article_snippet.sent: After more than two years of inexorable decline the patience of Tranmere's faithful finally snapped when Oxford moved decisively ahead, in an effortless manner reminiscent of the previous Saturday's Boat Race.
article_snippet.sent: The Tranmere players look down after the final whistle, as the prospect of relegation looms large .
article_snippet.sent: The fear involves dropping out of League Two a week on Saturday after 94 years of membership, something which provoked an angry demonstration by some 150 supporters outside the gates afterwards.
article_snippet.sent: Relegation to the National League –
article_snippet.sent: Kemar Roofe celebrates scoring, as a professional Oxford side eased past sorry Tranmere .
article_snippet.sent: six months on they are still bottom after failing to keep a clean sheet for nineteen consecutive matches.
article_snippet.sent: The prospect of dropping out of the 92 is something uniquely grim in English football, especially for a club of this heritage, who shortly after joining the league gave a debut to 16 year-old local lad Dixie Dean.
article_snippet.sent: It was only in January 2013 that they stood on top of League One and early in the last decade reached the League Cup final plus three FA Cup sixth rounds.
article_snippet.sent: But they do not have to look far for examples of how there is no easy road back in the event of relegation.
highlights_snippet.sent: Tranmere on brink of relegation from League Two with two games to play .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Tranmere could drop out of League Two after 94 years .