The last day of the Premier League will be played tomorrow, Sunday, but today there is a good game in England. Mark Robins’ Coventry and Rob Edwards’ Luton The last promotion place playoff final is played today at Wembley (5:45 pm).
It is the game with the most money at stake in world football since then the winner will earn around 200 million euros in future earnings, but it is also the end of a story of rejection and revival.
An unimaginable scenario for both teams just five years ago they fought in the fourth category. Only one of the two will complete his meteoric rise this afternoon.
Coventry. founding member of Premier
A founding member of the competition in 1992, Coventry have not played in the Premier League since 2001, when they were relegated after 34 consecutive years in English football’s elite. It has since been mired in problems with a succession of owners and financial problems that have left it without a stadium on several occasions over the past decade.
In 2012, Coventry were relegated to the third division and placed into liquidation the following year, earning them a ten point penalty.
A turbulent time that will surely be left behind by the hand of Mark Robins, the coach who took over from his bench in March 2017. “It’s a match for romantics due to the trips that both clubs have made,” sums up the Scottish coach.
Luton, never in the Premier
And it is Luton’s recent history that has also been complicated. in fact, it has not played in the Premier League since it was relegated from the top category, the then First Division in 1992, and the first edition of the Premier was played the following season.
In 2009, Luton left the Football League, the body that covers the second, third and fourth tiers of English football, after being relegated after being penalized 30 points for financial misconduct.
Middlesbrough and Sunderland, their victims in the semis
Luton finished third and beat Middlesbrough in the playoff semifinals (0-0 and 0-1), while Luton, fifth in the final table, came back from 2-1 down in the first leg with a 2-0 home win against Sunderland.
Coventry or Luton will join Burnley and Sheffield United, who were directly promoted to the Premier by finishing first and second in the Championship (second division).
Source: La Verdad
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