Media darlings Preston were installed as favourites, but the dogged – and some claimed ‘lucky’ – Arsenal clawed themselves back into the race, winning 3-1 at a muddy Deepdale in the season’s defining encounter. Buckley also enjoyed garnering attention in the press and, following a meeting with chemist Menzies Sharp, allowed his players to undergo a four-month course of 12 injections taken from monkey glands. This England debacle, which featured Robert Green throwing one in against the USA and Wayne Rooney slamming his own fans after a draw with Algeria, proved them tragically, hilariously right. Ally MacLeod’s squad, which featured Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness, Alan Hansen, Archie Gemmill and Joe Jordan, were confident of qualifying from a group containing Holland, Iran and Peru. With just 52 points from 42 games, Arsenal’s haul was the joint-lowest total for league champions.

They rode their luck at times too - most notably against Portsmouth in September, when Robert Pires dived to win a penalty in a 1-1 draw. So if your club - even if it’s a team you personally loved – is on this list, please don’t be offended. Just click the arrow on the right of the image of Sunderland's stadium, above, to scroll through our gallery and find out. Football fans love to hate a rival club almost as much as they love to support their own. Graham Westley has never cared about winning popularity contests. talkSPORT fans on Facebook voted in their droves to have their say on which team is English football's most hated, and it was Sunderland who came in 10th place*. In total, there are 12 clubs who have 20 or more chants aimed at them. Souey recruited Terry Hurlock as his replacement and Mark Hateley as a targetman alongside Mo Johnston, whose shibboleth-shattering signing – he was Gers’ first high-profile Catholic – was perhaps peak Souness vs The World.

A return to the Premier League will only heighten that hatred you’d imagine.

The 30 specific teams we’ve plucked from British football history are an assorted rogue’s gallery. Purveyors of the long-ball game at their cramped Plough Lane ground, the Crazy Gang’s approach represented football at its most agricultural.

Tottenham plot move for 14-goal Serie A star. Crippled by their move to a new stadium the previous August, plus the collapse of ITV Digital which left them bereft of previously-promised millions, Leicester were rescued by a Gary Lineker-led consortium in March 2003 having sunk into administration with debts of £30m six months earlier. The club’s famous family spirit was, Brian Clough snapped, more mafia than Mothercare. If the self-publicising, self-aggrandising Hammam wasn’t promising to make the entire Welsh nation support the Bluebirds, he was pretentiously describing his new club as the ‘Barcelona of Wales’. Sven-Goran Eriksson – never one to turn down a lucrative offer – was hired as director of football, while targetman Lee Hughes arrived on the same day (he’d been a Premier League player until spending three years in jail for causing death by dangerous driving). Argentina ‘78 remains the only World Cup Scots talk about. Something historic. The obvious explanation is that Millwall supporters have a rap sheet as long as Al Capone’s. Or, simply, because your friend supports them. “It’s a f**king disgrace,” whined Didier Drogba at the end of Chelsea’s Champions League semi-final defeat by Barcelona in 2009, a game in which Danish referee Tom Henning Ovrebo turned down six penalty shouts from the Blues. Honest. Matt Tubbs’ 37 goals duly saw Crawley steamroller the fifth tier, while they also reached the fifth round of the FA Cup and only narrowly lost to Manchester United. It also includes many players from the English Premier League and Spanish La Liga. Most of these teams picked up opprobrium and victories at the same rate. Nothing’s really worked. Boro turned to him for a third time after a failed spell at Preston, and Westley successfully stopped the rot with a third sixth-place finish in five seasons. What's not to like? By Greg Lea 12 April 2017. He raged against his own players, against West Ham for the Carlos Tevez affair and against Alex Ferguson and Rafa Benitez, who he accused of playing weakened sides against relegation rivals.

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