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By Andrew Warshaw at The Valley Winning start: Charlton celebrate on opening day of the season Photo: PA They journeyed up from the valleys with their banners and flags, selling out their allocation and outsinging the home crowd. But it takes more than enthusiastic support to compete in a higher division as Swansea City found to their cost in their first appearance for 24 years in the second tier of English football. For long periods yesterday, Roberto Martinez's team, who walked away with the League One title by 10 points, were pleasing on the eye and played the better football, suggesting they were more than capable of holding on to their new-found status. But three moments of naivety and immaturity did for them, the kind of errors that will have to be eradicated if the Swans are to accrue enough points to consolidate in... [read full story]
