Championship

WE HAVE TO STAY HUMBLE – FRANK

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The LeaguePaper Team
25 January 2026

By Chris Dunlavy

COOL: Frank Lampard

NOT many teams managed to defy the Coventry juggernaut in the first half of the Championship campaign, but Norwich proved an exception.
Back in September, when the Sky Blues had yet to find their free-scoring range, an early goal from Mathias Kvistgaarden - and an awful lot of luck - saw the Canaries snatch a point at the CBS Arena.
It continued a remarkable run that has seen Coventry fail to win any of their last 13 games against Norwich - a streak stretching back to the 2008-09 season, when a young loanee by the name of Jordan Henderson scor...

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