This fall and rise of Luton Town is not the first. They have rattled vigorously up and down on the helter-skelter of English football for several decades and, as a lifelong fan, their chairman David Wilkinson has ridden along with them.
Nine promotions and 10 relegations have unfolded since he first set foot inside Kenilworth Road in the late 1950s.
To begin, they plummeted from an FA Cup final and the old Division One into the fourth tier and back via a blaze of Malcolm Macdonald goals, all within 15 years.
They climbed back to the top under David Pleat, pulled off miraculous escapes, stirred controversy with a plastic pitch and won the League Cup before relegation as the Premier League was born.