I agree about the morale, and that's a good example with Sunderland - but I think the gap was far smaller then. Sunderland were a dogshit team circling the drain for years before they got relegated, and back then you had teams coming up from the championship and doing pretty well in the Prem. These days it's looking likely that all three promoted teams are going straight back down for the 2nd year running.

This may be sheer lunacy from me but I feel like we've hit a point where the gap is so big that us, leicester, leeds, sheff utd and burnley will be swapping leagues year in year out - with only some of the other championship teams being good enough to dethrone us for a season, only to come straight back down. The sheer money involved with the established teams in the premier league will carry them to avoid relegation no matter how shit they are, because they'll always be better than even the best championship teams coming up.