Shrewsbury Town were relegated from the Football League on Tuesday less than four months after creating one of the great FA Cup shocks by beating Premier League club Everton.

Tuesday's 3-2 home defeat by Carlisle United means the third division's bottom club cannot avoid relegation from the lowest tier of English soccer's professional pyramid for the first time since they were elected to the league in 1950.

Sadness. I've always had a bit of a soft spot for Shrewsbury, mainly because they did at one time have a club employee whose job it was to sit in a rowboat on matchdays and fish the ball out of the river whenever it got hoofed out of the Shrews' tiny stadium. Hopefully the club will be back in the League soon.

What, by the way, is with the photo accompanying this article? It's just a picture of somebody's knee.