It’s this. Look at the amount Forest spent and everyone said they’d be relegated yet it’s increasingly looking like this might be the approach that works if you want to stay in the Premier League after coming up.

The gap between the teams who finish 12-16th in the Premier League and the top of the Championship has never been greater.

Owen was awful but at times Kluivert felt like a huge let down.

Xisco, Emmanuel Rivière and Matz Sels get not so honorable mentions as well.

However when England tried it they actually managed to handicap themselves with the couldn’t give a fuck at the time Fabio Capello. Remember the Capello Index?