The Huddersfield Town megastore by the main entrance to the John Smith’s Stadium is not mega in the normal sense: it’s more like a boutique, even though the sales space has to be shared with the football club’s groundmates, the Huddersfield Giants rugby league team. But right now business is mega all right.
On Saturday Huddersfield make their debut in that gravity-defying financial phenomenon, the Premier League, and all day, every day the population of this normally sane and down-to-earth town have been pouring in to get their replica shirts and ancillary souvenirs and tat.
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Is promotion that big a deal? The rise of Huddersfield and Brighton means that by the weekend 49 teams will have played in 26 seasons of the Premier League – and there are only 92 teams in the four divisions. It is about time a club with Huddersfield’s history – three successive league titles in the 1920s – joined the throng.
The modern convention, of course, makes 1992, the date of football’s marriage to Rupert Murdoch, the main benchmark of the modern era,
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And these days, the theory goes, the stakes for a put-upon, medium-sized place like Huddersfield are altogether higher. The template for this is said to be Swansea City, whose promotion in 2011 was, according to research by Cardiff Business School, worth £58m to the local economy in the first season alone.
Swansea University also reported a surge in applications, especially from overseas students: a delighted official reported that at a recruitment fair in Thailand one applicant’s first question was how far the university was from the stadium,
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Anecdotal evidence suggests everyone in Swansea has perked up these past six years: sales figures and property prices have risen; people have smiled their way through the streets; old married couples have resumed honeymoon sex; teenage children have volunteered for household jobs; the sun has shone all day and rain has fallen only at night. And so on. Some of this may even be true.
But one might legitimately wonder whether universities ought to want students who choose their destinations for ridiculous reasons.
http://www.authenticspurstore.com/David_Robinson_Jersey And Wyn Grant, emeritus professor of politics at the University of Warwick and founder of the Football Economy website, is sceptical, anyway: “There are special factors in the case of Swansea. The Welsh government has given new emphasis to various kinds of activities and the profile of Wales as a whole has risen. Stoke-on-Trent hasn’t been revitalised by the Premier League.”
