The Coventry City Gazette
Market28 Sep 2026
Coventry City may not be able to give Haji Wright what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Haji Wright wants continental football; whether Coventry City can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Coventry City
Frank Onyeka 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Coventry City
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Luke Bell is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Matt Grimes falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Haji Wright
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Squad Luke Woolfenden gets it from the manager
- Match Coventry City and Ipswich Town cancel each other out
- Player ratings Liam Kitching shuts the door
- Player ratings The referee tires of Bobby Thomas