Quote Originally Posted by J R Hartley View Post
They hardly threw promotion away, they still amassed 96 points which most years gets you promoted and wins the title.
That’s as maybe, but the fact is that Sheffield were top of the table and five points clear of third with two games in hand in mid-March. They ended up third and scraped promotion via the play-offs.

Personally, I don’t believe that race is even a remote element in this particular situation. No doubt it has been in plenty of others, but not this one and not the Palace situation either.