Quote Originally Posted by NYCBlue View Post
Could be anyone. We went up without parachute payments.
It seems more difficult these days, the amount of financial disparity between the premier league and the championship seems much bigger today.

Teams do still do it though, but they tend to have something special about them.

Leeds managed it, but they get massive commercial income, similar in size to a parachute payment.
Brentford managed it by building up over several years with excellent recruitment
Sheffield Utd were tactically innnovative.

We are none of those things

It also seems to me that the teams coming down from the premier league seem better prepared for it than in years gone by, there seems to be less clubs who come down and go into complete disarray like so many have over the years.