Geordie Ahmed

Real blatantly going to score the winner here

Free kick to Real, damn

A corner to Real, probably the last chance

That was crap Valencia, should have scored

90 mins are up, 5 added on, wtf? That's absurd

Ronaldo to bury this free kick

Ronaldo scoring a free kick

Was my jinx attempt, hoping Valencia can hold on

Ref being kind to Real with free kicks

Howay Valencia, hold on you divvies

Ronaldo to bury this free kick

Valencia should have been further ahead

Negredo should have finished that first chance

2-2, damn

Great goal, Real are winning this

They are probably going to draw this at the very least. A draw would still make me comfortable about winning the league though. Just hang in there, you beautiful orange lads.

If it's a draw then you only need to win one of the last 2, right?

Just cracked open the wine after Valencia scored the second.

Probably want to close it as this is far from over

Pepe scores, going to be interesting this

Half a chance for Hernandez, decent save from Alves

To get to the bottom three is some achievement from John Carver

Lots of boos, support the team not the regime

Ryan Taylor ffs, any moron that spouts the absurd line of "even Mourinho wouldn't do any better" needs to explain why on earth a piece of crap like Ryan Taylor gets picked ahead of Abeid

Everton are in can't be arsed mode, can see Sunderland winning this if Everton don't pick it up a gear

Think these are down if they lose today

I think they will beat Leicester, just like against Southampton they will find a way to win (as they have done the last few seasons) so it will still require us to get a win from somewhere

Bloody hell, is that a genuine article? Even for someone as thick add Taylor that is unreal, I was convinced it was a piss take (still kind of am)

I've seen some absurd things as a fan BUT when he produced that letter I was gobsmacked

For all I think the whole situation and this cringe-worthy open letter is a shambles, I do agree with it's sentiment and I don't get why people would want us to get relegated. The team is going to need massive support in the home games to give us even a hope of staying up. They don't deserve it, Mike doesn't deserve the record tv money but absolutely no situation will be better if when we go down.

 

 

How will it be better is we stay up?

 

I guess my perspective is based entirely on hope rather than expectation but surely the likelihood for Ashley finding a buying for a club with a £250m personal debt owed to him will be far more likely if we're a Premier League club? Is it even possible anyone would be crazy enough to buy us in that situation if we're stuck in the Championship or potentially worse?

 

Does anyone really want to be watching us in the Championship also? It worked wonders for us last time and I enjoyed it but that was probably exclusively because we won almost every game. There's no guarantee we'd come back up first time or even how bad it could be for us if we go down.

 

We're already being widely ridiculed as a club from top to bottom, getting relegated is only going to make us look like bigger bellends for everyone to scoff at. For me if we stay up there's still hope things could be fixed, I don't see how going down would solve anything.

The debt is £250m? Since when? 

The only reason I say no is because it means us going down at the Mackems expense and the Pardew loving wankers will be unbearable. Just survive this season and we can go down next season

Aye, Alves has been class lately.  With the transfer ban in place it's important they get him to sign a new contract