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We celebrate the worst of football - own goals, heavy defeats, nightmare performances, under-achievement, embarrassment and relegation.
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Recent Posts
Doon Toon - a song for Newcastle United - Mon, 25 May 2009 Premiership Team of the Season - Newcastle United - Mon, 25 May 2009 Premiership Manager of the Season - Tue, 19 May 2009 Kevin Keegan - Head over heels - Tue, 19 May 2009 Championship Team of the Season - Charlton Athletic - Tue, 19 May 2009 League One Team of the Season - Carlisle United - Sat, 16 May 2009
This originally appeared on the Sunderland's Ready to Go message board.
To the tune of Petula Clark's Down Town.
When you're a mag and Keegan fucks off again, you know what's coming next
Doon toon
When you've got Ashley, all his debt and his worries, thinks look bleak, at best
Doon toon
Just listen to the traffic on the way to [...]
To an outsider, watching what's been going on at Newcastle this season has been like watching a car crash in slow motion. You could see where they were heading, nothing was going to stop it but you couldn't help watching to the end to see the inevitable outcome.
The man at the wheel has been owner [...]
The Relegation.com manager of the season award will be announced next week. Here are the nominees.
1. Kevin Keegan (Newcastle United)
There's a well known saying in football, "When the going gets tough, Keegan buggers off". Once more "King" Kev showed what he's made of when he left Newcastle in the lurch, just four games into the [...]
Kevin Keegan released the Single "Head Over Heels" in 1979, and it reached number 31 in the UK singles chart. Keegan was playing for Hamburg in Germany at the time, and the record was a top ten hit there.
Fortunately the follow up didn't make the charts or we could have been subjected to more rubbish [...]
The bottom of the Championship had a strange look to it this season, with the lower half of the table dominated by teams that were in the Premiership not long ago.
Southampton and Norwich both struggled last season - the former only escaping on the last day with a win that sent Leicester down, so it [...]
The relegation battle in League One was a competitive one, with five teams still unsure of their future going into the final day of the season.
No one was surprised that Hereford, Cheltenham and Crewe were relegated. Crewe and Cheltenham only just avoided relegation last year, and newly promoted Hereford didn't have the resources to compete [...]
