I support a championship team and we have had a very enjoyable season actually winning games this term in contrast to last season where we where getting battered every week in the prem. We’re in the playoffs and the sad truth is I don’t want to go back up as the football in the championship is way more enjoyable, cheaper to watch and we actually win games. There is also the added bonus that our biggest rivals have just won league one so playing them next season will be amazing. We haven’t had a league derby day for 12 years.
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A mate of mine is a Derby fan, had the best season in years watching them. Winning, lots of positivity after years of struggle, bankruptcy threats, points deductions and more. Zero interest in getting any higher than the championship.
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And no VAR!
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As I mentioned earlier, Barnet is our local team. Apart from the shocker last week it’s a good standard of football, fun to watch, 15 mins drive from home, you can park at the ground and it’s a fiver for U17s. Brilliant for my son and his mates to have a proper local Saturday match day experience: they all stand at the back, there’s a lad with a drum, proper Ultras!!
Contrast that with taking him to watch his team in the Premier League which can cost a few hundred quid for the day and has generally been uninspiring football.
The odd trip to prem games is fine but the matchday culture is alive and thriving in the lower leagues.
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FYI in the article in The Times about fans not wanting to get promoted it was Saints fans who seemed most happy to stay in the Championship for all the reasons you mention.
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We will get demolished if we get promoted our defense is leakier than a colander. It’s not enjoyable getting thumped by billion pound teams . Saints were bought by an Eastern European media consortium last season for the same price as Citeh paid for Jack grealish 
Viva la championship!!
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The standard of football in the Championship has really improved. It’s much more technical/tactically innovative than in the ‘stick it in the mixer’ past. However as the quality of players is obviously different to the Prem, with many colander like defences, the games I’ve seen have been end to end, really exciting, lively crowds and with plenty of goals. And no VAR! Much more fun than robotic Citeh beating the bottom prem club 5 nil.
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100% echo a lot of the above. Cov City fan here, a kick away from going up last season - of course you want to play at the highest level possible but it’s completely different from last time we were in - 2001. We’d have shit seasons (most of them tbh!) but they’d be a couple of games each season where we’d beat or at least give it a good go against the traditional big teams no matter how bad we were. Maybe rose tinted spectacles but wins like that seem few and far between nowadays for the majority of teams in the PL. I too like the Championship, if they could sort out some European competition too that’d be nice 
, although I know that won’t happen.
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That was the article I read which prompted my comment 
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What a man Jurgen. All good things end but fucking hell its been some ride. Unbelievable memories with my comrades, the best of them being with my youngest daughter getting right in the thick of it all and loving it.
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Thats been some journey back , great stuff.
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Big win today for my u14 team. We did the cup double after winning one last Sunday too. Went to pens this week. Amazing performances all round. Football at its best!
Looking forward to the legend Stevie Kotey joining the coaching team next season too. Disco FC here we go.
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Not a Liverpool fan but fair play to Klopp. English football was better with him in it.
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It’s been the best Sam. Some of the best memories of my life following Jurgens reds over the past nine years. An outstanding football manager but an even better human being.
Jurgen Norbert Klopp - He made the people happy 
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It really has. My phone just threw up my Kyiv CL pics, what a weekend that was. Manchester-Dubai-Kyiv-Dubai-Manchester in about 50 hours 
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Joined a men’s over 40 football team. Two games in and I’ve scored 11 goals. Rolling back the years but the hour after the game is absolutely brutal. Leg cramps, swollen knees and ankles, etc.
Worked out the Oxford United connection to my town as well. Team did a preseason here randomly 15 years ago and converted some locals. Played against a team called Oxford Bulls today and they wore the full kit. Now I expect to see a Seacoast United shirt randomly in a lounge at the Kassam.
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100% this. A beautiful man got the reds playing beautiful football.
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Some ride eh?
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The absolute best.
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