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Lampard named the Championship Manager of the Season after leading Coventry to promotion

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Alex Roberts

Published 2 months ago

Coventry manager Frank Lampard has been named Championship Manager of the Season following their promotion to the Premier League.

[p]A point in their [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/soccer/blackburn-6Nl8nagD/coventry-GOvB22xg/?mid=YoUcLSRG"]1-1 draw with Blackburn[/a] on Friday, thanks to an 85th-minute goal from [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/thomas-bobby/6PCT4GfF/"]Bobby Thomas[/a], was enough for [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/coventry/GOvB22xg/"]Coventry[/a] to secure promotion.[/p][p]Coventry will play in the English top flight for the first time since 2000/01, and Lampard has earned plenty of plaudits for his job.[/p][p]The Chelsea legend has now been named the Championship Manager of the Season, with his side 10 points clear at the top with five games left to play.[/p][embed guid="8b936257-1f53-46cc-8b3f-df73d92d5d3c" url="https://x.com/Coventry_City/status/2045977029451850099?s=20" social-type="twitter" /][p]Upon receiving the award, he said:[i] [/i][b]"I was emotional the other night because it dawned on me in that moment what we had achieved.[/b][/p][p][b]"A club that I walked into 16 months ago that had gone to the depths and back up, and football is always about people and always about supporters and I'd missed it.[/b][/p][p]"You have to credit Mark Robins for what he did at the Club, the owner Doug King and appreciate the moment, and I'm working with a great group of players.[/p][p][b]"When you walk into a group forget the football talent, that's obviously important, but when they look after themselves, they train well, they support each other, they have a laugh, that's the gold.[/b][/p][p][b]"It's an incredible story and I'm please to be a part of it."[/b][/p]

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