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Except the cup final last year? Where they also conspired to fuck it.

Lol.. why isn't Haaland on pens

Hate those sort of pens. It's a clear dive and the ball is already out of play. Shocking decision.

Doesn't bother me as a co-comm but find him irritating on rest is football, offers zero insight, just regurgitates the obvious all the time.

City line up was bit arrogant. Playing a midfield two of De Bruyne and Silva. Playing two upfront. Playing two ver attacking wingers and playing the kid at left back. Started the game pretty dominant but tactically this is playing into Palace hands.

As long as we don't pick up any bad injuries and/or get thumped 4 or 5 nil then there shouldn't be any need to panic. Just wish we had a somewhat easier game to give us a better chance of finishing it before Everton. But that's how it's fallen and hopefully this team will see it through and get us over the line like they did in 22/23 and the in the cup final this year.

Hoijlund is really poor. Lost the ball everytime it's been near him from what I've seen.

I don't like that they realistically only need a point, whereas a point doesn't change much for us so we ideally need the 3 as we can't get 2 points from Everton, so would still need a win there anyways. So there is that. Just hope we can frustrate them and then be super clinical when we get any chances. Basically a repeat of the cup games.

Pretty sure I heard that Gittens was going to Chelsea and it was already done. Plus isn't he more of a right footed left winger?

Thought that was a foul by McGinn in the build up. Annoys me his whole game is backing his arse into the opposition.

Eddie doesn't need the award, he can win it in future seasons when we win the league. Keep him hungry.

Spurs got too many attacking injuries and a weaker mentality. Plus add on that Man U always find a way to scrote. It's lose lose but can try to enjoy the misery of whoever loses as it will have been a rotten season for whoever does.

I haven't watched any of it but I noticed in recent interviews since his sacking he has gone on the offensive this time and is trying to be more outspoken and deflecting from his own failures. Makes me laugh because last time he was out of work he was all over talksport and the like saying he only played a certain way because that's all he could do at Burnley and of someone gave him a chance he could show how much more he had to offer. Then he served up what he did at Everton and did the classic Bruce level negative mentality. Moyes has come in and shown him up massively, and Moyes is hardly the most progressive, attack minded coach.

Dunno where 20% chance is coming from for Man U or Spurs. I'd say 99.9% chance of loss. Neither team give a shit about the league and certainly not with both worried about more injuries. We can't cry about it however as we already took 12 points off both of them so we can't begrudge others playing them. I was more annoyed at the likes of Liverpool, Fulhamand Bournemouth who all took loads of points off us yet didn't turn up against Chelsea and Villa. Just need to take care of our own business.

Don't see how we command a £20m fee for Longstaff. Maybe off the back of the 22/23 season, but the last two years his value has only depreciated, and this season he's barely had a kick. I think he only has a year left on his contract aswell no?

Have to admit last year I was one of those droning on about not playing him left back. I don't think I was criticizing Burn personally, more Eddie for not recognising that it was a massive weakness for us and whilst long term he has probably been proven right not to have thrown Hall in the deep end. Clearly this year we can see the difference it's made slotting Burn into his more natural position and bringing in Hall as the starting left back. Wouldn't begrudge calls for him winning player of the year, just out of pure consistency every game this year, necessity to hold the defense together along with Schar in the wake of Botman and Lascelles injury problems and ofcourse that cup final performance. Whilst Isak and Tonali are our most talented players, there is something to be said for the likes of Burn and Murphy who have maximised their output this year despite maybe having a lower ceiling in terms of outright talent.

I thought it was pretty obvious from the moment it happened he should have been subbed off. Especially as they were chasing a goal and even if he was fine it was going to take him a good few minutes atleast to shake off the impact. But with hindsight it's even more damning of the medical staff to have allowed him to carry on.

Can't see Spurs beating Man U in the final. Man u atleast have Amad, Bruno and to a lesser extent Garnacho that carry some threat. Spurs just look blunt at the moment and are missing their creative players like Maddison, Son, Kulusevski, Bergval. Not to mention the would probably bottle it anyways even if full strength.

I remember that, it was the same thing Caiceido had done about 10 times without getting booked and Schar got it on the very first foul. Ref wasn't great in general but he started giving them absolutely everything after the red card. Hate when ref's feel the need to do that.

Frimpong always seemed tailor made for the prem. Never used to bother me the signings Liverpool or City made, but now that we are edging closer to both I am starting to grow frustrated when they do good business.

Reynolds is Canadian.

Yeah, think Forest will lose to West Ham away now.

Exactly. However I'm trying to tell myself that since then we have grown as a team and won a hell of a lot of "big games" when we needed to, not least the cup final. So I know we can do it, but would much prefer it not to reach the stress levels of that Leicester game.

Saka didn't play in the last two against us. He's a big difference maker and someone we need to try and protect against. If Martinelli plays through the middle then just need to be cautious of leaving him isolated against our slow cb's. Would love it to be true but we rarely get that much luck so you know Rice and others will probably make a miraculous recovery just in time to play. Hope we are switched on and aren't carrying too many passengers. Was very strange performance that 2nd half to Chelsea, hopefully it was a mentality thing.

There are still too many variables for me. Yes in theory and based on form this season we should get 3 points from Everton or maybe even possibly Arsenal. But it's the end of the season, most players look like they are running on empty, we have more injuries hitting, and going into one last game needing to win does create a different mentality for the players and crowd. We could go for it against Arsenal and come up short but what if we picked up a few more injuries to key players or a suspension etc. Still just too much up in the air for me to say with any confidence we are definitely there. Really hope we turn up at Arsenal and get it done there. The idea of a nervy 0-0 with Everton trying to break them down going into the last few minutes would be horrific.