SAM TODD LOOKS AT CLUBS WHO HAVE THRIVED FOLLOWING THEIR OPENING CAMPAIGN AMONG THE BIG BOYS...

Outfoxed ’em: Leicester savour their shock Premier League title in 2015-16

MIDDLESBROUGH. Bradford City. Ipswich Town. West Bromwich Albion. Reading. Hull City (twice). Birmingham City. Queens Park Rangers. Huddersfield Town. Sheffield United.
The list of top-flight teams succumbing to ‘second season syndrome’ over the last three decades reads longer than the queue for petrol at your local service station.
Yet there are many examples where the second year after promotion has been the fuel ...