From non-league to Premier League... Coventry's 'unreal' pair

From non-league to Premier League... Coventry's 'unreal' pairImage source, PA MediaImage caption, Ephron Mason-Clark, left, and Brandon Thomas-Asante, right, were two of Coventry's top four goalscorers in the Championship this seasonByBen Ashton, BBC Sport England and Rob Gurney, BBC CWR commentatorPublished50 minutes ago1 CommentsEphron Mason-Clark takes an excellent first touch to get the ball under control before slotting home from close range.Just 16 minutes later, Brandon Thomas-Asante provides a perfect glancing header to steer past the keeper from six yards out and wheels away in celebration.But this is not two of Coventry City's star forwards scoring goals in a Championship game in the 2025-26 season on the way to promotion to the Premier League. This is two young prospects netting in non-league football on exactly the same day in March 2019.With just 500 spectators watching on, a 20-year-old Thomas-Asante scored for Oxford City in a 5-3 defeat by Hampton & Richmond Borough, external in National League South.Mason-Clark, aged 19 at the time, was on the scoresheet for Barnet in a 2-1 loss to Gateshead in the National League with a little more than 650 supporters in attendance.Fast forward seven years and the duo contributed 36 goals between them in the Championship to help fire the Sky Blues back into the top flight for the first time in 25 years.'A decade-long journey'Image source, ShutterstockImage caption, Brandon Thomas-Asante had the second best minutes per goal ratio (143 minutes) of any Coventry player in the Championship this season behind only Ellis Simms (125)"Wow, what a moment," Thomas-Asante told BBC CWR after Coventry lifted the Championship trophy following a 3-1 win over Wrexham in the penultimate game of the season."Moments like this, they're not out of nowhere. They're built up over years and decades. It's a journey."And what a journey it has been for the 27-year-old w...