The incredible climb of Luton Town to the Premier League demonstrates the beauty of……

For Coventry, who had come back into the game after being strong-armed in the first half, there is also a story of redemption. They, too, have had points deductions and relegations.But they have never gone as low as Luton.

Luton disappeared from England’s top-flight in 1992, just as the Premier League was launched and the wealth of the game doubled, tripled and climbed ever upwards.

In 2009 they disappeared from the Football League. Thirty-one years after relegation from the original First Division they walk back through the door, with the same gloriously decrepit stadium and a team built from Football League talent and a few loanees

Their boys landed around £104 million at Wembley on this afternoon. That is the minimum you earn for playing 38 games in the Premier League, and who knows how Luton will choose to spend it.

“We are not going to go mental,” Rob Edwards, the Luton manager, would say. This coming season, he said, would secure the future of the club. “Neymar is available” he joked later.

The club have been working on a recruitment plan for both eventualities since they finished third in the Championship and 10 points clear of Coventry.

At a capacity of 10,356, Kenilworth Road will be the smallest stadium in Premier League history and you have to wonder where that money guaranteed to Luton will be spent. Their board have a fine balance to strike. They will certainly wish to be competitive but there is also a 20-acre site near Luton railway station where a new stadium has planning permission to be built.