For football, there's even relegation league for the relegation league.
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Pundits have started saying "relegation-nine pointer", sometimes even "relegation 12-pointer".
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Stefan Aigner's early header proved enough for Frankfurt to climb out of the relegation zone, 1 point above Werder Bremen in the relegation playoff spot after its scoreless draw at Cologne.
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The weakening relationship between fans and LCS caused by relegation.
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At this rate, there'll be massive hyperinflation of relegation points.
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Among other things, that Dirk had abandoned Würzburg after relegation.
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But last month, the league's relegation battle was closely contested.
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"This season we want to avoid relegation," Klinsmann said then.
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To advocates of promotion and relegation, that safety stifles innovation.
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The WRU said there would be no promotion or relegation in any of their leagues and teams will remain in the league they currently compete in as no team was mathematically guaranteed promotion or relegation.
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The result had no impact on the title race or relegation.
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Currently, proposals do not included promotion or relegation between the two.
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Ascoli, meanwhile, is fighting to stay out of the relegation playoffs.
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What's more, the league granted Pakhtakor a three-year relegation exemption.
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The threat of relegation to a lower division is very real.
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But their relegation came just before franchising for the EU LCS.
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As in a regular club league, there is promotion and relegation.
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Essentially, he would want a tournament without relegation for the biggest clubs.
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Above and beyond the other relegation candidates, a word for Aston Villa.
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"Promotion and relegation is the biggest idiocy in soccer," De Laurentiis says.
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West Ham is two points and two places above the relegation zone.
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But as relegation looms, its 53-year counter might be in jeopardy.
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The harm to Team sponsorships caused by relegation and LCS' restrictions on sponsors.
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Villa's relegation to the Championship represents a plunge in income for the club.
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In the words of Joleon Lescott, relegation is "a weight off their shoulders."
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The relegation six-pointer is anything but a promise of survival, of course.
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Against all odds, Rafa could still save a seemingly hopeless team from relegation.
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"Why isn't there promotion and relegation between two New England conferences?" he says.
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Crystal Palace won 1-0 to lift itself out of the relegation zone.
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The current season started late because one team was fighting its relegation in court.
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At the moment, relegation from the Championship is Bolton's only real certainty going forward.
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Ranieri told his players up until Christmas that their task was to avoid relegation.
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There is promotion and relegation between the divisions, as in conventional domestic club leagues.
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Every now and then, a relegation six-pointer will live up to its billing.
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More often than not, however, a relegation six-pointer is a full-blown dud.
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For a team that was hoping to avoid relegation, winning the title seemed impossible.
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But the French team avoided relegation year after year and eventually did the unthinkable.
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And some said relegation might even serve as an overdue notice for the organization.
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Perhaps it will drag itself clear of the relegation battle in the coming months.
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Relegation is looming as a genuine prospect for the stuttering Premier League champion Leicester.
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Winning the FA Cup can't save them from the possibility of Premier League relegation.
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The old "relegation six-pointer" cliché doesn't seem to be enough for people these days.
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Since the end of August, many players appear to have accepted relegation as an inevitability.
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They trail leaders Liverpool by 15 points and are two points above the relegation zone.
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He is currently without a club, after Sivasspor's relegation at the end of last season.
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The Zebrette ended the season in 17th position, just one point above the relegation zone.
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Stuttgart lost, 3-1, at home to Mainz to move a step closer to relegation.
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West Ham climbed out of the relegation zone by winning at Crystal Palace, 2204-23.
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Neither Federer nor Wawrinka has bothered to play in a non-relegation match since then.
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Lyngby finds itself in a protracted relegation battle, thanks to Denmark's complex system of playoffs.
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The stock has dipped this week ahead of its possible relegation from the FTSE 100.
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He was fired by Manchester United, Real Sociedad and Sunderland, whom he led to relegation.
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Meanwhile, Dalian Shide rapidly declined from champions to also-rans, narrowly avoiding relegation in 2008.
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Clubs play in a competitive league with promotion and relegation, and they pay their players.
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Eintracht Frankfurt narrowly escaped relegation with a 1-0 second leg win over FC Nürnberg.
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They're just cleared enough out of relegation that you can comfortably call them mid-table.
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The letter — obtained by Slingshot on Saturday — lays out six problems that the LCS teams want to solve in League esports, mostly focusing on relegation and compensation: The lack of job security, fair compensation and longer careers for players caused by insufficient compensation and relegation.
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Not content with their relegation in the cute family stakes, they decided to have another baby.
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They have tasted the poisonous liquor of potential relegation, and spat it back out in disgust.
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The club are languishing at the bottom of the Premier League and look set for relegation.
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Chris Grayling, Andrea Leadsom and Priti Patel are among those ripe for relegation to the backbenches.
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A similar relegation appears to have motivated Alex Rodriguez to consider trying to play first base.
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Newcastle is now in 17th place, which places the team provisionally out of the relegation zone.
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From relegation candidate to European hopeful, Cologne have turned their season around under coach Markus Gisdol.
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Geoff Cameron, a regular starter for relegation-threatened Stoke City, lives on the outskirts of Manchester.
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He has always fetishized reaching 40 points, the putative mark at which relegation has been avoided.
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Few teams, other than Burnley, have managed to absorb the blow of relegation and recover immediately.
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The season is long and does not feature promotion and relegation to bake in the tension.
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The damage to the Teams' ability to invest in LCS players cause by insufficient compensation and relegation.
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At the time, Chelsea had lost 9 of 16 games and were just above the relegation zone.
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Instead, Swansea wasted 11 games of a relegation battle season to give a manager a trial run.
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The loss to Midtjylland followed a 2-1 defeat to relegation-threatened Sunderland in the Premier League.
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Werder are in the relegation playoff spot on 35 points with Eintracht one place above on 36.
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Too many people in the U.S. soccer community think there are lightning-bolt answers—Promotion and relegation!
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In that time, Leicester fell deep into relegation trouble, taking 13 points from their 14 league fixtures.
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With Swansea hovering just above the relegation zone, this challenge dwarfs anything he has taken on before.
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This is all fundamental to Fulham's identity, as has been quietly revitalised in the aftermath of relegation.
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Sunderland beat visiting Chelsea, 3-2, to climb out of the relegation zone with two games remaining.
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Newcastle remained in the relegation zone even after coming from behind to draw, 21-24, at Liverpool.
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Praise poured in around the world for Leicester, who were on the brink of relegation last season.
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In March there were defeats to Rotherham and Charlton, both in the relegation places at the time.
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Kevin Mirallas and Romelu Lukaku scored, leaving Leicester in 16th place, 3 points above the relegation zone.
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Just look at the relegation battle in the Premier League and the promotion battle in the Championship.
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The plan was abandoned, however, after northern-hemisphere teams objected to the idea of promotion and relegation.
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Hamburg narrowly avoided its first relegation in 228, and has survived two even closer calls since then.
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"Unity, cohesion and focus on the essentials are important elements, especially in a relegation battle," Klinsmann wrote.
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SPANISH LEAGUE Sevilla stumbled again, held at home to a 1-1 draw against relegation-threatened Leganés.
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This was a club that had avoided relegation the previous season only with a very late surge.
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Rafa Benitez has agreed to stay on at Newcastle United, despite the club's relegation from the Premier League.
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Or will he find himself burning vast amounts of completely devalued relegation currency, just to survive the winter?
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Or Aston Villa's heroic week-long relegation escape, earned by the sheer fortune of their nearest rivals losing?
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Southampton had punched above their weight for a couple of years, but this time most pundits expected relegation.
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Success for Moyes would be winning the battle not to be in a relegation battle by the spring.
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He had less than three months with a relegation-zone side and zero transfer windows to prove himself.
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There is an I-League second division, which has promotion and relegation to and from the top-tier.
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The soccer team is in 17th place in Italiy's Serie A, a loss and a slot above relegation.
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On a fundamental level, the cliche of the relegation six-pointer plays on a mutual feeling of scarcity.
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That would be hugely controversial though, as would having "playoffs" to decide the title, relegation and promotion issues.
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It narrowly avoided relegation in 1989 — surviving only on goal difference — but by then Lagardère had had enough.
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Britain will need a victory on Monday in its final preliminary-round match against France to avoid relegation.
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As the season reached its climax, Tevez found his form to boost West Ham's battle to avoid relegation.
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Our sports columnist notes that their match's relegation to No. 2 Court was a slight to women's tennis.
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The race to the Champions League spots is still being run, however, as is the race to escape relegation.
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In the 1990s Italy felt that it needed to be in the euro from the start to avoid relegation.
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"Aston Villa's relegation really played in their favour," said Fredrik van Huynh, Shanghai-based director of HHC Sports Group.
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In their primal, feral, almost animalistic fear of the drop, the relegation-threatened teams will do anything to survive.
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Rand Paul—readmitted to the main stage after his relegation to the undercard—stuck to his unelectable libertarian principles.
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It's not October and England are not facing relegation from the Premier League, making Big Sam an unlikely appointment.
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The teams and their fans avoiding last-minute relegation were often happier than the team that actually was promoted.
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A year after narrowly avoiding relegation, the Foxes beat 03,000-to-1 odds to win the Premier League title.
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If there is one particular cliche we are fond of here, it is that of the relegation 'six pointer'.
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There are wonderful, wonderful, wonderful elements to relegation and promotion, and there are good arguments for a closed system.
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Traditionally, esports have used either the relegation model (League of Legends) or open circuit (Counter-Strike, Dota 2) model.
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Last season, Falcao scored 15 goals in 33 appearances for Monaco, as the club finished 17th, narrowly escaping relegation.
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One possibility would be to have playoffs to decide the champion and relegation to Serie B, the statement said.
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Sion are eighth in the 10-team Swiss Super League and only four points clear of the relegation place.
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In May, Burnley had retained its place in the Premier League, finishing 16th but comfortably above the relegation zone.
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It sits only two points clear of a relegation battle that is convoluted, and unpredictable, even by English standards.
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Deportivo remain second-bottom of the standings on 17 points while Alaves move 10 clear of the relegation zone.
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Relegation "is one thing I never thankfully experienced as a player," said David Beckham, an owner of Inter Miami.
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Nothing instills the drive to adopt successful strategies like the anguish of defeat and the relegation to minority status.
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Indeed, at least one of this quartet could find themselves drawn into the relegation battle before the season's out.
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What helped Newcastle was that its competitors in the battle against relegation, Norwich, Swansea and Bournemouth, all failed to win.
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The lack of promotion and relegation between EIHL and EPIHL, and the vastly different standards, is certainly a major obstacle.
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There was little movement in the relegation battle with none of the clubs in the bottom six managing a win.
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Well, he played soccer yesterday, in the first tie of a relegation playoff against Nuremberg...and scored an own goal.
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If the NFL had a European-style relegation system, they would have been banished to the lower divisions long ago.
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A VW spokesman on Monday declined to discuss the implications of Wolfsburg's potential relegation for the carmaker's future sponsoring policy.
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Relegation would be a totemic moment for a British institution that has fallen out of fashion over the last decade.
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His final season at Chelsea saw the club implode, going from champion to the relegation zone of the Premier League.
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We have to create a proper competition structure which provides promotion and relegation and opportunities to get to the top.
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The incident occurred hours before Palace secured a vital 1-0 win that lifted them out of the relegation zone.
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It is here that he conceived Sunderland's victory over Chelsea, here that he has masterminded their likely escape from relegation.
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The Magpies relegation may be confirmed at this point, but that doesn't mean they'll be completely lifeless come Sunday afternoon.
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Unfortunately, there's nothing around that corner except constant drudgery, relegation fears and the same brand football they were playing before.
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There will also be no spectators at the second division's promotion and relegation playoffs and at women's super league games.
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One possibility would be to have play-offs to decide the champion and relegation to Serie B, the statement said.
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"It will inevitably lead to the end of Europe and of the euro, and, eventually, to France's relegation," he said.
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In the other stunner, Schalke lost, 3-1, at home against relegation-threatened Werder Bremen despite taking a fourth-minute lead.
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Struggling Drenica beat their relegation rivals 1-0, a huge win that takes them one step closer to top-flight safety.
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Some of them could have interesting implications for the top four, some could define the relegation zone and some – Bournemouth vs.
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While they might not have the funds to outspend their relegation rivals, Burnley have the advantage of being rock fookin' 'ard.
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In five seasons in the Premier League they have never finished outside the top 12 but now face a relegation fight.
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The relegation battle is hotting up too, with Newcastle and Sunderland suddenly springing into action, and even Villa bagging a win.
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"When we were in the relegation process, it was really difficult to think much further than a year out," he explains.
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The New York Times reported last week Commisso was ready to pay $150 million for Fiorentina, which on Sunday escaped relegation.
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Managerial experience consists of failing to get Newcastle out of the relegation zone in 2009 (1 win, 2 draws, 5 defeats).
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It was then, fighting against relegation and fighting together for survival as a team, that Leicester turned fear into something peerless.
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Borussia Dortmund's 23-23 loss at relegation-threatened Eintracht Frankfurt meant that even a defeat would have been enough for Bayern.
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After a season of saving his Scottish club team, Hamilton Academical, from relegation, McGovern also largely saved his national team's tournament.
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The defeat on Saturday, the heaviest loss in the Spanish third tier since 1992, sealed Eldense's relegation to the Tercera Division.
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The 2017/18 season was the first in seven years where all three of the promoted clubs avoided first-year relegation.
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At the other end of the standings, host Newcastle and Sunderland drew, 1-1, and both remained in the relegation zone.
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When Parma were halfway through the relegation trap door in 2007, Ranieri tugged them up the table and back to safety.
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Maintaining that form for much longer and relegation would become, if not a genuine concern, then at least a hazy possibility.
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Dalian Yifang F.C. lost four straight games and was pulled toward relegation after three of its young starters were called up.
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Thankfully, there'll be at least one more relegation six-pointer before the whole concept goes into a destructive spiral of unstoppable hyperbole.
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The Della Valle family owns luxury goods group Tod's and, since 2002, the Florence-based club who last season narrowly escaped relegation.
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Only a narrow 2-23 aggregate win over Nürnberg in the relegation playoffs kept Kovac and his squad in Germany's top flight.
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Relegation rivals Scarborough could only draw with Peterborough, meaning that a win for Carlisle would see them survive by a single point.
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Chelsea, the reigning champion of the Premier League, began its season so terribly last summer that it flirted with the relegation zone.
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The Palestinians in the West Bank won't quietly accept their slow, relentless relegation to reservations hemmed in by walls and barbed wire.
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Since then, the club has slowly fallen to the bottom of the LKL standings, barely avoiding relegation in the 219-15 season.
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League matches as well as promotion/relegation playoff games and the Supercup will use the technology, the German football League has said.
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A dispute over relegation and a last-ditch appeal: The story might come up in almost any sports league around the world.
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Rejected by the big league club of his dreams, he's picked up by a small-town team on the cusp of relegation.
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Oumar Niasse stepped off the bench to score twice and give host Hull a 2-1 victory over its relegation rival Swansea.
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It certainly didn't work in Milan's case, however, as relegation-threatened Carpi held them to a 0-0 draw at the San Siro.
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The 30-year-old Taylor made 10 Premier League appearances last season but could not help Newcastle avoid relegation from England's top flight.
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They are now 15th, two points above the relegation zone, and Moyes hopes that he can strengthen his squad in the transfer window.
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That speech led to Powell's expulsion from the senior ranks of the parliamentary opposition and his relegation to the margins of British politics.
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Throughout the late noughties, the team just about managed to survive relegation, with a celebratory pitch invasion sometimes thrown in for good measure.
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Having joined Leicester on loan towards the end of last season, his performances were a large part of their remarkable escape from relegation.
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Globalising the sport by investing in second-tier nations and enabling promotion and relegation to the top level could create a bigger cake.
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If he doesn't beat Sunderland, another relegation candidate, at home this Saturday, we're unlikely to see his shiny dome on the touchline again.
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Leeds has been the champions of English soccer three times, but hasn't been in the Premier League since its relegation back in 2004.
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In the last 10 seasons, 20 of the 30 clubs promoted to the English Premier League have avoided relegation in their first campaign.
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Leicester are currently in the relegation zone, one season after winning the whole damn thing, but would climb out if the score holds.
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Such thought exercises have been more common over the last five years, mental gymnastics amid the near-misses and the relegation playoff escapes.
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Relegation to the second-tier League Championship is now assured for last-place Villa, which has collected only 16 points in 34 games.
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Burnley pulled one back through Chris Wood's header in the 80th but Villa held on to move a point above the relegation zone.
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The financial crisis accelerated the shift, with banking plummeting from "mid-table mediocrity to relegation-threatened remorse" in the trust league, Haldane added.
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Palace, which lost its first seven league matches this season without scoring a goal, has only recently climbed out of the relegation zone.
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Or, even better, the Premier League should make this an annual part of relegation, that the losing teams must also use vandalized buses.
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