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After 108 years in the top flight and 33 championships River Plate have been relegated for the first time in their history. Watch out Arsenal it might happen to you next :stirthepot:



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You sometimes hear fans, managers, players and/or journos say during latter stages of a football season that some club is too big to get relegated. Just as an example, I remember it was said about Newcastle during the season when they did in fact get relegated. Many people know that football indeed is a funny old game and that no club is too big to go down, but if someone needs proof, they might as well read this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13922463

Edited by Maksimov
Posted

Hmmm... Didn't see anything posted about this and after I posted a thread about this(from a different point of view, mind you) and of course you beat me to it. Anyway...the mighty do fall sometimes.



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Sorry Maks, didn't see this one

Why would you apologise? You didn't see it because I was still writing it while you posted yours. :laugh2:

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Hmmm... Didn't see anything posted about this and after I posted a thread about this(from a different point of view, mind you) and of course you beat me to it. Anyway...the mighty do fall sometimes.

A sad day for me, as they are my favourite Argie team. Crespo is a River Plate guy, I believe.

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Crespo is a River Plate guy, I believe.

He did play for them. As did Batistuta(who I think was even better than Crespo and I rate Crespo VERY highly) and several other world class Argentinians.



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Why would you apologise? You didn't see it because I was still writing it while you posted yours. :laugh2:

I was referring to my psychic powers. They must be on the wane - never saw that one coming :D



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Blimey, didnt expect this. Its like Man Utd or Arsenal getting relegated.....what a beautiful thing that would be.

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Blimey, didnt expect this. Its like Man Utd or Arsenal getting relegated.....what a beautiful thing that would be.

United went down to Blue Square Premier in one of my Chelsea games on...I think it was Football Manager 2008...

It was funny for the first couple of relegations, then sad for the next one, then funny again for the last. Don't know how it happened really...it was gradual.

But back in reality, this was really surprising. It's hard to believe such a big club in their league can't do enough over the course of an entire season to stay in the top league.

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Sad day.

Not only Crespo

You may recognize a few of these names.

Batistuta

Matias Almeyda

Ariel Ortega

Roberto Ayala

Marcello Gallardo

Juan Pablo Sorin

Juan Pablo Angel

Mario Yepes

Esteban Cambiasso

Javier Mascherano - OK 1 turd.

Gonzalo Higuaín

Radamel Falcao

Alexis Sánchez

Marcelo Salas

Claudio Caniggia

Viva River, f8ck Boca.

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Astonishing!

I like watching some of the South American games, and obviously River plate were always a huge team! Hope they make a bounce back soon



  • 4 weeks later...
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I love this story, but I would be mad if it happened to our league though.

Only one team have this kind of power in England and that would be Man Utd, I am sure Fergie would pull a few strings and hey presto they are back in the big time !

I supose you can also say that Liverpool have did somehting similar with UEFA, i.e were able to change the rules to enable them back into the Champions League.

Perhaps one day we will be a "big" club



  • 2 weeks later...
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This guy obviously felt the pain of relegation. Funny though :lol: :lol:

Do not watch if you're easily offended by bad language.

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