Premier League to League One - is double drop becoming more common?
Fifteen years ago, the suggestion a top-flight club could be relegated in successive seasons was unthinkable. After all, in the first 20 seasons of the Premier League it happened just the once.
That was to Swindon Town, and even then there were special circumstances. The Robins finished fourth bottom of the second tier in 1994-95 but were relegated because of the rebalancing of the divisions to reduce the Premier League to 20 teams.
In any other season they would not have suffered the double drop. As such, it could be argued that Wolves were the first team to suffer a double drop from the Premier League after being relegated in 2011-12.
Since then it has happened four times in 14 seasons. Or, after Sunderland went down in 2016-18, three times in nine seasons.
And then back-to-back seasons with Luton and Leicester. Meanwhile, Wigan and Portsmouth were relegated to League One after a second season in the Championship, Leeds and Sheffield Wednesday after a third.
For Wolves, Sunderland and Leicester there was considerable turmoil on and off the pitch which contributed to their demise. Burney fansmay fear there are similarities at Turf Moor.
During their double drop descent, Wolves - who remarkably suffered a treble drop to the bottom tier in the 1980s - burned through four managers and made a series of poor transfers. Sunderland did so with the ignominy of being the only club to finish bottom of both divisions, winning just 13 of 84 league matches.
The Black Cats had been in the top flight for 10 seasons - though they had only reached the 40-point barrier, usually the target to remain in the division, three times. Leicester's relegation to League One was a direct result of poor boardroom decisions, witha six-point deduction for breaching profit and sustainability regulationsultimately sealing their fate.
The Foxes finished 23rd in the Championship, five points from safety. It took Sunderland four years to return to the Championship, andsuch is the turmoil at Leicesteran immediate promotion looks unlikely.