Southampton are seeking to avoid Derby’s Premier League low of 11 points, set in 2007-08.
“If we didn’t laugh we’d cry.”
When Derby County completed the 2007-08 campaign with a mere 11 points. The lowest tally in Premier League history – it seemed like a record that would never broken.
The club have since become the answer to a commonly-used pub quiz question: Who are the worst team in Premier League history?
But that unwanted tag could potentially become someone else’s burden as Southampton sit bottom on 10 points with eight games to go.
While the Saints have a few more weeks to pick up the points required to avoid that unwanted statistic. Their relegation could confirm as early as Sunday if they lose at Tottenham.
“It’s baffling,” admitted Derby supporter Jake Barker. “I don’t think any Derby fan ever expected anyone to come close, let alone this close.”
How close the Saints really are to becoming the worst-ever Premier League team – and how Rams fans would feel to give up their crown.
What was it like being the worst-ever Premier League team?
During Derby’s torrid season, they won one game, scored 20 goals and finished with a goal difference of -69.
They suffered some heavy defeats, losing by five goals or more to Liverpool, Arsenal, West Ham, Chelsea and Aston Villa.
Derby player Andy Todd later said สมัคร UFABET วันนี้ รับเครดิตฟรีสำหรับสมาชิกใหม่ many players “threw the towel in” during that campaign. While manager Paul Jewell reveale. He was advised never to take the job.
“The atmosphere was almost pantomime-like at times with chants of ‘let’s pretend we scored a goal’ and ‘you’re nothing special – we lose every week’,” Derby County fan Amelia Warren
“Those kinds of things are obviously not what you want to hear your fans chanting. But ultimately we had to make our own fun. If we didn’t laugh we’d cry!”
It was such an awful season that Jewell, who arrived in November 20