This was the closest to it that I can recall

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2 crazy things about that season:

1. The best side in the league - Sunderland - didn't get promoted at all. The reason they didn't? Norwich doubling them. Sorry mackems.

2. The three promoted clubs to the Prem - Bolton (who ran away with the title in 96/7), Barnsley and Palace all went down. And had Sunderland won the shoot-out with Charlton at Wembley, the three relegated clubs would all have gone back up. Scary.

Then consider how much more money has come into the Prem since then - s**tloads of it - and the gap, which seemed insurmountable back then, should've grown a lot further. Instead, it's narrowed. It's far easier to stay up in the Prem now than a decade and more ago: which presumably suggests that the bottom 10 or 12 clubs in the Prem spend their revenue incredibly badly.

Brandonio's right though. No way in the world will four clubs get 90+. 88 will be enough for top 2 I think.

Posted By: thebigfeller on February 25th 2015 at 16:00:16

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just done the predictor (NCFC) - SCC 28, Feb 25, 15:46:01
- Me too (NCFC) - Old Man, Feb 25, 16:52:17
  - LOL (n/m) (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 25, 16:53:40
  - don't be silly (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Feb 25, 16:53:24
    - You're right. Scum will conceded more than that. (n/m) (NCFC) - Old Man, Feb 25, 16:53:47
- So have I (NCFC) - norway, Feb 25, 16:50:02
- I hope not (NCFC) - duke of york, Feb 25, 16:19:47
- you think Lennon will come good again for Bolton then (n/m) (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 25, 16:16:49
- Four teams getting 90+ points?! Has that ever happened? (n/m) (NCFC) - Knitted Jesus, Feb 25, 15:53:15
  - This was the closest to it that I can recall (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 25, 16:00:16
    - remember I was on holiday in Ibiza the day of the PO Final (NCFC) - Jumbo1, Feb 25, 16:13:17
      - In contrast (NCFC) - KentonCanary, Feb 25, 16:21:29
      - I watched the game with some mates at uni. Then laughed at Charlton gallivanting around (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 25, 16:18:19
      - I was in a long car journey back from Cornwall to East Anglia (NCFC) - Brandonio, Feb 25, 16:16:22
        
        We're still the only two clubs to have lost the play-off final on pens aren't we? (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 25, 16:23:24
    - It seems that the late mid to late-nineties (NCFC) - Brandonio, Feb 25, 16:12:42
    - blimey surprised by that (NCFC) - SCC 28, Feb 25, 16:07:12
      - I bet you've bookmarked that site right up. (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Feb 25, 16:32:57
      - Perfectly possible Derby, Middlesbrough and Norwich could set a hot pace (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 25, 16:09:34
        
        only thing about bournemouth is (NCFC) - SCC 28, Feb 25, 16:12:45
  - obviously won't happen like that (NCFC) - SCC 28, Feb 25, 15:59:18
  - nope and won't happen this season either (NCFC) - Brandonio, Feb 25, 15:56:32
    - It also depends on who we drop points to, of course. Both Derby and Boro are MUST NOT LOSE (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 25, 16:05:56
  - Was going to ask same (NCFC) - KentonCanary, Feb 25, 15:55:55
    - yep due to the shocks that have to happen but hard to predict where (NCFC) - SCC 28, Feb 25, 16:02:21
- Does that rely on us beating Fulham on the last day? (NCFC) - Old Man, Feb 25, 15:47:57
  - of course (NCFC) - SCC 28, Feb 25, 15:50:29
    - But 9 wins and 4 draws don't make 92 points, SCC (n/m) (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 25, 15:54:19
      - apologies 10 win and 3 draws (NCFC) - SCC 28, Feb 25, 16:00:45

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