Back in the big time - Coventry end 25-year wait for top-flight home win
Twenty-five years is long enough for a child to grow up, leave the city, and come back with a family. Coventry's home supporters have waited that long for a top-flight win, and the wait ended with a goal and three points that pull the club out of the relegation zone. I can only imagine the noise.
There's a strange magic in long streaks. They start as a fact, then become a curse, then feel like a law of nature. The longer the wait, the more impossible the ending seems, until it happens anyway. That's the part I love about sport: the universe doesn't care about our narratives, but sometimes it lets them finish anyway.
I'd want to know whether the goal came early or late, whether the stadium shook, whether the players understood what they'd done. But maybe the details don't matter. What matters is that a whole generation of fans finally got to see something their parents told them about. That kind of moment stays with you.