Player to watch – Jay BothroydCOVENTRY City have had some great strikers in recent years. For example they sold Robbie Keane to Inter Milan for £13 million in July 2000.

Player to watch – Jay Bothroyd

COVENTRY City have had some great strikers in recent years. For example they sold Robbie Keane to Inter Milan for £13 million in July 2000.

Now they look to 20-year-old Jay Bothroyd for their inspiration.

The 6ft 3ins Bothroyd, sold for £1 million by Arsenal before he had played a League game for the Gunners, has played for England at youth, under-20 and under-21 levels.

Coventry look on him as a player for the future. He has nine goals to his name this season and last weekend he was partnered up front by loanee Matt Jansen.

It looked a shrewd move when Gary McAllister took Jansen from Blackburn, but he has had problems hitting his best form after a motor-cycle accident.

It has been an unsettling season of massive cuts for the Sky Blues as they come to terms with life in Division One. The club that had the first all-seater stadium in 1985 and introduced a "Sky Blue image" in the days of Jimmy Hill is going through hard times.