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Originally Posted by ut2010
Who is Wigan? Has Liverpool or the like been in a relegation battle?
Pretty much every team has been relegated at some point. Liverpool in 1954 (took 3 years to get back up), man utd were relegated as recently as 1974. Newcastle in 2009 were expected to finish in the top half of the league, and were relegated.
Leeds utd reached the semi final of the champions league in 2001 and then relegated in 2003. they were then relegated
AGAIN in 2006, and spent a number of years in the third tier of football.
Going the opposite direction, Wigan were in the 4th tier in the 90s, won promotion 3 times and have now been in the premier league for 7 straight years (although relegation is looking very possible this year as usual). Man City, last years PL winners, were also in the 4th tier as recently as 1998.