Sentence examples for the division below from inspiring English sources
noun
The act or process of dividing anything.
John Gurney, who had just become the chairman of Luton Town following a takeover by a consortium from Hong Kong and the United States, briefly floated the idea of buying Wimbledon F.C. and merging it with Luton, "effectively buying a back door to Division One" (Luton were in the division below), but was soon after ousted by Luton supporters.
Ten seasons ago City were in the Premiership, County in the division below.
In the the Championship, Southampton – after a pause – get a Town added to their name, as do Chesterfield in the division below.
Keith Hill's men had to defend with great togetherness during a second half when Forest did at least remember they were playing a team from the division below.
Paul Sturrock has been confirmed as the manager of Plymouth Argyle for a second time after leaving Swindon Town of the division below.
Since the team was formed, it has risen from Division Five of the ICC's World Cricket League, where it competed against Jersey, Botswana and Norway, to the Championship, the division below the elite Test match sides.
Comparisons between the standard of football in the top flight and the three divisions below are futile but, with the Championship the fourth-best supported league in Europe, it seems safe to assume that fans are enthralled by the prospect of following a club in a competition where most finishing positions are not a foregone conclusion at the start of the season.
We wouldn't get that in the divisions below because people probably are not as interested".
In mainland Europe they actively promote such fluidity by having more clubs going up and down, which in itself improves the playing standards of the divisions below the top.
Bury are like dozens of other clubs in the Football League, in that their biggest successes came years ago (two FA Cup wins in 1900 and 1903), and have spent most of the interim shuffling between the divisions below the top tier.
One might even argue that they are among the most impressive lower-tier clubs in Britain, where soccer's primary schism is between the league teams — those in the top four divisions — and the nonleague teams, which play in the divisions below.
