The league below the Promise Land is now possibly one of the best leagues in the world and its certainly the one of the toughest.
I support Blackburn, as many of you know, and we've had a reasonably positive start - 2 points from 2 games isn't much but we dominated both games and unlucky not to take 6 points. Have to happy with performances so far being back in this league.
I think Villa look strong again. Keeping Grealish will make a difference. Will have to see if he leaves in the January transfer window though. Leeds have been surprising ones. They've spent big getting Bamford in and he hasn't really been needed. Big come down for Lampard after his first game in charge when they got hammered 4-1 at home to Leeds last week.
This weeks fixtures:
FRIDAY 17TH AUGUST
Birmingham City 19:45 Swansea City
SATURDAY 18TH AUGUST
Bristol City 15:00 Middlesbrough
Hull City 15:00 Blackburn Rovers
Ipswich Town 15:00 Aston Villa
Leeds United 15:00 Rotherham United
Millwall 15:00 Derby County
Reading 15:00 Bolton Wanderers
Sheffield United 15:00 Norwich City
West Bromwich Albion 15:00 Queens Park Rangers
Wigan Athletic 15:00 Nottingham Forest
Preston North End 17:30 Stoke City
SUNDAY 19TH AUGUST
Brentford 15:00 Sheffield Wednesday