Coventry City manager Andy Thorn has been talking about pressure and the seven months he has has of it.
“We’ve had seven months of it – in the bottom three and trying to cope with that, “ said Thorn to the CT’s Andy Turner.
“And when you’re nine points adrift at the bottom of the league and the other teams have got a game in hand over you and you are trying to teach young players the basics because they’ve never done it at this level before, that’s pressure.
“When you see your top striker go out of the door, that’s pressure, so we’ve been through that and we’ve had to solely focus on improving the players and coaching them. “We’ve been improving them as individuals as well as trying to teach them team ethics, so we’ve had all that and it’s something we don’t want to go back to.
“And as well as managing that and trying to keep the boys bubbly, we’ve had to teach the young ones from level one.
"Some of these lads have not been coming from League One, League Two or the Conference, they’ve been coming from youth team football so we’ve not only had to manage the pressure, we’ve had to take it off those young boys as well.
“They enjoy their football and there’s nothing worse than coming in every day if you are not enjoying yourself.
"So that pressure other people are talking about, I’ve had about seven months of it, and it has been important how we manage that.
“Our expectations haven’t wavered and just because we have gone on this run we can’t afford for anyone to think we’re home and dry. We have to keep going and keep being positive.”
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