No matter what happens between Doncaster and Southend in the League One play-off at Belle Vue tomorrow, part of Paul Heffernan will be inconsolable.

If his team wins he'll join the celebrations as he's every right to, but there will be part of him that doesn't feel right.

He'll know he would have played but for an uncharacteristically violent outburst in the first leg when he headbutted Southend defender Charlie Mulgrew, was sent off and automatically banned from the return.

If they lose he will feel like it's partly his fault - and he'll be right. Let's hope he doesn't have to endure that agony and his lesson isn't such a bitter one to learn.

I wonder what the mass of feeling is on the Sheffield United side of the city towards Neil Warnock?

We know what Wednesdayites think.

I suppose some Unitedites will be glad he's failed to get Crystal Palace up, most will have wished him well.

But how many will remember his prophetic words and feel a little guilty?
When he left Sheffield United a year ago he said he felt he had to go because the fans would turn on him if things went wrong half a dozen games into the new season.

They didn't turn on him of course, they turned on his successor Bryan Robson, but he got the mood of the place bang on.

Hull City in the Premiership? That's even more incongruous than Stoke being back in the top division for the first time since 1985.

Hull is the biggest city never to have had a team in the top division and it's about time they had a go, good luck to them.

Like Stoke this time and Derby last though, it looks like they might be making the leap at least a season too soon for their own good.

Teams have to take their chances when they arrive but as the Hull fan said on TV: "Hull gerrin in't Premiership? Aaah dernt kner, worrever next?"

Precisely madam.

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