Luton Town has been relegated again, only 12 months after their Premier League Survival Fight.
The Hatters finished only six points behind Nottingham Forest last season, with the difficult trees that now chase Champions League football under Nuno Espirito Santo.
Unfortunately for the believers of Kenilworth Road, Luton could not shake the habit of losing.
Under former boss Rob Edwards, who led the city to the Premier League, Luton only collected six points of their last 16 games of the 2023-24 campaign.
If fans had the impression that the championship would be easier, they were hiding back to Earth with a cruel bump when she lost 4-1 to Burnley at home on the opening day last August.
The Clarets bounce back to the top flight at the first time of asking, the Hatters would not.
Chasing defeats in Preston, Plymouth Argyle, Sheffield United and Coventry City followed their disappointment of the opening day.
While their 5-1 abuse in Middlesbrough Boss Edwards led him to admit that he felt “numb” for the situation.
Luton tried to stay faithful to the man who brought them to the Premier League, but eventually persuaded the tractor in January when their desperate situation was impossible to ignore.
In Matt Bloomfield, a League One Promotion -Appointed with Wycombe Wanderers, came for a Dog Fight relegation in Luton.
Bloomfield won only four of his first 15 games that were in charge of Wycombe, so a slow start at Luton was perhaps not entirely unpredictable.
But the 41-year-old who took nine games to secure his first Hatters victory left his side behind with a lot.
Luton saw a late indictment briefly climbing out of the relegation zone.
But a 5-3 collapse at West Brom on the last day sealed their fate and condemned the Hatters to relegation.
Last summer Luton lost the will of Ross Barkley, Chiedozie Ogbene and Andros Townsend, while Club Stalwart Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu was allowed to go on loan.
Then there was inspiring skipper Tom Lockyer, the middle behind who suffered a second cardiac arrest on the field last season.
The International in Wales has recovered since then and has been made available to return, but a whole series of injuries have kept him off the field this season.
His future on Kenilworth Road remains doubtful.
Speaking of Luton's traditional house, so embedded in the community, the Hatters recently announced plans to move to a new stadium with 25,000 seats.
Despite their relegation, CEO Gary Sweet Bullish remains about the prospect.
'That's who we are'
Sweet said to the athletics: “That is what the Premier League did for us.
“What I said this week, when we announced the contractor to build Power Court (the location of the new land), is that during this life in that stadium in that stadium in the Premier League, the championship, in League One and most likely, League Two are going to play because that is Luton Town.
“That is who we are, it is the journeys we take, as our history has absolutely proven.
“So whether we are League One of Championship next season, it really makes no difference to the specification of that program, the timeline or delivery of Power Court.
“All we do is regroup as a football club and a football team.”
In a club statement, chairman David Wilkinson Bullishs added: “The in -depth analysis began before the relegation was confirmed, as individuals and as a club, while we worked harder and more effectively to build on the form of form that, before Saturday's defeat, had placed us with such a chance to survive.
“The only thing we can promise is that we will revise, regrouping and rebuilding at the moment. Indeed, this has begun.
“We must restore the mind that was so familiar to us at our turnout, and we will now use this as a catalyst for a renewed determination and focus to achieve one objective.
“Long discussions have already taken place with Matt [Bloomfield] And his staff with regard to the following season designed to reform our team in a good Luton team, we can all be proud to watch next season.
“No stone will remain untouched while we judge the 2025/26 season, hopefully, hopefully, with new optimism and renewed power.”
Van Duelleren with people like Manchester United and Liverpool last season, Luton will have to overcome Mansfield and Burton in the next term.