Hello Newcastle, goodbye Burnley.

In the course of researching an answer to a comment on one of my Sportingo pieces, I was surprised to see just how much Newcastle spend in comparison with other Premiership teams. They have the fifth highest wage-bill and have spent ridiculous amounts in the transfer market over the past 10 years. It is slightly gratifiying then to see that this has not bought them success. They are relegated with Middlesbrough and West Bromwich Albion from the Premiership and will be visitors at Vicarage Road next season. Thus my prediction that last year´s play-off winners would go straight back down again was proved wrong as Hull lost at home but finished in just-safe 17^th. Wolves and Birmingham won automatic promotion and Burnley won the play-off final against Sheffield United, preventing the latter “righting” that perceived Tevez-related wrong.