English Premier League is one of the most difficult competitions in football and this especially stands for the teams promoted from the Championship. Only once in the Premiership history have all three promoted teams survived their first season and that happened in 2001/2002 when Fulham, Bolton and Blackburn all avoided the drop. Can it happen [...]

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Well-crafted squad started playing attractive football (except for the first round and 1:4 defeat to Sheffield Wednesday). The result followed in the championship and in the cups and everyone waited for the dip in Clarets’ form. But it didn’t happen which proves that you don’t have to be a reach and modern club from the [...]

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The story of Coca Cola Championship is over, at least for this season. When I wrote about the biggest achievements this season, mentioning Wolves, Sheffield United and Swansea, probably many of you wondered where is FC Burnley and their heroic campaign in the league and both Cups. Well, I don’t mean to brag now, but [...]

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Ok, clearly there is a huge, not to say cosmic difference in the quality of Coca Cola Championship and Premier League. These two leagues can’t be compared. The players of the higher rank are top class and the quality is beyond any comparison, while the second league gives more thrill and excitement, as the league [...]

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All people who are even a bit interested in football will clearly know that there is a huge difference in quality of the Premier League and Coca Cola Championship. There are many reasons for that and I will not lose time lining them since it would take a book to write them all and not [...]

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Burnley is in, Burnley is cool this autumn. We knew that even before they beat Chelsea in the Carling Cup. The boys from poor mining town in Lancashire had a fantastic autumn, with the tally of only two losses in the last 17 competitive matches in both the championship and the Cup. They have become [...]

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