Sky Blues' upturn after sacking Robins is FRANKly astonishing

RESULTS are everything in football. It is the sport that always attracts the fickle finger of fate and the drama of the theatre.

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Coventry City are a prime example. There is a decent chance they may be in the Premier League when it kicks off on August 16. I felt they were always going to win on Saturday after an early goal, but the goal-keeper still had to make some important saves.

Frank Lampard, 47 next month, had been without a job for 18 months when he took the Sky Blues post in November with the club 17th in the Championship.

Mark Robins had achieved so much for the club with promotion and several trips to Wembley, including penalty shoot-out heart-ache defeat in the play-off final and a wafer thin offside decision denying victory in the FA Cup semi-final with Manchester United.

But this season the RESULTS went against the long-serving Robins and chairman/owner Doug King made a change. Criticism was thrown at King in his first taste of big-time football. He was already under fire in some quarters for putting up prices!

Now look at what has happened. A record attendance of 31,452 at the Coventry Building Society chanting “Super Frank Lampard” and a place in Friday's two-legged play-off semi-final against Sunderland.

All down to results, of course, based on the experience and skill of Lampard and the correct judgement of his chairman.