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Cov fans deserve return to heaven

A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL
Chris Dunlavy

TO Northampton and back. To Birmingham and back. To hell and back. Now, after 25 years of humiliation and despair, Coventry are heading back to the Premier League.
There have been many occasions over the past quarter of century when this moment seemed impossibly far away.
The financial collapse of 2013. The ten-point deduction that followed. Relegation to League Two for the first time in 58 years, where defeats to Newport County, Forest Green and Accrington Stanley rubbed salt into gaping wounds.
A year at Sixfields. Two at St Andrew’s. Man...

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