Burnley

It’s not just the impressive immediate promotion from the Championship – just 320 days after relegation from the Premier League – that caught the eye for Vincent Kompany’s Burnley side. It’s the way the Burnley side

- Gregor MacGregor

It’s the way the Clarets did it: in style, and against a backdrop of difficult circumstances.

With a tally of 101 points, the club threatened – but ultimately fell just short of – Reading’s 2005-06 English Football League record haul of 106 points, but are fully deserving of their Championship title. Neil Warnock, the irrepressible manager of Huddersfield Town and a league champion himself in 2011, has described them as one of the best second-tier sides of the modern era.