Longest-serving EFL manager Mark Robins SACKED by Coventry with club battling relegation
COVENTRY have SACKED Mark Robins after seven years at the club.
The EFL‘s longest serving manager was brutally axed with the Sky Blues sitting adrift of the Championship drop in 17th.
Mark Robins has been sacked by Coventry after seven brilliant years[/caption]
The former Manchester United star, 54, saw himself at the centre of a relegation battle this season.
Coventry are enduring a miserable run of four wins in 14 games after finishing nine points behind the play-off places last term.
They are level on points with Wayne Rooney‘s Plymouth Argyle who sit inside the relegation zone in 22nd.
Coventry are only saved by their better goal difference, which is -1 compared to Plymouth’s -11.
The club posted on X: “Coventry City has made the difficult decision to terminate the contract of Mark Robins as manager.
“We thank Mark for all his achievements with us and wish him the best for the future.”
The final straw came after Derby County earned their first away win of the season at Brandon Stadium on Wednesday night.
Robins was in his second spell as Sky Blues boss, having returned to the club in March 2017 after the sacking of Russell Slade.
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He oversaw the resurrection of Coventry from the depths of League Two, to the champions of League One in 2020.
Robins was even on the cusp of bringing the West Midlands club to the Premier League when they lost the Championship play-off final on penalties to Luton in 2023.
And he memorably brought them to the FA Cup semi-final last season, where they were unlucky to marginally lose out on pens to United after climbing back from 3-0 down in the second half.
Robins is often credited as being the man who “saved” Sir Alex Ferguson‘s job in a game that arguably defined the course of United’s future.
Despite not being a first-team regular, he famously scored the only goal in Fergie’s crucial FA Cup win over Nottingham Forest in 1990.
The legendary manager’s job was on the brink following three trophyless campaigns after his 1986 appointment.
Coventry chiefs have parted ways with Robins ahead of the club’s trip to league leaders Sunderland on Saturday afternoon.
The club have said they will take their time to appoint his successor and implement a new structure.
And an interim boss is yet to be appointed.
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