A mate at Uni supports Norwich and detests Hughton, often going on endless rants. As a NUFC fan with my head screwed on, I sympathised with him. He's practically dancing today, by the sounds of it.
GW33:
Man City 2-1 Southampton
A.Villa 2-0 Fulham
Cardiff 1-1 Crystal Palace
Hull 2-1 Swansea
Newcastle 0-4 Man Utd
Norwich 1-0 West Brom
Chelsea 2-0 Stoke
Everton 1-1 Arsenal
West Ham 1-4 Liverpool
Tottenham 0-1 Sunderland
I'm confused as to what we want to happen for Norwich (32pts, -25 GD) vs West Brom (29pts, -12GD).
A WBA win would increase the gap from Sunderland but it's likely that Norwich won't get any more points and their GD is worse than Sunderland's. They'd be catchable. A draw is obviously not great either.
5 at the back needs exceptional wing backs and tbf I think Debuchy could be good at it - he gets forward a lot for us already! It's just the other side that'd be a problem.
I'm so glad I deleted to have deleted my team, although I'm already stressing about next year's strikers. Can probably only afford 2 from Suarez, Sturridge, Rooney, Aguero and whoever Chelsea buy.
Still think itll be between these and WBA to go down but have just noticed that WBA's goal difference (-12) is much better than Sunderland's (-20). That could seal it, especially with the mackems going to Man City, Chelsea and Man Utd.
Poyet's starting XI was insane. Going 5-3-2 (with 2 def mids) at home in a must-win game, whilst benching Adam Johnson who - despite only playing well in 10% of games - is their main threat. I assumed resting him at Anfield was so he could start this, but no.
I'd say they're nearly gone but there could easily be a twist to come in those Spurs and Everton games.