Premier League Week 25 - 6th-7th Febuary

RexHamilton said:
Liverpool/ Sunderland was such a good first half, I've decided to get off the couch and go to the gym rather than watch the second half.

To be fair, I'd be in much better shape if I'd done the same every time United bored the arse off me in the first half too.
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Well, it turns out I missed and eventful half of football.
 
That replay showed that Clattenburg was reaching for the yellow card, then called in the physios and then changed his mind. No idea what happened there, if the player bought the red or if an assistant had a word in his ear.
 
shamans said:
Nothing absurd has to happen for the teams above us to drop points. We just have to win our own games.



Arsenal are 5 points ahead of us and I feel like they will definitely lose more games. They're playing Leicester next week which could easily cost them 3 points. We'd be just 2 points behind them and there's enough of the season left for that to turn around.

City and Totenham are in the same boat but a few results could very easily change it all. 7-8 points is not that big of a difference.

I still don't think we'll quite get top four but it will be because of us losing stupid games that United shouldn't be losing.
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Yeah top four is what Wenger does. If they don't win either of the next two it's going to get very interesting.
 
Anustart89 said:
That replay showed that Clattenburg was reaching for the yellow card, then called in the physios and then changed his mind. No idea what happened there, if the player bought the red or if an assistant had a word in his ear.
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Were the physios dealing with the player at the time? If so he may have asked where the player had been caught? Depending on how high or whatever he was caught could factor into it?
 
Gasolin said:
Bad day for United. Spurs won, Leicester won... it means that United win tomorrow will be almost "useless", should they win, in order to close the gap.
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Not useless, a loss would mean we're getting into severe "not catching top 4 up" territory. A win would be terrific to keep the gap at 5, and get a very hard game out the way.

Tottenham were the ones I was relying on to bottle it.
Today confirmed we aren't catching Leicester, if there was any doubt, and you can't really see City or Arsenal missing out.

We might even have to do what Liverpool did in 2005, completely forget about the league and go all out in Europe, and try and weasel in that way.
 
One Night Only said:
Were the physios dealing with the player at the time? If so he may have asked where the player had been caught? Depending on how high or whatever he was caught could factor into it?
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No, they hadn't reached the player by the time. Definitely looked like "I'm going to give a yellow - oh looks like he's injured, red it is!", which is a shite way to officiate games.

Just ten minutes later or so Valencia caught a player from behind with a similar, if not worse, tackle, but Clattenburg deemed it a yellow. Wonder what'd happened if the player had screamed in agony and rolled around like a pansy.
 
Sandikan said:
Not useless, a loss would mean we're getting into severe "not catching top 4 up" territory. A win would be terrific to keep the gap at 5, and get a very hard game out the way.

Tottenham were the ones I was relying on to bottle it.
Today confirmed we aren't catching Leicester, if there was any doubt, and you can't really see City or Arsenal missing out.

We might even have to do what Liverpool did in 2005, completely forget about the league and go all out in Europe, and try and weasel in that way.
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I would say that is our best chance. The 4 above us are comfortably better than us.
 
Desperately need Arsenal to lose tomorrow or this season's looking like a write off
 
I wouldn't be opposed to us trying Koeman if and when Van Gaal goes, I know it's looking likely it's Mourinho but Koeman seems to be tactically switched on.
 
Is Coquelin still not fully fit? It seems like Arsenal need him (and to get Flamini out of the side as soon as possible.)
 
Wait i tho they dont count you as CL winner if you didnt play in a final. Under they i mean media (Sky etc.)
 
The collectively excessive praise for John Terry has already begun.
 
Cheesy said:
The collectively excessive praise for John Terry has already begun.
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Well he did lay the foundations for Nigel Farage, tbf.
 
ThierryHenry said:
You're about to watch a masterclass from the next Premier League champions. Enjoy guys.
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Agreed. After Leicester's incredible year, they've shown that anything is possible for Bournemouth next season.
 
Can't see an upset in this one. Arsenal might be without their CDMs but Bournemouth's midfield is mediocre at best. They'll have no problems. Alexis will have it easy against Smith and there isn't really anyone for Arsenal to worry about at the back, apart from Afobe. Howie has benched his best player (Stanislas) for Pugh, who is supposed to be in good form but is an awful footballer.
 
ThierryHenry said:
You're about to watch a masterclass from the next Premier League champions. Enjoy guys.
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Bournemouth doing a Leicester next season? Can't see it happening tbf.
 
Bournemouth have been fantastic. Hope they can pull off an upset.. unlikely though
 
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