brummie

For Wigan to stand a chance of finishing above us, they need to win at Arsenal, three days after the FAC final. Not a fucking chance. For all the talk of Wigan surviving, people have neglected the fact that, while they look OK coming forward, they can't defend for shit.

Not really. They're expected to go down eventually, going down would be no big surprise to them, so they just go out and play. Clubs like you, us, Sunderland, shit our pants at the thought of going down.

Oh fucking no.

Half the crowd will probably fuck off at half time to catch The Apprentice at 9.

They owe it to Villa to win here. We gifted the cunts Bradford Fucking City at Wembley.

Wigan just look like they'll never, ever lose a match again.

Geoff Shreeve: "They think it's his hamstring" (strange emphasis on "hamstring")

I wonder if, during these relatively dull matches, Tyler and Smith are tempted to drop a few FIFA13 soundbites in. I know if I was one of them, I'd absolutely have to do it. "It's a five goal game split two ways" "Well, it might not be one of the best saves he's made, but it's one of the most important"

That Sian Massey doesn't half do some games. She seems to do them all these days.

Paul Scharner looks like a cool dude. Like he used to play bass in Weezer or something, but then left to devote himself to his career in pottery.

Just passed over our house, that.

Wow, the Swansea support. I don't blame them, mind.

Where is Swansea's passing game this evening? Mind you, we've taken four points off these cunts this season, so I am not sure I buy into that shit.

I am watching this on the Sky app on the Xbox, so it is a far bit behind the TV feed. Just for all those "OMG Wigan score" posts, YOU BASTARDS, THE DELAY RENDERS IT FEASIBLE.

I am shitting my pants, and we are four places and two points ahead of you. You lot must be in pieces.

Double agent *nods*

Come on, Routledge, two of your former teams to help out here.

That's what we need to remember. Despite the Wigan survival record thing, they're in the relegation zone and on 35 points for a reason.

"Shaun Maloney - big weight on those young shoulders" He's 30.

Where the fuck is Luke Moore?

Except Swansea.

The really horrible thing about fighting relegation is that, as if shitting your entire body weight out every 90 minutes while you own team is playing, you also get to have evenings like this, where a meeting between two teams you have no particular attachment to, or liking for, leaves you gibbering like a wreck. Basically, the shitting yourself over your own team is bad enough. Finding yourself having to do it over other teams is just sadistic. Sunderland, Stoke, Wigan, Swansea. Meh, fuck them all.

Yes, it's terrible. If Swansea win, Wigan will have to beat Arsenal away even if we just get a draw on Sunday. I can't see that happening. Thats my (from our point of view) take on it. Well, actually, it isn't, but it's not too dissimilar. If Swansea get a draw tonight, Wigan need to win at Arsenal to be able to topple us. Which they won't. Unfortunately, I don't think Swansea will get a draw tonight.

Perfect analogy. Exactly how I feel and partly why I'm seething at the whole situation which, imo, was all too obvious for those watching the team week-in, week-out, to see. It was all so avoidable if Pardew had woken the fuck up / had been ditched a lot sooner. Terrified we're on our way. As an outsider, your drive into the relegation fight has been a gigantic surprise. If you look at the other clubs down there - us with a team full of kids, we were always going to struggle this year, Norwich with no proven goalscorer and a weak squad, Sunderland having been taken back to the 1980s by MON and then handed over to a league one fascist nutjob, Southampton the newly promoted side, Wigan the perennial strugglers - all of those clubs you can say it is no massive surprise to see them in the relegation battle, but you lot? A look at where you finished last year, and the sort of season you had, then another look at your squad, and it is utterly inexplicable. Actually, it isn't inexplicable, there's really only one possible reason for that - the manager. I bet you if you did a straw poll of the rest of the country, though, they'd all think Pardew was doing a decent job. That's largely how we felt last year when told we weren't giving McLeish a chance, or that he too was doing a decent job.

Oh, FFS