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Currently 1/20 to finish top 5. Obviously that's just what the bookies think and isn't indicative of the exact probability. It'll also come right back in if we were to lose on Saturday, but right now we're looking very very secure

Chelsea aren't catching us now, not a chance they make up that 5 point gap given how we're both playing with only 6 games left, they're on the manager's back and moaning about how shit they look. They also probably have 5 more European games to fit in between now and the end of the season. Which leaves Villa. Simply avoid defeat (easier than it sounds I know) on Saturday and I think we can rule them out too. We're essentially 6 points ahead given the GD and we'd only have another 5 games to play. We could all but ice it by 8pm Saturday imo. And that's not even mentioning the fact that Chelsea play Forest and Villa need to go to Man City too. Still think we'll finish 4th but that win last night was huge, it looked a tricky fixture on paper but we just bulldozed them bumping up the GD in the process, +8 for the week so far

Please withdraw Joelinton. That is all

He's absolutely fucking shit

Bit like Man U at the weekend I think Palace's focus will be on other games rather than the league. Not often they get to play at Wembley in an FA Cup semi, big chance of making a final too - that's where their priorities should be really. Losing a game to Newcastle is neither here nor there to them in the big picture. They played really well at City for the first 20 mins and caused loads of issues down their right hand side. Tino, Joelinton and Barnes will need to be switched on from the first whistle. Once City did eventually click I thought Palace heads dropped a bit. Hoping we take the lead and I think they'll start looking at the SF, they'll not want to pick up another injury like Zirkzee did

Pretty sure I wanted Fonseca or Emery before Howe iirc. I'd have welcomed anyone at the time though as whoever got the job wouldn't have been called Steve Bruce. Think I was fairly neutral and ambivalent to Howe at the time

We'd need to know what she was responsible for first. However, being the COO of one of the biggest shitshows we've seen in years doesn't scream excellence. She may well have had little/nothing to do with the circus that club has become but I'd suggest her title means she was heavily involved. Obviously I'm looking at it from the outside and she could have been ignored, undermined or whatever, we don't know enough. Gut instinct is to run a mile from anyone remotely influencial in the demise of Man U

We've been largely fantastic for about 4 months now, winning 19 of 24 or something like that. We're in a brilliant position but it's inevitable we're going to start dropping points, no team just wins each week. It's completely normal for the odd draw or loss to happen, we're long overdue a draw, last one was Liverpool 3-3. We're rightly full of confidence and shouldn't be scared of anyone but the law of averages suggests we're due a dip in results at some point. I still think we'll finish 4th but we'll still be looking over our shoulders in the second half of the Everton game. It'll be that tight imo

They look genuinely gutted. Bodes well for Saturday, this will be hanging over them for a while, that's a bad blow for them mentally. Not saying they're shit or it'll be easy, quite the opposite tbh, but losing like that tonight will really hurt them

Just 3

Want them mentally and physically exhausted on Saturday night, the longer this goes the better, the more draining it is the better. Couldn't give a shit of they go through or not, I just want them to go through the mixer tonight

Extra time please

McGinn is ridiculous

Neil Cox still has nightmares to this day apparently

Really hope Villa keep this tempo up. They're flying but adrenaline only lasts for so long, they still have a lot of fixtures left

https://www.retroclasico.co.uk/product/newcastle-united-2025-league-cup-ceefax-style-football-match-result-mug/ I think

Had a few frames of snooker with a mate I've not seen for a few months - first topic of conversation was the final. Where we watched it, what we thought, how we celebrated etc. Didn't talk about anything else for at least half an hour, just mint. Still have to remind myself we actually did it

Inject it

I dare say Kelly wasn't quite as 'free' as we thought he was, it's inevitable though these days

They've got nearly half of their points from promoted teams but absolutely gash against the rest of the league. Fulham must be fuming

Honestly not sure of the mechanics of when the 'shot/chance' is measured? Could be factoring in Barnes may not have reached the cut-back from Murphy maybe? On the face of it the shot was from a yard out and virtually impossible to miss It's an imperfect system tbh, it just helps to tell the story of the match

Tonali goal was 0.2 Garnacho was 0.1 Barnes 1 was 0.54 Bruno was 0.46 Barnes 2 was 0.25

Not quite sure how any Man U fan can consistently and correctly criticise the way the club has been run, the players that have signed (and flopped), the contracts dished out and the money spunked up the wall for months then come out to bat for them day after another humiliating defeat. Got to admire it

Villa could still win the FA Cup too. They've got a stacked league schedule (us, City, Fulham, Bournemouth, Spurs and Man U), PSG at home, Palace at Wembley and a possible FA Cup final too. All to be played in about the next 6 weeks

Forest and Chelsea playing a draw on the last day would be splendid