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Week 36. 2nd May. Chelsea 2-1 Spurs 3rd May. Luton 1-2 Everton NAP 4th May. Arsenal 3-0 Bournemouth Brentford 1-1 Fulham Burnley 1-2 Newcastle - Gordon 21 mins Sheffield United 1-3 Nott’m Forest Man City 3-0 Wolves 5th May. Chelsea 2-0 West Ham Brighton 0-2 Aston Villa Liverpool 1-2 Spurs Crystal Pa...

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Brilliant :lol: When somebody says someone else is worth their weight in gold it is meant to be hyperbole. That it is literally true sums up the Premier League insanity :lol: Excellent player and a Clarets legend for keeping us up several times. His chances today were largely slightly behind him. No...

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I think we all know that what should happen and what will happen are two different things.

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Logic suggests we have left it too late, but you never know. In this game, City have been dreadful, so I’ve been touching Wood (well his photo anyway :D ) that Forest missed their chances. Yes, yes, we can all see what could happen with Woody in the final game once hope appears to have been rekindled.

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So far so good but City are poor and need a second.

I reckon the bookies odds are correct, gone from a 1% chance of us surviving to about 15%.

Still expect an appeal stitch up, not in our favour.

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The thing I find interesting about this (other than the Amdouni comments above) is that given the money swilling around, elite Premier League squads (which we are trying to replicate) can use coaches almost as specialist mentors. It wouldn’t even surprise if at times they were employed as a coach fo...

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I was told recently that the player wants out. The person who told me said why but he’s not someone I know so wouldn’t know if it was the case. At least we’ve found out what the injury is. In that instance, the question then becomes whether that is because he knows he wouldn’t be starting? Which wo...

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The one thing missing from this story is whose instigation this would come with. Do we want rid, or does the player? We are well stocked in that position, other players have developed, if we go down, and if selling Jordan means we don’t have to sell Koleosho (taking an example) then it could be us b...

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Really interesting to see Zeki say: a) he is a goalscorer but not a “number 9” b) he has played in every position including left back c) the one thing his game lacked when he came to us was intensity to match the Premier League These players aren’t daft, they know their strengths and weaknesses. Whe...

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I’m all for punishing the idiot filmed doing this stuff, but am less comfortable with how these days the media pick a trendy topic for over the top coverage. I struggle to see how this differs from singing about Jack Walker on the carpet (also abhorrent, chanting about death, and sung by pea sized b...

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Muric 9 - slightly chaotic distribution but it was amidst a maelstrom so forgiveable Assignon 8 - burst into some very dangerous positions and given our problem is scoring goals that is important O'Shea 9 - leadership, pace, aerial ability and (gradually) improving nous Esteve 7 - a little raw for a...

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Great line from Kompany to BBC:

“Hidden in the inexperience of our squad are some really, really good talents”

Maybe a bit more open than expected about the inexperience, even though it is obvious. I think the line sums our season up.

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Great point. Didn’t want us to throw it away at the end, we were hunting three but I am happy with one - we have now caught Forest as long as City win tomorrow, it is then in our hands, win the last three, we stay up (also assuming Luton don’t win all three but I don’t see them winning any). Using t...

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West Ham v Liverpool
Fulham v Crystal Palace
Man-Utd v Burnley
Newcastle v Sheffield United
Wolves v Luton
ABOVE ALL TOO LATE - MY BAD

Everton v Brentford 1-0 NAP
Villa v Chelsea 2-1

Sunday 28th April

Bournemouth v Brighton 2-0
Spurs v Arsenal 1-2
Forest v Man-City 1-3

Goals TOO LATE

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On the plus side, looking like the dream scenario for Blackburn is possible. By “for Blackburn”, I mean for us

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Fantastic by Burnley after a tough 15 minutes. The best four chances of the game, one to Fofana and three to Foster. Two great saves by Onana, one fantastic one when he was going the other way. You can’t have chances like that here though and not score, not looking good on that basis. I’d take the r...

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I see the Tinkerman is at it again, an open game and I fear they will do damage with that, but we have a chance.

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Leeds have a lot of young players and I can’t see those hanging around next year, we will lose some too if we drop but we have loads in comparison. I’m not concerned at all about them being above us next season so I find tonight amusing. Ipswich though will keep it together and go again which I woul...

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Are you really so narrow minded. What an odd statement. There's people who do and don't take themselves seriously everywhere. Doesn't matter where you're from. We have lots of American fans.. maybe we should be a little less disrespectful? Just spotted this very odd comment. No idea why people take...

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Depressingly, given it wouldn’t be the case but for the 4 points stolen off us when we played Forest and Luton (and without which, we would have beaten all the bottom four home and away), if we win our next 3 games in an astonishing blaze of glory, we would still go down if we then lost to Forest if...

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He is a rare thing in an American in that he seems to enjoy taking the pee out of himself. That video was cringeworthy but deliberate and funny. He appears to be a diamond, I can see why he got in all those all star teams.

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I agree that what Forest did was wrong, but how any Burnley fan can want Luton to survive over Forest is beyond me, I have to say Crosspool. If Luton go down they’ll lose Barkley (will probably lose him anyway) and a few other of their good performers, maybe even Edwards. They’ll be competitive nex...

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From right behind the goal it was clear that Muric was key to the win. The save with his legs was tremendous. There were others too. They were terrified to press him, even if he did give it away a couple of times.

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Forest should lose against City (but we've seen what happened tonight) and then we are relying on them not getting maximum points at Bramall Lane. The problem is that the door could be left ajar for Luton as well as us. This is of course true and I would support us over anyone else, but IF we don’t...

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Not many better CH pairings than Tarks & Braithwaite. Not sure what that muppet Southgate saw in playing Maguire instead of giving Braithwaite time in what was a friendly.Maguire is not going to get better but Braithwait is Agree on all of that, particularly the muppet bit. But his biggest gaffe wa...

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Would you swap fixtures with forest? I think we'd all swap fixtures with Luton! Assuming they get 3 points from Sheffield United and lose the other two, we'd need to get 4 points from Man Utd, Newcastle and Spurs to ensure a last day win keeps us up. Sounds doable, but would you prefer the Man City...

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Good work these tables, but the reality remains that we have two winnable games at home, but tough away, while Forest have two winnable games away but tough at home.

I’d have our fixtures over theirs.

But their 3 point and goal difference gap is a problem, thanks to Darren England.

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Not looking good, but Luton have a huge chance (good luck to them) and if we can pick up a miracle win from somewhere we could suddenly be favourites to stay up. Forest have the hardest games, Luton the easiest.

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Reality is Everton have 4 or 5 big players the other sides at the bottom do not have. The ending to the season for them was inevitable.

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This United side don’t half give us hope, Newcastle too. United will have had 2.5 days rest when they play us, and we are going to fly at them. We played well at Arsenal, and at Chelsea. Very conceivable we could do the same against United(s) and Spurs.

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Would like to congratulate Dyche, Tarky and Dwight. Happy to now we couldn’t catch them anyways.

Clippetty Klopp has never lost a Mersey derby at Goodison, Dyche has never had one at home. Go figure. We know Sean likes a derby.

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I like him, but he is an obvious hothead who appears to be not the brightest in his decision making. He should be banned for the season now. But that would be harsh. He shouldn’t have gone at Chelsea, has never had a red before, and was provoked at Bramall Lane. He has decent pedigree, played in Eur...

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A great man. I am a small c conservative yet respected him greatly and agreed with many of his suggestions. RIP.

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Certainly acts like a prat on the pitch and his diving does him no favours, but it is good to see him come across better off the pitch.

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Many people view Godfather 2 as the best movie ever made.

Got to confess being one of them. The first is worthy of an Oscar in its own right. The second is that rare sequel that surpasses the original, though when I watch it I always yearn for the double timeline to flick back to De Niro.

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Berge is really frustrating in that he seems to get himself into really good positions then makes the wrong (often negative) choice. I just wish he'd take the chance because I've got every faith he'd end up bagging himself a few. Agree. What I find most surprising, given that we have 9 goals agains...

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Apart from Gudmundsson, whose record is excellent, and Foster, our assist record is terrible from forward minded players. Koleosho / Odobert get an assist 1 game in 10. Brunn Larsen never. Berge 1 game in 30. Amdouni 1 game in 20. Cullen gets more than any of these, from holding midfield. It really ...

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Forest have a point about about the poor decisions over the season But questioning the integrity of one of the officials because he's apparently a Luton fan - thats out of order. Agree. But still far less impact than poor decisions we have had. If you look at any Forest fan’s bad decisions lists an...

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kentonclaret wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:21 pm
It is perhaps somewhat ironic, that Nottingham Forest would not even be in the Premier League were it not for Huddersfield Town being denied 2 clear penalties in their Wembley Play-Off Final.

And the owner then crowing about it from the City Hall balcony celebrations.

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Every manager has a favourite reporter. Could easily be some leverage for renegotiation of a relegation clause, something to ease the financial pain of a relegation. Agents get up to all sorts. I don’t read anything into it. But there is a time and place to move on from, this isn’t it.

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Two more wins and Muric will have more points than Trafford this season, they are currently on 14 and 9. Games played are 28 and 6. Spending up to £18m on a rookie kid keeper was inexplicable, throwing him straight in was bizarre and self defeating, keeping him in for 28 games was, if we were any ot...

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Sounds like Sacha is stirring up the market for him. Anyone with any character, especially at that young managerial age, would stay to rectify their huge errors this season, we could all name several: leaving out Taylor, summer recruitment, Muric, not anticipating Foster’s risk of absence, tactics, ...

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Just seen the Coventry “winner”. The truth is, VAR is an abomination, and most issues stem from that. How wrong and heartbreaking for the CCFC fans to celebrate the greatest ever comeback then have it snatched away, after the officials had given the goal. Offside was never meant to be judged by a to...

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That would be an example of corruption. More likely is the opposite effect, positive corruption if you will, where they get the next half dozen 50/50 shouts so we can all be told that it evens itself out. Not really, it is all subconscious bias. A bit like the teacher at school who tries to be fair...

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Week 33.
Tuesday 23rd April

Arsenal 2-1 Chelsea

Wednesday 24th April

Wolves 1-1 Bournemouth NAP
Crystal Palace 1-2 Newcastle
Everton 0-2 Liverpool - Salah 41 mins
Man-Utd 3-0 Sheffield United

Thursday 25th April

Brighton 1-3 Man-City

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Just seen them on MOTD just before bed. Claim 1 - not a pen, Webb explained this months ago, but some refs give them in error like Atwell against us Claim 2 - not a pen, hand was natural Claim 3 - penalty, error by Taylor, no ball contact, but the silly “clear and obvious” that has done us half a do...

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Agree with Tony above. Unfortunately you don’t get what you deserve in life and certainly not in the Premier League. It is too much to hope for, but the prospect of Maranakis at the Turf, us relegating them with ref assistance, staying up in the process, and JJ Watt in the director’s box (after his ...

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What they have done here in making the Luton reference is question the integrity of the referee. That has to be unacceptable. I assume they will get a charge from the FA that will end in a fine. This is the key point I think from Tony. When I’ve raised the same issue many times this season I’ve mad...

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I reckon I could pick an XI not starting today who would walk the Championship if they played every game. Yes we will lose players and some will be out of contract without me checking but that depth tells us all we need to know. e.g. Trafford, Roberts, Al Dakhil, Beyer, Delcroix, Brownhill, Massengo...

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Muric 9 - impeccable apart from a couple of very loose passes, kept us in it, and given our record when behind, won us 3 points :D Assignon 8 - vital goal and assist with a few more good attacking moments Taylor 7 - solid at the back but delivery was poor Esteve 6 - struggled in the first half and g...

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