Quote Originally Posted by lardy View Post
Birmingham, Blackpool and West Ham went down the following season. That's two big clubs, and the West Ham team on paper was strong. Brum and Blackpool both got to 39 points.

So yeah, I think we would have found it a struggle.
Very possibly. When DJ was at Southampton they'd surprise teams and have a good run before falling apart for awhile (it's the DJ way). They stayed up though. Part of Tan's nonsense was that we needed the luck of the red to get promoted but that would've been negated by beating Blackpool. Of course he could've found some other bunch of bollocks to justify his actions.