25 years to get back. 270 minutes, no goals.

Coventry City hadn't played top-flight football since 2001. Frank Lampard — sacked by Chelsea, relegated with Everton, then eighteen months without a job — took them over in November 2024, seventeenth in the Championship and two points above the drop. Last season he won the league by eleven points and was voted Manager of the Season. Three games into the Premier League: three defeats, nothing scored. Brighton at home. It has to start somewhere.