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Leo Østigård: ‘I cried a lot when I left Coventry’
08.09.26, 07:30 Updated 08.09.26, 07:41 6 Minute Read
There was little about Leo Østigård's season at Coventry City that should have made it particularly easy to fall in love with the club.
He never played a competitive home game in Coventry. He never experienced a packed stadium of Coventry supporters. He arrived in 2020 as a young Brighton loanee at a newly-promoted Championship club whose primary ambition was simply to survive.
Less than a year later, he was hugging Mark Robins and Adi Viveash goodbye – and crying.
‘When I went to say goodbye to Mark and Adi, I cried a lot,’ he tells The Phoenix. ‘I was hugging Mark and Adi and crying. I was sad that I had to leave.’
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Rich Chamberlain
EditorRich is a lifelong Coventry supporter and the author of several books about the club, including When The Sky Was Blue, Benno: My Life in Football and Sky Blue Fall.