Wolves and Birmingham win £60m Premier League jackpot
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Wolverhampton Wanderers have been promoted to the Premier League after beating Queens Park Rangers 1-0 at Molineux.
Mick McCarthy's side have led the table for much of the season and went up thanks to Sylvan Ebanks-Blake 25th goal of the season against Rangers.
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So are the Foxes, from League 1 to the League Championship...
Looks like they still can't be together...
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Finally after so many years . -
congrats, get rdy for relegation battle next season
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Birmingham promoted to Premier League
Birmingham are back in the Premier League at the first attempt after securing automatic promotion from the Championship with a 2-1 win at Reading on Sunday.
Alex McLeish's team had wasted a chance to seal promotion when they were beaten by Preston last weekend, but they made no mistake with their second and final opportunity on the last day of the season.
The Blues, who go up alongside champions Wolverhampton, went ahead through Keith Fahey's first half strike and Kevin Phillips put them within touching distance of the top-flight when he scored on the hour.
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Wolves will win the premier league next season if wolverine joins them.
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Originally posted by HyuugaNeji:
Wolves will win the premier league next season if wolverine joins them.
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Originally posted by HyuugaNeji:
Wolves will win the premier league next season if wolverine joins them.
good try
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Sheffield United, Reading, Burnley and Preston North End take the playoff places
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i had nvr seen burnley and preston in the epl before
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its always the same clubs..at least now got newcastle joining em
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one of them will be relegated next season, or both
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Originally posted by HyuugaNeji:
Wolves will win the premier league next season if wolverine joins them.
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Looked like this 2 will be one season wonder .... Mick Mcarthy not make for the Premiership .
He did it with Sunderland , Sunderland went down .
The Blues also cannot substain the standard .... too much for them , unless u got a sugar daddy come in with multi million dollar signings of 11 players .
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Birmingham win £60m Premier League jackpot
Birmingham City's Keith Fahey (right) celebrates scoring his side's first goal against Reading with Kevin Phillips
Birmingham City won the dramatic three-way fight for automatic promotion to the Barclays Premier League yesterday. Twelve months after being relegated, they regained their place at the top table and claimed the £60 million prize that goes with it.
That is the figure that the Midlands club can expect to reap next season from increased television payments of £35 million and extra revenue from attendances, marketing and associated spin-offs.
Birmingham went up courtesy of a 2-1 win against Reading at the Madejski Stadium. With Sheffield United, the third party in with a chance, held to a 0-0 draw by Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park, it would have been Reading who went back to the Premier League — also at the first time of asking — with victory.
Alex McLeish, the Birmingham manager, was drenched in champagne as he entered the dressing-room after the final whistle. The former Scotland and Rangers manager admitted that it had been one of the most memorable moments of his career.
“It’s got be to be up there with all my various achievements,” McLeish said. “I just know how much it means to people, to Blues fans all over the world and here. Of course, there is the financial side of things to it as well.
“The consequences of not going up? I just tried to get that out of my head. There is a sense of relief in the dressing-room but it is also euphoric. It has got to rank with the best feelings I’ve ever had.”
Birmingham had appeared to be cruising at 2-0 with goals from Keith Fahey and Kevin Phillips, but Reading replied through Marek Matejovsky to set up a tense finish. “At 2-0 I thought we’d done it,” McLeish said. “That last 20 minutes was a bit of an ordeal.”
David Sullivan, the Birmingham co-owner, experienced similar emotions to McLeish when Matejovsky scored, but his pre-season prediction was realised. “It’s been a draining day,” Sullivan said. “But I’m delighted for Alex, the players, everyone. I expected us to do it. If you look at all my interviews from the start of the season, I said that we would be promoted.”
Sullivan, David Gold, his fellow co-owner, and Karren Brady, the managing director, will discuss the 2009-10 campaign — especially the budget for new players — at a board meeting during the summer.
McLeish fell out with Brady this season after she had made disparaging comments about the unwieldy nature of his squad, but in the post-match celebrations Brady was seen blowing a kiss in the Scot’s direction. However, asked whether he would be manager next season, McLeish said cryptically: “I don’t know. You’d better ask the board. I’ll certainly be here for the next 24 hours.”
Reading and Sheffield United can still win a £60 million jackpot of their own via the play-offs. Reading take on Burnley in the semi-finals while Sheffield meet Preston North End. “We have a second opportunity,” Steve Coppell, the Reading manager, said. “We can’t afford to dwell too much on this game.”
Newcastle United could be heading in the opposite direction after losing 3-0 to Liverpool at Anfield. Their increasingly hopeless task was not helped by the sending-off of Joey Barton for a foul on Xabi Alonso.
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Gratz Wolves and Birmingham and Leicester City
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I don't feel it's a jackpot when you have to play as consistently as you can and to the best of your abilities over 46 matches. But that's my opinion.
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QPR's boast one of the richest owners in English football but seems like the wealth didn't quite rub on their team... or rather they didn't rub their wealth on their team
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Originally posted by HyuugaNeji:
Wolves will win the premier league next season if wolverine joins them.
