#111 What are the most surprising relegation campaigns in soccer history?
Soccer 101
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🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Ryan is joined by Graham and Taylor to discuss all-things relegation: what is it and which teams have successfully avoided it? We then turn our attention to the most surprising relegation campaigns in soccer history, for whatever reason. England, Scotland, Spain, Germany, Argentina, and a notable Italian club all get mentions!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Soka 101, the podcast where we scratched the soccer riches you never knew you had. |
| 0:19.9 | Today, we're talking about one of the very worst things that can happen to your club. |
| 0:24.3 | If your club plays in the league with the relevant structure, that is, relegation. |
| 0:28.1 | Premier League fans will see teams like Fulham and Norwich |
| 0:30.3 | oscillating between relegation and promotion each season, |
| 0:33.4 | as if stuck in a perpetual loop of joy and heartbreak. |
| 0:36.6 | But for some clubs, relegation comes as a shock. Today, we're looking at the teams who didn't see the drop coming and who really shouldn't have been in a position to go down. My name's Ryan Bailey. Joining me today, we have Mr Taylor Rockwell. Hello. And we have Graham Ruffin. Hello, Ryan Bellick. Hello, Graham. |
| 0:55.2 | Now, we're going to get into relegation. |
| 0:56.8 | I am going to drop in the fact that I support a team that has been relegated twice during my fandom. |
| 1:02.4 | That team is Wimbledon. |
| 1:03.3 | We were relegated from the Premier League in 2000. |
| 1:06.3 | And last year, from League 1 into League 2, pretty devastating in both instances, but not entirely surprising. |
| 1:14.3 | Let's kick off. Graham, has a team you follow ever been relegated? Yes, unfortunately, quite |
| 1:20.5 | often. Sterling Albion have been relegated, I think, three times in the last 10 years, and that |
| 1:26.0 | pretty much is in line with when I started to become |
| 1:29.2 | a Australian Albion fan slightly longer than that I think about 15 years the first five years |
| 1:32.5 | were good and we won promotion a couple of times the last 10 years not so good and really now |
| 1:37.3 | every season the aim is just to stay in the the Scottish League pyramid it feels like we might drop out |
| 1:43.3 | at any point and And that's maybe |
| 1:44.5 | a good place to start with relegation is actually just to cover what relegation is. For anyone |
| 1:49.7 | who doesn't know, of course, MLS is a league structure that doesn't have relegation along |
| 1:56.7 | with good net noises. Those are two things that MLS is lacking. Traditionally speaking, |
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