The Championship 2018/19

Than again would Fulham have bought an omelette pan or creme fraiche?
Oh hang on...

 

Brentford stunning breakaway.

Shouldn’t Gino sign up Maupay?

 

De rigueur in polite society in Fulham.

Even in impolite society in Fulham.

 

After the Poleon Incident, I’m enjoying the match greatly.

 

Does Reids having a dump in the Brentford Co op car park count as ‘connections’?

 

I usually enjoy knowing Leeds and their fans are languishing in the middle of the Championship with no real hope of promotion.

I don't enjoy what they are going through at the moment. Being so close to where they 'deserve to be' and seeing it ripped away from them. I don't enjoy it at all.

I'm absolutely loving every ******* minute of it. Wish I was there.

 

Our local club.

Can hear the Griffin Park roar from the back bedroom.

 

Lovely loud rendition of “You’re not going up” from the Brentford fans there. I’d like to think the whole nation was joining in.

 

I was listening on talksport and they called them sleeping giants. I felt ill.

Sheffield United home to Ipswich next week. Lovely.

 

Olly Watkins seems a wrongun’. I’ve seen Brentford twice this season and both matches he has performed ridiculous dives with zero contact. One earned a penalty one a yellow card. Diving in the game is dreadful these days and the authorities can’t be surprised it happens when they allow Salah to do it on an almost weekly basis without any punishment at all.

 

Am I alone in not giving a flying **** who gets promoted?

 

A wonderful thing seeing Leeds fail yet again. Just need Sheff Utd to beat Ipswich, which they should, and Norwich to get at least a point in their last 2 games. Then it’s Play-offs again for Leeds, which hopefully they lose.

 

Signing him would be dependent upon Gino being willing to give him more pay.

 

I was and so was Arthur.
Ford was asleep.

 

Leeds are doing a Leeds again then.

 

The one that really grates is “the premier league NEEDS Leeds”.

 

Yes they had it in the bag before the last 2 shocking defeats.
1-2 vs Wigan who were playing with 10 men just sums them up.
Hilarious.

 

I have the impression Gino is the type who peels fivers off a roll.

Might not happen.

 

I look for the cash point that dispenses fivers

 

Might as well look for one which will give you thrupenny bits.

 

I think most are concerned with who doesn't get promoted!

 

How could you disagree with that? From financially ruining themselves, to dispersing a bunch of **** cloggers around other clubs following their European Semi final run, to not appearing in the Prem itself for 15 years, their contribution to English football has been remarkable.

Look at how poor and unpopular the league has become in their absence.....

 

Might be unpopular on here, but I find the Premier League very dull. The top 6 is a closed shop. A lot of games with poor atmospheres. Teams who come up tend to struggle (Watford, Wolves aside in recent years). Very one sided games of football, Spurs vs Brighton last night was rubbish as a spectacle. Ridiculous sums of money thrown about.

The Championship this season has been fantastic to watch. Who would have thought Norwich and Sheff U would go automatic at the start? Not many. Anything is possible, you can’t predict it. Games are always competitive and end to end. My only grumble is Sky Sports are taking it the same way as the Prem, every game seems to be televised and fans are being messed about by stupid kick-off times.

The only reason I want to see Wednesday go up is for the financial security and that moment of glory where you celebrate promotion with your mates. I couldn’t think of anything worse than having the season Huddersfield have just had, must be miserable most weeks once the novelty of Prem football has worn off.

 

I used to say exactly the same thing, but now we have been here for a while I don't much want to go back.

 

Yep I can’t disagree with any of that. It’s impersonal, faceless, homogenised, ephemeral and the only good thing about is that my team are in it and there’s one or two characters outside of that like Deeney and Sterling that are worth rooting for.

I hope going to the football retains its visceral thrills but in the long term the Premier League will just become like American sport, far more washy and light and focused the individuals within the teams.

 

The only surprise is that SWFC aren't dominating the league with Abdi pulling the strings and threading the ball through for FF to slot home while Pudil keeps it tight at the back ? Yeah it's not really turned out as you, and we given the WFC contingent, would have liked has it ? However were you to take our star striker Issac Success this summer next season could be so different .

 

Remember the world owes Aidy Boothroyd big-time for making this a reality....May 2006.

 

Excellent point.

In the old days, a local butcher would have offered him free sausages for life or something similar for his services to humanity.

 

For me, I accept that we'll be back in the Championship at some point in the not too distant future, and I'm sure it'd be fun challenging up near the top, but becoming a Notts Forest would be sad after the journey we've been on recently (have they even made the play-offs since getting promoted back to the second tier?). I mean, there have been times in this Premier League spell, especially under Wally and the Snake (sounds like a cracking indie band lol) where I have thought what's the point of this Premier League lark, but it's all set the scene for the great times we've had this season, and that would be as far as ever if we do get stuck back in the Championship. Being a mediocre mid-table Championship side was fine a few years ago, though having had a taste of the good life and knowing it might be ages until we can do it again, it'll be sad to return to 'normality', without trying to sound as if I'm turning my nose up at the division

 

Anyway, I've been looking for an appropriate place to post this, this is as close as it gets I suppose, if only dimly related! I notice Yeovil got relegated from the Football League yesterday, which I find a bit poignant. I know that the lower leagues is their level really (did their season in the second tier **** them financially? Who knows?), but I wouldn't have called them tumbling so quickly after they pulled our pants down during that awful season. In a strange way, I feel sorry for them because of that game

 

Totally agree. The day Watford are relegated from the Premier League I will celebrate. An incredibly dull league.

 

Just over 5 years ago.

What has happened to us since is arguably less predictable than their trajectory.