Slip sliding away

I’m going to subtley tempt fate and suggest that for the third time in my thirty years of watching the club I’m witnessing a relegation season. It would only be the fourth in our 115 year history, which isn’t such a bad record though we’ve ridden our luck with re-election a few times, got booted out of the league before the war and would have been demoted in 1993 if the current rules applied. But it’s not as though we’re Oxford (relegated more often in the last 20 years) or bouncy yo-yo clubs like Southend or Palace, so we can’t simply shrug it off as one of the perils of hitching your life onboard one of the country’s less glamourous clubs.