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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