BRANDON Thomas-Asante feels decades of hard work ultimately led to Coventry City’s title-winning moment.
The Ghana international has scored 13 goals and provided four assists for the Sky Blues this season and netted in Coventry’s weekend win against Wrexham.
Coventry lifted the Championship title in front of a packed Coventry Building Society Arena with the club to play in the Premier League next season after more than two decades away.
And Thomas-Asante believes the Sky Blues faithful inspired the players to clinch promotion after helping make the CBS Arena a fortress.
Thomas-Asante said: “What a moment, everyone together. Moments like this aren’t out of nowhere. They’re built up from a year, over a year and decades.
“It’s a journey and I feel like this moment, where people who’ve supported this club from before I was born and seen the highs, the lows and people who’ve been at the club in a playing and working sense since before I joined, it’s all just going in the same direction and that’s why I wanted to join.
“I’m so happy to be here, it’s a place I wanted to be and I really had a feeling that moments like this is what we can achieve and what we can experience so we’ve managed to enjoy this and it’s spurring me on to go and earn more and be more successful.
“Once again, it doesn’t come from one moment. I remember the first time this season we saw the fireworks and the real atmosphere, when The Enemy performed, something about that was special.
“I thought wow, we can make this place a fortress and I feel like it’s being carried more and more like the top club that we are so I’m really happy.
“It’s amazing to play in an atmosphere like that which is an accumulation of all these things. You can have that and have the fans not being at it so it really is the fans so Sky Blue Army – we love you so much.”
Both Thomas-Asante and Ephron Mason-Clark have progressed from non-league to the Premier League.
And Thomas-Asante insists he will never forget his roots and hopes his story will shine a light on the quality of lower league football in England.
Thomas-Asante added: “We’ve got a running joke, we say we’ve got our jumpers at home, anyone who’s played National League will know as everyone wears the same jacket before a game so I kept that because I never want to forget the tough time but I also don’t want to downplay the National League.
“As we saw with York and Rochdale, the standard is unreal and it gets downplayed and it’s not a joke so to see that, see League Two, League One, the Championship and God willing soon the Premier League is special.
“I look around and it’s such a privilege to look around and not see weakness anywhere. We all back each other, we all know what each other can do, we all want to be the best in the league individually, as a team and it makes us formidable.
“Everyone has their days and we’re all humble enough to know that’s it’s nothing given to us and as long as we work hard for it, show that we want it, you can bounce back with that mentality. The squad is unbelievably strong in terms of morale and that can only help as well as the talent in the group.”
