To be honest this is one of my football pet peeves. Technically, no-one belongs anywhere, otherwise there'd be 37 clubs who "belong" in the Prem and there'll be a team in the championship next year who doesn't belong there cos we do but we're not.

I understand why people think like this though, cos most of the narratives around football are about maintaining a hierarchy rather than open competition, and it's only really because we're a historical (and contemporary) shambles that one would think our place is in the championship, but it could be higher if you look at all those doing relatively well in the Prem at the moment.