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“What has been the most dramatic relegation/promotion swing of any league, in any season?” asks Andrew Wright.
“It took me a while, but I’ve located the details of a bizarre story concerning Blackpool,” writes Andrew Wright. And what a story it is. “From eighth in the 22-team Ye Olde Division 2 table on 1 April 1978 to relegated in 20th place a month later is a spectacular collapse, but the combination of adverse factors that conspired against Blackpool were exceptional.” The long and the short of it is that Blackpool sunk like a stone dropped in the sea from the town’s North Pier after a falling out between the chairman, Billy Cartmel, and manager, Allan Brown.
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