"We're gonna win the league!"

Aberdeen getting thrashed in Europe. Fulham entertaining the masses on ITV4. This can only mean one thing: football's back!

Whilst the rich fancy dans of the Premier League start on the 15th, the football league kicks off proceedings this coming weekend, with Middlesborough v Sheff Utd being the curtain-raiser less than 24 hours away from when I'm writing this.

It's great news that the BBC is going to be showing lots of football from every team. Every Saturday there will be Football League highlights following Match of the Day, with some live Championship games thrown in along the way. It's about time free-to-view channels got a bit of this: the likes of Mansfield matter just as much to football just as much as Man United.

United's rivals, Man City, have splashed enormous wads of cash this summer. In this time of economic difficulty it's almost scandalous the amount they've thrown about - and on not on the best players either: Adebayor for £25million... gulp! I just hope league clubs can survive in the current climate - many are having to watch every penny to avoid administration.

All in all I'm very excited! But then I always am at this stage. I always have hope and optimism - this could be (my team's) Coventry's year. "We're gonna win the league!" But this time around the edge has been taken off by selling some of our best players and being left with a small squad, with fans getting disgruntled. Roy Keane's Ipswich at home on Sunday to start with. Maybe I'll hold off on that bet just for now...

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