{"id":406299,"date":"2026-04-19T07:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406299\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T07:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:30:10","slug":"coventry-parties-as-sky-blues-return-to-the-premier-league-after-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406299\/","title":{"rendered":"Coventry parties as Sky Blues return to the Premier League after 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans go wild for Sky Blues tattoospublished at 16:30 BST 18 April<\/p>\n<p>16:30 BST 18 April<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e30345e9-b360-487b-a161-a7b40504bd4d.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>William Oelrich<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tattoo artist Andre Fila says he&#8217;s been doing brisk business with Coventry City fans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Especially this last week, we&#8217;ve done loads,&#8221; said the Treze Ink owner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Last night everyone was messaging me, calling me.. &#8216;oh please fit me in &#8211; let me get this&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andrea Fila\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8c8ea462-42fd-497c-8908-3cf08d3121d3.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cc\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2bf830b9-971d-4e96-bf3c-c713f564217d.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">City fan George said he&#8217;d booked it before last night&#8217;s match as part of a bet with a friend over the club&#8217;s promotion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the pain &#8220;started low, but now it&#8217;s getting worse and worse&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s like he&#8217;s dragging something through my skin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cc\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a44febc5-0e7c-4183-9367-01abc9c8a836.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fan, who was at Ewood Park last night, said he was &#8220;absolutely buzzing&#8221; when the Bobby Thomas goal went in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was kissing my dad&#8217;s head and everything, I don&#8217;t know what was going on.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans go wild for Sky Blues tattoospublished at 16:30 BST 18 April 16:30 BST 18 April William Oelrich&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-406299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}