The Records continue to fall

The Sky Blues have taken another massive step towards promotion back to the Premiership in the last seven days. A hard-won 2-0 win at Ashton Gate was followed by a comfortable 3-0 victory over Preston North End at the CBS Arena. The team have now racked up six consecutive league wins for the second time this season. This team has done something no other Coventry team have done in 100 seasons of league football, TWICE. There were two other examples of six in a row but they were over two seasons (in 1954 & 1964) and in 1998 Gordon Strachan's team won seven in a row but included two FA Cup victories.

The two victories this week takes the number of league wins this season to 23, just one short of the club record set in 1958-59 season when Billy Frith's team won promotion from the old Fourth Division. The points total now stands at 77 and with nine games remaining they could easily top 90. It's already the club's highest points total since the rules changed and it became three points for a win in 1981-82. 

In the two points for a win era prior to 1981 there were four seasons when if the three points rule had been in force they would have got more points, all of them promotion seasons:

                                    Pl      W     D     L     F- A     Points     Amended Pts     PPG

Points

1935-36 Div 3 South 42     24     9      9     102-45     57         81                     1.929

1958-59 Div 4             46    24     12   10     84-47     60         84                      1.826

1963-64 Div 3             46     22     16     8     98-61     60         82                     1.783

1966-67 Div 2             42     23     13     6     74-43     59         82                     1.952

The club's best points per game occurred in the truncated 2019-20 season when the season was ended with 12 games remaining with the Sky Blues averaging 1.971 points per game. With nine games remaining this season City's points per game is 2.081 – surely another record to fall.

The three goals against Preston took the season's total to 77 also – an amazing figure and the best haul since 1963-64 when Jimmy Hill's team scored 98 in winning the Division Three title. 77 tops the 1977-78 figure of 75 when Ian Wallace and Mick Ferguson were in their pomp and the club finished seventh in the old First Division but missed out on a UEFA Cup place by virtue of the Cup favourites Arsenal losing at Wembley to Ipswich Town.

We are truly witnessing the most astonishing season in the club's history.