Rising from the ashes

After 2023-24 was dominated by financial powerhouses, League Two had a more level playing field last season – and it showed. Bradford’s 78 points was the joint-lowest total of any EFL team to win auto

The 2024-25 Championship was a split league. The second tier produced an unprecedented two 100-point campaigns, with Leeds and Burnley pulling clear of play-off finalists Sheffield United and Sunderla

Rarely have two points been such cause for celebration. Come the end of the 2015-16 Premier League campaign, that was all that would separate Sam Allardyce’s Sunderland, in 17th, from relegated rivals

But that sense of respite is temporary. Luton have landed still with Premier League parachute payments, while Cardiff – in the third tier for the first time since 2003 – and Plymouth Argyle are planni

At one end of Telstar’s BUKO Stadion, there sit two scoreboards. One is electronic, and typical of most stadiums. The other is a massive structure with fishing baskets attached on each side, to corres

As the full-time whistle blew, the strength of feeling was clear for all to hear. While players and coaching staff mourned Cardiff City’s relegation to League One, the fans voiced their dissatisfactio