So, you're not confident in your own team 3pts clear and better GD with 2 to go??...how odd! Piskie appears to have been drinking all night...anyone one know what he's on about? difficult at the best of times I know!
With Chelsea you never know. We're a team that always seems to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (yesterday classic case in point) but I'm a pessimist so always prepare for the every scenario. I think we will beat Villa but you never know. We always do things the hard way.
DL, you can lose to Villa, 3pts v Everton is enough, a dead game for them, and miserable with the fact Moyes is gone, can't see them getting a thing. The goons will have a weary post Cup Final Wigan, who have to travel down to London again on Tuesday night, can't see anything doing there either. I quite like the far corners of Eastern Europe on a Thursday!
'Hoofball' a colloquially known name for booting the ball up the pitch in the hope of picking up the scraps 'Bale' your best player 'Tear a new one' slang for Bale will tear Stoke apart. Did you really need that spelling out for you ?
I've not been impressed with Parker this season but Stoke's the sort of game where we'll need a battler.
You still ere?...go to bed son, sleep it off! Oh, and btw, insults?, so what?...you know where you are, and you also know what to do to avoid it if it upsets you so much...byeee!
I have no idea what the blazes you are on about ? I can therefore only surmise that you must be the one on the fizzy pop this morning
Anyway, back to the game. Stoke is not an easy place to go, but the Britannia is not the fortress it once was and a lot of Stoke fans have grown tired of Pulis' brand of non football. They still rely on brute force to win a lot of their games, and I think spurs will do well to have either Sandro or Dembele back in their midfield, but if Bale gets any time on the ball then I think he might be in for a field day.
I agree. Plus Dawson and Vertonghen are good in the air so they can deal with the long ball all day. N'Zonzi and Adam will definitely be deployed to foul Bale at any given opportunity but I think that will free up more space in other areas for Spurs to exploit.
I don't think it's by any means a given we will beat Villa or Arsenal will beat Wigan. Our record at Villa is atrocious and Wigan have taken points off Arsenal in the last 3 consecutive seasons.
All you need though is a point to secure CL, I really can't see you guys losing 2 on a trot - as much as I'd like it to happen .
Parker was always an Arry type of player and not AVB. I think Villa will want to get as many points as possible for the sake of morale so it's by no means a walkover for Chelsea who must now be feeling cream crackered. Everton will want to finish higher than Liverpool by as much as possible so there's still things to go for.
is it too much to hope that Everton announce a successor (should Moyes go) before the Chelsea match? Thus players trying to impress the next not-yet-started manager? If Chelsea draw (or worse) against a rejuvenated Villa and then that happens we could be in for one hell of a final day (should we beat Stoke)
My bad, thought your were 6 points in front of us and a point would've completely cemented it otherwise we'd have needed a massive goal swing if you lost your last two.
thats what will happen if you assume (quite rightly) that we have lost at the bridge. I was all confused at the table this morning too.
It's so finely poised this season. If the unthinkable happened at we lost at home to Wigan and Spurs win at Stoke then, they go two points ahead of us with one game to play, meaning we would have to win at Toon and hope for at least a draw at WHL. But if we win at home to Wigan and Spurs fail to win at Stoke then Top 4 is ours regardless of the last game, due to our vastly superior goal difference.
That's exactly it mate, last night, especially when we were 2-1 down, looking at the live table it was 6 points so it kind of stuck in my head!
Livermore? Parker looks like he's injured and the youngster's fresh. His physical presence might be more suited to dealing with their set-pieces, too.
