# EPL - which 3 teams will be relegated?

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**Created:** [August 19, 2005, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epl-which-3-teams-will-be-relegated/317726 "2005-08-19T11:32:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epl-which-3-teams-will-be-relegated/317726/1 "2005-08-19T11:32:28Z")

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It’s early doors at the moment, as they say in football parlance, but you have one week in which to decide which 3 teams will plummet to the second division, or whatever stupid name the marketing people call it now.

My choices: **Portsmouth** , \*\*West Ham \*\* (brave choice that, with them sitting pretty in second place), and **Blackburn**.

One-Bryan-Robson to keep the Baggies up again, and Paul Jewell to do the biz for the rugby league giants.

Teams here:

Charlton  
West Ham  
Arsenal  
Man Utd  
Tottenham  
Chelsea  
Aston Villa  
Bolton  
Birmingham  
Fulham  
Liverpool  
Man City  
Middlesbrough  
West Brom  
Wigan  
Blackburn  
Sunderland  
Everton  
Newcastle  
Portsmouth

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**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epl-which-3-teams-will-be-relegated/317726/2 "2005-08-20T04:21:27Z")

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To make it more interesting and to decide the winner in case of ties, I’ll make it last three in the correct order. To kick off:

18: West Ham  
19: Portsmouth  
20: Blackburn

And I’ll pop a link in the new English football thread so people can find this before gridiron and ice hockey knock it off the front page.

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**Author:** ![eponymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@eponymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eponymous)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/epl-which-3-teams-will-be-relegated/317726/3 "2005-08-20T05:41:59Z")

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My picks to drop:

1. Portsmouth
2. Wigan
3. Sunderland

I think West Ham United will avoid relegation, as will Fulham and West Bromwich Albion.

Lot’s of people don’t give Blackburn good odds to stay up, but I think they’ll do just enough to survive.