For a long while, Coventry City could lay claim to being the unhappiest professional football club in England. Between 1970 and 2018, they finished in the top six of any division precisely zero times. When change came, top-flight stagnancy gave way to abject collapse at the hands of a deeply unpopular ownership group.

Eight years ago on Tuesday, Coventry drew 0-0 away at Barnet in the bottom tier of the Football League. They would follow that immediately with league defeats against Accrington Stanley and Forest Green Rovers, the latter attracting a home crowd of just 6,366. Then, merely competing at Championship level was a far-off dream. Everything was breaking or broken, including the spirit of the city.

Stevenage and Bournemouth supporters may politely disagree, but Coventry City sure

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