{"id":633931,"date":"2026-04-27T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/633931\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:12:10","slug":"coventry-city-opinion-clinton-morrison-says-sky-blues-a-class-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/633931\/","title":{"rendered":"Coventry City opinion: Clinton Morrison says Sky Blues a class apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Coventry City striker Clinton Morrison says Sky Blues fans deserve their day in the sun after securing the Championship title and a Premier League return after 25 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morrison was the club&#8217;s top scorer in 2008-09 and 2009-10 as the Sky Blues finished in the lower reaches of the Championship, though they were relegated to League One two years after his release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sounds\/play\/m002vv0w\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest episode of the BBC&#8217;s Football Daily podcast<\/a>, Morrison said: &#8220;They&#8217;ve had to suffer over the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was at (Sunday&#8217;s) game against Wrexham and it was a great atmosphere. The fans deserve it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Frank Lampard has done a brilliant job, but you can&#8217;t forget what Mark Robins did for that football club over the years when they struggled with ground shares and so on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They have suffered so it&#8217;s great to see them back in the Premier League where they belong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Middlesbrough and Ipswich have faltered against the pace set by Coventry at the summit, and City might yet finish double-digits clear after 46 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They have been outstanding,&#8221; Morrison added. &#8220;It&#8217;s not a fluke when you finish top of the Championship because it&#8217;s a hard league and it takes a lot out of you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;ve had a few ups and downs but you have to credit their owner Doug King who went and brought in a couple of players in January that Lampard needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They have been the best team in the league by a country mile.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Coventry City striker Clinton Morrison says Sky Blues fans deserve their day in the sun after securing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-633931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}