A battling win over Scunthorpe yesterday coupled with defeats for Sheffield Wednesday and Crystal Palace means that Preston will definitely be playing in the Championship in season 2010/11. Unless some amazing scandal creates a points deduction.
Although both Wednesday and Palace can in isolation get more points it is one of those happy coincidences that they have a game against each other, so one must fail to pass PNE.
In reality they’ll be lucky to get many more points at all but it’s good to have it settled.
With the pressure off they should play better and Darren Ferguson can get a proper look at the team. Sean St Ledger is getting a lot of criticism from the fans in the Evening Post, yet when he left on loan it seemed he’d taken the teams spirit. After believing that Neil Mellor would be the next Alex Dawson I’m no longer going to add my support for SSL but as big clubs think he’s good enough to consider, I’d be looking at other reasons than his skill for his performance.