Gripping end to the season?

Well with 3 matches to go there seems every chance of everything being done and dusted in the Championship (Division Two as I like to call it). No last minute nails to be bitten until the play off action kicks in during May.

It seems almost anti-climactic that all the issues are decided with so much left to be played. It has been a strange season with records about to be smashed by Reading at the death. Their achievements appear to be largely going un noticed, heck let's go on and on about Chelsea, Man United and Arsenal with Liverpool filling the media silence in between.

Steve Coppell has proved himself to be an extremely durable manager. Excepting a terribly savage brief spell at Manchester City his career looks really successful, with much of it plied in the unfashionable end of football.

So with nothing much to be decided (sorry Watford Leeds, Preston and Palace) the toast today has to be Stevie Coppell.