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.

In his penultimate season, he suffered a severe knee injury which rendered him unavailable for most of the successful 1994 – 95 league campaign, but still bounced back for a final solid season, after which he left for Atlético Celaya in Mexico, where Butragueño was also playing, shortly after the arrival at Madrid of president Lorenzo Sanz.

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.

It was Verdi's penultimate opera, and was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on February 5, 1887.

He went out with a woman named Charlene ( Sheree North ; Janis Paige in " Menage-a-Lou " of Season 6 ) in particularly Season 5 ; Mary's best friend Rhoda Morgenstern in Season 4 ; Mary's next-door neighbor, Paula Kovacks ( Penny Marshall ) in Season 6 ; Mary's Aunt Flo ( Eileen Heckart ) in Seasons 6 and 7 ; and even with Mary herself in the penultimate episode.

On 5 December 2008, during the penultimate tour date at The Barrowlands, Glasgow, the band was inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall Of Fame, by the Scottish Traditional Music Awards Director.

" Objects at Rest " is the penultimate episode from the fifth season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5.

Casting agents met Corin Nemec at the courtyard of MGM's Santa Monica offices by chance and offered him the role of Jonas Quinn, beginning with the penultimate season 5 episode " Meridian ".

Rostock played the 2011 – 12 season in the 2nd Bundesliga, but was relegated to the 3rd league after a 5 – 4 loss to Union Berlin in the penultimate match of the season.

Since then, he has participated in three spaceflights: the Soyuz TM-34 / 33 and Soyuz TMA-6 / 5 taxi flights to the ISS, as well as STS-134, the penultimate mission of the American Space Shuttle Program.

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.

The tournament also has a $ 7. 5 million prize fund ( originally $ 10 million ), and will be contested by the leading 60 players in the race following the seasons penultimate event, the Hong Kong Open.

Jonas Quinn is introduced in the penultimate season 5 episode " Meridian " as a scientist of the human nation of Kelowna on Langara, a planet with an industrial level comparable to Earth of the 1940s, and that is also locked in a cold war with two rival states.

Nemec was cast for the penultimate season 5 episode " Meridian " after several more meetings, but both sides agreed to await the character's look on film before deciding on a long-term involvement.

His last two goals for the Reds came in the penultimate league game of the season, a 5 – 1 away win over Sheffield Wednesday.

" All Our Yesterdays " is a third season ( and the penultimate ) episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, first broadcast March 14, 1969 and repeated on August 5, 1969.

In their penultimate match of the tournament, the USSR team lost to the Czechoslovakian team, which gave a tie-breaking advantage to the latter as each team had a record of 5 wins, 1 loss ( 10 points ) with one game remaining.

It attempted to defend him against charges that he exploited the cast of the Carry On films, by paying the lead actors an unchanged £ 5, 000 per film, from the first in 1958 to the penultimate movie.

O ' Reilly began competing for the NWA Mississippi promotion, and won the vacant NWA Mississippi Heavyweight Championship ( also designated the NWA Southern Television Championship ) on June 5, 1999 in Grenada, eliminating the penultimate survivor, Big Don Brodie, to win a battle royal.

* In the penultimate episode of season 2 of Babylon 5, " Comes the Inquisitor ," there is an extended sequence that is an homage to this episode.

The penultimate obstacle was a 5 meter wide water, followed by a left turn to an impressively large oxer.

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 penultimate episode, " Enos and Daisy's Wedding ", the two plan on getting married, only to have Enos call it off at the last minute due to an attack of hives, brought on by the excitement of possibly being married to Daisy.

In July 2010 Jones appeared on the penultimate episode of Friday Night with Jonathan Ross and performed " Burning Hell ".

It was destroyed in the penultimate episode.

Kara returns in " Prophecy ", the series ' penultimate episode, trapped in a cave containing the Bow of Orion.

The closest there was to a main villain was Mogdred ( portrayed by John Woodnutt ), but his main duty was, according to Merlin ( a wizard, and Mogdred's ' alter ego ' in the first series ) in the penultimate episode of Series 2, to " scare you into making a mistake ", though he did kill two dungeoneers, one in Series 2 and another early in Series 4.

His other Twilight Zone appearance, twenty episodes later, was as one of the most memorable personalities in the history of the show — the dismayed Martian who is one-upped by the diner-counterman-turned-Venusian in the rival-Earth-invasions surprise ending of the season's penultimate episode, " Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

His other Twilight Zone part, as a bureaucratic angel ( without spectacles ), was in third season's penultimate episode, " Cavender Is Coming ", a failed sitcom pilot replete with a laugh track.

* Ithaca, the penultimate episode of James Joyce's novel Ulysses

The money was instead used for the penultimate episode, " Eye of the Storm ", while the last episode ended with an unresolved cliffhanger.

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.

By the time of Deep Space Nines penultimate series episode, " The Dogs of War ", it was indicated that Ferengi capitalism was coming under greater regulation, with historic changes towards left-wing politics and policies being made with respect to things such as universal health care, workers ' rights, etc.

His character was killed in the penultimate episode on April 3, 2009.

Since the last episode featured no live acts in the studio, the honour of being the last act to actually perform on a weekly episode of TOTP goes to Snow Patrol with " Chasing Cars " in the penultimate edition, the last act ever featured visually on a weekly Top of the Pops was Girls Aloud, as part of the closing sequence of bands performing on the show throughout the years.

In the series ' penultimate episode, " Single Spaced ," Spence becomes obsessed with romancing Carrie when it appears she and Doug will divorce.

This becomes a recurring joke in the penultimate episode of Season Five, where Spike finds himself repeatedly having to explain to the Scooby Gang that Ben and Glory are the same person, only for them either to misunderstand him or to instantly forget.

She loses this capability in the penultimate episode of Season Five.

Channel 5's run of the series concluded on Sunday, 11 February 2001, in a double bill showing the penultimate and final episode.

Wolfie hates him more than he did Fenning and after various run-ins with Lynch ( who constantly refers to Wolfie as " Wally "), the series was concluded in the penultimate episode, with Wolfie fleeing Tooting to escape a £ 6, 000 contract put on his head by Ronnie Lynch after Lynch had caught Wolfie in his wife Mandy's bedroom.

* In the penultimate episode, Wolfie's full name was revealed as Walter Henry Smith-W H Smith.

The penultimate episode of Series Two has not been repeated on BBC7.

In the penultimate episode, " Kill Billie, Vol.