{"id":565688,"date":"2026-05-04T13:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/565688\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:31:12","slug":"thousands-cheer-coventry-citys-premier-league-promotion-parade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/565688\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands cheer Coventry City&#8217;s Premier League promotion parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flocks of Sky Blue-clad massespublished at 12:55 BST<\/p>\n<p>12:55 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\">Jack Lewis<br \/>BBC CWR<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019ve been open here at the Craftsman for not yet an hour and the flocks of Sky Blue clad masses are beginning to filter through the doors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Landlord Paul here is hoping that he and his bar staff \u201ckeep on pouring\u201d throughout the day especially in the run up to the passing through of the players in a couple of hours. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> Fans Kelvin and Daniel will be heading over to the War Memorial Park hopefully in time for the 15:00 cut off, in what will be an emotional day:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cAt lot of today will be the enjoyment of such an achievement. But we\u2019ll also be sparing a thought for those who aren\u2019t here to experience the festivities,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two men in bucket hats outside a pub\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ee724b5d-554b-4915-8bf0-d2df29a7368b.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We also have four generations of Coventry City fans here at the Craftsman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Val Lloyd was at the parade in 1987, and is joined with her entire family &#8211; son Craig, granddaughters Kerrie and Leanne and great-grandchildren Tommy and Grace. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They\u2019re joined with their friends, the Penny family:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A group of fans outside a pub\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2fef30af-1ed9-482e-b2d8-45c3dddf4851.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flocks of Sky Blue-clad massespublished at 12:55 BST 12:55 BST Jack LewisBBC CWR We\u2019ve been open here at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-565688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565688","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=565688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}