A National Stage Built on Local Sacrifice

There is no question that the Championship felt special, because for the first time in a long time semi-professional football felt properly connected to the national game, and you could see that in the way players approached it, in the way supporters travelled, and in the way club volunteers kept showing up even when they were clearly running on fumes, because it finally felt like the work they do every week mattered on a bigger stage.

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