City will have played Portsmouth at home and travelled away to Morecambe in the League Cup before then but the new City boss told the CT: "If I am honest, the Watford game was the first one I looked for.
"I have some wonderful memories from my time at Vicarage Road where I worked with some great people and made a lot of friends, so I am looking forward to going back.
"It will be the first time I have been back so it adds a bit of spice to the fixture. I am going back at the start of a new chapter in my career, and one which I can now hopefully make some fantastic memories with Coventry."
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