Connect with us

Late Tackle

Stitch-ups and Stagnation The Annual Re-election Meeting

MARTIN CLAYTOR looks at how League places were decided in the days before automatic relegation

MARTIN CLAYTOR
LOOKING BACK

History man: Gary Cooper, who scored Southport’s final goal in the Football League (at Watford)
PICTURE COURTESY OF: Rob Urwin

RELEGATION for any club is hard for fans to take, but imagine what it must have been like to wait for a few weeks after the season has finished to learn your team’s fate - and then to have it decided by the chairmen of other clubs.
The 2017-18 season marks the 40th anniversary of the final time that a club was not only relegated b...

Continue reading...

Access all our premium content for less than 50p per week!

SUBSCRIBE

Already a subscriber to our website? Login

Related Topics

More in Late Tackle

  •

    WHAT A SEASON!

    TOM WINCH EXPLORES SOME OF THE WORLD’S MORE UNUSUAL LEAGUE FORMATS On the ball:...

  • Welcome to Welcome to

    WELCOME TO LATE TACKLE

    CAN Sarina Wiegman’s Lionesses retain their European crown in Switzerland this summer? With injuries,...

  •

    FOOTBALL AGAINST THE ENEMY

    IN HIS LATEST PIECE ON FOOTBALL LITERATURE, JONNY BRICK HEADS BACK TO 1994, WHEN...

  •

    SEEING DIEGO

    MARTIN MAZUR ON WHEN DIEGO MARADONA WAS BANNED FOR DRUG USE AND THEN MADE...