[GlassEyedBomber]

It amazes me that some of us are happy just to be in the Premier league. As a football fan and a decent player in my time I like us to actually play nice, attacking football. I am a football lover and like to see the game played as it should be played, to try and beat the opposition......... Maybe I have it all wrong.

That baffles me, as well, Worldclass. A number of posters are just simply happy to finish 17th each season (as if that's the Holy Grail). They even want to put "B" teams into Cup matches in case it interferes with next week's League match against fellow strugglers.
Football was played years and years before any League was thought up, and the idea was to outplay and to attack and to win.
I'm assuming the "We'm Premier - Yow'm Championship" people have never actually played any competitive football. The game itself is far bigger than petty one-upmanship.

It's sad but imagine if money didn't come into it and every team was on an even keel...wouldn't it be so much better? This country needs to follow the MLS, not in terms of league set up because that's bizarre and not so much the draft, but wage caps would be ideal. (Champions League will unfortunately always come first for some, why?) There's not going to be the kind of competition us fans crave until every team is spending the same sort of amounts.

I'm resigned to Albion never winning the top division in my lifetime...where's the magic gone, where's that feeling of suspense that I used to get as a child. Premier league? Yeah right...I'm enjoying watching Newport County every week a lot more at the moment.