Frank Lampard delight as nervy draw at Blackburn seals promotion for Coventry
Frank Lampard delight as nervy draw at Blackburn seals promotion for Coventry. Coventry City are finally back in the big time for the first time in a generation.
Coventry City are finally back in the big time for the first time in a generation. After 25 years away, a period during which the club changed stadiums, hit financial rock bottom and plummeted to the depths of League Two as recently as 2017-18, manager Frank Lampard has led them to the promised land, with this 1-1 draw sealing a famous promotion.
The Sky Blues struggled to find a way past Blackburn for much of this tense evening and went behind to Ryoya Morishita’s strike, before Bobby Thomas blew the lid off the away end at Ewood Park with a header that will go down in Coventry folklore. The Premier League is calling once again.