Second paragraph - yep my too, we have the slightly rare situation of a "big" team having a serious chance of imploding, we're safe and we can watch this and the fight for the title. Fieat paragraph - top 6 is quite a fluid thing these days tbh, top 2 are miles ahead of the rest and are clearly the top 2. The rest? Chelsea may fall apart post Abramovich, Man U are a mess in need of serious surgery, and Arsenal look very much a work in progress. Only Spurs really look like consistent quality. Door is very open for top 6 to be ripped open next season, us, West Ham and Leicester all have a good chance of doing this.
Still to come: Burnley - Villa, Spurs, Villa, Newcastle Leeds - Arsenal, Chelsea, Brighton, Brentford Everton - Leicester, Watford*, Brentford, Palace, Arsenal Watford game is huge to Everton, still got the toughest run in on paper but Home games could see them through. Burnley easiest run in and so I'm now thinking it's actually Leeds who are in most trouble. Everton have jammed the **** out with their win vs us. If they'd dropped 2 points there I think they'd be gone but we ****ing let them stay up... Edit - wrong thread...
Same as Liverpool match, a comfortable defeat and nobody will be crying about that. The gulf is actually quite embarrassing for the league. City/Liverpool are so far ahead it's insane.
We are on the proverbial beach, Eddie won't say it, but we probably are, and it's fine because of what's already been done. All about next season now.
Referee: Stuart Attwell. Assistants: Constantine Hatzidakis, Neil Davies. Fourth official: Anthony Taylor. VAR: Jarred Gillett. Assistant VAR: Nick Hopton.
Without VAR these refs are ****e (even with VAR for some) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "In an absorbing and tense first half, Forest striker Sam Surridge hit the crossbar and had a strong penalty appeal ignored after an incorrect offside flag against him. The forward was brought down by goalkeeper Mark Travers as he tried to round him, but the foul was waved away as the flag was already up. After the match, Forest boss Steve Cooper told BBC Radio Nottingham that referee Stuart Attwell and his assistant apologised for the mistake. "They have put their hands up and owned up to a huge error," he said. "It doesn't really help but at least they had the courtesy to own up to the decision that they made." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ and we still waiting for the ref to apologise for the Man City goalkeeper penalty mistake
That mistake by the referee is fair enough. A linesman had made the wrong call on an offside decision which can easily happen. You can’t expect the ref to overule an offside so he would of course ignore the penalty incident. They don’t have VAR in the Championship. VAR would catch that as linesman would not have waved until player had been brought down.
this is what I'm saying, the officials are not good enough for the professional sport take note of the ref -- Mr Attwell
Basically this. I was prepared for these three games prior to Burnley as losses and I am not changing my mind. It felt like our season ended prior to Liverpool anyways. Beat Burnley and we finish on 46. Not bad at all.
