Palace, Southampton and Norwich drop from Premiership

Last updated : 16 May 2005 By Michael Morris
Palace, Southampton and Norwich were relegated from the Premiership yesterday and now we have 20 of the 24 teams confirmed for next season.

Crystal Palace
Southampton
Norwich
Reading
Sheffied Utd
Wolves
Millwall
Q.P.R
Stoke
Burnley
Leeds
Leicester
Cardiff
Plymouth
Watford
Coventry
Brighton
Crewe
Luton
Hull

Pick three from West Ham, Ipswich, Preston or Derby. Only one of them can go up to the Premiership, and we will get one from either Sheff Weds, Brentford, Hartlepool or Tranmere coming up from League 2.

Congratulations to West Brom on surviving the drop. Great news for Earnie and Inamoto. Earnshaw started yesterdays 2 - 0 win over Portsmouth while Inamoto was an unused sub.

Commercially it's a good deal for City with a fee of £0.5m or possibly a bit more now due to City as part of the Earnshaw transfer deal. The original fee was £3m plus £625,000 based on certain conditions. One of those being West Brom staying up.