“What’s the longest ‘yo-yo’ sequence of a team that really can’t decide which league to stay in?” weeps Southampton fan Rupert Sheard.
Southampton are on course to yo-yo for the third consecutive season, having been relegated from the Premier League in 2022-23 and promoted from the Championship last year. “Rupert can console himself that Saints are a few years from troubling the record books,” writes Mike Slattery. “There are two clubs in English League football who were promoted or relegated in six consecutive seasons. Rotherham United played in either League One or the Championship every second season from 2016-17 to 2022-23, so they are the champions of the yo-yo league. They managed to stay up two seasons ago and so ended their run at six.
