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Originally Posted by Karak
Hm. That's interesting, but I was more thinking along the lines of a team that just barely falls to relegation and then is really good the next year, but can't compete for the championship yet.
Doesn't happen for a number of reasons.
First, you've got to be pretty terrible to get relegated, bottom 3 in a 20 team league. Second, any decent players you have are going to want to leave, in fact some players have it written into their contract that if their team gets relegated they are released. Third, relegated teams are cut off from huge premier league TV revenue but are still paying premier league level wages, so economics almost always dictate that they sell off their better players. Fourth, rookies don't make nearly the same impact in soccer as they do in american sports, so an exceptional group of young players aren't going to make you a PL title contender, and anyway if you just got relegated they probably all want to leave.
RE: fans getting depressed over having 0% next year, remember that they can still compete in the cup competitions. Bradford City, who currently occupy 11th place in the
fourth tier of english football (so the equivalent of a mediocre A ball team), will face premier league Swansea City in the League Cup final this weekend! The relegated team must also fight for promotion in their new league of course. There's plenty going on.
Relegation sucks ofc, but its not total disaster. A team (such as mine, Wigan) who is almost always an underdog in their premier league matches would, if relegated, become one of the best teams in their new division, and a favourite to win the league in the next year, which might be a fun experience after being underdogs for so long (but ill still cut myself and others if we go down).