SWANSEA
Up: four seasons, three promotions
Down: four seasons, three relegations
In 1975, Swansea finished third-bottom of the Fourth Division and had to apply for re-election to the Football League – winning the vote, at the expense of such non-league clubs as Bedford, Goole and Chelmsford.
Three years later, a 28-year-old John Toshack, blighted by injury in his last season at Anfield, left Liverpool to become the club’s player-manager in March 1978.
Swansea sat seventh in the fourth tier: within two months, he guided them to automatic promotion, then repeated the feat a year later, finding the net himself to confirm their rise to the Second Division, having also signed ex-Liverpool pals Tommy Smith, Ian Callaghan and Phil Boersma.
There followed a disappointingly boring 12th-placed finish, before the Swans took
