Paullow

Looks like ours, Sunderland, and Burnley vs Wolves are the ones where you will had to load up the red button, all the rest are on designated Sky channels. Annoying if you were wanting to switch between matches as it can take a while to load up if moving on to other matches. Annoying.

Unlucky / awful mistake by Stockport player, Bolton lead 2-1.

League one play off has been very watchable. 1-1 at half time between Bolton and Stockport.

I'm not sure which I would prefer, but as I'm expecting Spurs to stay up, comfortably, I think my main hope today is that Sunderland don't win, so no European football for them, and if Spurs did drop, then that would be lovely bonus. Sunderland don't win West Ham win, Spurs lose (worthless if one of them doesn't happen) Newcastle win Not so fussed about Liverpool. It's hard to see Bmouth bettering their result, never mind a 6 or 7 goal swing.

Would people prefer Sunderland to finish 7th and Europe League, but Spurs go down, or Sunderland to finish 12th, but West Ham go down?

Yeah, I don't get the Liverpool part. A draw would still mean they got Champions League football from a not liking Liverpool perspective, and Sunderland would still finish about Brentford if Sunderland won, and Brentford drew. Even if Brentford won then Sunderland would still get Conference if they won and Brighton lost, so feels a bit redundant adding Liverpool in to a hedge bet.

I did stick £27 on them earlier in the week as I had about £277 in my Unibet account, largely thanks to this fluke bet earlier in the season, ha. I might stick another £20 or so on them before kick off, although the odds have slightly shortened - probably loads of us Newcastle fans doing the same . The one good thing is they HAVE to win. A draw is as worthless as a loss to them, absolutely no advantages whatsoever in them drawing. If they draw they can't finish in the top 8, so no Europe. In terms of placement, Brentford would have to lose 11-0 to go below them, so that's not happening, and in terms of the chasing pack, either us or Fulham will jump above them if they lose or draw, and there is a winner in our match, as will Everton if they win their match, so other than an extra point in their solid campaign, a draw is effectively meaningless, which is great for the emotional hedge better, you can lump on them to win knowing that if they drew, and you lost your bet, it wouldn't help them at all. If they did go 1-0 down they would probably go out to around to 8 or 9/1 in play, so more opportunities to win a bet that you don't want to win, and at least profit from it.

Is the German cup final definitely on free TV tonight? That site (livefootballontv) had the German playoff match being on YouTube yesterday, but ended up on Prime PPV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–26_Sunderland_A.F.C._season#In You'd certainly think so, but Sunderland pretty much bought a new team after coming up, only a handful of those playing last year have featured here. I'm not sure if Hull can spend that much money, and they will have to get the recruitment right, but probably best to see what they do in the window. Forest pretty much bought a new team too IIRC.

Nowt against Boro, but despite the controversial circumstances, it would have felt a bit strange them going up after already losing, so I'm quite pleased with the outcome. At least it's another northern club coming up, and it's been a fair while since Hull were last in the Prem. Much better than Southampton coming back up.

Fuck was that from the Boro defender

Bowen's just put St Mirren a goal up.

Final day of the Saudi Pro League as well. 7pm on YouTube. Al-Nassr vs Damac and Al-Fateh vs Al-Hilal. Head to head points seems to be the second tie breaker after points, so if Al-Hilal win, Al-Nassr will too against their relegation threatened opponents as Hilal have the H2H advantage of the 2.

Ha, I noticed that earlier. Had it have been Magdeburg from Bundesliga 2 then I might have dug deep into my pockets, but aye, would be surprised if that was 3 figures in terms of purchases in the UK. BT / TNT used to have those matches as Hamburg seemed to be involved every year. The second to third tier playoff is on Youtube tomorrow though

Who's everyone got in the big one tonight? Will The Jags finally do it?

Bad feeling here.

Oh dear.

Everton and West Ham being shite at the weekend doesn't increase optimism, but at least it's looking like relegation will go down to the final day.

Should be game over, you'd think.

As it stands, if they win on Sunday and Brighton don't (beat Man Utd), they would get Europa. They'd surely be going for it at the start of play. The Champions League dream will be over if Bmouth don't lose tonight.

There's also the Sunderland factor as well. Not definitive, but I'd say a Chelsea win here would give them a better chance of beating Sunderland on Sunday as well to end the Mackems European hopes as they should be more motivated. The Spurs sweating for a few more days is a very nice bonus as well.

We do, but we also need about 4 other things happening on Sunday as well. Chelsea win all the way for me, and lots more on here judging by all the 'get in's'.

There was barely a chance of it anyway, less than 10%. Had it have been in our hands if Chelsea dropped points tonight and a win for us on the final day, but there's just far too much having to go right. Chelsea winning is better on a number of fronts.

Gerrin. What a goal!