Southampton secure most valuable win in football as Leeds fail to escape their past
After the expensive relegation, the lucrative promotion. Southampton contrived to finish bottom of the Premier League in a year when they spent some £160m, had three managers and only mustered six wins. They return to the world’s richest courtesy of the world’s richest game, their prize for play-off victory probably beginning at £140m worth rather more. If Bobby Stokes, the hero of the 1976 FA Cup final, still has the most famous Wembley winner in Southampton’s history, Adam Armstrong has the most lucrative. For , consigned to another season in the , it ranks as the most costly.
