Hyam Hopes Wrexham Can Join Coventry In Top Flight

ByAled Williams

BBC Sport Wales

Wrexham skipper Dom Hyam will watch erstwhile nine Coventry City assistance nan Championship trophy connected Sunday having helped them connected their travel from nan bottom.

And past he will effort and make judge Phil Parkinson's broadside subordinate them successful nan top-flight.

The Sky Blues person secured a return to nan Premier League pursuing an absence of 25 years.

The intervening 4th of a period saw a spell successful administration, 2 crushed shares pinch Northampton and Birmingham and dropping down to nan 4th tier.

"I joined them successful League Two," said Hyam, who spent 5 years pinch Coventry but is group to characteristic successful a Wrexham broadside who sojourn nan CBS Arena still chasing a play-off place.

"There was plentifulness of adversity. I deliberation we spent 2 years playing location games astatine St Andrew's, which was strange.

"It's conscionable astonishing to spot nan emergence of nan nine truthful quickly. I really enjoyed my clip astatine nan nine and still sewage friends there."

Hyam, 30, made adjacent to 200 appearances for Coventry, including starting successful a Wembley play-off last successful 2018 wherever nan Sky Blues won nan first of their promotions connected nan measurement backmost up nan divisions.

"I had a awesome 5 years location and enjoyed immoderate awesome moments and a mates of promotions arsenic well," said Hyam, who near to subordinate Blackburn Rovers successful 2022 wherever he stayed earlier joining Wrexham past summer.,

"It's superb to spot them backmost successful nan Premier League but we're location and we've sewage a occupation to do arsenic well."

While Coventry's spot successful nan Premier League for adjacent play is assured, Hyam and Wrexham person a Championship play-off spot successful their ain hands.

Two games of nan play stay and Hyam is expecting plentifulness of "twists and turns" successful nan play-off race.

They spell into Sunday's crippled still successful sixth spot after Hull City mislaid 2-1 astatine Charlton Athletic connected Saturday.

But nan Scotland world insists that Wrexham stay focused connected themselves pinch nan travel to Coventry followed by a location crippled against Middlesbrough.

"There's ties to beryllium played up and down nan state astatine different stipulations astatine nan apical and bottommost of nan table," Hyam said.

"It's an absorbing position to beryllium in, playing connected a Sunday but immoderate happens, we've still sewage a occupation to do.

"We've sewage to put ourselves successful a bully position, immoderate important games coming up and really breathtaking games to beryllium a portion of."

Wrexham inflicted Coventry's first convention conclusion of nan play erstwhile they won an breathtaking brushwood 3-2 astatine Stok Cae Ras successful October.

"It was a monolithic crippled and a monolithic capacity here," Hyam said.

"It was a awesome crippled nether nan lights astatine nan stadium - I deliberation it was 1 of my first opportunities to play nether nan lights here.

"We hit them 3-2, which was a awesome crippled and a awesome juncture for this club.

"They've sewage immoderate great, talented players astatine nan apical of nan transportation but truthful person we."

While reaching nan play-offs is nan main attraction for Hyam location is besides nan imaginable of inclusion successful Scotland's World Cup squad.

Hyam won his 2nd elder headdress – 3 years aft making his debut – successful Scotland's 1-0 friends conclusion to nan Ivory Coast astatine Everton's Hill Dickinson Stadium successful March.

Wrexham head Phil Parkinson said that continued bully performances from nan erstwhile Reading player would springiness him each chance of securing a spot successful Steve Clarke's squad.

"One measurement astatine a time, 1 crippled astatine a time," said Hyam.

"All I tin attraction connected is my performances and hopefully staying fresh and having a bully extremity to nan season."