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Manchester City's 1938 Champions Relegation Season
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Georgian Maestro
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I dídnt even know they'd quoted me until this. Got a lot more I could say about that season but the key thing now is for City to keep that record! Can't have Leicester taking another of our wonderful City-itis moments! It was bad enough when Wigan overtook our 'only team to be relegated and play in FAC final'!
While I'm commenting on history, don't forget my latest research (published t'other week) on how football overtook rugby and lacrosse is free to download for a limited period here http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14660970.2016.1276238?cookieSet=1. The free offer ends soon, so please feel free to download it now while you can. Of course, if anyone wants to tweet that link to it (that includes the Daily Mail of course!) then that would help. Cheers
Middlesbrough also got relegated the year they reached the FA cup final in 97
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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We can't allow Leicester to be relegated, and take away part of our glorious ist'ree. We need to get a Save Our Foxes campaign up and running.
#SOF
#SOF 'n #SOC - Save Our Foxes and Save Our Claudio! Or even #SOK - Save Our Kasper!
Mind you, Jim, I would laugh me bollox off if Huth goes down!
blueparrot
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I,agree but not sure you should be anywhere near it with your track record for saving they would be down by Easter., with Leeds up :)We can't allow Leicester to be relegated, and take away part of our glorious ist'ree. We need to get a Save Our Foxes campaign up and running.
#SOF
Bill
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I would love them to go down. Last year they were lucky,dirty and protected.
East Level 2
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And Leicester in 1969.Middlesbrough also got relegated the year they reached the FA cup final in 97
I dídnt even know they'd quoted me until this. Got a lot more I could say about that season but the key thing now is for City to keep that record! Can't have Leicester taking another of our wonderful City-itis moments! It was bad enough when Wigan overtook our 'only team to be relegated and play in FAC final'!
While I'm commenting on history, don't forget my latest research (published t'other week) on how football overtook rugby and lacrosse is free to download for a limited period here http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14660970.2016.1276238?cookieSet=1. The free offer ends soon, so please feel free to download it now while you can. Of course, if anyone wants to tweet that link to it (that includes the Daily Mail of course!) then that would help. Cheers
didnt Brighton also play in an FA cupfinal and get relegated in the same season in 83
blue b4 the moon
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Think Gary's stat was won the FA Cup and went down lads.
BlueAnorak
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Yes Leicester, Brighton and Middlesbrough all equalled our record, though Middlesbrough could claim to have surpassed it by being runners up in the League Cup final too! Wigan totally surpassed it though, but at the same time we created a new record by becomming the only team to lose an FA cup final to a relegated club! (Arsenal lost the League Cup final to Birmingham a few years back so you can't say cup final).
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Gary James
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Yes, but Wigan overtook it by winning the FAC, that's what I meant. CheersMiddlesbrough also got relegated the year they reached the FA cup final in 97