article_snippet: quite what he’d thrown Tony Mowbray back into after a rollercoaster afternoon that did nothing to soothe Coventry City’s acute relegation anxieties.
article_snippet: the capricious game that is football management has certainly not grown any kinder or more predictable in the meantime.
article_snippet: The 51-year-old Yorkshireman, late of Hibernian, West Brom, Celtic and Teesside, spoke of restoring City’s glory days when he arrived in the week.
article_snippet: But he short-term contract speaks of a more pressing mission - saving the Sky Blues, famously FA Cup winners in 1987 and staple of the top flight for many years, from the indignity of League Two football.
article_snippet: They remain above the relegation zone - just, by a sole point - after this 3-2 defeat but the new boss will be under no illusions that this is no time for grand future plans, just steely focus and cast-iron resolve.
article_snippet: On the first sunny afternoon of Spring, the whole place seemed energised by Mowbray’s arrival and Coventry
article_snippet: We are staying up’, sang the home faithful, confident again that a club in the Premier League as recently as 2000-01 wouldn’t be playing fourth tier football next season for the first time since 1959.
article_snippet: The Coventry wide man wheels away in celebration after giving The Coventry wide man side the perfect start .
article_snippet: The former Middlesbrough and Celtic manager holds The former Middlesbrough and Celtic manager arms aloft in appeal at the Ricoh Arena .
article_snippet: A cloud of thick blue smoke rose in one corner from a flare as the home fans found the home fans voices again.
article_snippet: Some welcome back to football this had been.