It’s not often that I would find it necessary to quote Steve Bruce, but given his achievement in guiding Hull City to the Premier League, he perhaps deserves credit for his stark analysis of what clubs need to do to survive in the top flight.
Well we made it. In the end it didn’t really matter what happened after the Reading game, although the anxieties of the last day of the season are something I am glad to have avoided.
If ever a goal was worthy of earning millions of pounds for a club it was Jonny Howson’s wonder strike.
Simeon Jackson’s legacy may be as great as any former Norwich City player in the club’s proud history.
Fernando Alonso will never be everyone’s favourite – but he keeps winning people over; on top of that, he keeps winning races. Indeed, it may well prove that the Spaniard’s victory on home soil at the weekend is the one to get his title challenge in full swing.
And so, some 40 weeks since that sweltering opening afternoon in London, we come to the end of the road. And what a wild ride it has been.
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