Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
Tainted? It’s a great football story, a third division club, getting to the top flight and eventually dominating it, all in less than 20 years. What are the league going to do, erase their fans memories, knock the doors of all players involved and demand the medals back? Those seasons are done and dusted and offering titles to runners up from years gone by would be laughable. The wailing and gnashing of teeth from from the fans of clubs who assumed they were untouchable is deafening.
with all due respect the Blues were not a third division club, they were a yoyo club between the top two divisions that had one season in the third tier. After back to back promotions they were relegated in 2000/1 back to the second tier. Since finishing third in 2010 they've never been out of top 4.

1, 2, 1, 2, 4, 3, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1

NB The Gills match was in 1999, 25 years ago. time flies.