Sky Blues with bright future: Coventry can celebrate season

Their unlikely promotion charge is over but Coventry City have a phenomenal season to look back on and the brightest of futures ahead.

For many fanbases, the dashing of play-off dreams this late into the season would land somewhere on a bitter scale from crushing disappointment to ‘[insert manager X] out’ memes littering replies to every social media post put out by the club. In the case of Coventry City supporters, Wednesday night’s defeat to Nottingham Forest likely put paid to any chance of promotion. But it matters not when considering the resounding success of this campaign.

Even the most optimistic of Sky Blues’ fans could not have foreseen Mark Robins’ side legitimately challenging for a place in the Premier League so deep into the season. A four-game winless run since hitting Sheffield United for four almost a month ago has left Coventry eight points off the Blades in sixth place with just six games remaining.

Coventry’s chances of being in the top six were not fleeting. They were there for the majority of the first half of the season, but have not returned since dropping out towards the end of November. Since then, they have flirted with those positions but remained on the periphery. QPR and Blackburn were the middle of the season’s dark horses and Luton Town are the underdogs finishing in style; Coventry got the ball rolling in giving us hope of an unexpected team making their way to the top flight.

Best season we've had at the Ricoh.

Some unbelievable games up there throughout the past 10 months.

I've got memories of games with my boys and mates that we'll never forget.

Mark Robins and the team have done us proud.

— Mark (@mabmab71) April 6, 2022

The use of the word ‘team’ there is important, for Coventry as a