Tom Furnival-Adams

@WSC_magazine contributor. DMs open for CCFC/EFL writing stuff. @tomfa.bluesky.social. #pusb 🇩🇪

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

Exactly this. There's so much to discuss, but fundamentally they've needlessly destroyed their own reputation. This will follow them around for years; it's part of their story now. If Cov did this, I'd be apoplectic.

[Daniel Storey @danielstorey85]

The most incredible thing about Southampton and spygate is that, still, so much energy has gone into "err this is unfair" rather than apologising to fans, arranging refunds and going cap in hand to to beg them to stick with the club. They have torched their entire reputation.

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

Bring back Ceefax page 302. #pusb https://t.co/pmJAY5xZHf

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

@JamespennyCOV Bright Enobakhare

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

Love how the photos from the League 1 title will always look like Robins has stepped away from preparing a tray of sarnies to pose with the trophy

[That Cov Pod @ThatCovPod]

Nine years of winning.

#PUSB

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

Been quietly waiting for a classic retro t-shirt channeling this sort of thing since we secured the title. How about it @Coventry_City? #pusb

[Coventry City @Coventry_City]

Celebrate promotion in style. ✨

Exclusive We Are Back t-shirts and scarves are now available in store! 🩵

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

FWIW I do think we need to spend significantly, but I’m not having that Burnley spent nothing, because it’s clearly not true.

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

“Owner Doug King’s choice is very simple - either spend £100m like Sunderland or nothing like Burnley. The outcome would likely be the same as it is for those two teams this season,” Keys said.

Burnley summer 2025/26 summer transfer spend (approx): £80m

[CoventryLive @live_coventry]

Doug King told 'break the bank' for one player Frank Lampard wants https://t.co/eQARtBFQDZ

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

As a yo-yo club, Burnley’s squad was (on paper) better prepared for the Premier League than Sunderland, who had only recently come up from League One.

In hindsight Burnley probably overestimated how good their squad was, but always worth interrogating these simplistic narratives

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

@ricardo_chambo Fascinating. And in hindsight totally figures!! This is partly why I’m so intrigued by the Spurs situation.

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

Obviously love this, but also keep thinking if you told me in 2001 it would be a TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR wait to return to the PL, I would’ve been beyond devastated.

Worst case scenario for me back then would’ve been 2, maybe 3 years in the 2nd tier?

It’s truly a mad story.

#pusb

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

@ricardo_chambo Same. I was 14, found the idea of Cov not being in the PL inconceivable and just assumed that’s how it works.

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

@mikeseat Yep. It really felt at times like a phoenix club was the only way to save and reclaim our club. When Wasps bought the Ricoh I really felt like we were consigned to L1/L2 (or worse) for a generation or more. I’m still pinching myself that we are where we are.

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

@mikeseat 100%. I don’t think my connection to the club would be anywhere near as strong. It helps that I know the ending, because the lows were grim and it wasn’t inevitable that we’d ever bounce back.

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

@TheSkyBlueHub @Coventry_PUSB @TheScottKeene Think he’s got potential to be #1 but it’s a big ask to step up to the PL after a year out. He’s only played 30 games in the Championship. I could see logic in loaning him out and bringing in another more experienced backup keeper

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

Seeing a lot of chat about who stays/goes next season and I can’t believe how many fans are willing to cut Ben Wilson loose.

You have a ready-made 3rd-choice keeper who knows and loves the club and is by all accounts great in the dressing room. Of course he stays.

#pusb

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

We’re really gonna waste time and energy recruiting an equivalent 30+ keeper who’ll be happy to benchwarm but has no connection to Cov or the current squad?! You have to carry some of that momentum and mentality with you.

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

In all the excitement you almost forget that we’ve only owned the CBS for 8 months. Last summer Doug King was still talking about building a new stadium.

The turnaround in our fortunes is a joke.

#pusb

[Coventry City @Coventry_City]

CHAMPIONS.

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

@CCFCAnalysis Fair play! God I’ve missed twitter

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

Love how this narrative that we were on the verge of relegation when Lampard took over is exaggerated more each time it’s repeated.

We were 9 points off the play offs 😂

#pusb

[THE FRUITFULVINE @FRUITFULVINE2]

Frank Lampard took over Coventry on the verge of being relegated to league one. Transformd them, won the Skybet championship, brought them to premier league after 20+ years.

Better than what Michael Cashew is currently doing with old glory FC.

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

@CCFCAnalysis I mean, we’re getting into oddly granular detail here but he was appointed on 24/11. Literally none of this matters now though and, as you said, the point remains!

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

@CCFCAnalysis *2024 obviously!

[Tom Furnival-Adams @Tom_FA]

@CCFCAnalysis 24 November 2014, we were 17th on 17 points, WBA were 6th on 26 points?