Championship 16/17

[Blaarev]

Is Huddersfield the first team to get promoted with a negative goal difference?

 

[Jeff]

Is Huddersfield the first team to get promoted with a negative goal difference?

Yes.

 

[Lako42]

Delighted they won it

 

[Mawsley]

Delighted Reading didn't.

 

[H T B]

I couldn't give a toss who won it. The fact it wasn't either the trees or sheep, makes me rather smug and contented

 

[FIF]

Doesn't matter. Relegation beckons.

 

[Lako42]

Doesn't matter. Relegation beckons.

I find it astonishing how anyone who supports Leicester City can make such comments.

Anything is possible.

 

[bocadillo]

I find it astonishing how anyone who supports Leicester City can make such comments.

Anything is possible.

And I don't think the bookies will be offering 5000/1 on them taking the title.

 

[Ike O'Noclassed]

Though I wasn't impressed much by them after the first 20 minutes, I think Huddersfield look more like another Bournemouth than a Hull.

 

[glyn]

I'm in the middle of reading Richard Foster's enjoyable book about the history of the play-offs ("The Agony and the ecstasy")

This line I thought really encapsulated the feeling of a play-off defeat - particularly how I felt after the Watford defeat, as I'd never felt so glum about football for a summer. But also Cardiff, Blackburn, Swindon....

"all that way, after forty-nine games and been so close to promotion but now facing the prospect of remaining in the same division and having to start all over again next season. There is a distinctly hollow feeling, an emptiness that lingers and quite often spills into the next season unless the negativity is contained."

 

[H T B]

That shows the extra effort that must have gone into making 3 consecutive play-off finals.

What a decade the 90's was

Wonder if people old enough look at the 60's in the same way. [Mr Gwilliam, I'm looking at you ]

 

[Motown Fox]

Another manager making himself available today.

Paul Lambert lost his power struggle with super-agent Jorge Mendes at Wolverhampton Wanderers on Tuesday after agreeing to leave the club less than seven months since taking over