da wazamba： As Everton, Leicester and Leeds prepare for a tense Sunday in the fight against the drop, GOAL remembers some all-time classics…

da blaze casino： Everton, Leicester or Leeds, then? Only one of those clubs will be playing Premier League football next season, and fans of all three will be put through the wringer on Sunday, as this season’s relegation battle draws to a dramatic conclusion.

As things stand, Everton are the team with their fate in their own hands. Beat Bournemouth at Goodison Park and the Toffees are safe. Fail to do so, and either Leicester, who host West Ham, or Leeds, who face Tottenham at Elland Road, will have the chance to take advantage.

It promises to be a thrilling, tension-filled afternoon, the kind we have seen before many times in Premier League history. Here, GOAL takes a look at some of the most memorable final-day relegation battles down the years…

Getty1993 – Oldham epic

It feels incredible to think, given where they are now in the National League, that Oldham were founder members of the Premier League back in 1992. And Joe Royle’s side actually secured a second top-flight season too, staying up courtesy of a crazy 4-3 win over Southampton at Boundary Park on the final day of the inaugural campaign.

Oldham had actually needed to win each of their final three matches, including games against Liverpool and title-chasing Aston Villa, to secure survival. They did so, ensuring that Crystal Palace, who lost at Arsenal on the final day, were relegated instead. 

AdvertisementGetty1994 – Everton's Great Escape

He only scored three goals for Everton, but Barry Horne will forever have a place in Goodison Park history. So too, will Graham Stuart, whose two goals either side of Horne’s 35-yard screamer, secured the Toffees’ Premier League survival on one of the most nervous final days in English football history.

Everton needed to beat Wimbledon at Goodison to have any chance of survival, on a day when no fewer than four teams were in danger. When the Blues fell 2-0 down in the first half, the game looked up.

But Stuart converted a controversial penalty before Horne unleashed his thunderbolt to level the scores. Even then, Everton were heading down until Wimbledon goalkeeper Hans Segers dived over a low Stuart strike, nine minutes from time, to seal their survival.

Down instead went Sheffield United, who at one point in the day had been as high as 15th in the table but who fell to a last-minute defeat at Chelsea. It would 12 years before the Blades would return.

Getty1997 – Juninho's tears

What a strange old season Middlesbrough had in 1996-97. They reached both the League Cup and FA Cup finals, delighted neutrals with the likes of Juninho, Emerson and Fabrizio Ravanelli, and yet found themselves relegated on the final day of the season.

The iconic image was of Brazil playmaker Juninho, crying on the turf at Elland Road after a final-day in which Boro’s draw with Leeds, coupled with Coventry’s surprise win at Tottenham, had sent the Teesiders down.

The die was really cast, though, back in December, when Middlesbrough had failed to fulfil a league game at Blackburn, citing an outbreak of illness within the squad. The three-point deduction subsequently imposed by the Premier League cost them dear. Had they played the Blackburn game, even with a youth team, Boro would have survived by a point.

Getty1998 – Everton's Great Escape: Part II

Goodison, no doubt, will rock on Sunday, but it will have to go some way to top the atmosphere of May 1998, when Gareth Farrelly’s finest moment in a blue shirt ensured yet another great escape on the final day.

Everton, facing Coventry, needed to better the result of Bolton, who were away at Chelsea, to stay up. Farrelly’s early goal set them on their way, and when the late Gianluca Vialli put Chelsea ahead at Stamford Bridge, all looked well.

But Nick Barmby missed a penalty at Goodison and then, to home fans’ horror, Dion Dublin squeezed in an equaliser. Had Bolton scored then, Everton were down.

They didn’t, despite Chelsea fans ironically cheering them on. Jody Morris killed the game in stoppage time at the Bridge, and Everton survived, by the skin of their teeth.