points behind Leicester City.

Relegation was only six points beneath them and the play-offs a distant 10 points off, as questions were raised about whether Tonda Eckert was really the man to take the team forward.

Three months on, Saints have not lost since

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Coventry City boss Frank Lampard focused with promotion one point away
16 April 2026 Off

Coventry City boss Frank Lampard focused with promotion one point away

By Total Football News

He added: “I think the Championship is a great league to to work in and to watch, especially with its unpredictability.

“The support bases, the sizes of the teams that are in it, and the different styles of play are great.”

Speaking about Blackburn, who were beaten 3-0 by in-form Southampton on Tuesday, Lampard said: “They are a team who are fighting.

“You can see they have good players and

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