In October 2005, Bob signed a two-year contract at newly relegated Widnes.
In 2003 he joined newly relegated West Ham United, but found his opportunities limited and failed to force himself into first team reckoning.
In July 2008, he joined Cesena which newly relegated back to Serie C1.
On the final day of the 2011 summer transfer window, Friend returned to the second division, joining the newly relegated Eintracht Frankfurt.
He was released by Oxford in May 2007, signing for newly relegated Torquay United the following month.
At the start of the 1966-67 season, Connelly was transferred to newly relegated Blackburn Rovers for £40,000.
They were statistically the best supported team in the Championship; their average home league attendance of 24,853 marginally beat newly relegated Norwich with 24,833.
Newly relegated Watford finished 13th of 24 teams in 1996-97.
On 21 July 2005, newly relegated Atalanta signed him.
He was the regular but in 2004-05 season loaned to Napoli which newly relegated to Serie C1.
