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Championship Play-Off Final
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ushawk
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Reading for me 
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It would be an amazing fairytale though if Swansea could do it. Bottom of the league to the top tier in 8 years.
Statto
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Reading for me, i'll bet the Met are thankful Reading beat Cardiff, in the Play Off Semi.
MidnightFlyer
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I want Swansea to win, it'll keep footy fans off the North West-Euston trains 
Seriously though, I want the Swans to, but I don't know why.
Seriously though, I want the Swans to, but I don't know why.
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Glad to know that I wasn't the only one. Sorry but the only time I would support Reading would be when they play Manure.
SS4
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Reading simply because I think they are more experienced. The championship will definitely be more interesting with Posh back in it though!
flymo
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Well it's all up to Reading to get themselves back in the game now.....
ACE1888
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Hell of a game, the Championship is certainly the most competitive league in Britain, end to end stuff...
And they have!
flymo
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Yes indeedy...
Heck of a game.
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And it is SWANSEA....
Well done, wonderful game.
TGVDUDE
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should be because they are a Football League team
No, the rule still applies that they are a Welsh team playing in England, so the English FA will not put them forward as a representative. The same applies with the Welsh FA, Swansea don't participate in any FAW competitions so they cannot put them forward either. This is now more compounded by the fact that the FAW no longer allow Welsh clubs that play in the English league to paricipate in the Welsh Cup. Before 1996, Cardiff were regularly involved in the now defunct European Cup Winners Cup sue to winning the Welsh Cup.
However, in 2008 when Cardiff reached the FA Cup final, UEFA were willing to give them their place as a wildcard and the FA have been lobbied with regards to changing their stance.
SS4
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Perhaps but if Small Heath can win the Carling Cup then anyone can win it! Albeit it's not the champions league but I believe the Europa League has the same result.
Absoutley devasted about yesterday, credit to Rodgers & Swansea especially Sinclair, they were superb.
Proud of our boys, they came storming back from the first half shambles and when Karacan hit the post I just got the feeling it wasn't going to be our day.
Good luck to Swans next season, just only hope we'll be up there sometime soon.
Proud of our boys, they came storming back from the first half shambles and when Karacan hit the post I just got the feeling it wasn't going to be our day.
Good luck to Swans next season, just only hope we'll be up there sometime soon.
I agree. Still have no idea why Cardiff sacked their manager.
SS4
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I think it's not entirely unfair to say that they abused the loan market last season and with those players going back to their parent clubs or moving on a new strategy will be needed to get them towards promotion again.
Jack in England
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Hmmmmm 2003 last day of the season they nearly dropped out of the football league and couldn't afford the electric bill...fast forward to 2011 now a premier league club with 90 million sheets in the bank
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Hmmmmm 2003 last day of the season they nearly dropped out of the football league and couldn't afford the electric bill...fast forward to 2011 now a premier league club with 90 million sheets in the bank
It does show you that it can be done with the right personnel at the club. It has been done in the olden days, aka Northampton Town, and recently, see Blackpool, and now Swansea. What remains to be seen is whether Blackpool will now do a Northampton and slide back into the lower reaches. However with Ollie in charge I can't see that happening.
flymo
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I'm sure Swansea, not to mention QPR, Norwich and all the other teams will be glued to the web on Friday June 17 at 09:00 as that is when the fixtures for the new season will be announced.
Fixture list announcement.
Wonder who they will get first ?
Fixture list announcement.
Wonder who they will get first ?
Jack in England
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Every game is going to be a cup final for us so the bigger they are the harder they fall...
SS4
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I can't wait to see Norwich play Man Utd - I can envisage the whole stadium in green and white and home fans being no different in appearance from away ones.
Eagle
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Double standard here: look at The New Saints. Represented Wales in the Champions' League many times and yet they play hpme games in England and are the at least partial descendent of an English club, Oswestry Town. (And a Welsh one, Llansantfraidd, just to complicate things.)
flymo
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Swansea won, they'll get £90 million. (If newspaper reports are to believed.)Swansea won, and I got £15.
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