EPL 2020/2021

Rapido

@bovidae said in EPL 2020/2021:

@canefan I wondered about them too, but Ipswich was in the Premiership as recently as 2000 before being relegated again.

And they a had a great start to the season, may have been leading (or maybe second to runaway Man Utd) pre-xmas. George Burley manager. Came about top 4 I would guess, at time I don't think all top 4 qualified for champions league.

All from memory. First year living in London, remember that season quite well. Can't remember a single Ipswich player though ....

Edit. Looked it up. Was 2000/2001. They came 5th. Wiki tells me "pipped by Liverpool on the last day of the season for a place in the Champions League."

Getting my 99/00 and 00/01 seasons a little blurred.

Both had a similar them of a promoted club going great guns before fading.

Sunderland in 99/00
Ipswich in 00/01

Ispwich relegated the year after.

Rapido

@dogmeat said in EPL 2020/2021:

@rapido Wimbledon played in the first eight seasons of EPL with a best finish of 6th

Ah. I get them and Millwall mixed up in my head sometimes.

Kiwiwomble

@dogmeat said in EPL 2020/2021:

@rapido Wimbledon played in the first eight seasons of EPL with a best finish of 6th

damn right we did! and now we're coming back! (one day)

@rapido said in EPL 2020/2021:

@dogmeat said in EPL 2020/2021:

@rapido Wimbledon played in the first eight seasons of EPL with a best finish of 6th

Ah. I get them and Millwall mixed up in my head sometimes.

ouch

dogmeat

Very trainspotterish table of EPL finishes this century.

Red - First time relegated
Brown - Promoted that year
Green - Highest Ever Finish
Safety - 1 point above 18th
Seasons - Total no. in EPL

KiwiPie

@dogmeat said in EPL 2020/2021:

Very trainspotterish table of EPL finishes this century.

Red - First time relegated
Brown - Promoted that year
Green - Highest Ever Finish
Safety - 1 point above 18th
Seasons - Total no. in EPL

If this is your work, did you not have enough time to go back to Season 1? Meaning of course 1888-89!

KiwiPie

Notts County were relegated the season before EPL started so we are not one of the 50 - but we are in the National League playoffs (just 3 teams to beat to gain promotion) at the start of our long journey back to the summit.

dogmeat

@kiwipie It is my work but I decided to limit it to meaningful seasons a.k.a since Fulham first put in an appearance

canefan

Have Nottingham Forest been in? They were big back in the days of the Cloughs

Bovidae

@kiwipie said in EPL 2020/2021:

Notts County were relegated the season before EPL started so we are not one of the 50

I was going to mention this but didn't want to bring up bad memories.

On a similar tangent, which club has been in the EPL and now fallen the farthest?

dogmeat

@canefan first 5 years I did a quiz on this yesterday

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/24961/all-premier-league-teams-ever

I got 44/50

dogmeat

@bovidae Swindon?

canefan

Amazing that Luton have never been in. They were prominent for a few years back in my childhood

dogmeat

@canefan If they had they'd be the answer to @Bovidae 's question for sure

Bovidae

@dogmeat I don't know the answer myself but Bolton were in League 2 this season.

dogmeat

@bovidae Swindon were relegated to L2 last month. This will be their 4th stint at that level since the glory days of 93-94

KiwiPie

I'm not sure if any EPL teams have fallen out of the league - Notts the closest to doing it. Technically Wimbledon became MK Dons and so didn't fall out of the league.

I reckon these clubs have reached League 2 after being in the EPL

Blackpool
Bolton
Bradford
Coventry
Oldham
Portsmouth
Swindon
Wimbledon (via MK Dons)

Kiwiwomble

@kiwipie that does get interesting, the legal entity become MK dons but the majority of the fan base moved to AFCW and reformed in the combined counties so well out of the league

dogmeat

As a complete digression my 7th Form took over a school assembly and among dishing out awards, ransoming a teacher and other things we sang the Womble song. I was wearing my mothers bridal gown.

Too much Python I reckon

Right as you were...

dogmeat

@kiwipie Honourable mention to Blackburn - EPL Champs to mid L1 and Forest Champions of Europe to twice spending time in the 3rd tier

KiwiPie

Some quizzing for you on the EPL since it started.

Which team has the longest consecutive run of top 6 finishes?
20 teams have had a top 6 finish in the EPL. Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Everton, Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham, Newcastle, Leeds, Aston Villa, Blackburn, West Ham, Ipswich, Leicester are 14 of them. Name the other 6 without looking it up.
If the top 6 each season were given the points 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1 for positions 1-6, list the top 10 clubs in order. (The top club has 218 points and the 10th has 20 points)

The Silver Fern

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