Ben Wilson

Goalkeeper - Coventry City
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Marked for Ben Wilson

7 Edition

The Coventry City Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market14 Sep 2026

Bobby Thomas puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Coventry City, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market14 Sep 2026

Coventry City say no — this time

The offer from Leicester City for Ben Wilson was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Caleb Yirenkyi

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The terraces14 Sep 2026

The crowd has taken to Loum Tchaouna

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match12 Sep 2026

Coventry City find a way past Norwich City

Norwich City made Coventry City work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Ninety minutes of Taiwo Awoniyi at his very best

Marked 8.02. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Coventry City.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

One of those days for Tatsuhiro Sakamoto

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.01, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Caleb Yirenkyi has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Coventry City will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Market14 Sep 2026

Notts County expected to open talks for Kaine Kesler Hayden

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Coventry City will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Squad Words at Coventry City training over how hard people work
  • Squad The first one for Taiwo Awoniyi
Back issues
5 Edition

The Coventry City Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market31 Aug 2026

Not going: Josh Eccles stays at Coventry City

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Colchester United had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market31 Aug 2026

Tatsuhiro Sakamoto puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Coventry City, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market31 Aug 2026

Millwall 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

200 appearances for Taiwo Awoniyi

200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Ninety minutes of Tatsuhiro Sakamoto at his very best

Marked 8.30. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Coventry City.

Market31 Aug 2026

Leicester City watching Ben Wilson

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Coventry City have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Coventry City

Sidiki Chérif was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match29 Aug 2026

Coventry City caught on 88 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Portsmouth scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Match29 Aug 2026

Coventry City share the spoils with Portsmouth

A 1‑1 draw with Portsmouth leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

4 Edition

The Coventry City Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

A brace, and Jack Rudoni takes the afternoon — 8.13

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jack Rudoni provided it, and the 8.13 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market24 Aug 2026

Liam Kitching turns Cambridge United down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Myles Lewis-Skelly, 19, steals the show — 7.61

Marked 7.61 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market24 Aug 2026

Ben Wilson hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Coventry City can pretend not to have heard.

Market24 Aug 2026

Coventry City say no — this time

The offer from Sheffield Wednesday for Jake Bidwell was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Loum Tchaouna

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Coventry City rebuffed over Leandro Andrade

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Polissia have kept their man, and Coventry City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match22 Aug 2026

Jack Rudoni sends Coventry City past Queens Park Rangers

It finished 2‑1, and it was Jack Rudoni’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Coventry City.

Match18 Aug 2026

Coventry City come up short against Sheffield Wednesday

Sheffield Wednesday left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief