Originally posted by @KRG
Any thoughts on who people want to triumph?
Personally would love Sheff Weds back in the PL. No reason for this other than nostalgia, and they were a Prem club when I started following football in the 90’s and the likes of Carbone, Pressman & Hinchcliffe are all cult 90s football heroes.
Same for me. Would love to see Sheffield Wednesday back in the Premier League, where a club of that size belongs. When I was growing up and Saints were mostly shit, Wednesday were usually a decent top half “Canon League Division One” (Prem) side. Hillsborough is a massive ground, that generates an awesome atmosphere when on song, as we saw last night.
It is not just Sheff Wednesday for me in that ‘nostalgic’ sense. I want all the big clubs currently exiled in the Championship back up. The size of the fan-bases and the atmospheres at Clubs like Nottingham Forest, Leeds United, Birmingham City, Wolverhampton Wanderers, I’d love to have them all back up in the Premier League. Top Flight for the Top Clubs for me, then it really is the ‘elite’ competition. I hated seeing wanky little clubs with tiny support that couldn’t even fill their small stadiums in the Prem (!) like Wigan, Fulham, Blackpool, P*rtsmouth etc who mostly bought, (stole and cheated in the case of the latter) their way up, at the expense of the really big sides.
Would have loved Brighton up in the automatic places too as I’ve said before, purely so we could have had three South Coast Clubs in the Premier League, whilst the horrible cheating fish-fucking cunts languish in the deepest darkest depths of Division Four. Would have been beautiful.
But this Play Off has pitted both of the sides I wanted up against each other, and Wednesday win that duel for me. It has been way too long since they graced the top flight.
League One, I have no preference. Would have loved Port Vale up as I have some family connections to the Club, but they flirted with the outskirts of the Play Offs for most of the season, without ever actually getting into the top six.
League Two, I want Plymouth up, again, for family connections.