Wembley for the Play off’s

Lord Mawhinney has stressed the importance of playing the Coca-Cola Football League play-off finals at Wembley this season.

Due to be held on May 26-28 at Wembley, with Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium remaining on standby.

‘It is beginning to look like we might be having the play-off finals at Wembley,’ Football League chairman Lord Mawhinney said today.

‘By the end of the month we hope to have the safety certificate from Brent, which is a key document.

‘Historically, Wembley is the traditional, spiritual home of the game in this country and any fan wants to see his or her team play there.

‘We managed to provide competitive games in a fine setting – the Millennium Stadium – while Wembley was unavailable.

‘But everyone wants to go to Wembley.’

With Barclays Premiership clubs due to benefit next season from new television revenue streams, the Championship play-off final is likely to be more lucrative to the winner than ever before.

In recent seasons, Lord Mawhinney said that the play-off final had been worth ‘in the neighbourhood of £35million’ to the winner, but said that figure would now have to be amended to ‘something getting close to £50million.’

If Huddersfield can go on an amazing run they could still make the play off’s.

Some of us are born dreamers !