How To Use Relegation In A Sentence
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But they escaped the relegation trapdoor by just one point as Leicester were held at Stoke.
The Sun
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His relegation of the winds to the class of breathings is analogic, but not homologic.
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It was always going to be about trying to stay out of the relegation zone.
The Sun
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And another home defeat left them staring the relegation abyss in the face.
The Sun
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But this shock win gave City a huge lift in their quest to stave off relegation from the Championship.
The Sun
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It was Gillingham's seventh league defeat in a row, but coach John Gorman would not talk of relegation.
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Oxford began the night teetering on the brink of the relegation zone and pulse rates soared as early as the second minute.
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Now you tipped Villa to go down last season and they finished sixth - who's your tip for relegation next year?
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The victory was enough to lift Harden up to third from bottom, leaving Thackley and Silsden in the relegation zone with two games to go.
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The treble winners in 2015 found themselves fighting relegation and playing in the Qualifiers.
The Sun
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The treble winners in 2015 found themselves fighting relegation and playing in the Qualifiers.
The Sun
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We're conceding silly goals and in a relegation dogfight.
The Sun
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The visiting team remain trapped in relegation trouble, despite coming into this game after three successive wins.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oxford began the night teetering on the brink of the relegation zone and pulse rates soared as early as the second minute.
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Reading could also be staring down the barrel of financial ruin if they suffer another relegation.
The Sun
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It is a quality that has become ingrained since the trauma of their relegation.
Times, Sunday Times
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PORTSMOUTH got a financial lifeline last week but they are still tipped for a second straight relegation.
The Sun
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The club is facing the real possibility of relegation.
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The manager may have to do business in next month's transfer window if he is to stave off the threat of relegation.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the club went into a financial tailspin after relegation from the top flight.
Times, Sunday Times
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No wonder they had dropped into the relegation zone while he was recovering from his horrific stomach injury - a torn bowel - earlier in the season.
The Sun
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One in the last five Premiership games and a string of similar enlightening statistics gleaned from scanning this season's ‘goals for’ column show why Wanderers are slugging it out with the rest of the relegation pack.
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Free from the shackles of relegation, there was the tantalising prospect of uncaged tigers released to feast and relieve their frustration on the home side.
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York are pushing for the second promotion place after they sealed Poppleton's relegation.
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We're conceding silly goals and in a relegation dogfight.
The Sun
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Wanderers have now squandered 24 points from winning positions and are only three points above the relegation zone.
The Sun
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They are treading unfamiliar ground in the relegation zone and have failed to keep a clean sheet this season.
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Milan CEO Galliani said yesterday that this is an unusual championship because of Juventus' relegation and Milan's penalisation. What do you think about this?
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The team finds itself in the relegation zone after a run of poor results.
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And this relegation of rationality to a strictly instrumental role is, as we discover in Book IV, constitutive of injustice as Plato understands it.
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But there is, in many of its aspects, a confrontational bluntness that ensures relegation to the peripheries.
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Villa are intent on making a long-term appointment rather than appointing a shortterm fix to stave off relegation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The midfielder was part of a strong Hammers team that slipped through the relegation trapdoor.
The Sun
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There is no exciting relegation dogfight for those at the bottom end of the scale.
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Villa are intent on making a long-term appointment rather than appointing a shortterm fix to stave off relegation.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he faces a third successive relegation dogfight.
The Sun
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Last week's defeat against Pompey dragged the club back into the thick of a relegation battle.
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Progress has been made from last season's flirtation with relegation, yet it has come at a cost.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once their relegation had been confirmed last month, their main financial backer withdrew.
Times, Sunday Times
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Defeat leaves the club in the thick of the relegation battle.
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Relegation to the Third Division would prove catastrophic.
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The team went through three coaching changes as it battled relegation for much of the season, just avoiding the drop on the final day of the league campaign.
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Reading are looking like relegation fodder.
The Sun
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After two disastrous relegation seasons York will be looking to bring the glory days back to Clifton Park.
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He came under fire for fielding a young side last season and flirting with relegation.
The Sun
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The stunning victory has shot Yorkshire up into third place and given them an outside chance of snatching the title but it left Lancashire firmly nailed to the bottom of the table with relegation now looking unavoidable.
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Wanderers have now squandered 24 points from winning positions and are only three points above the relegation zone.
The Sun
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However, with Chelsea counting down to the retention of the championship and with Portsmouth struggling to escape relegation, we had a first half of virtual stalemate.
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Can the most powerful economic and political constituency swallow the relegation of Milan's airport?
Times, Sunday Times
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We are one point above relegation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most years their only realistic ambition is to avoid relegation.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a feeling around the city that, with relegation less of a worry, this could be our year in the Cup.
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The prospect of relegation is a comedown for a club that finished second two seasons ago.
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Having lost a close match with Somerset by two wickets last week, Kent have slipped into the third relegation place and if Yorkshire beat them it will mean they have triumphed over the current bottom four clubs.
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Warrington have won just one Super League game and are currently anchored at the foot of the table facing relegation.
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With the threat of relegation hanging over both teams, the early exchanges were nervy, but evenly-matched.
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Wuhan team finished, it is necessary to avoid relegation can only hope that a miracle.
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The schoolboy way they defended corners certainly left them with no excuses as they face a relegation dogfight.
The Sun
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Both clubs have known penury, relegation and near extinction.
Times, Sunday Times
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MK Dons will feel they squandered two points in their fight to climb away from relegation trouble.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those who claim that the anticipated absence of promotion and relegation makes the season's run-in meaningless have obviously not shared a chinwag with Ian McCall in recent weeks.
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The treble winners in 2015 found themselves fighting relegation and playing in the Qualifiers.
The Sun
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Then in almost four years in charge he turned them from relegation fodder to European regulars.
The Sun
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Burnley were one of the preseason favourites for relegation.
The Sun
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NEWCASTLE, England - Alan Shearer began work as Newcastle manager on Thursday, taking charge of his first training session as he tries to save the Magpies from relegation.
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Relegation is a mathematical certainty.
The Sun
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The Eagles were languishing in 18th place after a bleak winter with zero confidence left in the squad and relegation looked inevitable.
The Sun
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They are currently tenth, six points above the relegation zone.
The Sun
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The players and management can go home and forget about it, we have to live with the trauma of possible relegation every day.
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But the club went into a financial tailspin after relegation from the top flight.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wear out his team by February and hope they have already amassed enough points to stave off relegation?
Times, Sunday Times
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They have been flirting with relegation for a number of years.
The Sun
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Rovers are now clear of the relegation zone, after just one defeat in their last 16 games.
The Sun
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But he could not stave off relegation from the Championship.
The Sun
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To wit, an unappreciated bit of Jobs luck was his relegation to the sidelines just as the tech industry was euphorically creating the Internet bubble of the 1990s.
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MK Dons will feel they squandered two points in their fight to climb away from relegation trouble.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was the relegation decider, no doubt about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our team is a prime candidate for relegation this year.
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Blackpool need a victory to ensure that they avoid relegation.
Times, Sunday Times
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They could be brilliant one week against a top team and hopeless the next against relegation fodder.
The Sun
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For Kent, there is the spectre of relegation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The manager has already pulled off one miraculous escape from relegation in the Premiership.
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It is almost as if the pressure of the situation as they face a relegation dogfight is making them crumble rather than discovering some inner bottle.
The Sun
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The Eagles were languishing in 18th place after a bleak winter with zero confidence left in the squad and relegation looked inevitable.
The Sun
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Sam must be seriously concerned at a goal drought that threatens to drag us into a relegation struggle.
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Wanderers have now squandered 24 points from winning positions and are only three points above the relegation zone.
The Sun
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Leicester played some decent football but, unless they find a prolific finisher fast, they are going to spend the campaign in a relegation dogfight.
The Sun
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Relegation fodder when Hodgson took over, by the end of the season the Baggies were stroking it around like the famous Halmstad or Neuchâtel Xamax sides of old.
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But a recent upturn in form will see them escape relegation.
The Sun
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The first half could best be described as soporific, the encounter displaying all the characteristics of a scrap that had the spectre of relegation very much at the banquet.
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Bolton manager Sam Allardyce will take the softly-softly approach to try to put his rocky relegation strugglers back on track.
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The League clubs found the idea of relegation to what was in effect the Southern League too terrible to contemplate.
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With Rovers currently hovering dangerously near the relegation zone, it's vital the players are not distracted from the task of trying to secure a priceless away win.
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Relegation would have made that practically impossible, but all options are now open to the billionaire.
The Sun
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But the draw takes us out of the relegation zone and that is a massive boost.
The Sun
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AN inspired double substitution earned Yeovil the three points to lift them out of the relegation zone.
The Sun
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Then in almost four years in charge he turned them from relegation fodder to European regulars.
The Sun
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Many people have written us off as relegation fodder but that's nonsense.
The Sun
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Our team is a prime candidate for relegation this year.
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Ian Fairhurst was a happier chappie this week as City have won two consecutive games throwing them a lifeline in the fight against relegation.
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The experienced England coach will deputise for the skipper, who is taking a well-earned break in New York after helping his side avoid relegation.
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York now go bottom with four clubs battling to avoid the two relegation places.
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The League clubs found the idea of relegation to what was in effect the Southern League too terrible to contemplate.
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But a recent upturn in form will see them escape relegation.
The Sun
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Relegation could cost Wednesday more than the 4 million drop in income.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has gone from a club playing UEFA Cup football next year to a club that will be battling relegation.
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Bucks should have no problem beating Hellenic who are going through their worst season ever, and have even emerged as early relegation candidates.
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After this one-sided derby defeat, they are all but doomed to relegation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Relegation to the Third Division would prove catastrophic.
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The spectre of relegation in April has this effect on the most experienced of old pros.
Times, Sunday Times
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The visitors have endured an inconsistent season and sit mid-table, but not safe from relegation fears.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are supposed to perform this well only when deep in the relegation mire.
Times, Sunday Times
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He also looks to have the right character of team to stave off relegation.
Times, Sunday Times
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After a fine display against fellow relegation contenders Crusaders, and a 3-0 win, there a chink of light.
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Now we give them an 8 per cent chance of relegation and again expect them to finish fifteenth.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he could not stave off relegation from the Championship.
The Sun
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They could be brilliant one week against a top team and hopeless the next against relegation fodder.
The Sun
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The Eagles were languishing in 18th place after a bleak winter with zero confidence left in the squad and relegation looked inevitable.
The Sun
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Heslington gained their first win of the season and moved out of the relegation zone when they beat Londesbrough Park by seven wickets.
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His reaction to relegation typified the man.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many people have written us off as relegation fodder but that's nonsense.
The Sun
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But he admitted: 'Who wants to come into a relegation dogfight?
The Sun
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They are supposed to perform this well only when deep in the relegation mire.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why do teams fighting relegation pick an inexperienced manager when there are experienced alternatives?
Times, Sunday Times
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It is never easy playing a team that is fighting relegation and has had two bad results on the spin.
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The additional worry, however, is that a severely inhibiting caution appears to be spreading far beyond the ranks of those for whom relegation is a doom-laden possibility.
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Wear out his team by February and hope they have already amassed enough points to stave off relegation?
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead, because of the financial plight of the club after relegation, Mr Tueart was allowed by the ex-chairman to use an executive box.
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The problem has been teams promoted out of the division in recent years, such as Ramsgate, Maidstone United and Whitstable Town, have done well and avoided relegation.
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Freed from the constraints of fretting about either relegation or promotion, these two teams produced an exciting encounter packed with goalmouth incident.
Times, Sunday Times
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The victory temporarily lifted the gloom surrounding the team's battle against relegation from the Premiership.
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In the first division, Cross Keys won the relegation clash at Drum by the odd goal in seven, thanks mainly to a Billy Mullen hat-trick.
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Why do teams fighting relegation pick an inexperienced manager when there are experienced alternatives?
Times, Sunday Times
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The dark spectre of relegation moves closer by the day.
Times, Sunday Times
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He came under fire for fielding a young side last season and flirting with relegation.
The Sun
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Something has to change, surely, if the spectre of relegation is not to appear again.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wear out his team by February and hope they have already amassed enough points to stave off relegation?
Times, Sunday Times
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The best that a win can do for them is help them steer clear of the relegation zone.
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We need to keep picking up points to stay clear of the relegation zone.
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What followed was boring, unimaginative football from both sides which had relegation written all over it.
The Sun
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While Banstead were being tonked by league leaders Reigate Priory, Cheam also lost to last season's champions Wimbledon to claim the second relegation spot.
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But he faces a third successive relegation dogfight.
The Sun
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By that stage the relative comfort of mid-table mediocrity could easily have turned into another grim relegation battle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Worse, the way they are playing, it looks as though a flirtation with relegation may well be turning into a long-term relationship.
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Once the automatic relegation process began, clubs continued on at least a semi-professional basis.
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Relegation is unthinkable and would be tantamount to financial melt-down.
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They have taken a paltry two points from their opening three games and only goal difference is keeping them above the relegation zone.
The Sun
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Either man will have a monumental task to avoid relegation.
The Sun
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Of relevance here to the new pattern of migration is the relegation of women to a subordinate position.
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Are relegation scraps far more interesting than clashes of the top-of-the-table titans?
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Meanwhile Hereford's great escape from the relegation zone is going to plan - four games now without defeat.
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So there is no empirical proof that this season's relegation battle must centre on the three promoted teams exclusively.
Times, Sunday Times
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The team struggled the following season, though and narrowly escaped relegation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alternatively, to what degree are racial, citizenship, and gender categories more or less substitutable markers, buttresses reinforcing inequality, used to justify relegation to the lower ranks?
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Dudley played with a steely determination, still believing a win could keep alive their desperate relegation struggle.
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For after a season of definitely more downs than ups, City's long-lingering relegation fears were finally ended when all hope had seemed lost and with pretty much the last kick of the game.
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They are not threatened with relegation yet, but if they do not alter their disappointing curve they could be treading that line before long.
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MK Dons will feel they squandered two points in their fight to climb away from relegation trouble.
Times, Sunday Times
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A decade in which he has turned strugglers striving to avoid the relegation trapdoor into a solid top-10 outfit.
The Sun
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That and their tendency to concede late goals has put Wanderers right back in the thick of the relegation battle, just when things were looking up.
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But hamstring injuries and niggles meant he looked on as the Toon slid into a relegation battle.
The Sun
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But he admits the club need to invest in the summer to avoid another season of flirting with relegation.
The Sun
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The treble winners in 2015 found themselves fighting relegation and playing in the Qualifiers.
The Sun
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Murrayfield Wanderers eased their relegation jitters by outgunning West of Scotland 19-9.
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So there is no empirical proof that this season's relegation battle must centre on the three promoted teams exclusively.
Times, Sunday Times
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At such an early stage of the season, this was never going to be exactly a relegation dogfight - but it was certainly competed with the ferocity of one.
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The schoolboy way they defended corners certainly left them with no excuses as they face a relegation dogfight.
The Sun
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Wear out his team by February and hope they have already amassed enough points to stave off relegation?
Times, Sunday Times
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Could be a relegation decider.
The Sun
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That proved the winner as Cardiff were unable to salvage a point for the second week running against a side deep in the relegation mire.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this shock win gave City a huge lift in their quest to stave off relegation from the Championship.
The Sun
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He took over at Ipswich towards the end of last season and has spent this term waging a battle against relegation from the Championship, with recent reports suggesting time is running out for him at Portman Road.
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First blood went to Ripon in the month's relegation battle with the return fixture two weeks away.
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Hall Park crashed to yet another defeat and they look doomed for relegation.
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Their third win in five games, looks to have ensured safety from relegation, as is the case for Cross Keys after a third straight win.
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It is almost as if the pressure of the situation as they face a relegation dogfight is making them crumble rather than discovering some inner bottle.
The Sun
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His argument was that relegation created financial uncertainty, resulting in teams not being able to build for the future, both in terms of facilities and squads, as stability was not a guarantee.
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The prospect of relegation is a comedown for a club that finished second two seasons ago.
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This win lifted them out of the relegation zone.
Times, Sunday Times
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The better spectacle may prove to be half the division scrapping to avoid relegation rather than the nip and tuck which will signify the top.
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But he admits the club need to invest in the summer to avoid another season of flirting with relegation.
The Sun
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After this one-sided derby defeat, they are all but doomed to relegation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wear out his team by February and hope they have already amassed enough points to stave off relegation?
Times, Sunday Times
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Nomads have been hovering near the relegation zone all season while Colchester are chasing second promotion spot.
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This is a chance for their players to escape from the relentless pressure of a relegation scrap and revel in the media attention that this tie will attract.
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That proved the winner as Cardiff were unable to salvage a point for the second week running against a side deep in the relegation mire.
Times, Sunday Times
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With the youngest manager in the Football League and an untried and tested squad, the pundits were fighting over themselves to measure-up the Minstermen for their relegation coffins.
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I always thought he was largely to blame for the relegation in 1982.
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This win lifted them out of the relegation zone.
Times, Sunday Times
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Promotion and relegation is not beyond the realms of possibility.
Times, Sunday Times
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North End's play-off hopes were all but extinguished by the only team doomed to relegation from the First Division so far - and a controversial handball.
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Livorno is now bottom following its 3-0 loss to Atalanta, which is also in the relegation zone.
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Another idea being floated is that domestic competitions would act as feeder leagues in the new set-up, with annual relegation and promotion play-offs.
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Lancashire crashed back into the relegation zone with a nightmare Roses defeat at Old Trafford on Saturday.
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It is unfair is when a team struggling for survival faces a foe loaded with contracted players, and the following week another club, also facing relegation, finds them stripped of the heavies and manages a win.
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He believes the Maine Road star's drive and energy would be a massive asset in the Foxes' relegation dog-fight.
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Even in a division starved of a genuine relegation dogfight, this was an important marker of progress, while for the visitors, authentic promotion hopes have been kindled of late.
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Relegation is a mathematical certainty.
The Sun
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Many European countries impose automatic relegation on clubs who cannot provide financial guarantees.
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Watford were tipped for a relegation fight last August but are just six points off sixth place.
The Sun