Although results did improve, Pardew was unable to keep Charlton up and relegation was confirmed in the penultimate match of the season.

Lineker scored three hat-tricks for Everton ; at home to Birmingham City in a 4 – 1 league win on 31 August 1985, at home to Manchester City in a 4 – 0 home win on 11 February 1986, and then in the penultimate league game of the season on 3 May 1986, when they kept their title hopes alive with a 6 – 1 home win over Southampton.

A different scenario unfolded during the penultimate regular season game of 2011 as the " visiting " Giants defeated the Jets 29 – 14.

Arsenal regained the league, beating Manchester United at Old Trafford in the penultimate game of the season to complete the club's second double under Wenger ; Arsenal defeated Chelsea 2 – 0 to win the FA Cup four days prior.

The team went into the penultimate match of the season needing to beat promotion rivals Sunderland to have a chance of going up.

The team had a 15 – 2 – 2 run in the last 19 games of the season to keep their playoffs hopes alive until the penultimate day of the season.

Nevertheless, they clinched their fourth playoff berth in the last five years on the penultimate playdate of the season.

After failure to beat Burnley in the penultimate game of the season on 25 April 2009, which ended in a 2 – 2 draw, Southampton confirmed their relegation from the Championship.

However, a failure to beat Brighton & Hove Albion in the penultimate game of the 2002 – 03 season condemned them to another relegation.

Sturrock guided Sheffield Wednesday to Championship survival in 2005 – 06 but was sacked after a poor start to the 2006 – 07 season and replaced by Brian Laws, who led Wednesday to a 9th place finish in the Championship after having an outside chance of reaching the play offs until the penultimate game of the season.

Liverpool were league title challengers to Manchester United but their failure to beat Wimbledon in the penultimate game of the league season handed the championship to United.

By the time of United's penultimate game of the season, he had reached the number of league appearances required for a title winner's medal – his first in 15 seasons as a professional.

In the penultimate race of the year, at the Suzuka Circuit in Japan, Räikkönen took his 7th victory of the season after starting 17th on the grid ( as rain, and an engine failure for Räikkönen, had mixed up the qualifying grid ).

Nevertheless, his attitude and work ethic earned praise from his fans, teammates, coaching staff and several Spanish journalists ; his Man of the match performance in his debut, in the penultimate game of the season against Real Zaragoza was hailed in the Spanish press, despite not being enough to earn selection for Poland's squad for Euro 2008.

Wright became renowned for his deadly striking ability, as shown when he scored a hat-trick in just eighteen minutes in Palace's penultimate game of the 1990 – 91 season away to Wimbledon.

Their promotion had been sealed after the penultimate game of the season, a 3 – 0 victory at rivals Preston North End, courtesy of a Fred Pickering hat-trick.

Due to its position on the calendar near the end of the season, often either the final or penultimate round, championships were often decided before the event.

* On September 27, 2009, Herbert " Flight Time " Lang and Nate " Big Easy " Lofton participated in the 15th season of The Amazing Race, finishing fourth out of twelve teams, having forfeited a task in the penultimate leg.

The Royals were truly awful in every other game: they conceded 5 goals on 5 different occasions, let in 6 goals twice, and lost 7-0 to Charlotte Eagles on the opening day of the season, to Harrisburg City Islanders in late July, and to Pittsburgh Riverhounds in the penultimate game.

A run of five heavy defeats stretching into mid-July, including a 6-0 walloping at the hands of the Virginia Beach Submariners, put pay to any scant playoff hopes they might have had, and despite gaining a 3-1 revenge win over Virginia Beach in the penultimate game of the season, their 2-0 defeat to Raleigh Elite on the final day left them fourth in the Mid Atlantic Division, ten points off the playoff positions.

" The City on the Edge of Forever " is the penultimate episode of the first season of the television series Star Trek.

Starting the 2003 – 04 season as favourites to win the Football Conference, Chester suffered just four defeats during the campaign, winning the title and promotion back to the Football League with a 1 – 0 victory over Scarborough in the penultimate match of the season.

His erratic form in the league was particularly evident when United suffered a 5 – 1 demolition to neighbours City ( then newly promoted ), a 3 – 0 hammering by Aston Villa on Boxing Day and were crushed 4 – 0 by Nottingham Forest in the penultimate league game of the season.

Bryant suffered severe memory loss-amnesia in March 1976, and was unable to continue in the role ; her penultimate episode involved her reading her lines off prompts and on props such as her handbag and her final episode including no dialogue, just Minnie packing up her things and Bobby and leaving Coronation Street, her on-screen absence was explained by mentioning that her character had moved to live with an old friend, Handel Gartside ( played by Harry Markham ) in Derbyshire.

In his penultimate appearance, he was substituted at half-time as Grimsby suffered a 4 – 0 loss to Rochdale.

Unusually, it was Des Moines ' road form which proved to be their downfall: they suffered unexpected defeats to St. Louis Lions and Thunder Bay Chill, including a 4-0 battering at the hands of the latter in the penultimate game of the season.

Due to an injury crisis, Reading lost their penultimate league match with Nottingham Forest and were relegated from Division One.

In the penultimate match of the season, he sustained a foot injury after a challenge from Stiliyan Petrov in a home game against Aston Villa in May, which needed an operation, ruling him out for at least four months.

During his first season, he led the Sabres in scoring ( with 38 goals and added 34 assists ) — a feat he would never fail to accomplish in any season in which he did not miss significant time to injury before his penultimate year — and won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year.

Laursen scored his first goal for his country in September 2003, in the UEFA Euro 2004 qualification, an all-important goal in injury time of the penultimate qualification match.

Bucyk starred into his penultimate season ( during which he surrendered his team captaincy, while suffering an injury, to Wayne Cashman ), and ended his playing career after the 1978 season, after which the Bruins retired his number # 9 jersey.

Bullen's final appearance for Sheffield Wednesday came in a crucial relegation battle against Leicester City on the penultimate game of the season which the Owls won 3 – 1, sadly an injury sustained in this game denied him an appearance for the last match of the season versus Norwich City on 4 May 2008 and a chance to play at Hillsborough for the last time.

To show the derivation clearly, we propose that the stress should be on the penultimate syllable, the second half of the word being pronounced like " ptosis " ( with the " p " silent ), which comes from the same root " to fall ", and is already used to describe the drooping of the upper eyelid.

New neighbours Derek and Betty McVitie replaced the Trenches for the 1997 special " Endgame ", however this turned out to be their only appearances in the series and they were said to have emigrated by the penultimate episode which caused Nick Swainey to leap straight in with the offer for their old house.

In the Episcopal and many other Anglican churches and in Lutheran churches, as well, the day is nowadays officially called " The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday "; in practice, though, it is usually termed " Palm Sunday " as in the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer and in earlier Lutheran liturgies and calendars, to avoid undue confusion with the penultimate Sunday of Lent in the traditional calendar, which was " Passion Sunday ".

His penultimate enthusiasm was with the genitalia of butterflies about which he published a paper in the Transactions of the Linnean Society But before his death he returned to rotifera, much of his research appearing in a two-volume study with another zoologist, C. T.

His penultimate match, and the last in which he batted, was for Eltham Cricket Club at Grove Park on 25 July 1914, a week after his 66th birthday.

It is the fourteenth and penultimate element in the lanthanide series, or last element in the f-block, which is the basis of the relative stability of the + 2 oxidation state.

However, in order to reproduce the next stage of the argument, which eliminates the penultimate day of the week, the prisoner must argue that his ability to deduce, from statement ( A ), that the hanging will not occur on the last day, implies that a last-day hanging would not be surprising.

The ensuing investigation resulted in Trevor-Roper's most famous book, The Last Days of Hitler ( 1947, with revised editions as late as 1995 ), in which he described the last ten days of Hitler's life, and the fates of some of the higher-ranking members of the inner circle as well of those lesser figures whose evidence was important for reconstructing this penultimate chapter of the war.

The album would mark the last full time studio album appearance of founding member Gregg Rolie, and his penultimate recording with the band: his final contributions would appear on Dream, After Dream, a soundtrack album to the Japanese film of the same name, which would also be released in 1980.

In the penultimate frame he faces capital punishment which the punters hope " serves as an example ".

In 1984 Indira Gandhi brought an action against the book in the British courts, claiming to have been defamed by a single sentence in chapter 28, penultimate paragraph, in which her son Sanjay Gandhi is said to have had a hold over his mother by him accusing her of contributing to his father's Feroze Gandhi's death through her neglect.

The penultimate episode of the series depicts a Mysteron assault on Cloudbase with the use of armed spacecraft, which is ultimately revealed to be a nightmare dreamt by one of the Angel pilots.

The penultimate major run of Delano's tenure was " The Family Man ", which differed from the main body of the series thus far in that Constantine's nemesis is not supernatural ( beyond an opening metafictional encounter with a fictional fence ), but a former policeman turned serial killer.

Benazir took the office in the crucial and penultimate decade of Cold War, and closely aligned with the United States President George H. W. Bush, based on a mutual distrust of Communism, although she strongly opposed United States's support of Afghan Mujaheddin which she labeled " America's Frankenstein " during her first state visit to United States in 1989.

Finally, Magee's penultimate line, " The high untrespassed sanctity of space ", closely resembles " Across the unpierced sanctity of space ", which appears in the same volume in a poem by C. A. F. B. entitled " Dominion over Air ", also previously published in the RAF College Journal.

A defeat which must have spurred Atalanta on as, after winning the Second Leg 2-0, they went on to reach the Semi-Finals, losing to eventual winners KV Mechelen, but in the process becoming one of only two teams in the competition ’ s history to reach the penultimate round whilst playing their football outside of the national top flight league.

* In Hebrew, word stress is usually on the last ( ultimate ) or penultimate syllable of a word ; speakers may carry their stress system into English, which has a much more varied stress system.

He relented only for the famous cello solo, The Swan which forms the penultimate movement of the work, and which was published in 1887 in an arrangement by the composer for cello and solo piano ( the original uses both pianos ).

Their penultimate performance, " Joey's On the Street Again ", was 12 minutes long with an extended bridge, during which time Geldof ran amongst the crowd.

In a variant, which has provided the plot device for most fictional versions, on the death of the penultimate member the capital passes to the last survivor.

Kokura is also the name of the penultimate station on the southbound Sanyo Shinkansen line, which is owned by JR West.