Matters did not improve under caretaker manager Phil Parkinson, and a 3 – 1 defeat at Sheffield United saw the Addicks four points adrift at the bottom of the Championship as 2009 dawned, under threat of their first relegation to English football's third tier for 29 years.

Charlton's relegation from the Championship was all but confirmed on Easter Monday ( 13 April ) when, despite picking up a point in a 0 – 0 draw at Coventry, they found themselves 12 points from safety with four games remaining.

Leading up to the Super Bowl and following the 34 – 0 trouncing of the Cleveland Browns in the NFL Championship, many were calling the 1968 Colts team one of the " greatest pro football teams of all time " and were favored by 18 points against their counterparts from the American Football League, the New York Jets.

In November 2008, Polgár had a terrible result in The World Chess Blitz Championship in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan, finished last of the 16 players with only 2½ points.

Liverpool achieved this by winning the League Championship by two points over Everton ( Dalglish himself scored the winner in a 1 – 0 victory over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge to secure the title on the final day of the season ), and the FA Cup by beating Everton in the final.

In 2001, Fulham took the First Division ( now Football League Championship ) under manager Jean Tigana, winning 100 points and scoring over 100 goals in the season.

10 of the Vikings ' points in the NFC Championship Game came from blocked kicks.

A consequence was that in the three European Championship Grands Prix, he took two wins and a second place-winning the championship by four points from Borzacchini.

Championship points awarded are equal to that of any other Sprint Cup race.

At his and Stoddart's home grand prix he brought the car home in fifth place to score two World Championship points — a rare occurrence for Minardi.

By the time of his fifth win of the year at the British GP, he had more than double the points of his closest challengers Jody Scheckter and James Hunt, and a second consecutive World Championship appeared a formality.

Cars from all three classes would contest the Australian Touring Car Championship as well as non-championship Australian touring car events such as the Bathurst 1000 ; but for the purposes of race classification and points allocation, cars competed in two classes:

Liberati scored his first points in the World Championship in 1953, and his first race victory came in 1956 in the 350cc class.

Häkkinen finished the season in eighth place in the Drivers ' Championship, with almost six times as many points as during the previous season.

The Finn finished the year fourth in the Drivers ' Championship with a tally of 26 points.

Häkkinen finished fifth in the Drivers ' Championship, scoring a total of 31 points.

Johnson won his first title on February 3, 1903, beating Denver Ed Martin on points in a 20-round match for the World Colored Heavyweight Championship.

Rookie Daniel " Boobie " Gibson scored a career-high 31 points in the series clincher, and the franchise won its first ever Eastern Conference Championship.

In the Superbike World Championship they were third in rider's championship in season 2000 with rider Troy Corser, and third in manufacturers points and fourth in rider points both in season 2001 with Troy Corser and in 2002 with Noriyuki Haga.

Southampton finished as runners-up in the Championship with 88 points, having not fallen out of the top two since their 3 – 1 victory over Leeds United on the opening day of the season.

Hull ended his career having played in 1063 NHL games, accumulating 610 goals, 560 assists, 1170 points, 640 penalty minutes, three Art Ross Trophies, two Hart Memorial Trophies, a Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, a Stanley Cup Championship and adding 102 penalty minutes, 62 goals and 67 assists for 129 points in 119 playoff games.

In the last laps, second-placed Phil Hill slowed and waved Hawthorn through to gain enough points to take the Championship.

GM and IM titles can only be gained by participating in the official World Chess Solving Championship ( WCSC ): to become a GM, a solver must score at least 90 percent of the winner's points and on each occasion finish in at least tenth place three times within ten successive WCSCs.

Former Browns RB Jim Brown, who was a prominent member of the 1964 NFL Championship team, the team's all-time leader in rushing yards, and a Pro Football Hall of Fame member.

pitching Triple Crown ( baseball ) | Triple Crown in 1940, key member of the 1948 World Series Championship team, the Indians all time leader in wins and stikeouts, and an MLB Hall of Fame r.

Campbell was the league's rushing leader during the regular season with 1, 697 yards, but could only gain 15 yards against the Steelers in the AFC Championship Game.

Championship leader Schumacher finished second with a gearbox fault restricting him to fifth gear, having led the early laps.

In July 2008, despite not playing in a major for three years, Norman finished nine over par in a tie for third at The Open Championship after being the 54-hole leader by two strokes.

* 5 September – Formula One World Drivers ' Championship points leader Jochen Rindt ( Austria ) in killed in practice at Monza, driving a Lotus 72 – Cosworth.

On 18 February 1934, Sevilla FC won promotion to First Division, after beating in Madrid the " Atlético de Madrid " in the final match of the Championship and become leader ( in any case, the following season it had been decided that in First Division the teams would be expanded to twelve, which is why the Sevilla FC could have been even second ).

A switch to Glenn Seton Racing mid-season in 1992 brought improved results and race wins and he finished runner up to his team leader Glenn Seton as their V8 Ford Falcons dominated the 1993 Australian Touring Car Championship.

Hulme's debut season in the Cam-Am series heralded no points, but the year after, in the year of his F1 Championship win, he came home second in the series, behind team leader Bruce McLaren.

He began hunting their leader Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

Carter's overall game improved dramatically in, as he helped the Toronto Blue Jays win the division title and hit the game-winning single that clinched the AL East Championship ; he also emerged for the first time as a team leader.

Hogan enjoyed mainstream popularity in the 1980s and 90s as the all-American character Hulk Hogan in the World Wrestling Federation ( WWE ), and as Hollywood Hogan, the villainous nWo leader, in World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ).

After defeating Jeff Hardy for the WWF Hardcore Championship at Invasion, Van Dam became one of the most " over " members of the Alliance and even challenged Alliance leader Stone Cold Steve Austin for the WWF Championship including a triple threat match at No Mercy.

The first of Stewart's three major titles was the 1989 PGA Championship, when he came back from six strokes behind leader Mike Reid on the final day's play.

In the international front, Bodiroga, as the team's undisputed leader, helped Yugoslavia win the 2001 European Championship in Turkey and the 2002 FIBA World Championship in Indianapolis.

After a midseason trade sent him to the Mets in 1983, he became the undisputed leader amongst the players of the brash ballclub that also fell a victory short of capturing the 1988 NL Championship Series.

Ravelli also ranked as the Swedish national team's all-time leader in caps, at 143 ( also one of best in the world ), representing the nation at two World Cups and one European Championship.

Smyth is also known as a leader, having served as captain for Canada's World Championship teams on six occasions, as well as an alternate captain on all of the teams he has played with in the NHL.

He is also the leader of the Hungarian team at the World Puzzle Championship.

The following week, Scott was again in the mix at the PGA Championship, entering the final round in the penultimate grouping, four shots behind the leader Rory McIlroy.

Surfing is a very popular activity in Peru ; it has produced world wide champions such as Sofia Mulanovich, 2004 female world champion, Luis Miguel " Magoo " De La Rosa ISA World Masters Surfing Championship 2007 leader, and Cristobal de Col, 2011 World Junior Champion.

Ascari's victory took him to within two points of Championship leader Fangio, while González was a further four points behind in third.

Championship points leader Australian Jack Brabham finished third in works entered Cooper T51, expanding his points lead, but not sufficiently to prevent a championship showdown with Moss and Ferrari driver Tony Brooks at the United States Grand Prix.