'I was worried we wouldn’t have a football club - now Coventry City are Premier League'

'I was worried we wouldn’t have a football club - now Coventry City are Premier League'Coventry City spent 25 years away from the Premier League, and are the first club to ever be relegated from the Premier League to League Two and make their way all the way back upCommentsSportopinionLaura Hartley07:00, 22 Apr 2026View 4 ImagesFrank Lampard celebrates a goal as Coventry batter Portsmouth(Image: 2026 Catherine Ivill - AMA)Coventry City are a Premier League football team again. And they return as champions.‌It feels very surreal writing those words, words I never thought I’d write. Not when suffering relegation to League One and League Two. Not when playing home games at Sixfields, St Andrews or Burton Albion. And definitely not when the club shop was being emptied into the back of a lorry 13 years ago!‌To say it’s been a brutally long journey back to the Premier League would be an understatement. It is a journey built on years of suffering, anguish and heartbreak. A club rebuilt and risen from the flames - just like the phoenix in our crest.‌The club crest that makes me so incredibly proud to be from Coventry and to support this football club.WORLD CUP LEGENDS: The stars who lit up football's greatest tournament - Buy the Special Edition todayREAD MORE: Frank Lampard makes Coventry transfer plea after sealing Premier League returnREAD MORE: Frank Lampard scoops major EFL award after stunning Coventry City promotionWe all know how close we’ve come to the top flight in the last three years. Penalty shootout failure at Wembley and play-off semi-final heartbreak in the final minute last year against Sunderland - agonisingly close.‌But last Friday night, in Blackburn, all that pain became worth it. Would promotion feel this good if the agony hadn't been so? I wouldn’t wish it on any club, but it somehow makes the taste of promotion all the more sweeter.JOIN US ON FACEBOOK! Latest news, analysis and much more on Mirror Football's Facebook pageView...