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The Championship’s champion
Friday, May 18th, 2007
Supporters of Watford, Charlton and Sheffield United may not yet be in the mood for small consolations. But whether or not it makes them feel any better, one is being offered from across the Irish Sea.
Shane Breslin’s football blog at www.eleven-a-side.com has produced a decent argument for the proposition that the Nationwide Championship is better, that is to say more attractive, passionate and exciting, than the Premiership.
He cites six key reasons in support of his claim: five of them being the theatre of the playoffs, the unpredictability of success and failure, the abundance of goals, a relative absence of simulation (also known as cheating) and also the relative absence – in the Premiership – of fair play.
The sixth reason, of course, is Sunderland.
