Is the double drop from the Premier League becoming more common?

Back-to-back relegations to the third tier of English football are becoming more common and this season Burnley could make it a hat-trick after Luton Town and Leicester. One day Leicester were playing Liverpool in the Premier League, then within 15 months it was Notts County, Burton Albion and MK Dons in League One. It is a path of back-to-back relegations to the third tier of English football which was exceptionally rare. Now statistically it is becoming more common. With Burnley marooned in the Championship relegation zone, they could be the third team in three years to suffer the double drop, For the 1,450 Burnley supporters who made the trip to Lincoln City last weekend, the threat is all too real.

Head coach Nicky Hayen was never likely to survive a 4-1 defeat by a Lincoln team who were in non-league football 10 years ago. With Diego Lopez appointed as Burnley's new chief football officer, and Fabio Celestini installed as their new boss, the Clarets must now hope for a change in fortunes. Is the Championship becoming ever-more competitive as well-run clubs like Lincoln make an impact? Or it simply a case of clubs from the Premier League imploding after relegation? Fifteen years ago, the suggestion a top-flight club could be relegated in successive seasons was unthinkable. After all, in the