I've noticed a lot of journalists don't tend to look at the state of a particular club at the moment of promotion when assessing their chances for the season, they tend to go on history.
When Reading got promoted for the first time under Coppell, pretty much every journalist predicted their...
Middlesbrough is a bad example of a club to whom we should be compared.
They may have spent, but as has been proved, spending doesn't necessarily equate to success. Look at Newcastle and Leicester the season before last.
Boro was a basket case last season.