Actually not.
There has been 16 seasons of a 20 team Premiership since it's introduction in the 1995/96 season and in that time the promoted Champions have been relegated the following seasons on just 6 occasions. There have been four occasions where the team promoted as Champions have secured a top half finish and six times where the winners from the previous year has finished between 12th-15th.
Worryingly though is a pattern has emerged over the previous six seasons the champions from the Championship have been relegated, survived, survived, relegated, survived, survived.
There has been 16 seasons of a 20 team Premiership since it's introduction in the 1995/96 season and in that time the promoted Champions have been relegated the following seasons on just 6 occasions. There have been four occasions where the team promoted as Champions have secured a top half finish and six times where the winners from the previous year has finished between 12th-15th.
Worryingly though is a pattern has emerged over the previous six seasons the champions from the Championship have been relegated, survived, survived, relegated, survived, survived.
NPower Champions 2010/2011
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