A year is a long time in football, just ask Derby County. Just under 12 months ago they were celebrating an unlikely, but all-the-same impressive victory over West Brom in the play-off final at Wembley.
Now, with a new manager at the helm and having won just one league match since that date, they are back in the Championship.
Some will say that they are in a much better state financially, but is a few quid really worth seeing your team thrashed week in, week out? I’m not so sure!
So with Derby having secured the bottom of the league spot, two more spaces remain.
I would like to see both Reading and Fulham make the drop down – not because I don’t like them, but because I feel that they are both clubs who could compete at a decent level in this division.
Roy Hodgson has gone some way to sorting out the mess that Lawrie Sanchez created in his short spell as Fulham boss, while Steve Coppell has more than enough Championship experience in order to master-mind a Reading promotion charge.
