After five league titles and three FA Cup wins Newcastle United's fortunes take a dramatic dip in 1934. The club suffer a shock relegation and get stuck in a Second Division rut.

They come agonisingly close to a humiliating relegation to the third tier of English football in 1938 but survive by less than a tenth of a goal via the old goal average system.

The club are still stuck in Division Two by the time World War II breaks out.

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