Colos Short and Curlies

In some perverse ways its a more straight forward task for us and Boro. We simply have to win. Hull and the Mackems will be stuck between stick or twist in terms of trying to defend for 90 minutes or going for the win. I can see all 4 teams being in and out of the bottom three during the 90 minutes on Sunday, Jeff Stelling et al are going to have a heart attack. (Still a 1 btw, like Frank Skinner/David Baddiel I still believe)

I'm guilty of it but it's just because it almost coincides with my life. First season i remember is 94/95. And I thought Everton had had over 100 years of top flight football? The "fact" is that football post Sky/Premiership is a completely different game to what came before it. Its almost unrecognisable in many ways

Alan Mullary (sp) on SSN last night came out with a classic after the first goal. He was going on about the Sunderland players hearing a whistle (possibly from the crowd) 'But Davenport didn't hear it, and neither did the ref, so the goal stands'. With comments like that he will be on Soccer Saturday before you know it

Has Glenn decided on a bid for Kuyt yet?

I said a couple of years ago (after the U21 championship) that I thought JM would make a good right back in a few years

Not many teams been there from start to now

Spiderman

He might be able to make the bench, but chances are he'll have no impact... too jetlagged. And pissed

that's that for our survival hopes then.. oh well at least we got ALAN ALAN SMIIIITH! Smith is injured Calling Dutty Custard

So which idiot gave the go ahead for the kids to visit teeside? Someone call social services!

If Hull do drop into the bottom three then thats them done imo. We could lose to Fulham and Villa and still stay above them

You'd think so. But we'll need to win the Boro and Fulham games to have any real chance of finishing above Sunderland, not going to happen sadly Where are you expecting Sunderland to get points from? i'm expecting Sunderland to stay on 35 points meaning we need at least 5 to finish above them, given their superior goal difference. Not going to happen imo It would take a heavy loss in our 3rd game for us to win one, draw one and lose one and not overtake Sunderlands GD if they lose all 3 of their games

Still a one. We are not going down. Keep repeating it in your head all day. By Monday you will be believing it. PMT boys. All that is needed (Positive Mental Thoughts)

some win more than others though... If you look at the 'true' league table - i.e. if all decisions were corrected then there is minimal change in respects of who is at the top of the league and who is at the bottom. That suggests that for everyone the ref gets it right or wrong in pretty much equal measures

No. The rules state no appeal. The rules are wrong, but they should be changed mid competition

so you are saying if we score we could win... however if they score, then they might win? Or the Mickey Quinn approach - If you score a couple and don't concede you have a chance

2 games within an hours drive for me down in South Wales. Although whether I would fancy being an away fan in Cardiff is another matter all together

If Barton is anywhere near fit he should replace Nolan in that team

Habib Beye's Joey Barton's Steven Taylor's not from Newcastle.

They'll miss us next season. Case in point. 300 Pompey fans at SJP Monday, reverse the fixture and we would have taken at least 2,000 down. Put a Newcastle game on in just about any bar and there will be Toon fans putting money into the tills. How many Hull fans do you see outside of Hull? As with most things, the thought of us going down (to others) is a lot better (and funnier) than the reality

So was Owen's miss the moment we went down (Not blaming Owen for going down just pinpointing the moment)? Or was that Pompey Greasy Haired tit hitting the post the moment that keeps us up?? Fuck it, I'm sticking to my Mexico trip and am going to fuck a pig to end it all

bloody hell! I'm with Apisith on this. A cup is one day, a pot for the trophey room and not a lot else. Give me the memories of PSV 2-3 Toon, Inter 2-2 Toon, Toon 3-2 Barca any day over winning one league or even FA Cup. I'm not even all that arsed about winning the league, again its a tin pot. The European adventure that comes with finishing second would/did replace any dejection in not being champions. We wouldn't even be able to gloat about winning a cup. All that would happen is 'no trophey in x years', becomes 'only one trophey in x years'.

And we're off...... wait and see what happens if we go down. Whats wrong with that ? You're paranoid All this sexual tension in the forum today.........

Ranger shirley?

Heard that Celtic are keeping tabs on him too. I think that should the Swans get up via the p/os then Gomez may be gracing the Liberty for at least one more season.