There were ten matches played in the Championship this weekend. None of them ended up with both teams scoring. That’s probably happened before at some stage, but it’s very unusual.

The scores were:

Swansea 2 Cardiff 0
Birmingham 0 Watford 1
Ipswich 6 Sheffield Wednesday 0
Middlesbrough 0 Blackburn 0
Plymouth 0 Preston 1
Rotherham 0 Huddersfield 0
Stoke 0 Norwich 3
Sunderland 0 QPR 0
West Brom 2 Bristol City 0
Leeds 2 Millwall 0

Some of us believed the division was the worst it’s ever been in terms of quality last season.

This season, four decent teams are engaged in an exciting battle for automatic promotion to the Premier League. None of them were in the Championship in 2022/23.

Meanwhile, the three teams who were promoted from this division last season all look destined to get relegated unless there are points deductions for other clubs. If that does happen, it will be only the second time in Premier League history that all three promoted teams have gone straight back down. The previous occasion was back in 1997/98.

Let’s be honest, the Championship was genuinely terrible last season.