It is anniversary month.
Two dates. Two bosses. Two stories, inextricably linked, that have had everything over the past year and look like delivering a blockbuster finish.
The revivals of Stoke City under Mark Robins and Coventry City, under his successor Frank Lampard, have been been the talk of the Championship thus far and on Saturday the top two teams in the division meet.
A win for Lampard's free-scoring leaders will take them seven points clear of Robins' Potters.
Victory for Stoke will trim that advantage to one.
But the table after 15 games does not matter.