article_snippet: Just for a second, Tony Mowbray allowed Tony Mowbray to drift off into a brighter future before crashing back to the remorseless reality of Coventry City’s present.
article_snippet: Tony Mowbray Tony Mowbray issues instructions from the touchline during Tony Mowbray first game in charge of Coventry .
article_snippet: Coventry's Jim O'Brien opens the scoring for the home side in just the fourth minute of the match .
article_snippet: For Mowbray, who arrived at the club last week, Coventry City is a club of heritage and romance.
article_snippet: Coventry City is Keith Houchen’s diving header crashing into the Wembley net in 1987, Coventry City is Jimmy Hill leading the ‘Sky Blue Revolution’, Coventry City is of a team that was a staple of the top division for 34 years.
article_snippet: The Coventry wide man wheels away in celebration after giving The Coventry wide man side the perfect start .
article_snippet: It’s because Coventry are staring at the indignity of fourth-tier football for the first time since 1959 and, after this chastening reintroduction to management after 16 months away, Mowbray is in no doubt as to how precarious their situation is.
article_snippet: The mere presence of the former Hibernian, West Brom, Celtic and Middlesbrough boss seemed to energise the place initially and Coventry led on four minutes through captain Jim O’Brien.
article_snippet: For Mowbray, though, it’s only the here and now that matters.
highlights_snippet: Tony Mowbray suffered defeat in Tony Mowbray first game in charge of Coventry .
  