Jonas

Can't get vexed by the current qualifiers mind. Especially anything new (Barcelona and Feyenoord are so bourgeois). Celtic aside as I want to treat it like an adventure and not get roped in to any of that other stuff.

Were the shithole not them, I read so on RTG the other day. Must be accurate.

Had no doubts from thirty-seconds from the end onwards

Players and staff have worked their balls off. Irrespective of us or the club they deserve it for themselves.

Now I can relax and be all altruistic about it Why is it in every game like that, the other team gets a chance, usually at the death, like that. Its like an unwritten law. Most one-sided 0-0 since Italy v England in Euro 2012? Would have surpassed it but that last few minutes.

First thing to say is congratulations every one. Just having to suffer what we were inflicted, literally thinking our club was gone, it feels earned. Nah it is earned. All fans deserve a moment after something like that. God bless Coventry and Luton. Through the ringer in the right sense over the last 15months too. From that Burnley win or especially that Leeds away game to tonight. I no sold the anthem ahead of Barcelona in 97, missed it due to queues outside and getting out of my sick bed against Feyenoord but if I'm there when that thing plays am probs gonna cry possibly because of how bad things got.

intent on introducing them into a tight game in the second-half

Definitely is. Fear and hope are a great motivator and they're on the precipice - it won't be the standard Leicester of the season. Got to factor in our niggles too. One (hopefully) last big push needed.

I'm nervous in a 4.45pm on a typical work day way about it. Want to celebrate and relax about jinxing anything by changing anything but cant bring myself to until its done. One more massive effort all round. Would be delighted to get back to our clean-sheet and ceding no chances ways.

Groups of four, top two go through, worst four runners up have a play-off - Euro 96 Qualifying style - would be infinitely better but alas would miss out on the filler content and cash, so that's a no go obviously.

Against a beached team in the bottm half with a European final on their mind when you're fighting against relegation that was silage from Allardyce. 4 wins in 27 PL games, 10 without a win.

Last Role of the Allardyce works on the level of him rolling around in cash the wallowing c*nt

Not nervous at all now. (Not at all saying we'll win I must stress) That's alexithymia for you.

A literal slap on the wrist would have been a more hefty punishment.

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I was mindful of not being able to continue the momentum from the back end of last season and was expecting a bit of a levelling out and expected a bit of disappointment from people and snideness from the media if we punched just below that. World of difference if we were 5th pushing for top 4 right now as opposed to being ours to lose.

Excellent craic that. Was legit in the charts at the time of the cup final winner.

Back to back 1988 winners, 1989 runners up. you think that's crazy check out who won the FA Cup that year (Wimbledon - who beat Luton in the semi) and who lost the 1990 league cup final (Oldham).

Used to sit next to a bunch of lads (Ronnie) that came up from Coventry through most of the Keegan era. Dont know what difference that makes but happy to see them having some joy nevertheless. My first PL away game was at Coventry, again of no relevance. Went there in a car previously owned by our director Freddie Fletcher. No other chance to slip that anecdote it.

For curiosity you've got to experience that ground. Its ugly as sin but its unique and I miss those grounds. Like MrRaspberryJam says - you all but go through someone's house and aover the back gardens to get to the away end. The one time I was there which I never noticed on camera was they had terraces above the seats in their end. Would says its probably the worst place I've ever been but for that mind,

Can taste the metalic edge on this already. Latter stages of the second-half in a tight game will be brutal. Still not reconditioned to all these edgy games after the melancholic Mike Ashley era. Can't have been like this before even with such things on the line. Reckon next season it recedes.

Hill derby in the final? Ricky v Jimmy.

Lost their presitigous North East Top Dogs trophy for a confirmed 7th successive season I see. And on top of that missing out on promotion to the riches of the PL. Shame.

Juventus away fell on my birthday. Had already booked the day off in advance and everything. Come a long way from Tranmere away in the ZDS cup 11years earlier

Haven't looked back at all the posts admittedly and only caught the tail end but haven't seen anybody say we were going to collapse. Drawing with Arsenal and Brighton e.g. would be about par for the season rather than collapse, one's been a bit better, one's been a bit worse and its all predicated on Liverpool winning all their games, which they're probably more likely to do than not by the looks of it. People are just different. Folks over confidence can make others nervous and peoples caution can agitate others.