Former Coventry ty boss makes admission after ‘horrific’ spell at club
Coventry City news from CoventryLive as former Sky Blues manager Aidy Boothroyd opens up on his short-lived and troubled spell at the club
Former Coventry City boss Aidy Boothroyd says he shouldn’t have taken the managerial post with the Sky Blues back in 2010. The 52-year-old is currently managing Indian Super League club Jamshedpur, having spent seven years coaching England youth sides, culminating in taking charge of the Under-21s between 2016-2021.
Boothroyd was appointed as Chris Coleman’s successor in May 2010, but what he describes as a ‘horrific’ spell lasted just ten months amid the threat of administration and transfer embargoes. Boothroyd was sacked by City on March 14, 2011, after a run of poor results which saw the club win only once in sixteen league games
Interviewed by talkSPORT, the ex- Sky Blues boss, who has also managed Watford and Colchester United, was asked if, in hindsight, there are any jobs he wouldn’t have taken?
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You’re asking a naughty question there; that’s a difficult one to answer,” he joked. “Um, I think Coventry City, when I look back at that one, was me probably going too soon from Colchester and maybe could have had a couple more seasons there and got a few hundred games under my belt.
“Again, those experiences have been at Coventry when we were possibly going into administration; all those things that the supporters don’t know about, that you have to keep to yourself and you have to keep being professional. We couldn’t sign any players… so all those experiences which sound horrific at the time…
“We couldn’t get players in because there was a player embargo and you now look at the club as it is now. I was there, funnily enough, at the weekend watching them against Norwich and it’s a much
different club. The stand is full and Mark Robins is doing a tremendous job. They have got some really good young players coming through, and then they sell them on. What they do is a really good model. But when I was there it wasn’t.”
