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Revealed: 13 relegated clubs who never returned to the Premier League
EXPRESS SPORT brings you the doomed teams who never made it back to the top flight
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Relegation is the ultimate punishment for underachieving, but simply dropping out of the top flight has the potential to completely destroy once-great football clubs.
There will be Aston Villa, Newcastle, Norwich and Sunderland fans out there who genuinely believe that relegation could be a blessing in disguise, an opportunity to clear out and start again.
However, these 13 teams are shining examples of what relegation can do to a team, and prove that bouncing back isn't an easy task.