The Cost of Relegation

[DeKuip]

We've been relegated three times in my time as supporter and amazingly, the world kept turning, the true fans stuck with the club and we all enjoyed the ride back.

there wasn't a such a cavernous gap between the top 2 divisions back then though. they don't say the championship play-off final is the richest game in the world for nothing...

the effects of relegation on our club,  in the premier league for nearly 20 years, would be absolutely massive.

i doubt the players have wage decreases written into their contracts, like they would at wolves, the albion, blackpool etc. and that is what fucked up leeds.

And despite Peter Ridsdale's attempts to "live the dream" there is still is a Leeds United, and their fans are very much enjoying the ride back (the ones I know certainly are anyway).
Yes the gap is bigger than ever, but people who think relegation is the end of the world are those who believe the world began in 1992.

44 clubs have played in the Premier League, of which 7 have been ever-present throughout its 19 seasons. Law of averages suggests that in another 19 years time that figure will be lower than 7 - and of those 7 ourselves and Everton would seem most likely to suffer relegation in that period. So with that possibility always around the corner a well-run club ought to be prepared enough to suffer it and survive. "Prepared" is hopefully still our motto.

[Chico Hamilton III]

44 clubs have played in the Premier League, of which 7 have been ever-present throughout its 19 seasons. Law of averages suggests that in another 19 years time that figure will be lower than 7 - and of those 7 ourselves and Everton would seem most likely to suffer relegation in that period. So with that possibility always around the corner a well-run club ought to be prepared enough to suffer it and survive. "Prepared" is hopefully still our motto.

You could quote those stats to the Millwall fans while they're chasing us back to London Bridge station next season.

Once out of ther Premiership bubble, it'll be a shock to the senses for a lot of Villa fans who will be seeing the "real" football world for the first time.