Preston v QPR today - if that was indicative of the standard of Championship football then the marketing men earn every penny by polishing this turd to a high sheen.
plenty of players willing to boot lumps out of each other which is fine but it's also something that costs six quid to see in the Juniors. This was a surprisingly unrefined game for a supposedly good division.
nice set up at Deepdale though and a decent enough crowd of about 12k. As always the English match day experience is much more relaxed and enjoyable than Scotland. It's still weird to see folk walking around the concourse with a beer while families drink soup from flasks they'd never be allowed into an SPL ground. Out in the stands the fans, players and staff all interact freely, with stewards more or less acting like ushers rather than banana republic police.
the English game might be hyped up to f**k in order to lure fans in, but they obviously feel happy to keep going along because they aren't treated like cuunts every week. Why we're not copying everything we can from them I've no idea.