Bristol Rovers achieved it last season, scoring the last goal that secured them promotion last season over Northampton what with having superior Goal Difference - Been some really tight margins in that regard of late.
I should have mentioned the 1962/1963 season when I started following Charlton. We travelled to Walsall in our final game needing a win to send them down by goal average (forerunner of goal difference) and avoid relegation ourselves. We won 2-1 and survived.
The year we went up in 81 didn't Sheff Utd go down on GD to Walsall...ooops just checked it was 1 point. Amazing Rotherham won the league with what would be now 85 points.
19/20 we were relegated when Barnsley scored a last minute winner against Brentford (having scored a last minute goal against Forest the game before) to survive. Up to that point Barnsley had been in the relegation zone since September and got out in injury time of their final game. Bastards.
20/21 we missed out on the Play-Offs on goal difference to Oxford. There were plenty of moments you could point to along the way that were of our own making, including Stockley missing a penalty against Peterborough and us conceding a 96th minute equaliser against Crewe but the one that stands out the most is poor old Ronnie Schwarz missing a last minute penalty against Oxford, which probably would have given us enough of a cushion.
And these happened to us just in the last few years. What a life.
Charlton Athletic 3 Blackburn Rovers 4, 26 April 1958
One more goal for Charlton or one less for Blackburn would have seen us bounce back to the First Division at the first attempt. As it was we'd be out of the top flight for 28 years. Surely, no single goal was as defining of our history as Blackburn's winner that day.
Many a time I've watched a game that would've ended 0-0 if it wasn't for one team or the other scoring and getting a 1-0 win. You just can't legislate for that.
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Charlton Athletic 3 Blackburn Rovers 4, 26 April 1958
One more goal for Charlton or one less for Blackburn would have seen us bounce back to the First Division at the first attempt. As it was we'd be out of the top flight for 28 years. Surely, no single goal was as defining of our history as Blackburn's winner that day.Many a time I've watched a game that would've ended 0-0 if it wasn't for one team or the other scoring and getting a 1-0 win. You just can't legislate for that.
Dennis in the last minute was not a bad day/night out either!