After having watched the drama of the last day of the Championship season unfold in front of me on Sunday I have come to the conclusion that whilst it will never boost the quality of the Premier League I did in fact find it more exciting to watch than any last day of the Premier League season.

Let me explain, firstly the game between Stoke and Leicester may not have been the greatest game on the field but the fans made it into a momentous occasions, momentous for Leicester for all the wrong reasons but still a remarkable day. Who would have predicted that Stoke would be gaining automatic promotion and relegating a side whom, until few years ago, were playing UEFA Cup football and punching above their weight in the Premier League. If anything I would have guessed at the beginning of the season that it would have been Leicester going to Stoke needing a point to gain promotion but that's why the Championship can be so interesting. You can never predict at the start of the season who will be going up or down, many will have picked West Brom to gain promotion but I doubt even the most optimistic Stoke fan would have had their side gaining automatic promotion with them. Along with Stoke who would have guessed that Hull and Bristol City would have been in the play-off places.

At the other end of the table who have believed that the likes of Coventry, Southampton and Sheffield Wednesday would have needed a win to avoid the drop into League 1. I know the likes of Nottingham Forest and Leeds have fallen through that trap door but still it is unusual for clubs who were once in the Premier League to fall further than the Championship (no offence Bradford or Swindon). There is just so much more to play for in the Championship and the league is so open that it makes for an exciting season. I think it's great that Stoke are going to be in the Premier League next season and I hope either Bristol City or Hull join them because it's a testament to the league that those teams can rise to the top and take their place in England's top flight. They may well go straight back down but who knows, they may well shock everyone and force one of the Premier League's more established sides out.

Reading an article by Phil McNulty on the BBC's sport website defending the Premier League after Kevin Keegan's 'boring, but great, leagues' comment yesterday has made me realise that while the Premier League title is going down to the wire, it's between two clubs who you would have guessed would have been up there at the start of the season. You can pretty much dictate how the league is going to go before they kick-off in August. The Premier League has become predictable with the same old sides rising to the top, not so in the Championship this season where it could have easily been Stoke or Hull who took the league winners crown.

That is what I love about football, the unpredictable side of things, something which is slipping away in the top flight of English football. It's why I have enjoyed the FA Cup more this year than any other, but that competition lost its shine as soon as Manchester United decided to play in some silly tournament in Brazil rather than in the oldest cup competition in the world. In Phil McNulty's article he makes a good point when he says that all European Leagues are predictable and on the whole you would agree with him where it is always Inter Milan or Lyon dominating their respective leagues. But Spain's La Liga does not fit into the mould. While Real Madrid or Barcelona do normally end up winning the league at least a different side comes up to challenge them most season's. This year it has been Villarreal and before that Sevilla, Valencia, Real Betis etc.

Perhaps the Championship's biggest plus point is also its downfall because, as the Derby proved last season, you don't have to be brilliant to get promoted. But teams must always have faith and I look forward to Stoke being in the Premier League next season and also look forward to the most nerve racking time of the year now, the Play-Offs.