This Weekend's Fixtures & Three Others (19/20/21/22/23 Apr).

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Saturday, 19th April 2025
Brentford v Brighton & Hove Albion, 15:00
Crystal Palace v Bournemouth, 15:00
Everton v Manchester City, 15:00
West Ham United v Southampton, 15:00
Aston Villa v Newcastle United, 17:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Sunday, 20th April 2025
Fulham v Chelsea, 14:00
Ipswich Town v Arsenal, 14:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg
Manchester United v Wolverhampton Wanderers, 14:00
Leicester City v Liverpool, 16:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Monday, 21st April 2025
Tottenham Hotspur v Nottingham Forest, 20:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Tuesday, 22nd April 2025
Manchester City v Aston Villa, 20:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Wednesday, 23rd April 2025
Arsenal v Crystal Palace, 20:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

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Hopefully wins for Everton, Villa, Leicester, Fulham and as much as I hate to say it Spurs (although a draw would be fine)

Looking at the fixtures, two wins for Villa actually or a win and a draw

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Everton vs Man City (15:00)


Everton lineup:
Pickford, O'Brien, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Gana, Garner, Doucoure, Harrsion, Ndiaye, Broja.
Subs: Virginia, Patterson, Keane, McNeil, Beto, Young, Coleman, Alcaraz, Iroegbaunam

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

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Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth (15:00)


Crystal Palace: Henderson, Munoz, Richards, Lacroix, Guehi, Mitchell, Wharton, Hughes, Sarr, Eze, Mateta.
Subs: Turner, Lerma, Nketiah, Franca, Clyne, Kamada, Esse, Chilwell, Devenny.


Bournemouth: Kepa, Smith, Zabarnyi, Huijsen, Kerkez, Adams, Scott, Ouattara, Kluivert, Semenyo, Evanilson.
Subs: Dennis, Cook, Senesi, Brooks, Tavernier, Soler, Jebbison, J.Araujo, Hill.

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Brentford vs Brighton (15:00)

Brentford : Flekken, Kayode, Van Den Berg, Collins, Lewis-Potter, Norgaard, Yarmoliuk, Damsgaard, Schade, Mbeumo, Wissa


Brighton: Verbruggen, Hinshelwood, Van Hecke, Dunk, Estupinan, Baleba, Wieffer, Minteh, O'Riley, Joao Pedro, Welbeck

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West Ham vs Southampton (15:00)

West Ham: Areola; Coufal, Kilman, Todibo, Emerson; Ward-Prowse, Soler, Paqueta; Bowen, Fullkrug, Kudus.
Subs: Fabianski, Cresswell, Mavropanos, Rodriguez, Guilherme, Soucek, Ferguson, Irving, Scarles.



Southampton: Ramsdale; Harwood-Bellis, Bednarek, Stephens; Walker-Peters, Fernandes, Ugochukwu, Downes, Manning; Sulemana, Onuachu.
Subs: McCarthy, Bree, Wood, Welington, Smallbone, Aribo, Dibling, Stewart, Archer.

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Brentford 1-0 Brighton Mbeumo

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Palace down to ten men - Chris Richards gets two yellows

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Misses our game then.

Brentford 1-1 Brighton, Welbz.

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West Ham 1-0 Southampton, Bowen!

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Brentford 2-1 Brighton, Mbuemo with his second.

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Misses our game then.

Brentford 1-1 Brighton, Welbz.

Still though no prizes for guessing which team has the most red cards this season

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Brentford 3-1 Brighon, Wissa.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Joao Pedro sent off

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Joao Pedro finally gets a red card this season.

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Everton 0-1 Man City, O'Reilly.

Brentford 3-2 Brighton, Mitoma.

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Everton 0-1 Man City, O'Reilly.

Brentford 3-2 Brighton, Mitoma.

Fuck sake

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0-2 now, Kovacic.

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Double fuck sake

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West Ham 1-1 Southampton, Ugochukwu.

Derby's points record being equalled!

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Brentford 4-2 Brighton, Norgaard.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Brentford’s first home win since December

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Come on Villa you berks.

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Watkins scores

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Schar equalises

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Maatsen gives Villa the lead once again

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4-1 now, OG and Onana

[Mac76]

bloody hell, 4-1

Howe :pal:

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Villa have had a pretty impressive 2nd half.

If we don't snap up Morgan Rogers, Man City or Chelsea will.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Villa have had a pretty impressive 2nd half.

If we don't snap up Morgan Rogers, Man City or Chelsea will.

Aye, Rogers would be an excellent signing for us

[McNamara That Ghost...]

bloody hell, 4-1

Howe :pal:

I mean, he's recovering from pneumonia tbf.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Yep, he’s not back in the dugout

[Mac76]

I mean, he's recovering from pneumonia tbf.

ah, ok I hadn't realised that, was just checking the score now and then

Sorry Eddie... :getcoat:

[Marc Overmars]

Huge result for Villa.

This CL race is so tight. Will be quite galling for whoever misses out.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fulham: Leno, Tete, Anderson, Bassey, Robinson, Lukic, Berge, Pereira, Iwobi, Jimenez, Sessegnon
Subs: Benda, Cuenca, Castagne, Reed, Cairney, Wilson, Adama, Willian, Vinicius

Chelsea: Sanchez, James, Chalobah, Colwill, Cucurella, Caicedo, Fernandez, Madueke, Palmer, Neto, Jackson
Subs: Jorgensen, Tosin, Badiashile, Gusto, Acheampong, Lavia, Dewsbury-Hall, Sancho, George

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Man Utd: Onana; Mazraoui, Lindelof, Fredricson; Dorgu, Eriksen, Ugarte, Amass; Garnacho, Mainoo; Hojlund.
Subs: Heaton, Dalot, Evans, Yoro, Casemiro, Maguire, Fernandes, Mount, Obi.

Wolves: Sa, Semedo, Bueno, Agbadou, Toti, Ait-Nouri, Andre, J Gomes, Munetsi, Cunha, Strand Larsen.
Subs: Bentley, Doherty, Djiga, Traore, Doyle, R Gomes, Sarabia, Forbs, Mane.

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Fulham 1-0 Chelsea, Iwobi! :lol:

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Man Utd 0-1 Wolves, Sarabia.

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Man Utd 0-1 Wolves, Sarabia.

Chortle

[McNamara That Ghost...]

If Man Utd and Tottenham finish 16th and 17th but one of them make the Champions League, football is fucked.

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Fulham 1-1 Chelsea, George.

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Tyrique George ?

I was hoping he’d be one of these Brazillian lads who uses a mononym

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Tyrique George ?

I was hoping he’d be one of these Brazillian lads who uses a mononym

Evil Saka.

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Evil Saka.

Crikey you’re not wrong. He could be a clone

Or an evil twin like KARR in Knightrider

[McNamara That Ghost...]

At some point a life altering event sent Saka to Arsenal and George to Chelsea.

But for that, could have been different.

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Neto gets winner for Chelsea, hold on and I think this is their first away win of 2025

Bugger

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Fulham 1-2 Chelsea, Neto. :doh:

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Hah only just got the update. A little bit out on this one.

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So changed my mind, want a Forest win to bump Chelsea out of the top 5

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Forest go from 6th to 3rd with a win. :lol:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Dear god, this is awful.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Oh well got there in the end 0-1 Alexander-Arnold

Liverpool are very much a second half team. In fact they’ve been behind at half time in 8 games yet have only lost twice

[Marc Overmars]

Guard of honour again then. *sigh*

[Letters]

I mean, it’s a bit annoying when this could have been a title decider.
But in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t really matter.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I mean, it’s a bit annoying when this could have been a title decider.
But in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t really matter.

Title was over moment Havertz and Martinelli were injured

I don’t think we would have won the title anyway but we could have at least taken it to the wire

Everything has gone wrong for us this season in the league but we’ve lost only three times and at the point where we are almost certain to finish 2nd.

Unless we win the European cup I will not look back upon this season with much fondness overall, there have been some enjoyable individual moments but the whole thing has felt like a bit of a farce

[Letters]

Title was over moment Havertz and Martinelli were injured

I don’t think we would have won the title anyway but we could have at least taken it to the wire

Everything has gone wrong for us this season in the league but we’ve lost only three times and at the point where we are almost certain to finish 2nd.

Unless we win the European cup I will not look back upon this season with much fondness overall, there have been some enjoyable individual moments but the whole thing has felt like a bit of a farce
Agreed on all points.
I was a bit later to throw in the towel than some - I’m the eternal optimist and you never really know in football. But yeah, nothing has gone for us this season and the whole season has felt like a slog.
Arteta has made us hard to beat and that has served us well in the CL. But we have drawn far too many for a credible title challenge.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

We go again next season.

[HCZ_Reborn]

In European football, our vanquished 1/4 final opponents managed to get a last minute win at home to Athletic Bilbao, who like us seem to draw loads of their games. Vini jnr scored in the 80th minute but VAR chalked it off, Federico Valverde managed to bag the eventual winner in injury time

PSG who I think are already champions got a 2-1 home win over Le Havre

[Mac76]

Good result, fuck off Leicester and don't come back

[Mac76]

Title was over moment Havertz and Martinelli were injured


Actually it was settled when Arteta still made defensive changes when Brighton equalised at our place early in the season

10 men or not, you don't win jack shit that way

[HCZ_Reborn]

Actually it was settled when Arteta still made defensive changes when Brighton equalised at our place early in the season

10 men or not, you don't win jack shit that way

And given the problem we’ve had breaking teams down 11 vs 11, probably the smart move on his part to settle for a point so early on in the season.

But then it wouldn’t have been necessary, if Chris Kavanagh hadn’t “interpreted” that Dutch turd Veltman kicking the ball at Rice and then scything him down, an offence so heinous that he needed to send someone off for it…that someone being the player who was fouled.

[Marc Overmars]

It’s been a horribly forgettable season and only an improbable CL win would turn this into something else.

[Mac76]

And given the problem we’ve had breaking teams down 11 vs 11, probably the smart move on his part to settle for a point so early on in the season.



No, you try to win every game, whenever it is, Guardiola and Klopp wouldn't have done that

[HCZ_Reborn]

No, you try to win every game, whenever it is, Guardiola and Klopp wouldn't have done that

I wouldn’t have done that either if I had Salah or Haaland to call on but given we didn’t…

[dazthegooner]

Well hopefully next season Arteta would have solved that problem but until we actually sign a top class striker and not another winger who can play up front.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Leeds not hanging about, ten minutes in and they are already 2-0 up against Stoke. Win today, and anything other than a Sheffield United win at second place Burnley and Leeds are back in the premier league. Burnley will join them tonight if they beat Sheffield United

[HCZ_Reborn]

6-0 now

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

Hopefully they stay in for more than a season.

Too big a city not to be involved with the big boys on a regular basis.

[Letters]

More importantly, Enfield Town lost today and St Albans won. Which puts St Albans 3 points behind Enfield with 1 game to play. The significance being St Albans are in the drop zone and Enfield have crawled out of it. Last day of the season this weekend.
Enfield at home against a side who are chasing the title, but St Albans are away at Truro who are top and need to win to seal the title.

So… :popcorn:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Tottenham: Vicario, Pedro Porro, Romero, van de Ven, Spence, Sarr, Bentancur, Kulusevski, Odobert, Richarlison, Tel.
Subs: Kinsky, Danso, Davies, Gray, Bissouma, Bergvall, Maddison, Johnson, Solanke.

Nottingham Forest: Sels, Williams, Milenković, Murillo, Toffolo, Domínguez, Anderson, Gibbs-White, Elanga, Danilo, Wood.
Subs: Miguel, Morato, Sangare, Awoniyi, Hudson-Odoi, Moreno, Yates, Sosa, Abbott.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Leeds are now back in the premier league, unfortunately so are Burnley

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Burnley and Leeds back?

Fuck sake.

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0-1 Anderson. :haha:

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0-2 Wood.

Might be offside.

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And he is.

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Now it is 0-2 Wood.

:haha:

[Letters]

Tottenham get battered, everywhere they go :lol:

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Fire alarm gone off at Stockley Park so no VAR in operation.

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1-2 Richarlison, a few minutes ago.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-2 FT. :haha:

[Marc Overmars]

Anfield next for Spurs.

Imagine losing half of your league games. Absolutely shit

[Mac76]

Salah's been a bit quiet lately, let's hope he's been saving it for a hatter v the spuds

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1-0 Bernardo Silva, bit weak from Martinez tbh.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I don’t know if City are rejuvenated slightly or whether their recent opponents just haven’t given a fuck

[HCZ_Reborn]

As I say that, Rashford has equalised from the spot

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1-1 Rashford penalty a few minutes ago.

Wanted to say about it then but my laptop died.

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Man City 2-1 Villa, Nunes.

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2-1 City in the 94th minute

Fuck it all

[Marc Overmars]

That will probably ensure City get a CL spot. They’ve got the easiest remaining fixtures.

Shame.