Jeff Stelling asks why Neil Adams surrendered Norwich to relegation

and recalls his favourite final day moments...

By Jeff Stelling

Image: Adams: was not bold enough at Chelsea, says Jeff

What an achievement by Sunderland.

There's been so many dramatic final days and of course, that Sergio Aguero goal in 2012 was one of them. Merse absolutely excelled with his famous 'they're giving each other love bites' line that day. Then there was the famous Jimmy Glass moment, where the on loan keeper scored the winning goal to keep Carlisle up and send Scarborough down. Now that was pretty dramatic. My lot have been involved in a lot of last day escapes. In 2010 Hartlepool had three points deducted for fielding an eligible player; those points came off in the final week of the season. We had to go to Brentford and get a point not to be relegated. We were the last game to finish with six minutes of added time and I remember those six minutes of time being inordinately long before shouting, 'Have that Football League!' when the final whistle went. Then of course Brentford, last season against Doncaster, with Marcello Trotta's penalty miss and Johnny Phillips watching Watford and Leicester with the penalty miss. There's millions of them. Last days are great. We've had a brilliant season, whether it be Premier League or otherwise, there have been so many twists and turns. Every week has offered something different.

JEFF'S GEM OF THE WEEK

There were some good performances this week from sides that didn't win; Birmingham at Bolton on Saturday and then Crystal Palace against Liverpool on Monday, but my gem this week can only go to one team and that's Wycombe. Their 3-0 win at Torquay secured survival and it did make me smile. I'd read all the stuff with Gareth Ainsworth saying he'd dreamt he'd be celebrating with the fans at Plainmoor after staying up and to be honest, I thought it was a pretty unlikely scenario. I didn't think Bristol Rovers would lose at Mansfield. Whilst flicking around the games I watched some of it and I was really so disappointed with the performance. I haven't seen Rovers during the season, so I don't know whether they always play this way, but it was long throws and lumping the ball forward against a pretty big and physical side. I hope Wycombe stick by Gareth Ainsworth now they've survived because he's a bright young manger and I think, despite their problems this season, he's still popular with the Wycombe faithful. Hopefully he and the Wanderers can kick on from this. For Bristol Rovers it's a bit of disaster with plans for a new ground afoot. But they have a big fanbase so there's a chance they'll bounce straight back and to be honest, they probably need to.
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