With an early start and a World Cup slap bang in the middle of it, the process of administering the 2022-23 English football league season was never going to be simple.
Their date with Middlesbrough this weekend represents City's first Saturday home fixture of the campaign - two months after the season began.
"It's been a long time coming," Sky Blues boss Mark Robins told BBC CWR. "We were certainly due a home game.
"There are loads of reasons to be positive and the main reason is going back to playing in front of our supporters at the Arena on a Saturday afternoon.