How predictable - Brighton have a guilt edged chance to jump to 14th, and blow it. Burnley grab the chance to send Brighton down to 18th. What a weekend.........
..... and the likes of Newcastle, like Southampton and Palace, always seem to scrape a result which keeps them limping along just ahead of us .....
Hopefully we can finaltly put two of them behind us later today!
I like him.
Far less a dinosaur than many people think. His Bolton team - with Djorkief (sp?), Campo etc. was one I'd have paid good money to and watch at the time - if I'd had the money and time available. Diet and sports psychology was part of the Allardyce management technique back then, way...
If we don't get another point this season, Fulham would only need two wins and a draw, not three. Fortunately though, the chances of us losing all seven of our remaining matches are very, very slight.
xG might in some ways be a load of old bollocks, but it is perhaps an indicator that ultimately we're more likely to get the results we need to stay up than the teams around and below us?
The top ten are mathematically safe now (barring an impossible turn around of goal difference) with seven games to go. I suspect quite a few more will be safe in two games time.
Penny to a pound if it had been us the ref. would have contrived to a).award a free kick without a sending off and/or b).blown the whistle fractionally before the ball crossed the line!