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Luton Town are standing on the brink of an historic achievement if they can defy the odds and reach the Premier League.
No football team has ever won promotion from the fifth tier of English football, or the National League, as it is currently known, and then gone on to reach the Premier League, since promotion from the National League to the Football League was introduced, rather than teams simply being elected from the non-league game, in 1987.
If Luton Town manage to win promotion this season, they will not only become the first team in the entire history of English football to have done that, they will have managed it in less than ten years.
The English footballing landscape is about as rocky, harsh, and uneven as Elephant Island, with even more highs and lows. Even within this barbarous and quite often brainless climate, one league reigns supreme. The Championship is a division in which all but five teams spend more than their entire turnover on wages alone. That is to say nothing of transfer fees, infrastructure projects, and every other form of expenditure. It is a plainly unsustainable set of circumstances which has been created by teams throwing the kitchen sink at promotion, with dreams of reaching the promised land of the Premier League and all of the riches that come with it.
Of course, only three teams can win promotion from the Championship each season, which means most of them don’t get to unlock those riches, so instead they slide further and further into debt, owed either to their owners or even worse to a bank, or even worse still to some corporate equivalent of a payday lender, and that is why we see a number of Championship teams in trouble at the moment. Derby County are the most notable example, having been docked 21 points this season and currently in administration, owing more than £60 million, but they are far from alone when it comes to English football’s house of cards.
