Mad fact: in 1961-62, the first season after the FA stopped having a mandated maximum wage for players, Alf Ramsey's Ipswich won the league. Since then, all but five English titles have been won by clubs playing in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds or Birmingham.
Of the five exceptions, three were managed by Brian Clough (two at Derby, one at Forest), and the other two were big-spending Blackburn in 1995, and 5000/1 Leicester.
it was extremely sweet how that season ended with Cutler's Broncos blowing the division by getting beat 52-21 in the final game of the regular season at Qualcomm