Sports Forum Trivia Thread

[J.R.R. hartley]

One of my m8s from SA, big cricket fan was telling me about it. The viewing figures for the IPL are off the charts as well. Some thing like 5 billion to buy it's TV rights.

IPL is class, in fairness.

 

[Lee Bushwacker]

Who were the last club in England to go from the old division 4 to division1 in successive seasons?

 

[don]

Who were the last club in England to go from the old division 4 to division1 in successive seasons?

Luton back in the day or maybe Bradford?? Heard it said after play-off that Luton are the first to go from top division(PL I think around 93 to non-league and back again

 

[BettyDoesMallow]

I'm pretty sure no team did it in 3 successive years.
Wimbledon did it in 4 seasons, Fulham did it in 5.

 

[Maccon]

Who were the last club in England to go from the old division 4 to division1 in successive seasons?

Swansea City?

 

[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

Did Wolves not do it years ago?

 

[don]

Just did a wiki search on this-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...ultiple_consecutive_promotions_or_relegations
No English club seem to have done this in three seasons as the question suggests. Wolves and Bristol City did the opposite trip in three seasons(both in the 1980s). Even worldwide, three consecutive promotions to the top division seems very rare. Gretna in Scotland have done it apparently.
Swansea certainly had a speedy rise and fall from Div 4 in 1978 (when Toshack was appointed manager) to finishing 6th in Div 1 in 1982 but back in Div. 4 by 1986. So 3 promotions in 4 seasons, one good season in D1 and then 3 relegations in next 4.
In England, Fulham are the most yoyo club of recent years having moved up or down for each of the last 5 seasons

 

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

Did Wolves not do it years ago?

Wolves did it in reverse in the 80s

 

[J.R.R. hartley]

It was a Lee question.
The answer is always man utd.

 

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

It was a Lee question.
The answer is always man utd.

Probably happened in the 1800s and he was at every game