TRANMERE TORMENT

An unlucky relegation

ON TUESDAY, June 9, League One clubs voted to end the season and use a points per game system to determine At the time Tranmere, who had just won three in a row and were on the charge, were three points behind fourth-bottom

Ultimately, though, we went down with point was tough to take! the Wirral have faced adversity, in fact, far - -

This all came at a time when neighbours Liverpool and Everton were competing for some of the biggest silverware in the

Legendary manager Johnny King led a Tranmere revival from the old Fourth Division to the second tier in the late and the Leyland DAF Trophy at Wembley in

The new millennireached the Worthington Cup Final in 2000 under John Aldridge, losing to Leicester, and took some notable scalps in the FA Cup, including a memorable 3-0 victory against

Not long later, however, Tranmere were relegated to League One where they remained until they were relegated to League Two in year, pushing them into Non-League for

Tranmere fought their way back to the League One promised land after backto-back promotions and a lot of hard Former FA chief executive Mark played

After seeing what has happened to the likes of Bury as a result of bad ownership, the Tranmere fans have been delighted to

The former said in an update with the fans how he expects everyone at the

club including the chairman and the

Unluckily, the season didn’t go the full 90 and improving Tranmere were cut off on the up when the season was cut short in March and you would have fancied them to have beaten the drop if the cam

Personally, as a Tranmere fan as well as a football fan, one must question when times will change lower down the football

Yes, the Premier League has taken a coronavirus hit, but it is still awash with One and Two, where clubs can’t afford to

This shows a gaping disparity between the top level of football in England and do not believe that enough is being done by the footballing powers to address this Those plying their trade lower down the pyramid often have to endure a stark and sobering reality of struggling to feed their

Bury, Bolton Wanderers and Macstruggled to pay their players in the last

Not long after it was decided that Tranmere would be relegated to League Two, the club was forced to make approxthat the issue goes much deeper than just

The only thing we as EFL fans can do is keep supporting our local teams as much as possible and hope they survive in these