On this May Day well over a century ago (1st May 1920) Coventry City ended their first ever season in the Football League and they finished it with a win which was later regarded as highly controversial. It was also a season of three ‘Secretary-Managers’ as the combined position was often styled in those days. William Clayton passed the baton on to Assistant Sec. Harry Harborne in October 1919 until new gaffer Harry Pollitt took up the role on the 17th November.

The club’s introduction to Division Two from their experience of the Southern League before World War One proved traumatic. The Bantams lost their first nine league games and did not manage a win until their twentieth game on Christmas Day with a 3-2 win over Stoke City. They then lost the Boxing Day return with the Potters at Stoke 6-1! Read More