A lot of people, including pundits, keep on looking at Wigan and staying they are probably the biggest threat below us, but look at their fixture list, it's much worse than ours and a little worse than Villa's. Sunderland are hard to tell though, they have a tough fixture list but Di Canio might be a super-coach. He seems like the kind of manager who can get a team to play amazingly straight away.
Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if Di Canio puts a firework up each of Sunderland player's backsides and they get themselves out of trouble, by a miracle. Or nothing will happen because the impossible just takes too long.
He was hilarious, presenters were telling him that QPRs last fixtures looked tough and the fan responding with "don't worry we'll be safe by then"
Hopefully it'll be too late. With Chelsea, a Tyne-side derby and Everton next up, I think there is a real chance they will be buried before they know it.
Here's an interesting twist...West Ham. Next 3 fixtures...Liverpool Away, Saints Away, Man Utd Home It's not behond the realms of possibility that they could take a big fat zero from those 3 fixtures. They then play Wigan, cock that up and they are real candidates for the 1st time this year.
QPR put up a fight tonight, but very hard to get out of trouble when you have to win every game. Draws become acceptable when you are higher up the table. We have some leeway, as do West Ham. I think Sunderland may just get the odd points they need now they have a new manager. therefore, can't see beyond QPR and Reading plus one other...probably Villa.
Thinking about it, if we beat Reading this weekend I think I'd rather QPR beat Wigan. QPR would still be 11 points behind us with a woeful goal difference, there's no way they are going to make that up, but it would help get Wigan off our backsides for the time being. Thoughts?
Mathematically nothing is settled but whilst I can imagine one of the teams above the last two catching us, I simply can't see all of them doing it. Anyway, we are in the best form of the season whilst Sunderland have much to ponder. All will be well
I raise you to 'virtually.' We are now points ahead of some teams rather than just on GD. Some have games in hand, but they are not all going to win. I also think that as a worst case scenario we will still get one win and a draw from the final 6 games to make 41 points and we should even get more.
Not safe but we would I think have to lose all our games. Several teams still have to play each other and our GD is so good its worth a point! Who would have said that after the Arsenal away game!
Yes, we're safe. Perhaps not mathematically, but who is? Probably the top five or six. However, the way we're playing, the resilience the team had developed, the sheer strength and self-belief of the players all mean that we're not going down. The level of collapse in all of those factors that would be required take us to go down simply could not happen. We're safe in the normal meaning of the word. Vin
Morning Cruyff. I think your boys wiil be fine as well. Between Stoke Wigan and Sunderland for the third spot.
