I have the memory of a goldfish.
What sides have been too good to go down but did, in fact, actually go down?
What sides have been too good to go down but did, in fact, actually go down?
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[Albion] "Too good to go down"
- Thread starter Bozza
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HellBilly
Hereford in 97
That West Ham team that got relegated should have been top half - incredible group of players. Didn't they get 40 points or have I mixed them up with another team?
The Leeds team that got relegated in the early Noughties was decent too
studio150
Well-known member
The team of the 80s
banjo
GOSBTS
Notts Forest.
Sunderland.
Sunderland.
In the last twenty years, the Leeds, West Ham and Newcastle sides are frequently mentioned as teams "too good to go down but who still went down". Brighton would not be in that category. Its a bottom six squad in terms of quality,. Ask a random neutral what surprises them the most: the style of play or the results. No one outside Brighton would remember it as a team too good to go down.
These two immediately come to mind for me also.
gripper stebson
Well-known member
- Jul 27, 2004
- 6,690
Too good or not, I'm not sure we'd be mourned particularly by the rest of the Premier League.
LeicesterGull
Active member
- Feb 2, 2009
- 226
Too good on paper or style of play? I'd say if you're bottom 3 after 38 games then you deserve what you get, however pretty the football is to watch.
Frankie
Put him in the curry
Massive could well be a far too bigger club to go down AGAIN!
Barham's tash
Well-known member
It’s a valid point you make and personally I won’t waver in my support of the long term ambitions TB has but do you think he might amend his beliefs in favour of pragmatism to survivor or do you think he’d go full tilt on trying to finally buy the right quality of players to get us up and then keep us up if we did?
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Have we been relegated already! When did that happen?
Taybha
Whalewhine
In recent ish times I remember the Blackpool team that played wide open expansive football under Holloway , they won a few games early on in the season like 3-2 4-3 sort of scoreline and the media were comparing their attacking style to Brazil but their defending akin to Sunday league pub team , much like Brighton they were exciting to watch but came up short to the sorrow of the media .
I don't think we are quite as bad at defending as that Blackpool team were , but the similarity is there for all to see .
If we do go down then I think we will always be remembered as the best ever Premier League team to have been relegated by a country mile .
I don't think we are quite as bad at defending as that Blackpool team were , but the similarity is there for all to see .
If we do go down then I think we will always be remembered as the best ever Premier League team to have been relegated by a country mile .
No. I didnt say "Brighton will not be in that category", I said "would".
*Gullsworth*
My Hair is like his hair
No way, imo you are looking through striped tinted glasses. We are no better than Fulham or Newcastle. No one except us will remember our good football if we go down. Anyway Fulham play good football like us, will they be remembered as the best team to go down ever if they get relegated? No