I wouldn’t read much into it. End of season game, they are already down. Giving youngsters playing time is probably one of the few things they can do now to give themselves a positive from this season.
We were very good at the beginning of the season, we’ve been the best side over the past several weeks, but we really, really sucked after Christmas for a few months.
The point is that our poor performance can be isolated to a specific period of time that culminated with key injuries while MC went on an absolute tear.
It means that we will be serious title contenders next season, IMHO, if we can avoid the catastrophic injuries we’ve experienced.
Outing myself as a pro wrestling (not “sports entertainment”) anorak, but here’s Jim Cornette on Fulham going down (for anyone who doesn’t know, Tony Khan, son of Fulham’s owner Shahid Khan, owns and runs a “wrestling” company in the US). It’s mad hearing two Americans trying to comprehend the concept of relegation.
Aliens to come down and steal the stadium with all the players
In all honesty, I think Chelsea to win and be qualify for C/L as that will give them a greater chance of signing Kane, which would then mean Abrahams is possibly looking to leave to get first team football so we can chuck a cheeky bid in for him.
Will also mean Leicester being in E/L so there could be a chance of some of their players leaving in search of C/L teams ie Barnes, Ndidi, Teilemans
Bernardo Silva laying down behind the wall. I don’t get why players do this. If I saw an opponent try this when I was playing I’d tell whoever’s talking the free kick go under the wall to hit the fucker in the head