A Coventry City FC Story

It Never Happens
For People Like Us

A fan's view of a record-breaking season for Coventry City, and the unlikely band of heroes who achieved it.

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By Kevin Unitt · Hardback coffee-table edition · Released 10 August 2026

It Never Happens For People Like Us, book cover by Kevin Unitt

About the Book

A season that may never be beaten, captured forever.

Coventry City's record-breaking 2025/26 season may never be beaten. It Never Happens For People Like Us is a quality, coffee-table-sized tome chronicling one of the most ground-breaking campaigns in the club's history, and the unlikely band of heroes who achieved it.

Written by author and former sports journalist Kevin Unitt, a Sky Blues fan of 40 years, it brings together his many well-received long-reads on the players and the club, with statistics, artwork, photography and the voices of those who lived it. The title draws from a particularly poignant line by The Enemy.

Premium coffee-table formatLarge, quality hardback, built to last.

All the key statisticsFrom incomparable club historian Jim Brown.

Sensational fan artworkFrom the brilliant Covcept, Jaymokid and others.

Top action photographyFrom the likes of Dani_ccfc.

Voices of the Sky BluesQuotes from a host of Coventry City legends, stars and many more.

About the Author

Kevin Unitt

Kevin Unitt is an author, a former sports journalist of many years standing, and a Coventry City supporter of 40 years. His recent long-reads on the club's players earned a level of praise and respect that inspired him to turn them into something more special and lasting.

This book is a real labour of love: a fan's view of a record-breaking season, written for the people who lived every minute of it.

Praise

What people are saying

An enlightening and evocative writer
Rob Gurney

A poet
Sky Blues Blog

A wonderful writer
That Cov Pod

Stratford had Shakespeare, the Sky Blue Army have Kevin Unitt
David Whitehouse, 'About a Son' (*this one was sarcastic)

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