Coventry began the Championship season with a 12-game unbeaten run, rising to the summit at the start of October and, despite a wobble early in 2026, have remained there ever since.<\/p>\n
That run of 16 points from 13 games either side of Christmas allowed Middlesbrough to temporarily wipe out an eight-point deficit to go level on points with the Sky Blues in February, but a 3-1 win over Boro launched a run of eight wins in nine games and moved Frank Lampard’s men 12 points clear and has fans counting down the days until their 25-year exile from the top flight comes to an end.<\/p>\n
That could happen on Saturday. Should Millwall fail to win at West Brom on Friday (20:00 BST) then Coventry will host rock-bottom Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday (12:30 BST) knowing a win would mean Middlesbrough must beat Portsmouth at the Riverside at 15:00 BST to prevent the Sky Blues celebrating automatic promotion this weekend.<\/p>\n
League One Lincoln became the first side to secure promotion this season on Monday, ending a 65-year wait to return to the second tier.<\/p>\n
When the Imps suffered a last-gasp 3-2 defeat at Wycombe on 22 November they slipped out of the automatic promotion places.<\/p>\n
But they have gone unbeaten in the 24 games since, winning 19 of them, including at long-time title favourites Cardiff on 7 March, which saw the Imps take over at the top and they have not looked back.<\/p>\n
With promotion secured, they now have their sights set on being champions. A home win over Leyton Orient on Saturday (12:30 BST) coupled with the Bluebirds losing to Bolton would leave the Imps 15 points clear of Cardiff who would have five games to play.<\/p>\n
When Bromley lost 3-1 at Walsall on 29 November they dropped to fifth in League Two while the Saddlers were sitting pretty at the top of the table.<\/p>\n
But that only served to spark the Ravens into life and they strung together a run of 21 games unbeaten, 14 of them wins, before finally coming unstuck at lowly Barrow two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
Tuesday’s 2-1 win over Shrewsbury gave Andy Woodman’s side a seven-point cushion over second-placed MK Dons, who they visit on Saturday (12:30 BST) with four games remaining.<\/p>\n
Should Ian Holloway’s fifth-placed Swindon fail to win at Colchester on Friday night then Bromley would secure a second promotion in three seasons with a win at Milton Keynes and could then seal the League Two title when Cambridge visit Hayes Lane next Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coventry began the Championship season with a 12-game unbeaten run, rising to the summit at the start of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-523066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}