Championship match put on hold as mystery individual is spotted flying over stadium

Tom OlverPublished Oct 26, 2024, 3:12pm|Updated Oct 26, 2024, 3:15pm

Coventry City’s clash with Luton Town was temporarily enactment connected clasp aft an idiosyncratic was spotted flying implicit the stadium successful the closing stages of the thrilling Championship clash.

Haji Wright scrambled location a last-gasp victor arsenic Mark Robins’ hosts came from 2 goals down to unafraid a 3-2 triumph but a paragliding daredevil concisely took centre signifier successful the West Midlands.

Loud cheers and whistles were heard astir the stadium arsenic the idiosyncratic successful question hovered implicit the transportation with astir 10 minutes remaining of mean clip connected the timepiece astatine the Coventry Building Society Arena.

The lucifer had to beryllium paused arsenic the enigma idiosyncratic drifted implicit the stands and retired of the presumption from Sky Sports’ cameras, earlier referee Bobby Madley blew his whistle to awesome for play to beryllium resumed.

Coventry had picked up conscionable 2 wins anterior to their triumph implicit Luton and the effect ensured Robins’ men leapfrogged their visitors into 19th spot successful the table.

Luton, meanwhile, find themselves stranded down successful 19th spot pursuing the decision and could beryllium sucked into the driblet portion should results spell against them this weekend.

Rob Edwards’ broadside person accumulated conscionable 12 points successful the part aft suffering relegation from the Premier League past season.

‘I don’t truly attraction however they travel arsenic agelong arsenic they spell in,’ Coventry guardant Wright told Sky Sports erstwhile asked astir his scruffy winning goal.

‘It was an important extremity for us, we were moving passim the 90 minutes to get a extremity similar this and for it to hap this mode is amazing.

‘I deliberation our play successful the archetypal fractional gave america a spot of confidence.

‘We knew we were creating chances and it was conscionable a substance of clip earlier we took one.’

After a pugnacious commencement to the 2024/25 campaign, Wright is assured Coventry are opening to ‘gel’ and find their feet.

‘It’s frustrating. We inactive person loads of caller players and our squad is rather young truthful we’re inactive trying to find that gel and the cleanable tempo to play with,’ helium added.

‘We’re inactive uncovering our feet a spot but contiguous was a large time for us.’

A downbeat Edwards criticised Luton’s mediocre defending successful the lucifer but took afloat work for the mode of his team’s loss.

‘There were excessively galore moments wherever we were open, gave them that glimmer from a set-piece. It’s connected us, it’s connected me,’ the Luton caput manager said soon aft the last whistle.

‘It’s 2-1 and past the assemblage truly get down them, much intensity. We tried to present changes aboriginal to person an interaction but successful the extremity we haven’t defended good enough.

‘I’ll wholly ain it. You can’t beryllium 2-0 up and past suffer the crippled 3-2.’

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