Best season ever in the second division, right? Winning so many games. Smashing Bristol Rovers 9-0. Going with my Dad to see them play his team, Orient. Couldn't see a bloody thing, as a 12 year old standing on the terrace among all the grown men. Then the Spursy end of season wobble that nearly made us miss promotion. I kept a scrapbook. Cut out all the reports from the newspapers. Wish I still had that.
Never happened. It is fake news. Spurs are the greatest team and have the greatest players. Other teams want to be like Spurs.
Yup. I don't know if many on here will remember it, but back when Newcastle were about to go down in '09, we had a 'Let's all laugh at Newcastle'-type thread on here, and one of theirs came over a posted on it. After a bit of back-and-forth, I pretty much came out and said, 'you lot need to quit whining and get on with it. Next year is gonna be great for you ... you'll win all the time, and without the 'Premier League' circus. It'll just be footy ... and come Spring, it will have been a massive load of fun.' All inspired by our '77-8 season in the 2nd division. I'm not gonna dig through the archives for it, but I made some similar comments when Ramos had us on the road to relegation in the Fall of '08. Nobody wants to go down ... but for a big enough club (one likely to bounce right back up), it's not the end of the world.
I didn't read carefully enough. still, for any PL club to drop 4 divisions in what - 5 years? that's a big drop course Scottish PL, Rangers dropped 4 levels in 1 day and they are a big club, still not quite fully recovered 5 years later either now if only something similar could happen to say... West Ham, for example
yeah. there have been a handful of top fligh clubs in recent memory - leeds, soton, Norwich, pompey, Leicester, etc. - who've gone down and found themselves in the 3rd tier pretty quickly. but for a club the size of spurs or Newcastle, unless they've got very serious financial problems (i.e., Leeds 15 or so years back), the advantages are sure to make them favorites to bounce back up.
Easy to forget that not so long ago Manchester city were a yo-yo club and even fell to the 3rd level.
Guess this belongs here. Shared a hotel with Real Salt Lake this week. Had to ask one of the players what team they were as I didn't recognize the crest. Only vaguely recognized one guy who a google search helped me identify as Beckerman.
Leicester and Palace both look like they will be going down. 3rd team, choose between Sunderland, Hull, Middlesbrough. I think Defoe just keeps Sunderland up, and Hull goes down