Football, England and Wales, and The Premiership

Here @gettingfitandnutrition I am often posed with the wonders of deciding which English or Welsh football squads (otherwise known as teams 😧😳😅😂) are at the top of my Sky Bet multiples football team bet placement bucket list besides Manchester and London clubs, and my home town, Rochdale and our football team (our crew 🤩⚽️).

Behold! A song with the words, "Our crew!": -

In my heart of hearts and of experimentation with betting placements, Old Trafford is beside The Etihad. Not only geographically (of which is fairly easy for most of Mancunians to acknowledge and perceive) but in a generationally well observed Mancunian way.

For example, MEN Media as a daily newspaper and online resources provider, fits into this communion in our very psyche and localised spirit, emotionally. Manchester Evening News holds Mancunian sentimental semblance in precisely the same way.

Meditate the ""tangent"". Bye!

Good! Now that they're gone, to the personal declaration: Blackburn Rovers! Furthermore, Bolton Wanderers, and beyond this, you could already know, we troop 1990s' Premier League, and those teams that graced the The Premiership for our necessity with the prospects of once again returning.

Leicester City did so in the most intense flight back up into the The Premiership and straight to the top of the table as champions. Champions of The Championship, and then champions of The Premiership the following season.

Leeds United returned to The Premiership in 2020.

Sheffield United made a Premiership comback in 2006 and in 2019 after first appearing in Premier League in 1992 when the league was created as, "The FA Premier League". Bravo!

We can refer to the Premier League as the UEFA Premier League nowadays, as we would would say, "UEFA Champions League", often when mentioning the top flight European club tournament.

Essentially, our EFL leagues, each known as, The Championship, League One, and League Two, are comprised within the UEFA confederation of which has long been a FIFA football association 😬.

Interesting fact: Swans first made an appearance in The Premier League in 2011, being the first Welsh team to enter The Premier League since 1992 when Premier League was formed, and psychologically, I always felt as if Swansea was previously a Premiership squad earlier, but I guess it was simply my familiarity with the club. Quite possibly, my maternal family history of County Glamorganshire made Swansea resound in my football thoughts and anticipations.

More 1990s Premier League club appearances were Sunderland, Middlesborough, Barnsley, Nottingham Forest (who returned in 2022 😁😋), and Derby County, and Derby stands out more than ever since Wayne Rooney managed the team between 2020 and 2022. Football history told!

Left: My '97 sticker album, Right: Connolly's (acquired in a trade)
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