Monday, May 16, 2016

Column: Relegation is football's teacher of hope (The Associated Press)

Newcastle United manager Rafael Benitez during the Barclays Premier League match at St James' Park, Newcastle. during the English Premier League soccer match between Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur at St James' Park stadium in Newcastle, England. Sunday May 15, 2016. (Owen Humphreys/PA via AP) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVE

Those who have experienced relegation, football's annual ritual culling of the weak, say the pain of being sent to the next league down is almost as intense as the grief of death. When Leicester City, the team that thrilled this season by winning the Premier League, suffered the indignity of dropping to the third tier of English football for the first time in its 124-year history in 2008, angry supporters hurled beer mugs at the garden gate of manager Ian Holloway, who was then let go by the club.


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