Late Tackle

GOING UP AND UP

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
20 September 2018

Ian McFarlane looks at how Southampton and Norwich earned successive promotions to climb from League One to the Premier League…

THE FAST TRACK

WINNING back-to-back promotions to reach the Premier League is a special achievement – and it’s remarkable that Southampton and Norwich did just that within a season of each other.
There are plenty of similarities between the two. Both were relegated from the Premier League at the culmination of the 2004/05 season.
They once again suffered the drop together, this time from the Championship in 2008/09.
At this point, crisis-hit S...

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