George Elek
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1,176 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 22 Sep
George Elek’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Teams generally, when they have a slide, will return back to where they come from.
But it's normally a bit quicker and it's less dramatic than this because there was a time where Coventry's...
Existence was kind of shrouded in uncertainty.
They dropped all the way down to League Two.
An incredible story in terms of what Mark Robbins did at the club, which has to be one of the most impressive one-team jobs that a manager's done in the last couple of decades to take over a club in that situation.
As you say, had to ground share with Northampton Town, had to ground share with Birmingham City.
Even when they moved into their new stadium, that wasn't simple because the club didn't own it and there were big issues with the owners at the time, Sisu.
So even though this isn't a case of a big club falling down the leagues and then a wealthy businessman coming in and buying the club and pumping money in, Mark Robbins had to work in a really difficult environment with a fan base who were consistently clashing with the ownership group and understandably so.
And even in recent times, like Coventry's recent history since returning back to the championship has been littered with heartbreak, really.
You know, think back to that dramatic championship playoff final when Luton went up in the most unbelievable of circumstances after Tom Lockyer had collapsed on the pitch and they won on penalties.
You think back to that FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United where they thought they'd won it at the death only for VAR to intervene and they lost on penalties there.
You think back to last season against Sunderland in the championship playoff semi-finals where they were beaten again in heartbreaking late circumstances by Sunderland, as Barry will remember.
You know, it's been, it hasn't been easy.
And every time, I was at the EFL Awards on Sunday night and Frank Lampard won championship manager of the season.
And what was great is that he really didn't make it about himself.
He basically made it about everyone apart from himself in terms of one of the first people he mentioned up on stage was Mark Robbins and the job that Robbins had done, which is a real touch of class, really, when you consider how rare that is for managers to basically praise the work of those that came before them.
And, you know, he was in tears on the pitch when interviewed after the game at Blackburn, which sealed their promotion with a late goal from Bobby Thomas to draw the game 1-0.
I think the enormity of the history of what he has achieved, you know, he feels that quite clearly.
And he even referenced his achievements as a player at Chelsea to say that this really did kind of mean a similar amount to him as that.
So it's an incredible story.
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