JOSH Eccles admits achieving promotion to the Premier League with boyhood club Coventry City would ‘mean the world’.
Eccles has scored four goals in 28 appearances for the Sky Blues this season and has helped Coventry spend much of the campaign at the Championship’s summit.
Coventry lead the Championship table by seven points with just eight matches left to play.
And Coventry-born Eccles admits winning promotion to the Premier League is giving him sleepless nights.
Eccles said: “I’ve seen this club go from the deepest darkest depths to possibly the highest of highs.
“We all hope for the same achievement this year but we’ve still got to do it.
“Long term, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere other than here. I’ve been here my whole career and that’s how I want to finish my career.
“It would mean the world [to help Coventry reach the Premier League].
“Sometimes I have to stop myself thinking about. The job is not done yet. It’s everyone’s dream to get into the Premier League.
“There’s times before bed you just can’t stop thinking about it and it keeps you up at night but that’s part of the game.”
The 25-year-old came through the club’s academy and is closing in on the 200-appearance mark with the Sky Blues.
And Eccles admits he had to pinch himself when one of his childhood idols, Frank Lampard, took the manager’s job at the Coventry Building Society Arena.
Eccles added: “When he first came in, I was in awe a bit. Watching him as a child, he was one of my idols growing up.
“When he was playing he was a goalscoring midfielder and that’s what I want to be. He’s helped me massively in that department.
“At the start [I had to pinch myself] but we’ve all built that relationship now where it’s just a normal day.
“But at the start it was crazy that I used to watch him and now I’m learning from him.”
Coventry travel to Swansea City on Saturday, March 21 with kick-off at 5.15pm at the Swansea.com Stadium.
