The Athletic
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Will the Championship be tougher or easier? It's a division that's hard to second-guess
As the only manager to steer four different clubs to promotion from the second tier of English football, Neil Warnock has words of encouragement for all those looking to follow in his footsteps during the coming season.“When you look at the sides I took up from this division,” he says, “we were never the best team. But what I always had was a very, very good dressing room. If you ask other managers in the league about facing my teams, they’d probably say we were near the top of the list they didn’t want to play against.“Yes, of course, money counts in the Championship. And the three teams coming down are always going to be firm favourites to go straight back up. But the Championship is about so much more than that.“It is a hard league with hardly any breaks, totally relentless. And there’s
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