Two
away wins in four days not only lifted the Sky Blues to eighth place
in League One (their highest position since May 2016) but got two
troublesome monkeys off their back. The deserved win at Roots Hall,
with a late scrambled goal, was the first at Southend since 2006 and
only the fifth in 25 trips to the seaside town. They then followed up
with a comprehensive thrashing of lowly Bradford City, ending a
59-year wait for victory at Valley Parade. Although Mark Robins was
not happy with parts of the Bradford game I thought it was a very
impressive away performance and City could have scored more goals
with Jonson Clarke-Harris, who was in imperious form, narrowly
missing out on a hat-trick of headers.
The
two victories mean they have won four league games in a row for the
first time since November 2015 when under Tony Mowbray the team beat
Peterborough (h), Barnsley (h), Colchester (a) and Gillingham (h) to
go to the top of League One. Those four games harvested 14 goals with
Jacob Murphy scoring five and Adam Armstrong four. Have the Sky Blues
ever had two better loan players? Lots of readers have been asking
when did City last win five in a row. I'm probably giving the kiss
of death on matters but you have to go back to February 1998 and the
Premiership days to discover the answer. 1998 was of course the
golden spring when City knocked Liverpool, Derby and Villa out of the
FA Cup and should have reached the semi final but it is easy to
forget the impressive league form in that period. Between early
January and early April the team were unbeaten in nine league games
and by the end of the season had lost just once in 21 league and cup
games (counting the Sheffield United cup replay as a draw!). Embedded
in that incredible run was a run of five straight league wins and two
FA Cup victories.
Michael
Doyle achieved another milestone this week when he overtook Richard
Shaw in the all-time list of most Coventry City appearances. He's now
made 364 appearances in all competitions for the club and stands
seventh in the list. This season he has overtaken Shaw, George Mason
and Tommy Hutchison and is now closing in on Mick Kearns on 385 with
Bill Glazier's 402 also under threat.
The
top ten at the moment is:
- Steve Ogrizovic 601
- George Curtis 543
- Mick Coop 499
- Brian Borrows 488
- Bill Glazier 402
- Mick Kearns 385
- Michael Doyle 364
- Richard Shaw 362
- George Mason 359
- Tommy Hutchison 355
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