The weather, so balmy in June, reverted to rainy type in July, confounding predictions of a prolonged scorcher, leaving the meteorologists red-faced and the skin of stay-at-home Britons pallid.
With 19 minutes left, Coventry should have got back in the game but Leon Best headed over the bar from six yards out but Matt Hollandalso smashed a 30-yard scorcher against the crossbar at the other end.