clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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Presumably the first club to drop into league one with parachute payments ? Unless someone knows different.
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Wolves Parachute Payments
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Gary Leeds
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- May 5, 2008
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Portsmouth? League 2 with parachute payments
clapham_gull
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Of course, but did Portsmouth actually get to spend them.
Time to stop this nonsense.
SeagullSongs
And it's all gone quiet..
How many years was it between Southampton getting relegated to the Championship and to League One?
They make a mockery of FFP.
Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Apparently they will be the first team to drop from the top tier to the third tier in successive seasons twice.
atfc village
Well-known member
Wolves
HA HA HA
HA HA HA
Also the second team to drop from the EPL to third tier in successive seasons after Swindon Town.
Wolves are an interesting case. In two years they have gone from being one of the most financially secure and sensibly run teams in the Premier League to a team that, by its board's own admission, will struggle financially in league one. Wolves plans off the pitch were spot on - they invested in the stadium off the back of record crowds and they have spent a fortune building what will be one of the best academy facilities in the country (opening over the summer).
However their despotic management of the footballing side has plunged them into a financial struggle. Sacking McCarthy was a joke - yes a lot of the fans wanted it, but sometimes (this isn't going to be a popular opinion on here) sometimes the fans are wrong. Remember when the consensus of NSC was that possession football doesn't work in league one? The hiring of Solbakken, on the face of it, seemed like a sensible move. However the board then required him to get to the play-ffs in the Championship using players that McCarthy had signed and no extra funds to bring in players that fit his style. It was clear from the start that McCarthy's players didn't fit Solbakken's system. Then to confound the problem, the board sacked Solbakken and bought in a manager off the recommendation of the Chairman's non-league friend. Saunders' man management has been terrible - their first choice keeper is out injured because he punched the changing room wall following an arguement with the manager. The keeper had made a howler earlier in the game - he didn't need a bollocking, he knew he had ****ed up. A decent management would have offered encouragement.
Wolves were a fantastically run club only two years ago. Now they are the architects of their own downfall.
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However their despotic management of the footballing side has plunged them into a financial struggle. Sacking McCarthy was a joke - yes a lot of the fans wanted it, but sometimes (this isn't going to be a popular opinion on here) sometimes the fans are wrong. Remember when the consensus of NSC was that possession football doesn't work in league one? The hiring of Solbakken, on the face of it, seemed like a sensible move. However the board then required him to get to the play-ffs in the Championship using players that McCarthy had signed and no extra funds to bring in players that fit his style. It was clear from the start that McCarthy's players didn't fit Solbakken's system. Then to confound the problem, the board sacked Solbakken and bought in a manager off the recommendation of the Chairman's non-league friend. Saunders' man management has been terrible - their first choice keeper is out injured because he punched the changing room wall following an arguement with the manager. The keeper had made a howler earlier in the game - he didn't need a bollocking, he knew he had ****ed up. A decent management would have offered encouragement.
Wolves were a fantastically run club only two years ago. Now they are the architects of their own downfall.
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Superphil
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They are also one of the few clubs to have had back to back promotion as champions too I think. We did that too!