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Redknapp knows that QPR are gone, I reckon. He desperately threw five men up front on Saturday to try to claw something back, and in his post match interview, you could tell he knew the game was up. Reading are also gone, I think. It is just one place to play for. Wigan are perfectly capable of making up the points, but look at yesterday, and how utterly flukey they were. Their form otherwise is awful (wasn't it two wins in the last fifteen before yesterday?) I must admit, though, the fact we play Wigan on the last day of the season is nagging at the back of my mind.

I honestly don't know what to think about him. I've not really seen you play much this season. What I will say, though, is that from the outside looking in, your transfer approach looks excellent, and there is a certain amount of jealousy for the way you clearly did some proper scouting and brought in players like HBA, Cabaye etc. I certainly know that our fans were green with envy in January when you did good business, but we did next to none (although, I have to say, ironically, the French import we made, albeit from Ligue 2, has looked very good in his two games thus far). I don't know how much of, say, your success last season was due to the manager and how much was down to Carr, though, in bringing in the right players, thus making Pardew's job relatively straightforward. Like I said, though, I find it baffling, utterly baffling, that you've followed such a good season with such a poor one.

From the outside in, I am actually pretty gobsmacked you've managed to have such a poor season after such a good one.

It shows the terrible quality of the PL this year. Not only are a really pretty unspectacular team running away with the league, but there are four points separating 17th and 11th, and in that bunch of teams, there are several who aren't playing very well at all. When you strengthened in January, I thought you had effectively ensured you wouldn't go down. I watched most of your match yesterday, though, and was really surprised at how lacklustre and, well, unbothered you looked for much of it, so I am now not too sure at all. What will happen, though, is at least one side will have a terrible run in and find themselves right in the relegation mire. I think that team is definitely going to be Sunderland, but if you look at the current form table, West Ham are also not looking too clever. We are still definitely in the shit, potentially, but we've been playing pretty well for the last few weeks, without necessarily getting the results. Plus, we're scoring goals. Since the start of the year, Agbonlahor has 4 in 9, Benteke has 9 in 11 and Weimann has 3 in 9, despite being stuck out wide most of the time. Our problem comes with defending, we're having to score 3 goals to win games. Anyway, whilst I think there are plenty of teams playing bad enough to go down, I think it will actually be Sunderland, Reading and QPR (and the second two of those are practically gone already).

Dont know if it has been posted already, but check this out from football365. Brilliant article, and spot on. http://www.football365.com/f365-says/8573777/F365-Says

This is just like watching us play. Get a corner, stop concentrating, as nothing will come of it.

On the evidence of that, I think they're in dreadful trouble. Their next four or five matches look horrific for them. Then they play us, and regardless of how shit our defence is, I'd back us to keep a clean sheet against them, plus our strikers are doing very well of late. I honestly think they're in big trouble, and had 20 quid last week on them going down.

Absolutely no fucking about today, please. A sound win is required. pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease

Sunderland really are a horrible, shapeless mess. Brings back memories of home games at our place, trying to break sides down, but not having the first idea how to do so.

Ha ha ha, Grant Holt, that was like watching Gareth Barry chasing Ozil at the WC.

Read in the paper this morning about Martin pointing out he's not had much money to spend, and only bought four players. That's classic MON. How many other managers, with the need to get a decent number of players in, and £25m would have spunked it all on Adam Johnson and Steven Fletcher? I'd have thought they might have looked abroad for more value, rather than two massively overpriced, average English players.

Oh yes, it's been regular since 1997. To the level of that bloke saying there were handfuls of free tickets in a pile at the university? That's staggering.

I've just been reading this thread about them giving tickets away. Is this a regular thing? http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=766798

There's something surreal about watching that useless fucking thug Hutton playing against Real Madrid. The worst full back we've ever had. Even worse than the two we've used most of this season.

Whatever happens, you absolutely have to beat Wigan. Please.

Pardew would love Benteke as well. Imagine all of the long "passes" that we'd play into him? That's the thing. As I said, we look, at times, pretty decent going forward. 26 passes prior to the second goal at Reading last week. The problem is we have such an awfully fragile defence. We've thrown away so many decent leads this season, it's unbelievable.

Honestly, I can barely fucking breathe. For the last ten minutes I was just walking around the fucking house, picking stuff up and cleaning it. The kitchen is absolutely spotless. I can't handle much more of this. I've already got high blood pressure. I feel so sorry for our forward line. We're at times great going forward and can pass the ball nicely, but the defence is so utterly fragile and short of confidence.

No thanks. I want this club to remain as exclusive as possible. It was bad enough Chelsea winning it.

Aye, Bayern scored 3 away. It's as if Stelling, Redknapp and the other cunt don't seem to have realised this. "It's the Arsenal fans with the warm glows at the moment". Errr, not really. Just the need to score two more goals and not concede any. In 45 minutes. Hmmm.

What happens if this ends 2-0 to Arsenal? Surely they still go out, right?

It's like watching the news with a tourettes sufferer newsreader. He's holding it together nicely, talking about white smoke and papal conclaves and what not, but you're totally on edge in case he suddenly screams CUNTBLOOD HAMSTER MINGE! or something.

That was awkward at the end there. it feels like this every few mins when keane is on. He's ace. His thorough unpleasantness has the knack of making you feel vaguely ill at ease in your own living room. Im sure if someone filmed me, id actually be rolling my head in time with his blows. I actually start sweating and hyperventilating a bit when he talks.

That was awkward at the end there. it feels like this every few mins when keane is on. He's ace. His thorough unpleasantness has the knack of making you feel vaguely ill at ease in your own living room.

Keane just looks like he wants to lamp someone.