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Easter egg-stravagnza? Bank holiday promotion awaits!

March 31st, 2010 | 67 Comments |

Will there be scenes like this at the weekend?
Will there be scenes like this at the weekend?
It’s funny how things turn out in the end, especially with regards to football. Who would have thought that after last season, and the mess of pre-season at the beginning of this one, that we would be on the verge of promotion back to the Premier League at easter?

In fact it could well all be over by the time we roll back into work on Tuesday, bleary-eyed, hungover but feeling a happiness inside that as fans we haven’t felt for so long now. Two games is all it could take to bring that happiness back, happiness formed on proving so called ‘experts’ wrong, winning games and seeing the team pull together despite the odds that were monumentally stacked against us at the start of the season. I have loved life in the Championship and in a way it has reignited my love affair with football. It was never dying out, don’t get me wrong, but perhaps over the years I had become fed up with the false dawns, the constant turmoil, the seeing us performing as eleven individuals and not a team, the mediocrity of what we had become in the Premier League. This season has given us all a goal, all a reason to ultimately pull in same direction, something we have all done. (more…)