England’s second tier can hog the limelight during the Premier League’s winter break and has much to commend it
At a time when some of the Premier League’s biggest names are dotted across the world, with
Arsenal and Newcastle opting for warm-weather training camps in the
Middle East while other players, often towing obscenely big graphite suitcases, have escaped for exotic destinations such as the Bahamas and the Maldives, the English
Football League rolls on.
Bernardo Silva, binoculars at the ready, has been spotting elephants and leopards on a safari in Sri Lanka and the Brentford head coach, Thomas Frank, is using the break to zigzag down ski slopes in Switzerland. But for the Championship it is full steam ahead, the division ready to savour its moment in the sun.