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Frank Lampard is the first manager to lead Coventry City to promotion to the top flight since Jimmy Hill in 1967 [Getty Images]Coventry City boss Frank Lampard described his side's promotion back to the Premier League after 25 years away as a "unique" achievement.The Sky Blues secured a top-two finish in the Championship with three games to spare courtesy of a 1-1 draw at struggling Blackburn Rovers."To go and get promotion automatically as a non-parachute [payment] team with three games to go... these boys have managed to achieve something special and unique," Lampard told Sky Sports."This is what it's about. Coming here and getting a point at this stage isn't easy."He added: "Doing this after 25 years... wow. "The resilience to come back after losing in the play-offs (last season to Sunderland). We spoke in the summer about what we could do this season and whether we could finish third or fourth to get a home play-off in the second game which we didn't do last year."It's such a good feeling that the boys have managed to get it over the line."The former Chelsea and England midfielder, 47, took over at the CBS Arena in November 2024 for his first job outside the top flight since a season at Derby in 2018-19.An emotional Lampard, who also credited the "incredible" job his predecessor Mark Robins had done, said he had "fallen in love" with the club during his time in the Midlands and ranked leading Coventry back to the top flight alongside his many accolades as a player."I'm proud of myself and the staff," he said."We came into a bit of an unknown 15 or so months ago when we arrived in a people carrier."We've fallen in love and this is right up there with what I have achieved."I'm very proud to be the manager."How Coventry earned Premier League return after 25 yearsQuiz: Name every team to have been promoted to the Premier League'I had the hump on Tuesday and Wednesday'Lampard said he would allow the players to enjoy securing promotion but then turn their attentions to winning the title.They are 11 points ahead of second-placed Ipswich with three games to go, but the Blues have two matches in hand."The players can have a couple of beers on the way home but they've got to get the job done now," he said."We want to go and get it done now. If we play how we have done the rest of the season we will be fine. We want to sustain it now."Lampard revealed he had allowed the players to have "a bit of a party" after last Saturday's 0-0 draw against relegated Sheffield Wednesday meant that only a miracle would have stopped them from going up.However, he said the levels in training on Tuesday and Wednesday this week had given him "the hump".Being Premier League feels surreal - KingBusinessman Doug King took on sole ownership of the club in January 2023.He said that his decision to part company with Robins, who had led the Sky Blues to two promotions, the Championship play-off final and an FA Cup semi-final during his time in charge, had not been popular but had been done because "we felt we needed a change of direction".Lampard has vindicated that call and could now secure Coventry's first title since winning the old second division in 1967.King, who said being called a Premier League team felt "surreal", added that the club had brought the city together."The fans have been starved of it for a long time and you can feel it," he told Sky Sports."Twenty-five years is a huge amount of time."If you don't bounce back you feel like it's never going to happen."Getting out of this league is very difficult and we did it."We got the whole city together. I'm super proud of everybody."They've had the whole season in front and it's not easy being a front-runner."Latest Coventry City news, analysis and fan viewsListen to Coventry City content on BBC Sounds

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CAMDEN, N.J. -- The Philadelphia 76ers will enter Round 1 of the playoffs on Sunday against the Boston Celtics while missing Joel Embiid due to an appendectomy he had on April 9. The Sixers went 21-23 in the regular season without Embiid and then defeated the Orlando Magic in the play-in tournament with the big fella sidelined.As the Sixers now head into the playoffs, they will be asking more out of a guy like Dominick Barlow, for example. A player signed to a two-way deal before earning a standard contract, he averaged 7.7 points and 4.8 rebounds while playing in 71 games in the regular season, including 59 starts.As Barlow moves into his first playoff experience, he knows he has to fill in and step up with Embiid sidelined. He has data to go off of from the regular season when Embiid was unable to play."Obviously, we want big fella out there, wishing him a speedy recovery, but we played this team without him, and we've kind of seen what it looks like," Barlow said at practice on Friday. "Obviously, the intensity is going to be higher and going to be a different feel of the game, but we kind of have a reference point of what it looks like without him. I think we have a good strategy that we go with. I feel like everybody in the building is confident."Whether Barlow is playing next to Andre Drummond and Adem Bona in the frontcourt, the Sixers will need him to play well and with force in this series. Especially, on the glass so Philadelphia has a shot in that department."I think just being more decisive," he explained. "I felt like last game, I wasn't as, as I have been throughout the year. I wasn't as decisive in my decision-making. Its something I watched and I looked back and I was like looking at areas where I could have attacked it, or could have played uphill, whatever the case may be."Barlow's game is predicated on knowing when and where to attack, helping on the glass, and finding ways to get after it in a way that helps the Sixers beyond the box score. He has to be able to be in the right spots to help Philadelphia succeed. With Embiid out, he has to do a bit more to help things move forward."I think just understanding and reading the close out just kind of like making the read from there, but just take a sec, slow down because, I mean, when, obviously, when Jos not there, teams are a little bit more packed tightly because they don't have to send doubles at him," Barlow finished. "So, yeah, just it looks different, but Ill be ready for it."This article originally appeared on Sixers Wire: Dominick Barlow talks filling in for Joel Embiid as 76ers move forward