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GOING UP AND UP

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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