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IT CAN MEAN LIFE OR DEATH

CHRIS DUNLAVY charts some illustrious, and fatal, relegations

River Plate players in 2011

TOO Good to go down? Tell that to German side Hamburg, once a European power-house and a Champions League side in 2007.
‘The Rothosen’ are the only club to play in every Bundesliga season since the league was formed in 1963 but currently sit just a place and two points above the relegation zone.
And what about Villareal? They played in this season’s Champions League yet a dire run of injuries and an exodus of stars has seen them plummet to fourth bottom of La Liga.
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