Coventry City’s deserved 3-0 victory over Blackburn Rovers on Tuesday night ended a poor run of five league games without a win and appears to have quietened the vocal minority urging for the sacking of manager Mark Robins. Bearing in mind the status of previously unbeaten Blackburn, few fans would have predicted a 3-0 home win. The result confirms my theory that bad runs often end with a surprise win and good runs often end with an unexpected defeat. In 2022-23 City were in a brilliant run of nine games without defeat but were brought down to earth with a 4-0 home loss to Stoke City. The previous season City had only one win in eight before going to Craven Cottage and beating the league leaders 3-1. One should never take results for granted in this crazy Championship!
All City fans know of our bogey teams (Preston and Swansea being the main ones) but the Sky Blues are becoming Blackburn’s bogey team. Since Rovers won 4-0 at St Andrews in 2020 they have failed to win any of the eight games between the clubs. They have also failed to win a league game at the CBS Arena in five visits.
The Blackburn victory delivered City’s first league clean sheet of the season and a personal triumph for Ben Wilson (although he had little to do on the night). Ben has now kept 45 clean sheets in 115 games since arriving at the club in 2019 and has the best clean sheet record of any Coventry City goalkeeper.
