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So now we know who the contenders are for the last promotion place to the Premier League.

A final, on Saturday 23rd May, that is always billed as the most profitable game of the football season.

Huge to win and devastating to lose.
The 150m pound winners prize is the biggest in world football and probably the whole of sport!!! That alone shows the silly money difference between the Prem and the Championship, something that sooner or later will have to change if English football is to remain competititve below the prem.

As for this game I hope Norwich win it. Good, well run football club who won't spend silly money but will use the money they get to secure the clubs future. Plus from our point of view we do well against Boro most seasons, did the double over them, and don't get a lot out of Norwich. Also getting rid of one of the teams on the big parachute payments is needed as the other two teams going up ar not on them. The parachute payments given to clubs who fail in the prem is one of the worst things in football, gives clubs no incentive to run themselves within their means and we will contnue to see little teams like QPR run up huge debts and yearly wage bills that are approx 5 times our total revenue in the Championship!!!
Not reight bothered really.