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Is the Championship the best overall league?

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The Sheepfolds End said:
However, the quality is minging mostly
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And that's the problem I guess. The Prem rewards the top teams massively relatively to the bottom. The majority of skillful players being concentrated at that end, which perpetuates the system Until a way can be found to to avoid money being the football currency, like the us draft system, or a stringent wage cap, which ain't gonna happen, then the only change we will see will be a super league.
 
Lord Alfred said:
Some big clubs in there currently and ultra competitive. Costs not too high unless you’re relegated with legacy liabilities. Much better than the FA vanity project that is the PL for fans imo.

Would be nice if the tv money was shared out a bit fairer so that clubs could operate comfortably in the league without being forced into desperate measures trying to get into the PL.
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I've always said that the Championship is the best League in the world, in the sense of what a league should actually be. Top can often be held or beaten by bottom, there are lots of different styles of play, money - while obviously influential - does not always trump a good coach organising and improving a team, there is usually a furious ending to the season with a scramble to be top two and the top six. Then after all that there is a play off which is just an enormous single game of football.

The league has huge attendances on average, in another stratosphere to second tier leagues anyway else in the world and at the end of it all it has the biggest prize in football. And three teams win it! Clearly, by definition, the Premier League is a higher quality, but it is mostly a set order and the games are often riddled by fear and caution, although the games seldom lack tension.

That said of course, we all want our teams to win every game they play, which, if it can be managed often enough, brings about the paradox of leaving the "best" league, to compete in a better one!
 
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