Yea, I mean that there will be off days that wont go our way. We aren't going to remain unbeaten until the end of the season. There will be a few games like the other night where we deserve points we wont get.
Nice job Agent Lambo! Norwich - Promotion, Promotion, Survival in the Premiership. Ipswich - Relegated to League 1. Pretty perfect.
From a quick check (as we wait for the Leeds-Wendies second half), I think the last time the clubs were two leagues apart (but taking only when both teams were professional) was the 1937-38 season. Ipswich were in their second season of the professional era, playing in the Southern League. Norwich of course were forced to turn professional a long time before that, in 1905, and at the time of Ipswich turning professional had been struggling in lower/mid-table of Division 2 for a few seasons. Ipswich came third in the Southern League that season and were elected into Division 3(South) for 1938-39, replacing Gillingham. (I’m not clear why they were elected, but they had won the Southern League the previous season, their first of professional football). Norwich in fact finished bottom of Division 2 in 1938-1939, so the next season (1946-47 as football was suspended for the war) both clubs played together in Division 3 (South). That saw the first two East Anglian derbies with Ipswich doing the double, winning 5-0 at home and 0-1 at Carrow Road. I don’t think the two clubs have ever been apart by more than one league ever since.
Not only do the Blades have a seven point deficit to overturn - and improve upon in four matches, but our +4 GD over them adds to their workload. One win and one draw for NCFC will be sphincter-flexing enough, but I reckon would be sufficient Imagine; Farke on a horse Emi on an open top bus A bronze cast statue of Donuts outside the river end
If they did catch us on points there would be a pretty strong chance that their results along the way would easily wipe out that +4 GD, in fact it's pretty much impossible to envisage how it wouldn't unless we lost three games by a single goal margin and winning the other say 4-0, thereby actually improving GD with SU having single goal wins. Two draws and a defeat for us and three wins for them could still see us on +3 and them on +2 going into the last day so that matching their result would see us up. The seven goal advantage over Leeds ( effectively 8 with goals scored) makes it less likely that they will pip us on GD should they achieve the four point advantage that they need to draw level, so more likely Leeds need to better us by five over the next four games.
I'm getting a bit dizzy with all of those numbers. What say we just win our next 3 and we'll be there!
Fun stat, the only two teams who know for certain which league they'll be in next season are Ipswich and Blackburn. Everyone else has at least a theoretical chance of promotion or relegation.
Here's a graph of my previous post, showing the probability of each outcome. Amazing how Stoke could narrowly miss out on the play-offs, or get relegated. please log in to view this image V
If you're on twitter, @experimental361 is worth a follow. Produces these graphics, and plenty of others for the football league every week.
A rather excellent article from Radio Norfolk’s erstwhile commentator - https://www.edp24.co.uk/sport/norwi...ty-column-championship-drama-series-1-5996757