Hello, guys, welcome to a Not the Top 20 podcast.

As always, it's me, Ali Maxwell, with him, George Ellick.

And this week we celebrated the return of the championship after a week-long break.

And, I mean, the results speak for themselves.

Just a whole league's worth of incredibly tight games some between two

good teams some of them between two not so good teams but all the games across the weekend just

unbelievably tight so it was hard to pick any specific ones we can't talk about all of them but what

we will do is pick out some of the ones that threw up things that we found most interesting.

First and foremost, we're going to start with two new eras, by which we mean the two championship sides,

whose managers took charge of their first games. In Astonville's case, Dean Smith, in Brentford's case,

Thomas Frank. And I've made an error already calling the managers, because I think both of them probably head coaches.

Welcome to the modern era, George.

Aston Villa under Dean Smith won their winners against Swansea.

Watching that one back and analysing the game, how did you consider his first game in charge to have gone?

Well, they're certainly created chances. Tammy

Abraham scored probably the trickiest of three chances. He could have had a Hattie. One of those,

a really, really good header, though, that he put away to put them one nil up. I thought Jack Grealish

looked very, very lively indeed. A really nice pass in for the pre-assist, can we call it, for the goal as well.

And it's good to see Nyland, the keeper. He's had a tricky start making some crucial saves

as well to keep them in it. So probably as you'd imagine with the Dean Smith team, very, looking

very fluid going forward. A lot of people giving John McGinn-Ray reviews for his performance as well.

I think his best performance of the season so far,

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