Ketsbaia

He was great to watch yesterday. Just brilliant with the ball, like he can't lose it. And he can do everything..... I remember writing about his signing and finding a quote that he was a footballing unicorn.

Doom-mongers? The confidence has been a bit OTT recently so adding a more level-headed opinion (about Leeds/Leicester not being guaranteed wins, Brighton are good, hey maybe we won't beat 2nd-placed Arsenal etc) gets labelled as an attention-seeking wetting of beds. It's called not having your head in the clouds. I found those 97% predictions from Opta/FiveThirtyEight a bit ludicrous. 60/40 more like. But hey, let's hope Liverpool slip-up and we reach the promised land. That'd be incredible

We played alright, generally. Isak looks special every time he's on the ball and Willock had some big moments. Still don't think we'll get the 7 points (according to the internet we've already bagged wins over Leeds and Leicester, because that's famously how football works) but hopefully Liverpool have that one slip-up.

Want to say so much.

Mission one is to keep the goal difference down here, we're lucky it's only 0-1. We look alright in attack but, unfortunately, the defence has completely freefalled in recent times. Hope Eddie finds a way to turn this around because the current plan won't score.

Been an awful day, like. Just waiting and waiting, nervous as hell. Wish it'd been a 2pm kick-off!

Yeah but they're used to this.

7pts is a big ask, I know there's a good vibe right now and lots of 'on the brink' stuff but it's asking a lot. We definitely have a worse set of fixtures than Man U, Liverpool. Just have to hope Leicester (a) or Villa (h) finally help us out. And that these 1-0 wins takes the requirement down to 6pts.

Nobody else thinking it's a tricky end to our season? Would (almost) give a kidney to reach 71pts

Even knowing that they'd beat Fulham tonight - with Brentford/Villa/Leicester being their more likely slip-ups - it was a shame to see. Just a penalty too, man. At least it was only 1-0, so goal difference isn't being chipped away.

Did Blackburn start on +15 points or something? I swear I've not seen a win from them all season. Negative goal difference too.

Can totally see Liverpool winning all remaining games, where suddenly we'll need 6 points from a tricky set of games. Just got to hope that Brentford/Villa get them to drop a couple of points.

Boro v Coventry on the final day will be a mindfuck because they're likely to face each other in the play-offs straight after. Does either manager even attempt to give clues away?

That point probably gets them the play-offs, bastards. Obviously they'll beat Preston, which then needs Coventry to win at Boro and a Millwall win. Twats.

No, they're pretty sure it's Real Madrid.

Opta decided that Wilson was Isak's intended target, not Murphy. A controversial way to decide assists when you see Kane's a few minutes later.

The way that Millwall, Blackburn, Norwich, West Brom, Preston and Watford have all collapsed at the same time, conveniently gifting the mackems a play-off spot, is beyond freakish. Every result you don't want to happen keeps happening, it's quite remarkable.

4th: Newcastle (68) 5th: Liverpool (67) 6th: Brighton (66) 7th: Tottenham (62)

There was a story about Burnley being suspected of match-fixing match against Reading. Well, honestly, it feels like the whole bloody division is conspiring to get these lot promoted. They're all so shite, all drawing with each other, coming up with an improbable combination of results that keeps benefitting the mackems. When they went 1-0 down today, they were obviously going to win because that's how it keeps going. Just hope Boro can stop them tbh.

I hate being confident, like We shouldn't expect to beat Spurs but there's a good vibe about it - if anything, last week's defeat adds more confidence that there'll be an apologetic performance in a partisan atmosphere. Man, what a massive match.

They're all so bad. Don't think I've ever checked the score to see a Blackburn win - yet they're seventh?!?!? Even if mackems lose to WBA, they'll beat Watford and Preston. Easily.

Spend all week writing about Free Hit for work, only to - incredibly - get a big red arrow from it. Bit shell-shocked.

In fairness, this has us lose (HA!) at Chelsea on the final day while some of the others won. So it would've been sealed by match 37.

Did a little predictor: 4) Newcastle - 67 5) Brighton - 66 6) Liverpool - 65 7) Spurs - 65 8) Aston Villa - 61 Finishing top four would mean everything, as I don't think we can bank on Liverpool and Chelsea having another mare at the same time. It needs to happen this season.

That Coventry equaliser is annoying. Although hopefully they beat Reading and Preston v Blackburn has a winner.