Stottie

Opta predict City to get 66, us to get 65 and Chelsea sixth on 63. Villa get 60. They have us as over 60% chance of top five. Click on predicted at this link https://theanalyst.com/competition/premier-league/table I agree with them and doubt that sixth will get as many as 65 points. Villa would need 17 points from eight games, which they have only managed in one range of eight games, at the very start of the season. Since we play both Villa and Chelsea, avoiding defeat to them will make it harder for them to reach 65. First off though, fingers crossed for a favour from Spurs later on. I'm assuming here of course that City will do whatever and finish above us.

Ha ha Papiss Cisse goal from Sandro. Any win against a team who've won five straight away is a good win. Rejoice!!

That'll do. Didn't give them a sniff or get bullied like some have done at SJP. Not quite clicking for us up front, but more threatening than them and got a goal that was probably deserved, if not by our shooting beforehand. Howay the lads second half!

Bruno is a bigger cartoon character than anyone in Billy the Fish. I bloody love him!

Salah not going last summer has won them the title this season, but him alone cost them 100M plus (rumoured to be 150M) in potential transfer fees from Saudi. As well driving them to win the league, Salah being around and on such amazing form has helped Slot get settled, so its probably been for the best. However, the counterfactual still exists that 100M plus would have paid for a very strong Salah replacement, such as Olise. Given its been a nightmare season for Man City, you could speculate that Liverpool would still have won the title with Olise and been better placed going into summer 2025. fwiw, I like my football to be played on the pitch, not on spreadsheets showing finances.

"PL title" will be leaving if MS goes along with TAA.

Three season ends under Eddie Howe. 21/22 P10 W6 D0 L4 Pts 18 22/23 P10 W5 D3 L2 Pts 18 Final game was dead rubber draw at Chelsea after sealing CL with nervy draw vs. Leicester 23/24 P10 W6 D2 L2 Pts 20 Massive plaudits to Eddie for working em hard but keeping it going at the business end of the season. The same again, say 18, would do very nicely and get us to 65 points. I reckon that would be enough.

I reckon the council will be too hard up to resist any offers of regeneration funded by the Saudis and the Reubens. They may have knocked back previous projects from the club to use Leazes Park, but that would have been a pre-austerity council with much more money and far less wealthy owners of NUFC with much less to offer as sweeteners. The council now will have barely a pot to piss in, never mind pay for things like park upkeep. Libraries and parks across the North East are now maintained by volunteers not the council.

Yes its grim and likely to get grimmer, thanks to rule changes like PSR and more and more subs letting big clubs face you with 16 stars, not 11. Since Sky etc. won't point it out to you, I'll stick this in capitals in an attempt to grab more eyeballs and make an important point about fairness and competititiveness in English football. WE WON THE FIRST EFL TOURNAMENT TO INCLUDE SEEDING OF TEAMS PLAYING THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AND EUROPA LEAGUE THOSE SIX TEAMS ALL GOT AUTOMATIC HOME DRAWS IN THE THIRD ROUND (LAST 32) SO THEY WOULDN'T PLAY EACH OTHER The higher ups and their media lapdogs don't want to share trophies round. That's why they talk of "quadruples". Liverpool didn't even reach the last 8 in the Champions League. That's about as close to winning as some long-forgotten England manager, say Capello, came to winning the World Cup.

They should have it in Leazes Park as a bring your own shovel.

The speed of the decision was at odds with the complexity of the situation. The international feed thought that the offside was a wrong call and that the goal would be given. When it wasn't, their reaction was "oh it must have been Guimaraes", something which hadn't occurred to them from watching the action. The VAR decision looked like it was nullifying an incorrect flag for offside on Isak, but finding a different offside on Bruno which may or may have been correct. He was a yard in front of the keeper, so not impeding him, and not actually in his sight when the shot was taken. You can find the whole match with international coverage (US CBS) online. It sounds like the commentator was Jon Champion. When Isak does score, Champion or whoever it is reminds us that Isak also scored against Arsenal and Chelsea in this tournament. Bravo!

I'm sure we'd have seen more discussion of it had it been an equalizer for them. As it was, we barely got a replay. I would imagine the flag went up seemingly mistakenly for Isak, not for Bruno who the lino can't have known was in the keeper's eyeline. Unless Isak was clearly offside, it should have automatlcally launched a proper VAR review.

6pm here and just about recovered after getting up at noon. Still struggling to believe it. What a performance and the dream scorer in Dan Burn. Beating Liverpool so easily after all our struggles against them of late and without Gordon or Hall. Its a big step forward for the club. It mightn't be for someone else, but it is for us.

Has any other team limited Liverpool to seven shots all season? EH masterclass.

Carra is surprisingly magnanimous mode admitting Liverpool were shite and completely outplayed.