I'm just going out to do 45 miles on my bike, during which I will have used up my daily allocation of the word f*ck, though I will hold one back in the hope of saying 'thank f*ck for that' at about 2.30pm.
Crazy how a team of overpaid ****s can have you so nervous Our overpaid ****s though Nervous and excited Come on city
It's not really about them though. It's the club, and us the fans, and the city, and it's about what we do every weekend. In the mad world of football, it's them (and the owner I suppose) that have the power over all of that.
I can post a link. But would be no use to anyone, me included, as it is only available to Mail+ subscribers and I aren’t one. They are hiding more and more behind that. The 12ft wall app no longer gets round it or using Reader on ipad or iphone.
Concern is how city approach it, got go for the win but will we play for the draw and hope other results help us,? Wouldn’t surprise me after last week, that could all change very quick and late and backfire . First 10 mins should show how up for it Portsmouth are too .
Keeping calm is the clue today. It’s Portsmouth’s Cup Final but City are a step too far for them. They’re over achieving just being in this League, they'll crack. City 3-0 Minnows CTID
We have to start with intent Show portsmouth and say how much do you want it? Cause we will make this a proper battle I forgot i wasnt a luton fan then Its fkin city Will be passive as **** i expect
It is high season for engravers, a fertile few weeks for after-dinner speakers to make hay at elaborate end-of-season dos, but not every Championship team has something worth celebrating. Last Saturday, three hours after Cardiff’s players sank to the turf when the final whistle confirmed their relegation to the third tier, a division the club has not played in for 22 years, the squad slipped into suits for their annual black-tie awards night in a suite overlooking the same surface. At some point, Rubén Sellés, the Hull head coach, seemingly got wind of the jarring circumstances and cancelled his team’s bash, which had been scheduled for Tuesday, to prevent a similarly tone-deaf evening. Hull’s position is so delicate he even suggested he did not want his players having the added stress of adhering to the dress code. “It was my decision,” he said. “I told the club before we announced the player of the season [awards] that if we were playing for something, we didn’t want the distraction. The team needs to get out of the situation … I didn’t want the week to become a one-person week. The club respected that.” It has been that kind of week, at that time of the season. While Burnley and Leeds head into the final day of another enchanting English Football League season with eyes on taking the title, and the five-way fight for the two remaining playoff places promises more lunchtime drama, it is at the bottom where there is most jeopardy. Five teams – Stoke, Derby, Preston, Luton and Hull – are fighting to avoid joining Cardiff and Plymouth, who are all but mathematically relegated, in League One next season. Pos Team P GD Pts 1 Leeds 45 64 97 2 Burnley 45 51 97 3 Sheff Utd 45 27 89 4 Sunderland 45 15 76 5 Bristol City 45 4 67 6 Coventry 45 4 66 7 Millwall 45 0 66 8 Blackburn 45 5 65 9 Middlesbrough 45 10 64 10 West Brom 45 8 61 11 Swansea 45 -5 60 12 Sheff Wed 45 -9 57 13 Watford 45 -8 56 14 Norwich 45 1 54 15 QPR 45 -11 53 16 Portsmouth 45 -13 53 17 Oxford Utd 45 -16 52 18 Stoke 45 -17 50 19 Derby 45 -8 49 20 Preston North End 45 -11 49 21 Luton 45 -22 49 22 Hull 45 -10 48 23 Plymouth 45 -36 46 24 Cardiff 45 -23 44 Sellés made another call this week, giving his players Monday off despite a late defeat at home to Derby plunging them deeper into trouble. “Under pressure, people need an extra space to breathe,” he said before their trip to Portsmouth. “Three training sessions this week will be enough to prepare the game.” The buildup has not been helped by the late payment of wages, even if Sellés says it pales into insignificance compared with the myriad of problems he encountered at troubled Reading, where at one point delays were commonplace. It appeared a significant upgrade when Sellés left Reading for Hull in December, but the teams could trade places if the Berkshire club, beset by off-field problems and awaiting a takeover, land a playoff berth on the final day. Last season, Hull went into their last game targeting the playoffs. Their hopes ended with defeat at Plymouth and three days later Acun Ilicali sacked Liam Rosenior, Hull’s owner citing a conflict of opinions. Rosenior, who led Hull to seventh in his first full season, is pushing to qualify for the Champions League with Ligue 1 Strasbourg, while his previous club are at risk of dropping into League One. please log in to view this image View image in fullscreen Liam Rosenior, sacked by Hull after leading them to seventh place last season, is on the verge of reaching the Champions League with Strasbourg. Photograph: Sébastien Bozon/AFP/Getty That provides another reminder the grass is not always greener. All the teams involved in the scrap to retain their second-tier status changed manager during this campaign – with mixed results. On 13 February, the day Derby turned to their former midfielder John Eustace to save their season, Luton were propping up the division and Preston were 11 points clear of the relegation zone. As recently as 3 March, Preston were closer to the playoffs than the bottom three, and they had a game in hand on Luton and Derby, who by that point had slid to the bottom after a winless start under Eustace. Paul Heckingbottom’s Preston had also just beaten their rivals Burnley to advance to the FA Cup quarter-finals. Now Preston, who travel to playoff-chasing Bristol City, are bottom of the form table after taking six points from the past 30 available. Derby, who host Stoke, are one of the form teams after two defeats in their past 10 matches. Luton, who visit West Brom, have won three games on the spin under Matt Bloomfield, who made a slow start after jumping up a division. skip past newsletter promotionPrivacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. after newsletter promotion Bloomfield’s first win after leaving a Wycombe side gunning for promotion came at the ninth attempt, but they have hit their stride. Mark McGuinness, their marquee signing from Cardiff last summer, has impressed in defence as has Thomas Kaminski in goal. Kaminski started Luton’s priceless victory last Saturday over Coventry, another team vying for the top six, despite the death of his father, Jacek, three days earlier. Bloomfield got the Eurostar to Brussels to accompany the Belgian back to England 48 hours before the win. “It means everything to me,” a teary Kaminski said. “Normally I should have had a message from my dad … I didn’t have it today but I know he is watching and with us and would have been very, very proud.” The only certainty from here is that the pendulum of emotions will continue given the stakes. This time last season Luton were winning friends in the Premier League, duking it out with Nottingham Forest to avoid the drop before succumbing on the final day. Derby were in party mode after clinching promotion as runners-up. Stoke finished strongly to dispel relegation worries. Preston, meanwhile, ended 10th – nestled in the safe zone – after a dismal five-match losing run. For one team, things are about to take a turn for the worse.
Personally I'm more worried about important information being leaked and then posted on here, but that's just me
You can talk about how our system is wrong But a football teams cant just suddenly do something brand new for one game Itd be a disaster
Come on City! This is just another key moment in our history and why all follow them.... they will get huge support from our away fans and it's an opportunity for the players to go down in folklore. up the tigers!!!!
Last season's final game MDT has been closed anyway. Presumably that's why you posted it on here instead?
Sounds a bit like how I'm seeing it today too. Days like today are a big part of, even the reason, why we follow football. Meaning for the highs and lows. Hopefully today is a high (albeit in an awful season). #UTT
Its about the journey and destination And if today is good Then its all ****ing worth it Its why we love it The highs are extra ****ing high Its a bank holiday Come on city
