Relegation isn't the plague; it's inevitable
Three teams will always have to go down, so why do we regard relegated clubs like they're the Hindenburg?
I’ve written about this in the past, but there is an odd, inescapable football journalism thing wherein we treat nearly every instance of relegation as a disaster or a mistake. Relegation means that the manager is ‘inept,’ the club culture is ‘broken,’ and board members and chairpersons are ‘unaccountable.’ Except in the rare cases of tiny, provincial c…