Complex sentence: Initially, the side continued to finish in the top four, but only finished 10th in 1982-83, and after a shock defeat in the League Cup at the hands of Walsall in November 1983, Neill was sacked.
Split into simpler sentences: Initially, the side continued to finish in the top four, but only finished 10th in 1982-83. After a shock defeat in the League Cup at the hands of Walsall in November 1983, Neill was sacked.