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...