1.   The directors are set to give McHale a big rise in his budget for players in a bid to win promotion next season.

2.   Both Seattle and Minnesota will wear futuristic uniforms, as Seattle did in a home promotion last season.

3.   Holiday season promotions should wreak havoc on gross margins, Redbook said.

4.   Coventry failed to gain promotion this season.

5.   Goal chances were at a minimum in a niggling and extremely scrappy local derby between the sides which both won promotion last season.

6.   Instead, Rotherham will face a battle with big spending Worcester and Exeter for the right to promotion next season.

7.   Nuremberg, with a long Bundesliga tradition, gained promotion this season.

8.   Watford faces Bolton on Monday at Wembley stadium with the winner joining Sunderland and Bradford in promotion next season to the Premier League.

9.   Atalanta lie ninth in the first division, after winning promotion last season.

10.   Benitez got his job at Valencia after helping Tenerife to promotion last season, when they finished second in the Spanish second division.