Football snobbery is alive and well

The snobbery that surrounds ‘big clubs` in the Championship is alive and well. Listening to former Rotherham and Leeds manager, Steve Evans, on Talksport this morning, he described the fixture between QPR and Leeds as a game ‘deserving of the Premier League`.

And why? Because of Leeds` fan base. So what was his reason for claiming QPR are ‘deserving of the Premier League`?

Reading an exclusive interview with Villa manager Roberto Di Matteo in today`s Daily Mirror, the Italian tells writer Mike Walters- “You may look at the stadium, the training ground, the fan base, and wonder what a club like Villa is doing in the Championship. But there are five or six other clubs who probably feel the same way”.

Let me tell you, Steve and Roberto, what clubs like Villa, Norwich, Newcastle, Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds are doing in the Championship. It`s a cocktail of bad management, poor players, awful decision making and downright shambolic running of clubs.

These clubs, if anything, are more deserving of a place outside the top flight due to their mis-management. This is football snobbery at its finest.  

No club has a god given right to be in the top flight just because their fan base is larger than other clubs. The Football League already financially rewards clubs upon relegation thus creating a financial gap between clubs – and then these clubs get the lion`s share of the TV money due to Sky Sports` obsession with them (Leeds being by far the most televised Championship club last term).

 

You don`t hear Blues fans claiming that we have a right to be in the top flight because we`re the only West Midlands club to win a trophy in the last two decades and have recently embarked upon a Europa League campaign. We deserve to be down here because our club was managed badly which led to relegation. It`s time for these managers, clubs and fans to accept the reality and get on with it.

 

Oh and QPR? I have been to better stadiums and witnessed better fans at League Two level.