With a vastly inferior goal difference and with the two teams directly above them ( Southampton and Nottingham Forest ) still having to play each other, it was effectively an impossible task for Charlton to avoid relegation.

In the 2007 Brazilian Football Championship, Flamengo surprised all the other teams at the half of the season winning many games at home, leaving the relegation zone and reaching the second place and then being defeated the last match in Recife, Pernambuco by Náutico 1 – 0.

The main competition is the County Schools League where Gordonstoun plays along side nine other schools in a league system with the chance of promotion / relegation at the end of the season.

However, failing to win a single away game meant that their relegation battle was ultimately lost, and they finished bottom of the table on goal difference, bracketed together on 33 points with the two other relegated teams.

This had come after supporters at both clubs took turns mocking each other at the prospect of Preston's relegation to League One.

Unlike most other nations, there is currently no system of merit-based promotion and relegation in the American and Canadian pyramids, meaning that the champions of USL-1 could not move up to Major League Soccer and, similarly, the worst teams in MLS were not in danger of being demoted to USL-1.

The league operates on a single group system, with no divisions or conferences and no relegation and promotion from other leagues.

Reid's team suffered a downturn in the 2001 – 02 season ending up one place above the relegation zone and with just 28 goals from 38 games – fewer than any other team in the division.

Sadly, afterwards only seven further points were gained from 22 matches and relegation began to look increasingly likely, but it only became a certainty after two other teams staged eleventh hour revivals of their own.

Losing their best players to other League of Wales clubs severely weakened Thursday ’ s playing resources and, despite the efforts of those who featured in the 1992 / 93 season, relegation back to the Welsh League was confirmed.

He took over a Leeds team that was struggling against relegation at the time and his first priority was the defence ; although Leeds scored fewer goals than any other Premiership club ( 28 ) they still finished in a secure 13th place.

Like many other teams who suffer a relegation in the previous season, Grimsby got off to a mediocre start and a lower mid-table finish was as good as it would get for Slade's men.

In the following years Carlisle continued to narrowly avoid relegation one season after the other.

No other league in Scotland or the UK is as ` dynamic ' - with one automatic promotion and relegation place to contend for plus 3 promotion playoff places and one relegation playoff place, it means that 6 of the 10 teams are always drawn into contention.

After a reprieve from relegation in the 2007-2008 season, due to other teams ' demotions through financial difficulties, Hucknall were relegated for the first time in their history in the 2008-2009 season.

Debt-ridden Notts County and Wycombe Wanderers were the other relegation casualties.

Teams finishing at the bottom of the Alliance table may be relegated to an appropriate feeder league, depending on the number of teams remaining in the division after other promotion and relegation issues have been resolved.

In other parts of the world there is usually either a system of annual promotion and relegation, meaning that clubs have no fixed status in the hierarchy, or there is only one professional league per country in each sport, rendering the major / minor distinction irrelevant.

The current promotion and relegation rules for the top two divisions of other major leagues are:

In other parts of the world, and especially in association football, where promotion and relegation is common, the term " league " may be used to refer both to a league system, a group of leagues that are tied together in a hierarchical fashion by promotion and relegation, and to the individual leagues within the league system.

The other way that a team can be spared relegation is if some other team either resigns or is expelled from the Football League.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

They may even enroll a colored student or two for show, though he usually turns out to be from Thailand, or any place other than the American South.

In any social system in which communications have an importance comparable with that of production and other human factors, a point like f in Figure 2 would ( other things being equal ) be the dwelling place for the community leader, while e and h would house the next most important citizens.

`` Go back to America or any other place '', well-meaning friends of Captain Heard advised them, `` but put thoughts of going to Burma out of your heads ''.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

It would, however, reach the proctors and other officers in charge of the public-school performances of the incepting bachelors, and the place that any individual obtained in the lists depended greatly on how he comported himself in the public schools during his acts therein as he was incepting.

The framing scenes, on the other hand, both take place in the late Spring of 1940, just at the moment of the defeat of France in the second great world conflict.

All this remembering took place the other night when I had supper with the Ziegfeld Girls at the Beverly Hills Club.

I know of no other solution than the one N.C. proposes -- to do what we can for each sufferer as he confronts us, hoping that this will spread beyond him to others at some time and some place.

The place was evidently a familiar haunt and Claire wondered what other illicit loves had been celebrated in the comfortable rooms to which they were shown.

The extent to which we can persuade the less developed countries to appraise their own resources, to set targets toward which they should be working, to establish in the light of this forward perspective the most urgent priorities for their immediate attention, and to do the other things which they must do to help themselves, all on a realistic long-term basis, will depend importantly on the incentives we place before them.

The Smithfield tax assessor, in turn, claims the tax under the provision of law `` and all other tangible personal property situated or being in any town, in or upon any place of storage shall be taxed to such person in the town where said property is situated ''.

An old shipwreck, a high dam, an old covered bridge, a place to find agates or other semi-precious stones or a place to pan gold, etcetera may be of interest.

Just because a tree or other object appears in a certain spot is absolutely no reason to place it in the same position in the painting, unless the position serves the design of the whole composition.

Thus every part and plane of the picture keeps changing place in relative depth with every other part and plane ; ;

If communication with an entity on the `` other side '' is taking place, this too may assume the form of clairvoyant symbolism.

To the extent, then, that declining U.S. prestige means that other nations will be tempted to place their bets on an ultimate American defeat, and will thus be more vulnerable to Soviet intimidation, there is reason for concern.

Palfrey tried fruitlessly to place a Negro boy in the Hopedale Community, but he had better luck in his other attempts.

We leap from event to event -- including the formation of the posse -- even though the events, in `` reality '' are taking place not in sequence but simultaneously, and not near each other but at a considerable distance.

Sometimes I got on the wrong car and didn't get to school at all, but wound up at the ocean, or some other dismal place, and had to spend the day there.

If laborers are merely commodities competing against each other in a market place like so many bags of wheat and corn ( unsupported, by the way, by any agricultural subsidy ), then they may be pardoned for reacting with complete antagonism to a system that imposes such status upon them.

In any event, it is an irreversible step, and if we are at all honest with ourselves, we will know we have no other alternative than to live in the world in which God has seen fit to place us.

Whereas the primary meanings of the Lo Shu diagram seemed to have been based on its inner mathematical properties -- and we shall see that even its secondary meanings rested on some mathematical bases -- the urgent desire to place everything into categories of fives led to other groupings based on other numbers, until an exaggerated emphasis on mere numerology pervaded Chinese thought.