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It’s an argument I have long argued. Well, this was before teams started to run away with it, but the Championship, England’s second tier in professional football was more competitive than the Premier League.

When I said this, this wasn’t when Liverpool and Man City were going to toe and both finishing a season with 90+ points.

That’s a good Premier League season with an exciting finale. It’s in the past couple of seasons, I just feel City have been running away with it.
The Championship was the same in terms of competitiveness until Norwich and Fulham kept swapping places in England’s football pyramid.

A reason for the competitiveness? Clubs plying their trade in the second tier were getting parachute payments from Premier League relegation for example.

Another factor is, is that wealthy owners are dropping into the Championship as well. Like what Nottingham Forest’s chairman and Aston Villa’s at the time too.

These factors are plausible, but one reason, which will be overlooked is the quality of managers in the league.

Daniel Farke, David Wagner and Tony Mowbray until not too long ago, are some examples of managers who have done respectable jobs in past jobs.

In the case of former West Brom, Blackburn, Sunderland and Middlesbrough boss he’s almost like the Godfather at this level.
Other names that have resigned or been fired are prestigious names at this level.
Alex Neil, Wayne Rooney who did well at Derby, John Eustace who criminally lost his job at Birmingham and Frank Lampard head up of a list of some impressive names.

With the inevitable managerial sackings taking place in the past month. With the sacking of Tony Mowbray and Wayne Rooney, the clubs can replace them with arguably bigger-name managers.

Michael Beale coming to The Black Cats is a good coup for the club, in my humble opinion.

So with the Birmingham job now offering up a vacancy, who would have thought that there would be so many credible managers out of work and credible options to hire?

I nearly forgot Garry Rowett, the defender who has managed the club previously. He is held highly amongst Blues supporters.

As enticing as the job of doing it on a cold night at St Andrew’s, we believe Zidane isn’t interested in the job, even if he gets the chance to work with Jay Stansfield.

Not even for Tom Brady, the NFL’s greatest?

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