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Not surprising in a way considering their history but still a nice record to have.Tweet
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They joined the football league in 1899/1900 and have had 61 top flight seasons, almost all the others in the 2nd tier with just 2 seasons in the 3rd tier. So it's half their time bouncing between the top 2 leagues.
They've always been that up and down club, and have never really been big enough to have sustained periods towards the top of the top division. As Carrick hasn't yet managed them in the top-flight he hasn't coached them at a level where many of his predecessors would have struggled to keep up a good win percentage bearing in mind the size of club they are. Others would have matched him on the way up I'd imagine only to hit that wall after promotion. Those who only ever managed them in the top flight would have had their work cut out to get close to it, and those who only managed them in the 2nd tier but didn't do well there would have been fired/resigned eventually.
He's hit a nice spot to get that record, doing well but not quite well enough to be promoted.
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