Leeds, Sunderland, Burnley: Promoted trio boost survival hopes with early wins

Promotion to the Premier League is always cause for celebration.

For those who achieve it there is the chance to compete against the country’s top sides, travel to world famous, historic grounds and have some of the best players on the planet visit your stadium – and that’s before you get to the enormous financial benefits.

But for the past two seasons, that joy has quickly faded for newly-promoted teams once the season begins and reality hits.

Prior to this season, each of the past six teams to come up from the Championship have gone straight back down.

Last season it was Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton, suffering the same fate as Luton, Burnley and Sheffield United the year before.

All came up with great hope and each and every one of them was consigned to relegation – mostly long before the end of campaign, too.

The manner in which it has occurred has led to concerns that the English top flight has become something of a ‘closed shop’ with the riches of the league turning what was once merely a jump in quality into a chasm.

But after wins for Sunderland, Leeds and Burnley over the first two weekends, could things be a little different this year?

It is the first time since 2016-17 that all three promoted clubs have have earned a win inside the first two games.