top-flight

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Under the departing Shi, Wolves won promotion from the Championship in 2018 with Nuno Espirito Santo in charge of the team before having two successive seventh-placed finishes in the top flight.

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Uriah Rennie: The Premier League's first black referee officiated more than 300 games in his career, including 175 in the top flight between 1997 and 2008.

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Manchester United and Bournemouth served up an eight-goal thriller on Monday, which former Liverpool and England defender Jamie Carragher described as the "best game" so far this season in the English top flight.

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Seventh-placed Sunderland are enjoying a superb return to the top flight following promotion via the play-offs last season.

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Ryan Taylor, the last player to score a winning goal for Newcastle against Sunderland in the top flight back in 2011, likens the intensity of the rivalry to the Old Firm in Scotland.

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