That's a strange claim from strange supporters.Everton have not been relegated since WW11 ended either, believe me.
Arsenal and Everton have never been relegated from the top division of English football as far as I know.
Quote from: dave shelley on July 22, 2015, 10:10:49 AMThat's a strange claim from strange supporters.Everton have not been relegated since WW11 ended either, believe me.From "toffee-web site" - Wikipedia !!! for what it's worth also back it up[quote THE SLIM DECADES The years after the war, at the end of the forties and the start of the fifties, are the worst times in the history of Everton. Everton were relegated after the 1950-51 season for only the second time (and the last!) to the Second Division. This time it wasn't an accident, and it took more time to get back than in 1930-31. It took three seasons before the team got back to the top-flight in 1954 as the runners-up. Promotion was not decided until the last match of the season, when the Toffees beat Oldham away 4-0.
Quote from: castlefields_villan on July 22, 2015, 10:18:58 AMQuote from: dave shelley on July 22, 2015, 10:10:49 AMThat's a strange claim from strange supporters.Everton have not been relegated since WW11 ended either, believe me.From "toffee-web site" - Wikipedia !!! for what it's worth also back it up[quote THE SLIM DECADES The years after the war, at the end of the forties and the start of the fifties, are the worst times in the history of Everton. Everton were relegated after the 1950-51 season for only the second time (and the last!) to the Second Division. This time it wasn't an accident, and it took more time to get back than in 1930-31. It took three seasons before the team got back to the top-flight in 1954 as the runners-up. Promotion was not decided until the last match of the season, when the Toffees beat Oldham away 4-0. That's what you get for not checking. . I was convinced I'd read somewhere that Everton were top-flight ever presents. That'll teach me.
Everton were relegated in the early 1950s.Arsenal have only finished in the relegation places once but were never actually relegated for some reason which I cant recall
One of the many myths of Arsenal’s history is that the club has never been relegated. Unfortunately, this is not so. Even worse is that when they were relegated it was with one of the worst records ever.The fateful day when Arsenal were relegated was 12 April 1913. Prior to this date they had been hanging on by the skin of their teeth, mainly because Chelsea were having a pretty poor season as well. That morning the bottom of the First Division table looked like this: Pld W D L F A Pts GA17 Tottenham Hotspur 35 12 5 18 43 67 29 0.6418 Chelsea 35 8 6 21 42 71 22 0.5919 Notts County 35 6 8 21 24 50 20 0.4820 Arsenal 35 3 10 22 23 70 16 0.33
Four months after Armistice Day brought a halt to battle on the Western Front in November 1918, the authorities sought to revitalise football and the First Division was to be resurrected and expanded to 22 clubs from 20. Tradition dictated the bottom two clubs from the previous season - Chelsea and Tottenham - would be handed a reprieve, and that the top two clubs in the Second Division - Derby and Preston - would be promoted.Certainly Chelsea were in a strong position, as the club had only fallen into the relegation zone in 1914-15 due to a notorious match-fixing scandal involving Manchester United and Liverpool. As events transpired, they retained their place without a vote being taken by the Football League at the crucial meeting because, as reports at the time stated, "the manner in which they lost their position before war interfered with the game is generally regarded as unsatisfactory".Tottenham were fully expected to join Chelsea in the top flight, but then Arsenal, led by Norris, made an audacious move. Based partially on their longer service in the Football League (Arsenal were the first southern side to join in 1893), Norris argued that the Gunners were more deserving of a place than Tottenham, let along Barnsley and Wolves, who had both finished above them in the final Second Division season before the war. Following Arsenal's lead, Nottingham Forest, Birmingham and Hull all submitted their own applications and, with the promoted Derby and Preston ushered into the top flight, a seven-way tussle was underway for the final place in the expanded 22-team division.The Daily Express recorded the anticipation felt ahead of the meeting in Manchester on March 10, 1919: "London was never more intimately concerned with Football League deliberations than on this occasion... There is an understanding that Chelsea will be voted into the First Division, and when the present scheme was first mooted it was regarded as a matter of course that they would be accompanied by Tottenham Hotspur, but The Arsenal considered that they had a superior claim and issued an appeal to the clubs to vote for them in preference to the Spurs ... there is a strong body of opinion that considers Tottenham Hotspur ought to remain in the First Division."It was almost certain that the place would go to a side from the capital - after all, an unnamed northern official told the Daily Mirror, "our boys like a visit to London once or twice a year ... they get a show at the theatres and see something of the great city. The directors also enjoy a visit to the big smoke" - but momentum swung decisively in Arsenal's favour when League chairman and Liverpool owner John McKenna, a close friend of Norris, urged clubs to vote in favour of the Gunners as they had joined the League some 15 years before Tottenham.When the votes were counted, Arsenal had won the support of 18 clubs, Tottenham 8, Barnsley 5, Wolves 5, Forest 3, Birmingham 2 and Hull 1. Despite finishing fifth in the Second Division in the final season before the Football League was suspended, it was Arsenal who would occupy a place in the top flight, and not their neighbours Tottenham.
One of my favourite days, relegating them.
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