If we finish below City then we finish outside the top 4. We would have to completely implode.
As things stand they need us to lose 5 games while they win all their games just to be level.
Forest have a brutal run coming up and will be gone when it’s over.
If we finish above Arsenal we win it, they are the only ones who can stop us imo.
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We are 12 points ahead of City with a game in hand.
City are playing for top 4.
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With City in decline this season, have other teams taken stock and started to believe that there is hope of a level playing pitch?
Teams that would normally write off half a dozen matches every season and concentrate on beating the usual lower teams?
I wonder if clubs see this as the one season where normality and standards prevail.
Even Liverpool.
Destroyed by the cheating and corruption on occasions when they would win the league most years. Now, first season with a new manager and instead of settling for a bedding in period, realising even psychologically that this has a ring of fairness about it?
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I thought this was going to be written by Mark Schwarzer…
He was dribbling some absolute tripe about Cheaty yesterday, just a couple of days after surrendering a 2 goal lead to Brentford, as @Sweeting points out.
98% of these blokes are lucky they were good at football. They’d be fucked in life if they had to rely on their intelligence.
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Right…two weeks on…
Liverpool - 101
Arsenal - 92
Forest - 92
Cheaty - 86
Newcastle - 86
Chelsea - 88
Bournemouth - 85
Manchester Yanited - 70
I think it was @Arminius yesterday who said the chasing pack are quickly running out of runway…
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https://x.com/adamrowecomedy/status/1881080766530310215
https://x.com/KasengelePeter/status/1881206509268574616
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I made this point other day to be a pundit all it requires is you used to play. Any notion of been able to put together a coherent sentence isn’t important.
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I will be very pissed off if we lose to Cheaty at their shitheap.
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10 wins and 5 draws gets us the league. No other team is touching 85 points this time around.
Home fixtures (in order)
Ipswich , Wolves , Newcastle , Southampton, Everton , West Ham , Spurs , Arsenal , Palace
Away fixtures(in order)
Bournemouth, Everton , Man City, Aston Villa, Fulham , Leicester , Chelsea , Brighton.
Theoretically we have easier home matches than away ones. And we should be winning atleast 6 out of those 9 matches (Everton might decide to show up against us). The main thing here might just be that the league is probably decided with 4 games to spare and the Arsenal, Chelsea matches be rendered inconsequential.
Away fixtures do get a little bit more complicated with Bournemouth, Man City , Aston Villa , Chelsea , Fulham and Brighton. Not to mention Everton.
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Genuinely far too much thinking and worrying about this shit.
Aim to win every single game, no matter what. As we saw a few seasons ago, letting off after you’ve won the title can be a shaky foundation for a next season.
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I suppose that’s what we would need to do. We play the hand we are dealt
The chasing teams are going to be the ones to take more risks in their play and that quite often can backfire spectacularly.
But I will be breathing much more easier if we have roughly the same point gap to 2nd after 5 more games.
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Absolutely. But maybe reading this might help some fans chill the fuck out if we aren’t 3-0 up by half time
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I mean, you’re a veteran here.
You know they won’t.
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Alternatively, the refs might be instructed to keep the title “race” alive so that the Arsenal fixture means something.
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I was quite surprised to recall that the 2-0 win against United, the day the “now you’re going to believe us” first came out, was this weekend in the 19-20 season. We were a good 10 points further ahead then than we are now though.
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I doubt they would have been singing it had the goals come earlier.
What do you mean? Sure the second was a relief, but we were leading in that game from about the 10th minute.
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I didn’t realise how bad the injury crisis at Bournemouth was but credit to Iraola for just getting on with it. They have 11 fit outfield players and smashed Newcastle away.
Their whole bench was Mark Travers and a bunch of youngsters - including teenagers Zain Silcott-Duberry and Matai Akinmboni who only signed this week.
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Please note that Richard Hughes built that side.
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