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Quite pleased to see Birmingham go down. Loud mouthed owner with clueless football knowledge that resulted in them sacking their manager when they were 6th and replacing him with Rooney. I don't think they could've done more wrong if they tried. Even recently he was walking around the pitch hollering cringeworthy statements.
Couldn’t agree more and was happy to see the mighty foxes lose today to seal their fate.
 

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Serves us right. As soon as we started singing to the Blackburn support ‘You’re going down if Vardy scores’, Blackburn scored.
Suspect would have been more than happy to be involved in sealing the fate of Rooney's old club. Whilst disappointed to lose today would have hated to have seen us win and Brum survive.
 

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Cracking day at the Stadium Of Light yesterday, sat with some friends who are all Sunderland fans, great banter and lots of ale supped.
Bit of a sore head today mind
Ave seen the pictures. 😂😂👍
Beezerk at the great escape.
 

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A little surprised to see Brum go down. Looking good early in the season, and sacked the manager, John Eustice, when they were in 6th. Rooney brought in and lasted 15 games. Mowbray brought in but goes on medical leave for a serious medical issue.

That group of players played great football for 2.5 months. What on earth went wrong…
 

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A little surprised to see Brum go down. Looking good early in the season, and sacked the manager, John Eustice, when they were in 6th. Rooney brought in and lasted 15 games. Mowbray brought in but goes on medical leave for a serious medical issue.

That group of players played great football for 2.5 months. What on earth went wrong…

Sacking Eustace to bring Rooney in was an absolutely shocking decision. From that point on the club got exactly what it deserved.
 

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Is it time to have the Premier League and Championship and the have a League 1 North and League 1 South? This is the map showing my team's opponents for next season;

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in League 2. There's quite clearly 16 teams there that could go into the northern section and that's without looking at the League 1 teams. Have four relegation places in the Championship and have two promotion places from each of the regional leagues at the next level down to save on costs for the lower levels by reducing travel distances.
 

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There's a case for that as even League One seems quite northern focused.

You'd get bigger crowds, more away support and not a real negative apart from it might devalue the league structure.
 
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Rotherham signing 4 players already 😁
Usually we leave it to the end of the window and end up with old players or youngsters with no experience so good to see us getting in there first and getting some quality
 

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WW2 finished.👍🏻 It was only a temporary measure during the War years.
Makes sense. However given the precarious state of many lower league clubs is there an argument to reintroduce it. Less travelling for fans may mean more away fans (revenue) and having more local fixtures will re-engage some local rivalries and establish a few more
 

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Makes sense. However given the precarious state of many lower league clubs is there an argument to reintroduce it. Less travelling for fans may mean more away fans (revenue) and having more local fixtures will re-engage some local rivalries and establish a few more
Anything that takes money out of the game and is of benefit to the fans is a non-starter sadly!
 
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