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Bottom side Wolves relegated from the Premier League
On Monday, Wolverhampton Wanderers were officially relegated from the Premier League after West Ham United's 0-0 draw with Crystal Palace mathematically confirmed their fate.
Struggling through the worst Premier League start in history, Wolves remained bottom for 30 consecutive matchdays after replacing manager Vitor Pereira with Rob Edwards in November.
Edwards' side fell to a 3-0 defeat at Leeds, sealing their fate with 17 points after 33 matches, despite beating Arsenal, Aston Villa, and Liverpool earlier in the campaign.
West Ham's draw created an unbridgeable 16-point gap, confirming the club's eight-season departure from the English top flight and condemning them to the drop.
The Black Country club returns to the Championship, last visited in the 2017/18 season, following 2019/20 successes that included seventh-place finishes and Europa League qualification.
Wolverhampton Wanderers, the English Premier League (EPL) team where South Korean national football team striker Hwang Hee-chan (30) plays, will be relegated to the second division next season. This comes eight years after their promotion to the EPL in 2018. It is a crisis that a Korean player will disappear from the EPL for the first time in 21 years since Park Ji-sung joined Manchester United in 2005. Wolverhampton, which is at the bottom of t…