12RofC - The Relegation Scrap
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
You probably don’t enjoy this one if your team is involved in one, unless you escape it, but what a consistently entertaining thing the relegation battle is.
From great escapes by Portsmouth, West Brom and Leicester, we look back over some of the most memorable relegation battles we’ve witnessed, and have a little look at how they work in foreign climes.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Christmas! |
| 0:15.0 | Let the bells ring out, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 0:17.2 | Welcome to number six of our 12 rambles of Christmas, the halfway point. |
| 0:22.4 | Mmm. Oh, absolutely. |
| 0:24.4 | Absolutely, now gentlemen. |
| 0:27.2 | During any season, there are twists and turns, shocks and surprises and drama, |
| 0:32.4 | and all how we love the drama. |
| 0:34.6 | The title race always captures the imagination, but often, often, where the real drama lies, |
| 0:41.3 | is between a handful of teams battling for their lives at the bottom of the table today, |
| 0:46.8 | as gentlemen, it's all about the relegation scrap, this as dramatic as football gets. |
| 0:53.6 | 100%. And I've learnt that we, as a football podcast, have been so much part of the football |
| 1:00.6 | furniture now, we can get an endorsement as we have on this show, talking about the rest of |
| 1:05.2 | the show, and many of our listeners have indeed already relegated us. |
| 1:08.8 | So, we're not immune from this either. |
| 1:11.0 | We're always in a scrap, but we are always fighting for our survival. |
| 1:14.9 | I'm sure we're always fighting for our survival. |
| 1:16.4 | It is a variably three-whiz indeed. |
| 1:19.1 | Relegation, it's a terrifying thing. |
| 1:21.3 | Relegation strikes fear into many teams across the land. |
| 1:24.9 | And some sides, their objective at the start of the season is to avoid it. |
| 1:28.7 | That's what they're... |
| 1:29.6 | Well, everyone wants to avoid it, but some people don't have to worry about it as much. |
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