This Weekend's Fixtures & Leicester v Newcastle (05/06/07 Apr)

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Saturday, 5th April 2025
Everton v Arsenal, 12:30 https://i.imgur.com/tM2pRxb.png
Crystal Palace v Brighton & Hove Albion, 15:00
Ipswich Town v Wolverhampton Wanderers, 15:00
West Ham United v Bournemouth, 15:00
Aston Villa v Nottingham Forest, 17:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Sunday, 6th April 2025
Brentford v Chelsea, 14:00
Fulham v Liverpool, 14:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg
Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton, 14:00
Manchester United v Manchester City, 16:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Monday, 7th April 2025
Leicester City v Newcastle United, 20:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

[HCZ_Reborn]

I’d like to see wins for Ipswich, Villa, Brentford, Fulham and ugh Man United

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Palace 1-0 Brighton, Mateta.

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Palace 1-0 Brighton, Mateta.

Feels to me that a lot of Brighton players who have shown promise have fizzled out somewhat

Mitoma, Minteh, Baleba, Pedro, Adingra

Coach is also an arrogant Austrian ringpiece

[HCZ_Reborn]

Ipswich 1-0 Wolves Delap

Now actually there’s a striker who I think would be worth going for. Don’t get me wrong I think we should try and sign Isaak or Sesko as well. But he’s been fantastic for Ipswich this season

[HCZ_Reborn]

Welbz equalises for Brighton, still not forgiven him for his part in getting Rice sent off

[McNamara That Ghost...]

West Ham 0-1 Bournemouth, Evanilson

[HCZ_Reborn]

Palace retake the lead, Munoz

[HCZ_Reborn]

Fullkrug equalises for West Ham

Mind the gap

[HCZ_Reborn]

West Ham 2-1 Bournemouth

Bowen

West Ham turn things around

[Mac76]

Eddie sent off for second yellow :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

West Ham 2-2 Bournemouth, Evanilson with his second.

Nketiah. :rose:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Wolves come from behind to lead Ipswich boo

Still think we should sign Delap

[McNamara That Ghost...]

That will be Ipswich down

[HCZ_Reborn]

Jaysus Palace down to 9 men

Guehi sent off

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Guehi sent off for Palace now!

[HCZ_Reborn]

That will be Ipswich down

I think they were probably going down even if they’d won truth be told

With the players Wolves have they shouldn’t even be in relegation trouble

[Mac76]

Guehi now sent off with a second yellow - Palace with 9 men :lol:

could have been a straight red tbh

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Van Hecke sent off for Brighton now

[Mac76]

Van Hecke's now off with a second yellow - Taylor's gone rogue :lol:

[Mac76]

Palace win 2-1 - that was some game

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Real Madrid lost 1-2 at home to Valencia. :lol:

[Letters]

Real Madrid lost 1-2 at home to Valencia. :lol:

It’s ON!

[Letters]

Come on, Villa! :wacko:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Villa 1-0 Forest Rodgers

Another player on my would like list

[Mac76]

Villa get two in two minutes

Forest :doh:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Not big surprise given they’ve lost three out of the last four on the road

Conceding 13 in that time yeesh

[Mac76]

Great run from Elanga but puts it wide...

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Villa 2-1 Forest, Jota Silva.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Come on Villa kill this off

[HCZ_Reborn]

2-1 FT whoop

[Marc Overmars]

Interesting battle for the European spots.

[Letters]

Interesting battle for the European spots.

The only interesting thing about this season.
There’s been no title race and no relegation battle.
Even Sky must be struggling to make any of this sound interesting

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

This is still a slip up game.

It's whether the slip ups even matter at this stage.

Even I'm thinking probably not.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fulham 0-1 Liverpool, Mac Allister.

Tottenham 1-0 Southampton, Johnson.

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Fulham 1-1 Liverpool, Sessegnon.

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Fulham 2-1 Liverpool, Iwobi! Robertson gifting it.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Ah Robbo, you daft bastard

[McNamara That Ghost...]

3-1 Muniz!

:haha:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Our defence has been Space Jammed. The momentum we had at the start of the season has ground to a halt.

[Marc Overmars]

Our defence has been Space Jammed. The momentum we had at the start of the season has ground to a halt.

You’ve had no credible challenge all season so I’m not really surprised the players may be tuning out a little bit now. Title done and the cups gone, it’s time for the beach.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

3-2 Luiz Diaz.

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Elliott smacks the bar!

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Brentford 0-0 Chelsea, FT.

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Fulham 3-2 Liverpool, FT!

:lol:

[Mac76]

We've gained a point on Liverpool - it's on... :scarf:

[Letters]

We've gained a point on Liverpool - it's on... :scarf:

:gp:

The bottle job is on!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Southampton are relegated. :rose:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Man Utd: Onana, Dalot, Mazraoui, Maguire, Yoro, Dorgu, Ugarte, Fernandes, Casemiro, Garnacho, Hojlund
Subs: Bayindir, Amass, Kukonki, Lindelof, Shaw, Eriksen, Mount, Obi, Zirkzee

Man City: Ederson, Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Gundogan, Kovacic, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Foden, Marmoush
Subs: Ortega Moreno, Grealish, Doku, Nico, Reis, Savinho, Khusanov, Lewis, McAtee

[Letters]

Southampton are relegated. :rose:

I went to Uni there so in theory they’re one of my second teams and I should care.
But I don’t.
Quite liked Le Tiss back in the day before he went mental

[HCZ_Reborn]

I went to Keele University and I lived in Stoke on Trent for a year

I still despise Stoke :lol:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Man Utd: Onana, Dalot, Mazraoui, Maguire, Yoro, Dorgu, Ugarte, Fernandes, Casemiro, Garnacho, Hojlund
Subs: Bayindir, Amass, Kukonki, Lindelof, Shaw, Eriksen, Mount, Obi, Zirkzee

Man City: Ederson, Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Gundogan, Kovacic, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Foden, Marmoush
Subs: Ortega Moreno, Grealish, Doku, Nico, Reis, Savinho, Khusanov, Lewis, McAtee

Seeing the United front line reminds me of what Dennis Healy once said about Geoffrey Howe as a parliamentary debater. A bit like being savaged by a dead sheep

[Mac76]

I hope Ram gets another PL gig, but this time for a club whose manager doesn't adopt suicidal tactics

[Letters]

:lol:

Southampton are one of those clubs I’m pretty neutral about.
Obviously I don’t support them but they’re inoffensive enough.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Foul given outside the area, just. Dias on a yellow already.

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I went to Uni there so in theory they’re one of my second teams and I should care.
But I don’t.
Quite liked Le Tiss back in the day before he went mental
Yeah fuck em basically..I'm just sad we will probably get Sheffield United in exchange and possibly Burnley too.

Bored of them.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I can’t say I know too much about what tactics Southampton employ. The main issue seems to be that most of their players aren’t premier league standard.

They have a couple of youngsters that might break through in time and Ramsdale I think will get another premier league club (though if he’s smart he will avoid one of the newly promoted clubs for 25/26….as I think we are likely to enter an era of clubs getting promoted and going straight back down….especially if Burnley and Sheffield United get promoted again)

Leicester…they have a couple of premier league level players but the fact that 38 year old Vardy plays week in week out is telling. Simply don’t have the money to buy themselves a team that can sustain itself in the league.


Ipswich are the Luton of last season, I think ultimately just don’t have it in them….i think Delap will be sold (and I’d like it tif be to us)

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

I wonder if this will be the pattern for the next few years, the same shite clubs coming up and going straight back down. Not good enough for the Premier League but rich enough, and too good for the Championship.

A Super League in all but name.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Yeah fuck em basically..I'm just sad we will probably get Sheffield United in exchange and possibly Burnley too.

Bored of them.

Burnley and Sheffield United are yo yo clubs (a bit like Norwich and West Brom in the recent history past) too good for the championship, not good enough for the premier league (the gap between the two divisions which I think has been intensified by FSR is bigger than it’s ever been.

For me there are 17 premier league clubs of varying quality that on their day are capable of giving any other team real problems, and there are three teams that are fodder for goal difference…I sadly don’t see that changing next season

[HCZ_Reborn]

I wonder if this will be the pattern for the next few years, the same shite clubs coming up and going straight back down. Not good enough for the Premier League but rich enough, and too good for the Championship.

A Super League in all but name.

It’s definitely something I’m worried about. I’m a bit sad that Leeds have dropped off because a) quite like Leeds despite their deserved reputation from the 70s of being scrotes and b) I think they are more likely to survive in the premier league than Sheffield United or Burnley

[McNamara That Ghost...]

This match is devoid of quality.

[HCZ_Reborn]

This match is devoid of quality.

Another reoccurring theme this season

The fact is you can argue both sides are ok with a draw from the outset

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-0 FT.

That was horrific.

Two 0-0's today. :lol:

MotD2 is a must miss.

[Mac76]

0-0 FT.

That was horrific.

Two 0-0's today. :lol:

MotD2 is a must miss.

Agreed on all fronts :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Another reoccurring theme this season

The fact is you can argue both sides are ok with a draw from the outset

The lack of quality or rather diversity in how attackers play is so painfully obvious this season.

So few footballers about and way too many athleteballers.

[Mac76]

Today's cool fact: Leicester is the first team in English football history to lose eight consecutive home league games without scoring

:lol:

[Letters]

Bloody hell :lol:
Can you imagine being a season ticket holder there? Miserable.

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

Today's cool fact: Leicester is the first team in English football history to lose eight consecutive home league games without scoring

:lol:

They deserve this and more for being in the predicament they were in and still going ahead to hire an inexperienced horseface as their manager....one of the most stupid decisions in recent memory.

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

Bloody hell :lol:
Can you imagine being a season ticket holder there? Miserable.

They've also had to stomach Forest doing so well and beating them at home...I'm not sure any of their fans would have experienced anything like this season.

[HCZ_Reborn]

They deserve this and more for being in the predicament they were in and still going ahead to hire an inexperienced horseface as their manager....one of the most stupid decisions in recent memory.

Who is the coach is largely window dressing. I think it can be argued that if they retained that Gargoyle Cooper they’d be doing better than they are, doing well enough to avoid relegation ? Nah


Ultimately even if we try and cite the “Alchemy” job Moyes has done with Everton, the question then becomes well actually doesn’t Everton always go on a small run of results that keeps their head above water and Moyes is generally in and around what throat cancer boy was achieving earlier on in the season, not winning many games but not losing many games. Still one of the leagues lowest goalscorers


The fact is player for player - Leicester, Southampton and Ipswich are the weakest teams in the league. Is it conceivable one of them could have stayed up? For sure but it would have been a miracle job up there with Bradford managing to stay up for two seasons 25 years ago