TRon

Both commentators are blind, missing the obvious deflection.

Has to score there.

Willock and Gordon on the bench at least gives us some attacking options from the bench.

Hope the lads can keep firing in Eddie's absence. Palace are having a good season, didn't realise the loss against Man City was their first one in a while.

Thank fuck for that....a commercial break.

Sat next to Jamie Redknapp. High level insight incoming!!

It shouldn't be really, they just have a couple of players who can hurt us. If we can keep those in check we should be able to impose our own game on them pretty comprehensively.

Yeah it will definitely have an impact, hopefully with only 8 games to go, Tindall can hold it together, but it's a big blow for sure. Obviously his health has to take precedence, we just have to hope everyone pulls together and knows their jobs.

I expected him to contribute a lot more than he has done tbh. He's looked very leggy when he's been brought on. The smarts are still there, you can see that by how he ran the clock down in the cup final, but he has no acceleration now, and he just looks too slow to make an impact.

Muting the stadium noise is these corporations shooting themselves in the foot. It's the atmosphere that sells the PL, not the commentators wanking each other off in the commentary box. I'm sure there must be a happy medium where the crowd noise comes through loud and clear, but you can still hear what the commentator is saying (assuming you want to).

We've got some hard fixtures to close out the season. We need to keep winning games against the mid-lower placed sides, that way we won't be under pressure to win against the Arsenals or Chelseas.

Definitely would love both Villa and Chelsea to miss out, although I think one of them will get a place. Forest look like they might get cold feet right at the death, which was always a possibility.

Villa. Would love their gamble on big money loan signings to backfire. Fair play to them for risking it though, looks like it will get them into Europe in some form, even if it's not CL.

I think there's a sweet spot in the middle somewhere, and we are close to it. I did love Barcelona's football because it did have a point, and no one can tell me it was boring. But then there's something wonderful about a high press barnstorming style that we employ, when we are on it, it's absolutely exhilirating. There might come a point when it won't be enough to win the very highest honours, but then again, it might just need a splash of quality in a couple more areas. We can enjoy the ride until then.

They can have the post match funeral service, I'll take the win.

Who doesn't get flashbacks of the opening battle scenes of Gladiator when they watch this bloke?

Barnes might not have the pace, but apart from his superb shooting, he's also got some good skills on the ball.

That didn't age well.

Hope he got to watch that from his hospital bed, will make him feel a hell of a lot better.

He's still going.

It must be demoralising for the opposition. If he misplaces the odd pass it's a small price to play for such dominance and ability to terrorise.

His hair transplant must be leeching his memory cells.

Winning these games in the countdown to the season is taking a lot of pressure off, we still have a lot of tough games to come, but every time we win it gives us a bit more breathing room.

Draw then. Although I don't really fear Fulham at all so if they win I'm still good with it.

Think he'd look even better on the right if we had an inverted winger. Murphy being a classic wide man doesn't really get the best out of Tino.