(No) Parachutes April 3, 2008

“No one wants to go up”! from the Championship to the Premiership. This is all about making one giant step. It is akin to starting a new school : a fee-paying school when formerly you were at the local comprehensive. All the stakes are raised – the rewards are promised but the cost is high to be there. And you may not make the grade.

For Hull City and Bristol City and Stoke City and Preston North End – and for most other clubs – even those who have been there before like Watford and West Brom and Wolves and Ipswich Town, there is trepidation about going up there again. For an intense high that may not last long. Then the parachute payment to soften the blow of coming back down to earth.

To stand between the span on the rail of the giant Humber Estuary Bridge may evoke what the Premiership will be like for many fans and their little old homely clubs. Eyes on stalks