{"id":562393,"date":"2026-05-02T12:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562393\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:39:09","slug":"watford-v-coventry-city-live-updates-as-simms-double-sparks-sky-blues-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562393\/","title":{"rendered":"Watford v Coventry City live updates as Simms double sparks Sky Blues party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Frank Lampard agrees with former <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coventrytelegraph.net\/all-about\/coventry-city-fc\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Coventry City<\/a> boss Gordon Strachan that his young squad could benefit from a big name signing with proven <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coventrytelegraph.net\/all-about\/barclays-premier-league\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Premier League<\/a> experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Strachan recently pointed to the example of Granit Xhaka\u2019s influence at Sunderland in helping them get a foothold back in the top flight following their promotion last season, while also citing the presence of players like Jordan Henderson at Brentford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The one-time City boss, now 69, recalled his own playing days when he\u2019d be standing in the tunnel at Old Trafford and looking across at Bryan Robson and thinking, \u2018thank goodness you\u2019re here\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coventrytelegraph.net\/sport\/football\/transfer-news\/in-head-frank-lampard-makes-33873459\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">READ THE FULL STORY HERE:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Coventry City manager Frank Lampard\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0_JS399888668.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Coventry City manager Frank Lampard\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Coventry City manager Frank Lampard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank Lampard agrees with former Coventry City boss Gordon Strachan that his young squad could benefit from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[79458,218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-562393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-coventry-city-fc","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562393","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=562393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}