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Sky Blues skipper is a cut above the rest
Coventry Telegraph
|November 08, 2025
MATT Grimes is widely considered one of the best midfielders in the Championship but he’s also a man of many talents.
The Coventry City captain recently revealed that he’s a former youth frisbee champion and in his latest entertaining chat with the press ahead of today’s top-of-the-table clash trip to Stoke, the 30-year-old revealed another string to his bow after training to be a barber.
For those wanting proof of his handiwork with comb, scissors and clippers, he even shared before and after pictures of the haircut he gave Sky Blues teammate and close friend Jake Bidwell from their time at Swansea.
“Tt was in lockdown,’ explained Grimes, sporting a fresh skin fade. “Obviously, we couldn’t go out, we couldn’t go anywhere. A lot of the lads were needing trims.
This story is from the November 08, 2025 edition of Coventry Telegraph.
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