Premier League Season Preview, Part 3 of 3: The Relegation Battle

Published: August 10, 2007, 4:00 am

Filed under: Soccer, Featured StoriesDon't forget to check out Part 1 and Part 2 of our Premier League Season Preview.Imagine for a moment that the worst baseball team in the major leagues was demoted to AAA, and the AAA champion took the demoted team's place.That, my friends, is what we call promotion and relegation, and it's been a staple of European football for decades. The best teams move up to higher leagues, and the worst teams move down to lower leagues. In the Premier League, the clubs that finish in the bottom three get relegated to the Coca-Cola Championship, the 2nd-tier league in England.Oh, but it's a precipitous drop from top flight to 2nd tier. Premier League clubs are expected to earn an average of £60 million in television revenue alone this season, thanks to a series of new international TV deals, while Championship clubs will earn only £2 million in TV money. This makes the relegation battle at the bottom of the table just as dramatic as battle for the

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