Trouble is for us exiles, the petrol + food+ booze + ticket (s) comes to getting on for £150-£200, more if the misses and daughter come. I have to pick and choose games due to the cost much more now. There are probably quite a number in a similar position.
I think that the golden age of the Premier league and the filter-down effect it had on the Championship has now passed, it is cyclical and in recession like the rest of the economy. You can also sense that the transfer market is tanking, save for the very top world class elite players who command Man C/Chelski/Moan U/Barca fees.