Coventry City Daily Digest

Monday the second of November, two thousand and twenty six. THE VIDEO FROM SATURDAY. Coventry City have issued a statement saying the club is aware of footage circulating on social media in connection with an incident during the Premier League fixture against Sunderland, that it does not tolerate offensive behaviour, and that it will liaise with the relevant authorities to determine the appropriate course of action (club official, the club's own statement). West Midlands Police say a thorough investigation has been launched and that a fourteen year old boy has since handed himself in and will be spoken with in...

Sunday 1 November 2026. Coventry City beat Sunderland three one at the Coventry Building Society Arena, and Matt Grimes was dropped to the bench for the first time this season. THE RESULT (club official, ccfc.co.uk, 31 October, and press report: Brian Dick, Coventry Live). Coventry City three, Sunderland one. Tatsuhiro Sakamoto scored his first Premier League goal just past the quarter hour, after Milan van Ewijk worked the ball into the middle and a Sunderland clearance broke to him on the edge of the area; the club's report has him striking it first time. Taiwo Awoniyi made and scored the second...

Matchday. Sunderland at the Coventry Building Society Arena, three o'clock, the club's Remembrance fixture. No further word on Bobby Thomas since yesterday, so he remains a doubt. JANUARY (press report, one named origin: Andy Turner, Coventry Live, 30 October, Lampard speaking to the Coventry Telegraph). Asked whether there is scope to strengthen in the New Year window, Frank Lampard said it is his opinion but also the owner's opinion of where he wants to go with things, and that they will look at it closer to the time because there is a lot of football to play until January. The recruitment...

Friday the thirtieth of October. Team news on Bobby Thomas, Lampard on a question he does not like, Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, two from the club, and then tomorrow. Bobby Thomas, and a diagnosis on the calf. Coventry Live's Andy Turner carried Lampard's pre match press conference yesterday afternoon: a small calf issue, and not as it was feared in the beginning around the lower leg and the Achilles. Whether he plays tomorrow is still open, with another forty eight hours to run. Stephen Mfuni is on standby if he does not make it, and Joel Latibeaudiere is the only other option...

Thursday the twenty ninth of October. Two things and the weekend. Dan Bentley on being the one who is not playing. Coventry Live's Andy Turner carried the goalkeeper yesterday afternoon, and Bentley, who arrived from Wolves in the summer and calls himself the elder statesman of the group, sets out what his job actually is: keeping Carl Rushworth on his toes, because he was tasked with it when he arrived and does it naturally anyway. Healthy competition, in his words, makes a healthy goalkeeping unit, and he wants Rushworth to do well and to succeed. He also gives a dressing...

Wednesday the twenty eighth of October. Two things this morning, and then Saturday from both ends. LAMPARD ON ELLIS SIMMS (press report, one named origin: Andy Turner at Coventry Live, reporting the manager on Monday). Simms was left out of the Coventry City matchday squad altogether against Fulham, having come off the bench and scored against Newcastle earlier this month. Asked whether the striker was injured, Frank Lampard said no, he just cannot pick everybody, he has to cover at the back, in midfield, on the wings and up front, and that it was unfortunate for Ellis, adding that it...

Tuesday the twenty seventh of October. Two things this morning, and the first one has a clock on it. EVERTON AWAY SOLD OUT (club official). Coventry City confirmed yesterday afternoon that the full away allocation at Hill Dickinson Stadium has sold out. Wheelchair bays remain available, sold through the Loyalty Points Scheme. Successful Away Ballot members have until ten o'clock this morning to buy their tickets. If tickets remain after that window closes, the club say they will communicate further on sale windows. LAMPARD ON THE UNDERDOG TAG (press report, one named origin: the Coventry Observer). After Saturday's home defeat...

Monday the twenty sixth of October. A quiet morning, for a simple reason: the club have put nothing out since Saturday's match report. So one story leads, and it is Bobby Thomas. BOBBY THOMAS (press report, one named origin). Speaking after the Fulham defeat, Frank Lampard said he hoped the injury was not serious, and that he did not know the extent of it because the game was still going on and he had not seen Thomas since. The Coventry Telegraph have it as a problem with the lower leg, with ice strapped to the left leg below the knee...

Fulham won nil one at the Coventry Building Society Arena on Saturday, and Oscar Bobb's goal with ten minutes left was the difference. Today's episode goes through the game as the club's own match report tells it, from Shea Charles's early effort and Josh King hitting the post to Brandon Thomas-Asante's chance from a mishit back pass and Stephen Mfuni's header at a second half corner. Bobby Thomas went off around the hour after a fifty fifty with Alex Iwobi. There is no diagnosis and nothing from the club beyond the match report, so the episode says that and no...

Matchday. Fulham at the Coventry Building Society Arena, Saturday 24 October, 3pm kick-off, and it is sold out. The club have opened the Ticket Exchange for it and published the figure behind it: across the Hull, Brighton and Newcastle games an average of 2,218 season ticket holders did not attend each match. They surveyed the supporters who stayed away without listing or forwarding their seat, and nearly a quarter did not know they could list it on the Exchange at all, 16% did not know they could forward it, and 9% were not sure how. Listing stays open until 90 minutes before kick-off and listed...

Frank Lampard's press conference before Saturday's home game with Fulham, reported by BBC Sport. Loum Tchaouna and Yann Gboho were both left out of the squad that travelled to Tottenham Hotspur on Monday and neither is injured: Lampard says both are training and both are fit, and that they are still adapting to what he wants on and off the ball and on and off the pitch. Tchaouna has to understand that, as every player does, and is working towards it; Gboho has talent, that much is certain. There is not always the drama in an omission that people assume...

Coventry City's Under-21s beat Swansea City 2-0 on Tuesday night in the Professional Development League, the club's own report calling it a dominant win, with Liam Kelly's side arriving on a run of five wins in six. Gustavo Hamer, who came off the bench at Tottenham Hotspur the night before, started in midfield and Jake Bidwell started as captain, the club saying both dominated the early stages with their experience and leadership clear. Hamer increasingly dropped deep and directed operations alongside Elliot Betjemann, while Bidwell praised centre-backs Tristen Batanwi and Riccardo Di Trolio. Coventry's first goal came from the...

Coventry City's winning sequence ended at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Monday night, Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 Coventry City. James Maddison curled Spurs ahead after 14 minutes following Mohammed Kudus's run past Jay Dasilva, Jack Rudoni levelled five minutes after the restart from a shot that came back off Brandon Thomas-Asante, and Omar Marmoush restored the lead in the 58th minute after, in the club's own words, appearing to catch Milan van Ewijk in the face as he controlled the ball, with the referee allowing play to continue. Ben Davies made it 3-1 deep into injury time. Frank Lampard, speaking to BBC...

Frank Lampard has won the League Managers Association's Everest Men's Performance of the Week award for Monday's four one against Newcastle United, confirmed by the club on Friday, and he won the same award in February after a three one against Middlesbrough. CoventryLive carry his verdict on Sidiki Cherif, the nineteen year old he calls a bit special and a big signing in our intention and in the expense of it, and report that Kaine Kesler-Hayden is available and hoping for his first matchday squad of the season, with Josh Eccles two or three weeks away and Luke Woolfenden a...

Frank Lampard met the press ahead of Monday night at Tottenham, and CoventryLive report the smiles of Monday gone and the four one re-analysed with a colder eye: no performance is absolutely complete, and he is always fearful of resting on something and thinking that you have made it. Taiwo Awoniyi is available again after a three match ban, which leaves a selection call on Sidiki Cherif, and Lampard's own answer on it. CoventryLive make the case that the wider game is catching up with Bobby Thomas, who by their count is one of only three Coventry outfield players to...

Frank Lampard on Brandon Thomas-Asante, the forward who came up through Ebbsfleet, Sutton United and Salford and who his manager says now looks every inch a Premier League player. Then the harder thing Lampard said on Monday night, which CoventryLive read as a message to the wider squad: we are a promoted team and we need everybody, and a few lads need to know that. CoventryLive put names to both sides of it, from Tatsu Sakamoto working his socks off to Loum Tchaouna and Yann Gboho not getting on at all. Simon Jordan, on talkSPORT's White and Jordan show, says...

Doug King on talkSPORT the morning after the four one: he was never concerned about Coventry's start, every game in this league carries high jeopardy, and home form, in his words, is where Coventry will live and die. The owner wants the Coventry Building Society Arena to feel a little bit nicely hostile, and he does not want a side that quietly does all right and then gets thrown out of the back door. Newcastle's head coach Matthias Jaissle apologises to the travelling supporters and says it is a feeling you do not want to have when you feel as...

Coventry City four, Newcastle United one at the Coventry Building Society Arena, and, as Jack Rudoni put it afterwards, a first home win in the Premier League in twenty five years. A Rudoni penalty inside six minutes, Sidiki Cherif three minutes into the second half, and late goals from the substitutes Ellis Simms and the eighteen year old Stephen Mfuni, with Sven Botman replying for Newcastle. Coventry climb to fourteenth, six points from six games, and out of the relegation zone. Rudoni tells Sky Sports about the penalty and about the celebration he dedicated to his grandmother. Frank Lampard calls...

It is matchday at the Coventry Building Society Arena, Newcastle United at eight o'clock. Andy Turner at CoventryLive expects Milan van Ewijk straight back in at right wing back after a slight hamstring issue, and with Taiwo Awoniyi serving the last match of his ban he makes the centre forward slot a toss up between Ellis Simms and Sidiki Cherif. Frank Lampard talks to CoventryLive about the backroom staff he leans on, from assistant head coach Joe Edwards to set piece coach John Dempster and new head of goalkeeping Sal Bibbo. The club have put out the matchday guide and...

Coventry City open the 2026 Level Playing Field annual fan survey, the charity's yearly collection of what disabled supporters actually experience on a matchday. Former Sky Blues striker Jay Bothroyd, speaking after a guest appearance on a Betway presented show and reported by CoventryLive, says the summer meant taking a chance on players without Premier League experience, and that some of them may need a bit of time to adapt. Plus the match officials for Monday night, Newcastle at the Coventry Building Society Arena at eight o'clock, and where the table has us going into it. Sources named on air: Coventry...

Coventry City's limited edition all pink shirt sells out on the day it goes on sale, with a limited number held back for Monday night against Newcastle and ten per cent of shirt sales going to charity. Frank Lampard sets out Haji Wright's return as November into early December, with fresh dates for Luke Woolfenden and Aurele Amenda. The Athletic report one Premier League owner arguing that Coventry should get none of any Manchester City windfall, and Lampard answers the question about titles being stripped. Plus Newcastle at the Arena on Monday night. Sources named on air: Coventry City FC...

Frank Lampard has given Coventry City's team news ahead of Monday night's Premier League home fixture with Newcastle United at the Coventry Building Society Arena. The club published its own injury update on Thursday 8 October, and Lampard went through it at his pre-match press conference, reported by Andy Turner at CoventryLive. Milan van Ewijk, who sat out the 1-0 win at Nottingham Forest with a hamstring problem, is back in training, as is Kaine Kesler-Hayden. Josh Eccles is not back yet and Lampard said he could be a few more weeks; Haji Wright will not return until into November at...

Coventry City have confirmed ticket details for their next two home Premier League fixtures. Tickets for Fulham at home on Saturday 24 October and Sunderland at home on Saturday 31 October, both 3pm kick-offs at the Coventry Building Society Arena, go on sale exclusively to Sky Blues Members from 10am on Thursday 8 October, on a first come, first served basis. Supporters with previous purchase history can buy from 10am on Monday 12 October. Both fixtures carry Category C pricing. Members can buy one ticket each, or up to ten when linking to other 26/27 members. Hospitality packages also go on sale at 10am on...

The BBC report that Coventry City are set to buy the council owned Car Park C land next to the Coventry Building Society Arena for £1.6m. The purchase has not been completed: it goes to a Coventry City Council cabinet meeting next Tuesday, 13 October, and is expected to be signed off there. The money is paid over ten years and none of it goes to the council. It goes to the club's charity, Sky Blues in the Community, which will be contractually obliged to spend around £160,000 a year on sport and cultural activities across the city for the next decade. Co...

Voting is open for Coventry City's September Player of the Month, supported by Geely Auto UK. The club say voting closes at seven o'clock on Wednesday evening and the winner is announced on Thursday, with anybody who played during the month eligible. September brought four games in all competitions, including a first Premier League win in twenty five years, away at Nottingham Forest through Jay Dasilva. Andy Turner at CoventryLive is relaying a report from ontheminute dot com that Coventry are monitoring Kristian Lien, a Norwegian centre forward at Djurgarden in Sweden, ahead of January. The same report has Birmingham...

A Premier League independent commission has found Manchester City guilty on a hundred and fourteen of a hundred and fifteen financial charges, over what the commission called sham contracts with commercial partners. City deny wrongdoing, and the Premier League confirmed on Friday that the club have lodged an appeal. No punishment has been set. Leigh Curtis at CoventryLive has looked at what one of the punishments being talked about, relegation, would mean for Coventry City. Applied to this season it would account for one of the three relegation places before a ball is kicked, leaving Coventry needing only to finish...

Newcastle United come to the Coventry Building Society Arena on Monday the twelfth, and CoventryLive, picking up Chronicle Live, report that five of Matthias Jaissle's players are in line to be available again after the international break, among them Tino Livramento, Dan Burn and Amar Dedic. Their goalkeeper Ewen Jaouen is expected to miss the game, and CoventryLive have Anthony Elanga at mid to late October. Andy Turner at CoventryLive has also caught up with the four senior players who left Coventry in the summer. Jamie Allen is still without a club and training with Rochdale to stay fit, Bradley...

Jack Rudoni's shoulder is finally sorted after summer surgery, and he has told CoventryLive he will not call himself a Premier League player until he has solidified himself, with staying up the first job. He has also set out an England ambition, the United States route through his grandfather and father having never come about. Sidiki Cherif comes out as Coventry's most valuable player on the CIES Football Observatory's latest estimates, above the fee Coventry are reported to have paid Fenerbahce, after thirty minutes of Premier League football so far. And Taiwo Awoniyi has been talking to BBC Sport Africa...

Coventry's away allocation for Tottenham Hotspur sold out on Thursday, the day it went on sale. The club confirm a limited number of wheelchair bays and ambulant disabled tickets remain for registered disabled season ticket holders with the required loyalty points, available by phone to the ticket office or in person at the Coventry Building Society Arena. If any are still available on Friday 2 October they are sold in four windows: 1300+ points from 10:00, 1200+ from 12:00, 1100+ from 14:00 and 1000+ from 16:00. Successful ballot members who have not yet bought have until 10:00 on Friday 2 October. Coventry are at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Monday 19 October. Andy...

Coventry City have confirmed ticket details for the away game at Tottenham Hotspur on Monday 19 October, 8pm kick-off at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with a full allocation of 3,038 tickets and one ticket per Supporter Number. The sale runs in four loyalty-point windows on Thursday 1 October: 1700+ points from 10am, 1600+ from 12pm, 1500+ from 2pm and 1400+ from 4pm, each window open for one hour 45 minutes, with unpaid baskets cleared before the next window opens. Prices are £30 adult, £25 senior and young adult (18 to 25), £18 under 18, plus a £1 booking fee per ticket, and supporters buying a ticket receive 20 loyalty points. The club says further on-sales will be comm...

Ellis Simms has applied for a Polish passport and Poland are interested and watching, Andy Turner reports for CoventryLive on the back of reporting out of Poland. Poland's national team director Adrian Mierzejewski says Simms' documents are with the consulate and they are waiting on the passport; Polish reports say coach Kibu Vicuna, recently added to Jan Urban's staff, has been tasked with flying to England to watch him; head coach Urban told TVP Sport that Simms would be treated like anyone else once the paperwork clears, and that he is not Haaland but not some random player either. Simms...

Joel Latibeaudiere started for Jamaica as they lost one nil at home to Honduras in the Concacaf Nations League at the National Stadium in Kingston, Keyrol Figueroa scoring the only goal. The Honduran paper Diez reported Latibeaudiere booked in the first half for a foul on Figueroa. Jamaica had won their opening group game against Guatemala. There were no new club announcements out of Coventry City for a third day running. Brandon Thomas-Asante, away on international duty with Ghana, has taken two bags of Milan van Ewijk's old football boots to Accra and handed them to Eric Asante, the coach...

Newcastle United captain Dan Burn is aiming to return for the trip to Coventry City on Monday 12 October, according to Andy Turner’s report for CoventryLive, which carries Burn’s own comments to Newcastle’s matchday programme. Burn rolled his ankle in training before Newcastle’s opening day draw with Liverpool, is out of his cast and building strength, and is not expected to go straight back into the starting eleven. There was no fresh news out of Coventry City itself, and no Sky Blues football until the international break ends. Joel Latibeaudiere is with Jamaica, who host Honduras in Kingston...

Joel Latibeaudiere started as Jamaica opened their Concacaf Nations League campaign with a three two win over Guatemala in Kingston, Renaldo Cephas settling it in stoppage time after Kasey Palmer scored one and made another and Oscar Santis twice put Guatemala in front. There was no news out of Coventry City itself, and no Premier League football during the international break. Five games into the season the Sky Blues have one win and three points, with one goal scored and ten conceded, and CoventryLive argued at the weekend that the underlying numbers are closer than that: expected goals of getting...

Goalkeeper Oliver Dovin is back at Coventry City from his loan at Leyton Orient for treatment on a shoulder injury, picked up towards the end of Orient's EFL Trophy game against Arsenal Under 21s on 15 September. Nigeria came from behind to beat Madagascar two one in Africa Cup of Nations qualifying, debutants George Ilenikhena and Moses Usor scoring, with Taiwo Awoniyi coming off the bench. England Under 21s beat Kazakhstan four two at Molineux, Will Lankshear scoring on his debut, with Stephen Mfuni in the squad on a first call up at that level. Yann Gboho is still waiting on...

Frank Lampard says Caleb Yirenkyi is going to be a really high level player, praising the summer signing's humility after moving him to right wing back at Nottingham Forest to cover for the injured Milan van Ewijk. Yirenkyi played the full ninety in midfield as Ghana lost two nil to the Ivory Coast in Bouake, with Brandon Thomas-Asante substituted after 64 minutes and Yann Gboho an unused substitute for the Ivorians on his first senior call up. Jay Dasilva played the full ninety as Wales lost one nil to Portugal in Lisbon. Stephen Mfuni has a first England Under 21 call up...

Coventry are a few days into a three week break with no game until Newcastle United visit the Arena on Monday 12 October, and CoventryLive's Andy Turner has set out how Frank Lampard plans to use it. Eight of the twenty five man squad are away on international duty, the first week is light, and a behind closed doors friendly is scheduled for the weekend of 3 and 4 October with every available player expected to feature. Lampard says some of his summer signings are not yet fully fit, with Sidiki Cherif named, while Gustavo Hamer, Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, Ellis Simms, Loum Tchaouna and...

A quiet Tuesday at Coventry, with nothing at all from the club, but CoventryLive's Andy Turner has been through the treatment room and put a return date against all six of Frank Lampard's injured players. Aurele Amenda's calf tear is the worst of it, a minimum of two months by Lampard's own reckoning and a Christmas return by Turner's, while Haji Wright is on course with his quad rehab but not due back until the start of November. Milan van Ewijk, Kaine Kesler-Hayden, Josh Eccles and Luke Woolfenden are all dated for early October, which should have them available when...

Four pieces of Coventry news on the first day of the international break. Jay Dasilva is nominated for the Premier League's Player of the Matchweek for gameweek five after his winner at Nottingham Forest, with voting open until midday on Wednesday. CoventryLive's Andy Turner counts eleven Sky Blues away with their countries, eight first teamers and three out on loan, including Liam Kitching's first ever Ireland call-up, a late Ghana call for Brandon Thomas-Asante and Yann Gboho facing his own club team-mates for the Ivory Coast on Thursday. Ephron Mason-Clark has stayed at home with his third child due any...

The international break opens with an injury update, and most of it is bad. Frank Lampard told CoventryLive's Andy Turner that Aurèle Amenda's calf problem is more severe than hoped, with a minimum of two months expected and possibly up to three, which would put the summer signing out until around Christmas. Better news on Milan van Ewijk, whose hamstring issue is not serious and who Lampard hopes will be back once the league resumes. Kaine Kesler-Hayden and Luke Woolfenden are also due back after the break, while Haji Wright is not expected until the end of October or e...