With Gateshead pulling off this escape act, we’ve delved into the archives and pulled up five other teams and moments for whom hope seemed lost after terrible seasons.<\/p>\n
Oldham Athletic (1993): With six days of the inaugural Premier League campaign remaining, Oldham were eight points behind Crystal Palace with three matches to play. All over bar the shouting seemingly.<\/p>\n
But Oldham produced wins over Aston Villa, Liverpool and Southampton as Palace claimed only one point from their last two games, meaning Joe Royle’s side stayed up on goal difference. <\/p>\n
Carlisle United (1999): Two words – Jimmy Glass. In injury time of the last game of the season, Carlisle were set for non-league football.<\/p>\n
They won a corner, goalkeeper Glass went forward as a last resort and swept home the goal that kept Carlisle up in the old Division Three at Scarborough’s expense.<\/p>\n
The North Yorkshire club were relegated instead and they have never returned.<\/p>\n
Bradford City (2000): It looked like being one season and out of the Premier League for Bradford, when they were six points adrift with five games to go.<\/p>\n
But Paul Jewell’s Bantams produced a memorable run of 10 points from those matches to send Wimbledon down, culminating in a last-day win over Liverpool, which cost them a place in the Champions League. <\/p>\n
West Ham United (2007): A chaotic season at Upton Park seemed to be heading in only one direction after a traumatic 4-3 loss to Tottenham left them 10 points shy of safety with nine games to go.<\/p>\n
But inspired by Argentina star Carlos Tevez, the Hammers reeled off seven wins in that finish, capped by victory at champions Manchester United on the final Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Hammers’ unlikely Old Trafford triumph turned the match between Sheffield United and Wigan Athletic into a relegation shootout, which the Latics won.<\/p>\n
Leicester City (2015): There would have been no title wonder of 2016, if not for their great escape the season before.<\/p>\n
The Foxes more than doubled their points tally in the final nine games as they produced seven wins and a draw to climb from 20th to 14th, creating momentum that carried over into the following season.<\/p>\n
Of the 13 players who secured safety in the penultimate game at Sunderland, 11 would be collecting winners’ medals 12 months later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Gateshead pulling off this escape act, we’ve delved into the archives and pulled up five other teams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-625876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}