COVENTRY CITY: BACK AT LAST
“It never happens for people like us, you know.” After 25 years, with one in League Two and three in exile from their city, the Sky Blues are in the top tier again under Frank Lampard. Skipper Matt Grimes and their last Premier League boss, Gordon Strachan, share their joy Words Joe Donnohue Additional reporting Ed McCambridge, Chris Evans So reads the third line of We’ll Live And Die In These Towns , by The Enemy. The Coventry band’s 2007 single has been the unofficial anthem of the city’s football club for several years now. After 25 years outside of the top flight, Coventry City fans could be forgiven for self-indulgently attributing that one particular line to their plight of recent decades. This season, those fans will sing it to a worldwide Premier League audience for the first time. Coventry romped to the Championship crown with 95 points and deservedly earned their spot in the top tier once more, under the management of Frank Lampard. Following spe...