The Coventry City Gazette
Squad21 Aug 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alex McCarthy
161 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Coventry City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match19 Aug 2028
Coventry City taken apart
0‑3 to Liverpool, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market21 Aug 2028
Ventforet Kofu come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Coventry City did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Words exchanged at Coventry City
Chema Andrés and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Coventry City
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Coventry City rebuffed over Joshua Zirkzee
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Chelsea have kept their man, and Coventry City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout21 Aug 2028
No hiding place for Carl Rushworth
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Carl Rushworth, and the manager let it.
Market21 Aug 2028
One of our own: James Richardson joins the Coventry City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. James Richardson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market21 Aug 2028
Stephen Harris steps up from the Coventry City academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stephen Harris has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Matthew Foster steps up from the Coventry City academy
- Boardroom A promise the Coventry City board did not keep
- Boardroom Nobody left the Coventry City dressing room in a hurry