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With Coventry City set to take on Luton Town in this weekend’s Championship Playoff final, LAYTH YOUSIF takes a look at the proud history of this club, which, along with its fans, has proved itself to be a survivor
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
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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.
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