After two years outside Spain's top flight, Elche sealed their automatic return to La Liga with a thumping 4-0 win at Deportivo in June. As the third largest city in the Comunidad Valenciana and the 20th largest in the whole of Spain, Elche could hardly be classified as one of those clubs pundits like to describe as "punching above their weight". That did not stop most pundits from granting them the dubious distinction of being - along with Real Oviedo - favourites to drop straight back into