In March 2019, Southend United and Scunthorpe United met in League One , where they were separated by a single point.

That represented relative overachievement; both had recently been in the fourth tier but were promoted in successive seasons. Scunthorpe won the game 4-1 but sacked manager Stuart McCall 12 days later. Three days later, Southend sacked Chris Powell.

And then life began to turn firmly for the worse. Southend stayed up but then suffered consecutive relegations, falling into non-league after 101 years in the Football League.

Scunthorpe suffered even worse. Their five consecutive league positions: 23rd, 20th, 22nd, 24th, 23rd and dropping to the sixth tier having never previously been relegated from the Football League. Neither has been back in EFL football since.

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