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Coventry City fans in the stands celebrate their team getting to the play-off final following the Championship play-off semi-final second leg match at Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough, May 17, 2023
Toffees struggle to savour final games before heading to new stadium
Bournemouth merited their triumph over Mikel Arteta’s underwhelming Gunners who had one eye very much on their crucial Champions League clash v PSG
THE people of Coventry are survivors. Whether it be battling Nazis, Tories or hedge funds.
When Margaret Thatcher and her cabal of callous Tories effectively abandoned the country’s post-industrial bases in the north of England and the Midlands during the 1980s, the city of Coventry faced a struggle to reinvent itself amid demoralising deindustrialisation, unsettling urban decay and fierce unemployment.
Not for nothing did two-tone ska genius Jerry Dammers and The Specials pen their biting social commentary Ghost Town. After all, the legendary band hailed from Coventry.
In the shadow of Heathrow and glow of Thorpe Park, a band of Arsenal loyalists have built something lasting — a grassroots club with old-school values, writes LAYTH YOUSIF
A point apiece at the Emirates with both Arsenal and Palace looking distracted by forthcoming semi-finals
