Tag: worst

Southampton: Ivan Juric challenges Saints to avoid being ‘worst Premier League team ever’
1 April 2025 Off

Southampton: Ivan Juric challenges Saints to avoid being ‘worst Premier League team ever’

By Total Football News

Southampton manager Ivan Juric has challenged his players to prove they are not “the worst team in the history of the Premier League”.

The Saints are bottom of the table, 17 points from safety and facing relegation, having won only nine points from 29 matches.

Derby County hold the record for the lowest tally in Premier League history, finishing bottom on 11 points in 2007-08.

“The team has to be

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Is this the worst bottom three in Premier League history?
9 March 2025 Off

Is this the worst bottom three in Premier League history?

By Total Football News

In the last four seasons stretching back to the 2020-21 season, seven of the 12 promoted sides have immediately been relegated back to the Championship.

The clear exception in that time is the 2022-23 season, when Nottingham Forest, Bournemouth and Fulham all survived at the first time of asking.

Forest did so by spending more than £150m on over 20 new players, which contributed to the club being docked four

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Luton Town’s worst EFL start for 22 years… what’s gone wrong?
14 October 2024 Off

Luton Town’s worst EFL start for 22 years… what’s gone wrong?

By Total Football News

On the face of it, Luton’s problems are plain and simple for all to see.

“We’ve not scored enough goals and not kept enough clean sheets,” former Luton defender Leon Barnett told BBC Three Counties Radio’s sport show.

Luton have scored just eight times. Only bottom side Cardiff and Preston North End have managed fewer.

They are also leaking goals with only the bottom three sides conceding more than

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How Premier League’s worst teams have fared after relegation
6 August 2024 Off

How Premier League’s worst teams have fared after relegation

By Total Football News

What happened next?

The Rams kept faith with Paul Jewell, who had led Bradford and Wigan to promotion from the second tier, despite his minimal impact having taken over from Davies the previous November.

After a slow start to the season, three wins and a draw from five league games in October were enough for Jewell to be nominated for the Championship manager of the month award but that was

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Man Utd end worst Premier League campaign with win
19 May 2024 0

Man Utd end worst Premier League campaign with win

By Total Football News

Before their season-finale against Brighton, Ten Hag said Manchester United were in a stronger position now than they were 12 months ago.

But they have swapped a third-place finish and the Champions League for eighth, along with the possibility of no European football next season.

Their performance at Amex Stadium summed up an underwhelming season, as United struggled to deal with Brighton’s intricate passing and were pinned into their own

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‘So bad’ – is this Man Utd team really ‘one of the worst ever’?
12 May 2024 0

‘So bad’ – is this Man Utd team really ‘one of the worst ever’?

By Total Football News

In his pre-match programme notes, Ten Hag had called for his side to show fight and make amends for the 4-0 defeat they suffered against Crystal Palace last week.

But, for Keane, that fight was nowhere to be seen.

“You look at that last half an hour – the decision making, nobody digging anybody out, people making mistakes and falling over, and everyone just walking away, nobody putting demands on

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Wolves 1-2 West Ham: Gary O’Neil says disallowed equaliser ‘possibly worst decision I’ve ever seen’
6 April 2024 0

Wolves 1-2 West Ham: Gary O’Neil says disallowed equaliser ‘possibly worst decision I’ve ever seen’

By Total Football News
Wolverhampton Wanderers boss Gary O'Neil remonstrates with officials following his team's defeat by West Ham United at Molineux
Gary O’Neil’s side have been on the wrong end of decisions on a number of occasions this season

Wolves boss Gary O’Neil says the decision to disallow a last-gasp equaliser for his team against West Ham was “possibly the worst decision I have ever seen”.

Skipper Maximilian Kilman thought he had levelled in the ninth minute of stoppage time with a header that beat Lucasz Fabianski and found the far

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