3 games to go - last 20 seasons (stat alert)

[Eric the Half a Bee]

When you read the way you’ve set it out in numbers that collapse (or Preston’s run) seems even more remarkable than I remember it.

Thanks for putting this all on the page Eric, interesting stuff!

Thanks. Collapses aren't uncommon, neither are winning runs, but in the context of a playoff spot it was a rarity.

What makes it even worse is that, with 4 games to go we were only a few points off automatic promotion. Had we gone up automatically it would have been deserved. Instead we allowed a 12 goal swing at Preston to cut the gap from 11 points to 8. We only just got a point at Charlton after a dismal display where we came back from 2-0 down. We were deservedly battered by Ipswich in Ninian Park's last ever game and the gap was 3 points. There was a sense of inevitability that we'd lose our last game.

I got married the day before that game at Hillsborough. We'd planned honeymoon dates around the playoffs.....