Yep, a combination of injuries, points deductions, and Ince where’re now in the turd tier.
Tempted to say disaster, but frankly it might be what was needed. Rebuild from ground up, with a long term view, etc.
But WHY did it have to be that gloating prick Warnock that did it. Aaaarrggghhh!
[edit - and **** you Blunts as well. Never liked you, and you couldn't even turn up and allow us a showdown sniff]
Well similar city Napoli went down to Série C a few years ago and they’ve done ok.
I turned the TV off when i heard the whistle just after the clearance up field, woke up to find it ended 1-0 😂
Sky are showing a 3pm Saturday game today, is this the first time, or has it been happening for a while?
That's new or at least I can't remember it happening before?
'Tis because it was originally scheduled for Sunday, but was moved to give 2 days rest before the UCL semi-final 1st leg.
Sam might be Pep's equivalent in football terms.
His team however....
Will he last longer than he did in the England job?
In an improbable twist, I was rooting for a Leeds second after that penalty **** up. Pep looked furious, he might bench them both next game!
Given our current form I'm taking a 2-1 loss as positive result!
So Kane has now over taken Rooney. It's odd as I never think of Rooney as an out and out striker like Kane.
That was an absolute corker of a match. Technically they’re still in a title race.
I fully expect us to now fail to capitalise on Newcastle losing
Great game, as a Newcastle fan disappointed but for keeping the title race alive not.
Have to say as well, I know they were booed off but I thought the officials had a really good game. They got all of the main decisions right including the penalty and managed to keep the lid on the tempers whilst not interfering too much and allowing two physical teams to have a bit of a kick-up.
Onwards we go, still need another two wins
God only knows what Dave was thinking there.
I bloody knew we’d do this!
Hilarious watching Shearer try and claim that the overturned penalty in the Newcastle/arsenal match wasn't clear.
It appears that we don’t actually want to finish in the top four after all
This is absolutely woeful! We’re all over the place!
Keeping it interesting Binners! You’ll win your home games, and that’ll be enough.
Subject to Fergie time, West Ham seem safe now.
Should be safe from relegation now. COYI.
Yep, assuming Southampton are down, it’s two from four. Hopefully Everton will go.
Re Man U - Rashford’s goals have dried up a bit and they have very few other regular scorers, aside from Bruno chipping in.
I know that players get a lot of criticism, a lot of it unfair, but this is a really nice video of Declan Rice after the match last night. He always comes across as a top bloke and he would have been in a good mood after his MOTM performance and a thoroughly deserved 3 points
https://twitter.com/fbawaydays/status/1655321239693475841?s=46&t=1lK7Dw1b6RqGJyvufO-trQ
Right... Whats going on?
I've just flicked the Everton game on and they're 3 up against Brighton before half time? Fulham beat Leicester 5-3
The end to the season is going to be absolutely nuts by the looks of things
Blimey, not surprised at 3-0 but was expecting Everton to be at the wrong end of it!
4 now 😳
Been watching it. Looks like lozenger dodger Sean Dyche is pulling them out of the swamp.
Tonight is tasty as well. Lots of goals!
A proper relegation scrap, three 6-pointer matches, 21 goals 😳
Two words that go together of late: Reading lost.
I don't think I can take another 3 games of that...we went from potentially 5-2 to 4-3 in minutes.
MGW flick on was Bryan Roy'esque.
When Southampton were promoted to the PL, they were the team that were well run, developing players selling them on to champions league clubs for big profits, but it slowly faded as they lost the backroom staff and manager that lead it all. Then Leicester took a turn, rode their luck to actually win the PL, but they recruited well and built a really good team, but as the big teams picked off their star players they couldn't keep repeating the recruitment success.
Now it's Brighton, I wonder how long they can ride the wave. I think it gets harder to buy good players cheaply when you get that reputation, the selling clubs will want more, other clubs will shadow your moves and compete for the same signings. So even when you have the money to reinvest from big sales, the success rate of the signings dwindle. Plus the backroom deal makes also get moves to bigger clubs.
Now it’s Brighton, I wonder how long they can ride the wave. I think it gets harder to buy good players cheaply when you get that reputation, the selling clubs will want more, other clubs will shadow your moves and compete for the same signings. So even when you have the money to reinvest from big sales, the success rate of the signings dwindle. Plus the backroom deal makes also get moves to bigger clubs.
I'm sure that we will have a dip at some point but I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts as we're just so good to watch atm (didn't enjoy last night at the Amex too much mind).
Southampton were run really well by Markus Liebherr and since his death they've had a couple of different owners and the decline has come after that.
The one thing we've got going in our favour though is that our owner is a lifelong supporter and the brains behind it all and one of the things we've done better than most is succession planning for everyone at the club, players and staff alike and hopefully that extends to if anything were to happen to Tony Bloom.
Forest fans in the office seem to think all their birthdays came at once this weekend 🤣
I went to Forest away a couple of weeks back and I genuinely hope they stay up. Great old stadium with really noisy support.
It's been a mental season with loads of random results so I wouldn't be surprised if come the final game of the season 16-19 in the league are all on the same points and it comes down to goal difference.
I was wrong about Dyche and Everton, thought they were dead in the water when I saw them against Man U. I might have even refered to their tactics as 'Burnley Ball'. I take it back.
My comments about de Gea in that game weren't so wrong though...
It would be weird to see 3 teams going down with none of the promoted sides in that, Leicester are looking in trouble, with the amount of talent they have it's weird, hell this season has been weird.
I do think there's a bigger and bigger gap starting between the EPL and Championship though, which is correlating with the money unfortunately.
Must be awful if you've paid loads of money to watch a game and find yourself under a huge banner.
Don’t usually want City to win but I hope they stuff Real.
City were excellent tonight. Real were very lucky not to get more bookings. Apart from a 10-15 mins spell in the 2nd half Citeh were much the better team
And, in a parallel universe, Annan Athletic had their best performance of the season by beating Dumbarton 6-0 in the first leg of the Scottish Div. 2 play off semi final. They play the 2nd leg on Saturday, then the 2 legged final Tuesday and Friday next week against Clyde or East Fife.
Another good ref tonight allowing the game to flow and ignoring tantrums and simulation.
It was 40 years ago today, the last team to beat Real Madrid in a European final. Leighton, Miller, McLeish, Rougvie, McMaster, Strachan, Cooper, Simpson, Weir, McGhee, Black and the super sub Hewitt. All led by some fella called Ferguson, whatever happened to him. Stand free.
Last team to break the Old Firm monopoly on the Scottish Premier League.
Good article on the guardian website about it. Team was all Scots, eldest 28. Seems Fergie mellowed a bit by the time he was United manager!
Both Sky and BBC have programmes on tonight. Tom English has done a really good podcast interview with Willie miller and the Scottish Football podcast did one with Richard Gordon that gives a fantastic fans side of it.
