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I might call them United for the next few hours out of respect

PENALTY TO MAN U

MASSIVE LET OFF.

Absolutely fucked. Villa will get a goal via VAR.

Absolute awful back pass again.

Felt it was offside as soon as it was struck so didn't really celebrate it.

Fantastic break away!

Yeah, we would need to lose by 4 in order for Chelsea to pass us, but you initially said 'plus we'd need to lose by 4 more than Chelsea', i.e. if Chelsea lost 0-1, we'd have to lose 0-5 (and that bit extra buffer), which isn't the case. If Chelsea lost 0-1 then we'd have to lose 0-4, so just 3 more than them. It seems you knew all the permutations, but didn't come across as clear.

3 more than Chelsea, but still very unlikely.

Maps for steps 7 and 8 next season. NPL Premier Division NPL East A shame there's not a few more North Yorkshire sides so that the likes of Matlock and Lincoln U could go into the NPL Midlands. Pickering, Knaresborough and Tadcaster are in the league below (Northern League Division One equivalent, and Harrogate Railway a league further down) but none of them were in promotion contention this year, but even having those 9 north east sides will be a massive boost in terms of travel, Friday night matches, a few more at the gate etc. Blyth S should get some decent crowds against Blyth T and Ashington, you'd think / hope - unless it's looking like a third successive relegation could be on the cards. It will be very hard for everyone to stay up this year, but hopefully it's no more than one if any of them do drop to still have a net gain coming up from the Northern League the following season.

Just checked (via big Hank on RTG) and last year Sky had 3 games on the final day and BT/TNT had 1, so 4 overall. Disappointing when there is presumably more to play for (can't remember) that there is one less this year, especially when they are constantly boasting about all the live matches next season.

Thought Fernandes was defending a cross there

And even 6th sounds so much better than 7th, with all the 'big 6' type stuff. Still obviously hoping for better mind.

Inter match or Napoli? Both on TNT Sports. It's in Napoli's hands so that's more important in terms of the title, but the Inter match involves Lazio who are going for CL football

Win = qualify Draw = qualify if Villa don't win, or Forest and Chelsea draw (if Villa do win) Lose = qualify if Villa also lose, as long as it's not a very heavy defeat and Forest beat Chelsea There's also Man City who may factor in, but we'll know more about them on Tuesday night after their match with Bmouth.

Just need to match it (unless we lose by 4)

I'm not sure who I want to win on a general level, but in terms of that Villa match, I actually think the opposite might be better. Win on Weds and their season was poor but they've got a trophy, are in the CL, so doesn't really matter, the players can celebrate their trophy and then forget about the season. Lose, and it will have been their worst season in living memory and they might be more inclined to 'apologise' to the fans by actually putting in a performance at home.

Yes, extremely likely. If Chelsea lose by 1, we can still lose by 3, if Chelsea lose by 2, we can lose by 4 and so on, so at least it's something that goal difference was still intact.

Just goal difference in the defeats, so could have been a bit worse.

Well, all 5 results in league and cup unfortunately went against us this weekend, but if we were to lose and Chelsea were to win, at least both were just by the 1 goal, so we should have at least 6th (and Europa) wrapped up. If Chelsea do lose to Forest next week then we would have to lose to Everton by at least 4 goals to finish as low as 7th. Had we lost 2-0 and Chelsea won 3-0, or vice versa, then even 6th wouldn't have been sewn up. Edit - not that Howe was bothered about any of that with Pope going up

Could do with keeping the score down if we are to lose. A repeat of the Villa capitulation could be disastrous.

Lack of confidence there from Livra.

Feeling a bit more ominous now after a very good start.

Still 7th. Nothing positive has happened in the 4 matches that affected us this weekend thus far.