Paullow

Hoping for the two City's to draw each other here.

Lee Dixon likely with a word in the ear, or death stares, for daring to say 'man of the match' there.

I didn't actually realise Forest won in midweek, 2-1 at home Huddersfield, but it's ironically not the best of results as the chasing side. Huddersfield are -28, lost 12 of their 14 matches, so I thought that might have been like 4/5+-0. The GD advantage is currently +16, so could probably afford to lose 2 of the last 4 games really, as Forest would have needed some huge wins to claw it back:

I kind of erased Burnley from the equation after last week's result, and I knew Forest didn't have a match today.

There probably will be numerous similar examples, but the top of the 2nd tier (where we want to be next season) is ridiculously tight at the business end. Sunderland have Charlton (H) and C Palace (A) as their final 2 matches Palace still have to play Birmingham (H) and Sunderland (H) Southampton have Charlton (A) on the final day Charlton have Birmingham (H), Sunderland (A), and Southampton (H) Birmingham have Charlton (A), Palace (A) So plenty of '6 pointers', and it will be in pretty much 'everyone's hands' with the remaining fixtures.

Fantastic win, and just about there. Only 7 points needed from final 4 to mathematically secure the title, and possibly not even as many as that. Some nice fixtures too.

78 mins so still time to get a winner, but a draw would be a great result from where they were earlier, and they could even afford to lose one of their final 4.

2-2!!

Aye, need to win 2-0, but they haven't half closed in. Ipswich still doing really well, although will still be kicking themselves from last week. 1 up after 95 mins, ended up losing 2-1 to Cardiff, Huge response from them yesterday though.

That Leeds ref was the one at Forest in the Championship back in the day. Was it 2 reds and 2 pens?

Wolves do still have to play Forest at home, which was postponed either last week or the week before, but this was only Wolves' 2nd match since Feb 18th, and they have played 5 matches fewer than us, so the matches may catch up on them by the time they play Forest, especially with them not being full time. Still in a very good position even if we did go on to lose, but obviously that margin for error decreases in the final 4 matches.

They played 51 mins that half, so hopefully no injuries on our side.

Yeah, Leicester would have preferred the original decision from the ref, especially with Chelsea already missing a penalty earlier, but even if they scored, it would have been better playing 15+9 with 11 men chasing a goal, than try to hang on for 24 mins, plus almost certainly extra time as well, if you did manage to keep them out in the time remaining.

It is now.

2-0, grim.

They are losing 1-0 as well. At the start of the day they were only 11/10, so not odds on against the 3rd bottom side, and their GD is poor compared to Palace +9 vs +25, but nobody seems to want to win that league. Birmingham strung 6 wins together and looked very likely, but then they have lost the last 2, which isn't great in only a 22 game season. Only 1 point separating the top 4 as it stands, although plenty of time for Sunderland to change their match.

1-0 Wolves

Probably a 25% chance this goes in, but 20 mins and potential ET to hang on for, but probably an 80% chance the pen is scored, and then quite hard to come back. Tough one.

I was going to ask the same Q ask Keown. What would you rather have? At this stage?

Crystal Palace lose to a bottom half side in the league above, and while Sunderland do have to play them and Charlton before the end of the season, Sunderland are in the best position in that league, I think for the first time, there was always a chance that others could win games in hand and pass them, but that will no longer be the case. They are also only 10 mins into their match today (0-0)

Odds are 11/4 Wolves, Newcastle 8/13. Definitely the hardest game on paper of the 5, by far, but they were closer than I thought.

Literally just stuck YouTube on the TV about 50 seconds before the goal as I assumed the tie was over. I'll watch again until if/when Chelsea score again.

Thought Liverpool were at home for some reason today, it being at Old Trafford does make it more interesting for the neutral. You can get 7/2 for Man Utd to win, which looks quite generous IMO.

Shame the Leeds match isn't on at 2pm instead of 3pm. I'd imagine a massive % would be switching over to the big FA Cup match at 3.30pm.