Now That The Dust Has Settled

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One more Championship year to come

And though, for some, that won´t be fine,

Any thoughts of a Premier League life

Are several more years down the line

It was almost guaranteed it would happen

Some time, with the life that we´ve led,

Our yo-yo existence would eventually

Hang by a thinner and thinner thread

The Premier League hangs like a ripe peach

For most here, for whom it´s success,

But when out of reach, tantalizingly

It causes both heartache and stress

Unless one can get up and stay up

For three, four or five years at least,

However many short-lived excursions

One makes, won´t amount to a feast

And if, at the same time, new faces

Aren´t better than those who are here,

Any slight advantage one has built up

And momentum, will soon disappear

So this summer, more than most, perhaps

Wheeling and dealing must be right,

With a view to building a squad again

Which can keep the PL in sight

But fail in that area this time

As recent Windows all have done,

And this year´s near miss for the play-offs

Will feel like a successful one.