Coventry City’s incredible season just gets better and better and two wins in the last week cemented the Sky Blues at the top of the Championship table. The comprehensive 2-1 win at Portsmouth extended the unbeaten start to 11 games - a run only bettered by the club once, in 1937-38 when the run lasted 15 games. This season’s start has now bettered the 10-game start to the 2019-20 season when, of course, the Sky Blues, playing at St.Andrews won promotion from League One. With seven wins and four draws this start is currently slightly better than 1937 when there were six wins and five draws.
What a difference it's been from the previous three seasons when the team had frustratingly slow starts:
2022-23 10 points from 11 games
2023-24 15 points from 11
2024-25 9 points from 11
Frank Lampard's exciting team currently have a fantastic launchpad for a successful season and we have to hope they can continue the excellent form.
Carl Rushworth and the Sky Blues defence created another record this week when he kept his goal intact until the 96th minute. It meant that he did not concede a goal for 613 minutes since the Norwich game on 13th September. Norwich striker Mathias Kvistgaarden scored in the 17th minute that day and since then the Brighton loan goalkeeper had five clean sheets plus the majority of Tuesday’s game at Portsmouth. Carl started the game at Fratton Park with the fifth longest run by a Coventry goalkeeper but as the game proceeded he overtook the runs of Les Sealey, Steve Ogrizovic, Reice Charles-Cook and on 80 minutes, Horace Pearson from the 1930s. A remarkable achievement by the young ‘keeper in only his 11th game for the club.
Defence has not been the only strong point this season as the goals total of 31 from 11 games demonstrates. The goals have been pouring in and it’s the club’s best 11 game start to a season even topping the early 1930s when City scored 100 goals in a season four years out of five. I can’t find a better 11-game start by any club in the Championship in the modern era although in 1919-20 Tottenham scored 36 goals in the first 11 games including nine in two games against City. Spurs went on to win the Division Two title that year with 102 goals and 70 points (102 in modern day). Haji Wright and Brandon Thomas-Asante head the division’s scoring charts with eight goals each and BTA and Viktor Torp have already eclipsed their goal tallies from last season. Will someone pinch me to wake me from this dream!
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