Coventry City news from CoventryLive as former Sky Blues manager Aidy Boothroyd opens up on his short-lived and troubled spell at the club

Former Coventry City boss Aidy Boothroyd says he shouldn’t have taken the managerial post with the Sky Blues back in 2010. The 52-year-old is currently managing Indian Super League club Jamshedpur, having spent seven years coaching England youth sides, culminating in taking charge of the Under-21s between 2016-2021.

Boothroyd was appointed as Chris Coleman’s successor in May 2010, but what he describes as a ‘horrific’ spell lasted just ten months amid the threat of administration and transfer embargoes. Boothroyd was sacked by City on March 14, 2011, after a run of poor results which saw the club win only once in sixteen league games

Interviewed by talkSPORT, the former Sky Blues manager, who also managed Watford and Colchester United, was asked if looking back there was any job he wouldn’t take.

“You ask such an annoying question; This question is difficult to answer,” he joked. “Um, I think Coventry City, when I look back at that game, maybe I left Colchester too early and maybe I could have spent a few more seasons there and had a few hundred games under my belt.
“Again, these experiences took place in Coventry when we were perhaps entering government; all the things that the supporters don’t know, that you have to keep to yourself and you have to continue to be professional. We couldn’t sign any players… so all these experiences seemed terrible at the time… “We couldn’t bring in any players because there was a player embargo and now you look at the club as it is. I was there, funnily enough, this weekend to watch them play Norwich and they are a very different club. The stands are full and Mark Robins is doing very well. They had some really good young players come in and then they sold them. What they’re doing is a really good model. But when I was there it wasn’t like that.

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