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York now lead Gateshead 2-1. Putting a bit of pressure on Barnet who play at 5.30pm.

Some interesting matches in local non league later today. Nat. North Darlington vs South Shields, 3pm - bit of a nothing match, both sides staying up, Shields season totally done, and far too much for Darlington to do in terms of the playoffs, and without looking at other fixtures, it may well be mathematically impossible if other chasing teams are playing each other Spennymoor vs Scarborough, 3pm - Scarborough's season is done, Spennymoor will have to keep winning and hope it's enough to sneak into the playoffs. Spenny will probably need 9 points from final 3 games to have any chance. NPL East Sheffield vs Ashington, 2pm - Sheffield already down so a great opportunity for Ashington to pull further clear of the final relegation spot. Heaton vs Liversedge, 3pm - Liversedge were down, but Brighouse being docked 3 points has given them a tiny chance of survival, but they are 7 behind with 3 games to go. Like Ashington, a great chance for Heaton to pull clear ahead of their big meeting with Ashington on Easter Monday. Ossett vs Consett, 3pm - 15th vs 14th and only 1 point between them. They would have been 2 and 3 points respectively clear of the drop zone, but the Brighouse situation means it 4 and 5, so a bit more breathing room.

Derby vs Luton at 12.30 on Sky is a really big match. Luton will be at least 5 points adrift (of safety) if they lose, with only 3 games to go, but a win would take them level, and potentially more in touch with the sides directly above Derby.

Lazio score late to level their tie at 2-2, so if they do go through then it should be a bit more trickier tie for Spurs in the semi final than Bodo Glimt

1/20 at PP now. Not sure if you can bet on a team not finishing in the top 5 at a traditional bookie, but must be around 10/1 now.

Glad all over

Crazy that we've scored 11 goals in the last 2 and a half games, and Isak hasn't got any of them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/3507627.stm Shearer got it wrong, it was just an equaliser, not the winner. 21 years ago.

Europa anthem >

Thank god they only got 2 points from their last 18, where most of them were 'winnable'. They are definitely too far adrift of us, with us having gained 13 more points than them in that period.

Good news for Heaton, Consett and Ashington. Brighouse have been docked 3 points for fielding an ineligible player and subsequently drop into the final relegation spot.

Any preference for Bmouth vs Fulham? I'm quite looking forward to it, doesn't really affect us too much, or shouldn't, and it's a battle between 2 sides having better than expected seasons. In terms of us, Fulham not winning would be best from a points perspective, but on the flip side, if they did win, it could make them more confident / motivated heading into matches with more direct rivals. Hopefully it's a decent match.

Meaningful games / timings as well. Liverpool will have likely wrapped up the league in 2 games time with Leicester A and Spurs H, and if so, their following away match at Chelsea will be much less daunting (for Chelsea). Liverpool won't be having eyes on other competitions, but their motivation will be a lot lower than it would have been if there was something riding on it. We may benefit similarly vs Arsenal, but that's away, and there is a bit of needle in the fixture now and they will want to win with us having beaten them 3 times already this season, but not as daunting as if they needed it for 1st or something.

Just had a look at the tier 3 and 4 tables. Ipswich effectively promoted from the Southern League as they are 3 points clear and a +36 GD over Hashtag with only 1 game left, and in our old league, Nottingham Forest, who also went professional this season, look 99% nailed on for promotion. They are level on points with Wolves with a +10 GD, Forest have 2 games left, Wolves only 1 and Forest's next match is against already relegated Stourbridge who have a terrible GD. I thought Portsmouth were nailed on for relegation in our current league, but seems they have had a bit of a revival and it will be very close between them and Sheff Utd. In the 4th tier (North), where we were 2 years ago, it's also extremely tight. Boro and Cheadle both on 48 points with one game to go. Cheadle had a +3 GD advantage this morning and won their match 1-0, but Boro won 7-0 to leapfrog them with a +3 adv. Cheadle play already relegated Fylde on the final day (who were in our league last year, so back to back relegations for them), so Cheadle will be looking for a similar big win, and too hard to call.

Not if they were 4th and 5th and we were 6th and 3 points behind.

Just saw that Svillar's father was in goal for Antwerp when we beat them 5-0 away in 1994 (he was 44 years old), but was then on the bench for the 5-2 home win 2 weeks later. Mile is 26 in a couple of months but seems in limbo international wise. He played for Serbia once in 2021, but it was a friendly so would still be eligible for Belgium. He seems to be out of favour with Serbia at the moment.

1/8 at Paddy's I'm not as confident as that, mind.

Bring 4 subs on now, save them for Palace.

That keeper is worst than Onana. Shaky all game, and crap with his feet.

Poor from Murphy there. I've seen Zirkzee have worse games, so this might help.

Probably a fair score to be honest. They probably had the better of the first 15 mins, we took over in and around the goal, probably should have had one or two more, but them back on top for the final 10 mins. Hopefully a rare shooting into the Gallowgate for the 2nd half will help.

Some of that will be true, but I think it's more some traditionally big teams, in huge cities, have lost their way over the years. The current bottom 3 in the top flight have 15k, 26k and 15k capacities and if Hamburg and Cologne go up (current top 2 with 57 and 49k respectively) then it will even itself out a bit more next season. 9 of 18 top flight clubs have 30k or less capacities.

Some absolutely huge capacities in the German 2nd tier - Hertha 74k, Schalke 62k, Hamburg 57k, Dusseldorf 54k, Nuremberg, Kaiserslautern, Cologne, and Hannover all with 49k, that's 8 of 18 with capacities pretty much 50k, or significantly more. Looking like Hamburg will finally get back to the top flight next season

Crazy that with all the channels these days that a German Bundesliga 2 match is the only easily accessible match on a Saturday night. TNT/BT used to always show a Serie A match at 7.45pm.

It was doable on CM97, as you could put everyone on the wings and stuff, but I think later editions like 01/02, 03/04, CM4 etc. it was much harder to do. I haven't tried on later editions.