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Title: In a league of their own.(football clubs, Premiership, Nationwide League )
Author: David H. Wells
Publication: Financial Management (UK) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2004
Publisher: Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
Page: 11(1)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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It is predictable that, of the four football clubs in the recent Nationwide League division one play-offs, Sunderland and West Ham United were relegated from the Barclaycard Premiership in the previous season and Ipswich Town were relegated the season before. The other side to come down the previous season, West Bromwich Albion, had already secured automatic promotion. These clubs seem destined to switch endlessly between the Premiership and the Nationwide League as the financial gulf between success and failure widens. There are three main reasons for this: