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Blackburn Rovers 1995-96, Manchester United 2005-06, Manchester City 2012-13. Before this week’s events, this was the complete list of Premier League teams to have finished bottom of their Big Cup group. This season, two English clubs have ended up bottom of the pile, wrapping up their European adventures before Football Daily had wrapped up/bought/thought about buying any Christmas presents. Oh Uniteds! Newcastle followed Manchester into the Big Cup Hall of Shame on Wednesday night; the Magpies’ campaign did not come close to the “we’re-gonna-concede-one-more-than-you”, out-of-control-clown-car escapades of Erik ten Hag’s side, but in its own way was just as disappointing.
