Mark Robins is a former professional footballer turned manager, who played for thirteen different clubs across a long career.
The ex-Manchester United academy player's career began back at Old Trafford in 1998 and arguably one of his goals kept Sir Alex Ferguson in his job.
He travelled the divisions and clubs, including spells at Norwich, Leicester, Walsall, Rotherham, Sheffield Wednesday before hanging up his boots at Burton in 2005.
Since arriving for his second spell as Coventry manager in 2017, Robins took the club from League Two to the 2022/23 Championship play-off final, where they lost to Luton Town.
In November 2024, after after seven years and eight months in charge Robins' time at the club finally came to an end.
Robins was surprisingly sacked after the 2-1 home defeat to Derby, which was their seventh defeat in 14 Championship games and left them 17th in the table.
Robins was in the youth ranks at Manchester United from 1984 to 1988. He played 48 games for the Red Devils between 1988 and 1992 before joining Norwich City.
At United he was part of the squad that won the 1990 FA Cup, the 1992 League Cup and the 1991 European Cup Winners' Cup.
During his playing career, Robins was mostly utilised as a striker, although occasionally he featured on the wing.
He also made six appearances for England under 21s and scored seven goals, all of which came in 1990.
Robins played for 13 different clubs during his career, with Rotherham United being the club where he made the most appearances. He would later go on to manage them.
During his playing career at Rotherham, he scored 44 goals, which is the most he scored at any club during his career.
Robins' first role as a manager came after Alan Knill was sacked from Rotherham.
Then-assistant manager Robins took over as caretaker as the Millers were rooted to the foot of League One. Going into administration had meant that 10 points were deducted from Rotherham so they were expected to finish bottom anyway.
Robins did win enough points to move the club up the table slightly but they were still relegated in 23rd place. Despite this, the board saw enough promise in the new manager to keep him at the club.
Although the Millers never saw promotion under Robins, he played entertaining football and attracted some high-profile players to the club. Consequently, he left the South Yorkshire side with a good reputation.
Robins took over at Barnsley in September 2009, lasting two seasons before differences with the board made him leave.
In his first season with Barnsley, he fought bravely against relegation and pulled the club up to an 18th place finish in the Championship.
In September 2012, he had his first spell at Coventry City, which only lasted one season. He finished 15th in League One with the Sky Blues, but they would have finished in the play-offs had they not had points deducted.
His two jobs before he returned to Coventry in March 2017 were at Huddersfield Town and Scunthorpe United.
Huddersfield survived in the Championship under Robins and he left them in a better position than when he had arrived.
Scunthorpe didn't go so well and he left the club after a run of two wins in eight games. The club were in danger of relegation from League One during his time there. This is the only real point in his career that he failed to improve a club.
Their revival and climb back up the leagues started in the 2017/2018 season.
Coventry finished sixth in the league, the lowest in the club's history, but were promoted to League One via the play-offs - beating Exeter City 3-1 in the final.
A solid eighth place finish in the 2018/19 League One season was then succeeded by winning the title in the shortened 2019/20 season to gain promotion back to the Championship.
After two seasons playing their home games at Birmingham City's St Andrews ground, Coventry returned to Coventry Building Society Arena (formerly the Ricoh Arena).
Robins kept Coventry in the Championship for the next two seasons despite increasing financial pressures and more problems with the stadium owners.
Finally in 2022 the wheels were set in motion to end the reign of SISU.
Doug King completed a full takeover of Coventry after buying the remaining shares from previous owners SISU Capital in January 2023.
Coventry came within a whisker of ending their 22-year exile from the Premier League in the 2022/23 season.
The club - who played seven of their opening nine league games away from the CBS Arena during the season after the Commonwealth Games' Rugby Sevens wrecked the pitch - were bottom of the Championship on October 19 and still in the relegation zone as November began.
But they rallied and lost only once in their final 17 games to finish fifth in the Championship and they edged out highly fancied Middlesbrough in their play-off semi-final.
But it wasn't to be in the Championship play-off final against Luton.
Jordan Clark's opener was cancelled out by Coventry favourite Gustavo Hamer.
The match finished 1-1 after extra-time and Fankaty Dabo's penalty miss meant a famous 6-5 sudden-death shoot-out victory for jubilant Luton.
It was a cruel way for the season to end - a £170million clash between clubs that have both gone through the mill during their decades away from the big time.
In November 2024, after after seven years and eight months in charge Robins' time at the club finally came to an end.
Robins was surprisingly sacked after the 2-1 home defeat to Derby, which was their seventh defeat in 14 Championship games and left them 17th in the table.
It was Robins' second spell in charge where he had taken the club from League Two to Championship, plus 2022/23 play-off final and the 2024 FA Cup semi-finals.
A statement from the club read: "Mark masterminded and built several teams over that time that outperformed their budget, outperformed their infrastructure and brought back a playing style, credibility and belief to our city that had been lost and eroded over many years.
"These achievements will never be forgotten by those who witnessed such deeds and the broader community that once again began to rekindle their affection for our club.
"There is no doubt that Coventry City today would not be where it is today without the inspired actions of Mark and his team.
"The club is well aware that this is a difficult moment after over seven very successful years at the helm and this decision is not taken lightly.
"The performance of the team over an extended period however has just not been good enough and as such the board of the club has decided to make an immediate change in leadership."
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