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‘I’M SO GRATEFUL TO AMAZING TONY’

by
The LeaguePaper Team
23 August 2026

BIG INTERVIEW: ADAM ARMSTRONG
By Chris Dunlavy

FOR Adam Armstrong, last weekend’s Championship curtain-raiser against Blackburn did not just mark a meeting with his former club.
It was a reunion with the manager to whom the 29-year-old Wolves striker owes his entire career.
Tony Mowbray, who returned to Ewood Park in June, was managing Coventry City in League One when he landed Armstrong on a season-long loan from castle at the start of the
New-
2015-16 campaign.
Aged just 18, he finished the season with 20 goals, only to be overlooked by Rafa Benitez when the Magpies wer...

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