Paullow

South Shields won 3-2 in front of 2700+ and now just need two points from their final 3 matches, or Warrington Town not to win all 3, and the title and promotion is theirs.

https://m.skybet.com/football/premier-league/event/29301792 Current top 4 odds. Villa are running out of games, poor GD, and many tough fixtures left. They're still 100/1 after todays results, Liverpool 7/1, Brighton 8/1, although Liverpool's odds will drift tomorrow if they lose to Arsenal. Edit - Villa will come in a little bit if they do beat us especially as the bookies have us faves for that one (current match odds are AV 9/4 NU 5/4), but still far too much for them to do.

They are in amazing form, but they were too hamstrung at the start of the season to threaten the top 4, even if they beat us next week. From our perspective, we are 9 clear of them, with a game in hand, and a GD advantage which won't be overturned, unless they did beat us by 5 or 6. They obviously still have to play, and they will have to win, but they basically need 4 matches to overturn us, and they only have 8 left. It'll be hard for them to pass us even if they won 7 of their last 8 as we would just need 4 wins or 3 wins and 3 draws from our final 8. Another win for them today, but ironically, in terms of top 4 (not that I think they'd have realistic hopes, their fans would have been, and will be, delighted with 6th or 7th considering where they were under SG) it's been a bad day for them. They have won their easiest match of the season, so doing what they, and pretty much everyone should in that fixture, whereas Newcastle have won at a team who had only lost once, to Arsenal, at home this season, and even Spurs won a match where they were surprisingly betting underdogs, so basically it's as you were, but another match gone.

Another thing is, they have now lost 5 in a row, some of them heavy batterings, so I doubt the mood in the camp is top notch at the moment either.

WHAT A FUCKING WIN MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5 ON THE SPIN.

What did Pope do?

Izzy Christiansen apparently the co-commentator. I quite like the main comm Seb Hutchinson - he'll possibly take over from Tyler on Sky in due course.

Fantastic minute. Us ahead and a reprieve for Spurs. I honestly think Brighton winning is the worst result there. They were slight faves to win that match, so are obvious legit, and before the game, with their games in hand, potentially in a better position than Spurs were anyway. Draw defo the best mind, obviously.

Brighton 1-1, best result for us, but I honestly think I'd rather Spurs won if someone had to. Sounds like they have been well on top there.

https://twitter.com/search?q=brighton favourites&src=typed_query&f=live Seems a few others were thinking the same. Even just at the start of this season, it would be mad to think Brighton would be favourites to beat them away.

Didn't realise Leicester's interim manager was from the North East. The name did ring a bell, obviously being similar to a famous actor, and just realised / remembered that he was with us for a fair bit at the start of the century.

Another early home red card would be welcome. Their home record is very good, and they've beaten some top teams there this season (and away). A draw wouldn't be bad, but player for player we do look better (I know it doesn't always work that way, as we saw a fair bit, especially last season during our upturn), and we are now slight odds on faves, so we should be targeting the win here. If we did win, then it would massively take the pressure off at Villa next week, which I think does look the tougher match of the two.

https://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/premier-league/tottenham-v-brighton/winner Crazy that Brighton are the match favourites at most bookies - have Tottenham Kane out or something? At Brighton I'd have expected them to be faves, but not at Spurs.

For those that do still care about rivals matches, if there had to be a winner in the Spurs vs Brighton match, who would you prefer to win and why. Draw is clearly the best result.

But then again, I don't think we are massively competing with Man Utd this season. Far more concerned about how Spurs, Brighton, and even Liverpool get on. Obviously the worse Man Utd do, the more leeway there will be of finishing top 4, but as long as the unlikely event of Man Utd and Chelsea both winning their European comps and finishing outside the top 4 doesn't happen, I don't care at all whether we finish 3rd or 4th. I've seen us finish 2nd, 2nd, 3rd, and 3rd before, and there's no qualifiers now, so it's basically just an extra £2m, which should be relative peanuts.

Simms did have a great chance before, but can't see Man Utd keep on missing all these chances they are creating.

No UK TV for the first time in 2023, our 17th match? Anyone want to Prime Minister me please?

Quite fitting that the last update on this thread was on March 16th, the day before their draw against Bolton, and the first of a 6 match winless run. In the past 3 weeks, Plymouth and Ipswich have both won their 3 league matches, whereas Sheff Wed have played 6 matches and only gained 4 points. They've gone from being 5 points clear of 3rd with 2 games in hand, to outside the automatics, but played a game more. Crazy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/national-league-north/table Could be a crucial point for them. Leamington won, but Kettering and Farsley both suffered heavy defeats. Monday's fixtures: Farsley vs Blyth Kettering vs Leamington

A couple of OGs (Pinnock and Smith) not included either.

Is that another @Scootaccount?

I did as well after around 93:30. Switched back 2 mins later assuming they would be walking off celebrating, and the ref had just given the penalty, so saw it out from there.

This is class

I was kind of thinking similar, but looking at the league, who would you say would make it interesting? WBA is a bit like Norwich, can add Watford in there as well. Luton and Millwall stank the joint out earlier, and it's potentially an EIGHTH London side if the latter come through the playoffs. Sunderland would be interesting, but a no no for many, for obvious reasons, and similar for Boro, but to a lesser extent. Coventry maybe, perhaps someone like Bristol City because it's a big city and haven't been in the top flight for ages, but they're well off the pace.

This match could have been huge if results went a bit differently last week with Boro collapsing and Sheff U getting a great win at Norwich and winning earlier. Boro could have been level on points last week, but now find themselves 9 points behind. They obviously need to win to keep any slight hopes alive, but nothing like as much jeopardy as there could have been. Fair play to Burnley mind. They'll obviously go up regardless of the result today, but impressive that they can seal it in early April with 7 games still to play.