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Everton, Leicester City and Leeds United braced for D-Day
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Any two from three would be a jarring hole in the Premier League but it is Everton, a top-tier club for 69 years, whose demotion would be most historic.
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LONDON – The equation is two from three on a nerve-racking final day of the Premier League season. Three big clubs, 13 English top-flight titles between them, in sudden death, a financial abyss below them.
Each of the endangered sides show what can go wrong for a provincial force without the pulling power of the true elite, or without money-no-object owners behind them. Both nine-time champions Everton and Leicester City, their 2016 fairy tale a cherished recent memory, have had billionaire owners, but have lately lost the security of access to such funds.
