Welcome to the Championship Edgar... but it will be so tough

By Robbie Savage

Published 21:57 26/08/10

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I had a great battle with Edgar Davids in his Tottenham days and I'm delighted that he's become the third-most-famous player in the Championship (after me, in first, and Craig Bellamy in second).

This is a tough, intense league and who knows how Edgar will fare after two years out of the game. But I do know the guy is an absolute legend and I can't wait to come up against him when we play Palace on September 25th. Wonder if he'll ask for my shirt?

Before that I've got another tough assignment when we play QPR on Saturday in the shape of Adel Taarabt. On his day this guy is up there for me with Craig Bellamy as being the best in the Championship.

It wasn't his day when we played them last season. I followed him everywhere and he got frustrated and disappeared from the game.

I don't know whether I'll have the same duties this time or whether Nigel Clough will want us to play our own game.

But I do know that you can't take your eyes off Taarabt for a second or he will punish you.

He is that good and it is a mystery to me why he has not yet been able to produce at the very highest level - although I think that under Neil Warnock, he and his team-mates might well be playing Premier League football this time next year.

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WAGs do my head in with their stupid designer handbags and their lavish lifestyles. With some notable, down-to-earth exceptions, the higher up they are the more they seem to feel they are more important than their husbands. I feel some of them are there for the bling and not the bloke.

Thank God I found a normal one. My missus Sarah wanted to take the kids away for a quick break before they go back to school and I said I'd pay for anywhere they wanted to go.

They didn't pick Barbados, St Tropez or Los Angeles. Instead, they're currently in a caravan in Carnarvon, from where they've been sending me pictures of them happily playing beach cricket in the pouring rain.

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