The Coventry City Gazette
Match17 Oct 2026
7 matches without a win for Coventry City
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Coventry City are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Norman Bassette
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match17 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Coventry City against Blackburn Rovers
0‑1 to Blackburn Rovers, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Late improvement for Joel Latibeaudiere
At 26 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Coventry City
Carl Rushworth 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Daniel Robinson left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Coventry City
Something was said to Josh Dasilva and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Norman Bassette
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Norman Bassette, and the manager let it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Coventry City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jack Rudoni is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- Market The Taiwo Awoniyi story refuses to die
- Looking ahead Brandon Thomas-Asante goes back to face West Bromwich Albion
- The dugout Frank Onyeka left out for tactical reasons at Coventry City