Southampton officially confirmed their relegation from the Premier League to the English Championship in record-setting time after a 3-1 defeat to Tottenham on Sunday ended their short stint in the top-flight.
A Brennan Johnson brace in the first half and Mateus Fernandes’s late reply was too late to stop bottom of the table Southampton crashing back to the Championship.
Beaten for the 25th time in 31 games, Southampton made history by becoming the first Premier League team to be relegated with seven matches still to play.
Ipswich and Derby were relegated with six games left in 1994-95 and 2007-08, respectively.
Their slide down to the second tier was confirmed 315 days after they clinched promotion by beating Leeds in the Championship play-off final at Wembley.