Premier League – Round 30

Sounds like all the teams near us today are battling like their lives depend on it.

Totally off topic but does anybody else think Leicester are better than us?
Coming back from 2 down at Spurs and at Anfield??

I think we are extremely fortunate this season to be outside the bottom three.

I watched the Newcastle v Arsenal game and the first half was all Arsenal and looked like it would be a cricket score but the Magpies were a completely different side in the second period aided and abetted by some generous refereeing decisions relating to some of the tackles they got away with. But it shows that if the referees allow tackling and don't over protect the elite clubs that the game is far better to watch - with the other results at the wrong end of the table going our way so far a decent days football.

Well Sunderland, Villa, Burnley and Leicester and West Brom lost. Palace won at Stoke (how the heck are a team like Palace doing better than us!). So to go to form we will beat QPR, but knowing us it will turn in to a dreadful loss and then what?

I have no confidence left at all now after the other night's capitulation and Martinez's total failure to grasp PL defending basics or even want to. It would be very interesting after Martinez goes to hear whether the players can confirm how he destroyed Moyes's well-drilled defensive tactics this season as we all fear has happened and explains last season's possible anomaly.

We will win a scrappy 0-2 Ben. Confidence must be low but QPR, home and away, are utter shite.

Gerrard. Ahhhhhhhhhhghahahahaha... not quite as good as the slip but still a good one.

Amazing predictive power of Indian supporters at the match today!
Psychics?

Nice one Patrick!!!

Watching Hull V Chelsea, noticed the green markings on the pitch, is that allowed for as far as I know they play Rugby there but those markings seem out of place.

Just read that Stevie Me was to be a special guest on BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute but he had to decline saying that he couldn't honestly say that he would be able to last that long.

I really do love reading what 'Redshite' supporters post in defence of their thuggish players. (Patrick Murphy, is that the first time two players from the same team have been sent off for stamping?)

This one though, takes the fucking biscuit, they are truly stark raving bonkers:

"There are a few things I don't get, firstly if you want to hurt the keeper then you drag a leg and clip him. Running at full pelt at an advancing keeper and not breaking stride isn't really what you are going to do because there is a pretty real danger of injuring yourself, either damaging your metatarsals or twisting your ankle.

The second thing is the reaction of the United players yards from the incident, they simply don't react until De Gea does and even then don't exactly come steaming in as players do when an opponent has done one of their team mates.

For me it was a trial by TV where the slow mo's turn an innocuous challenge into a premeditated stamp, without the slightest proof of whether their was intent their or not."

My favourite this week is from deluded shite supporter who listed 6 separate straight red cards that should have been given to Utd players before giving multiple reason why Slippy and Skeletor are innocent.

You'd think they wouldn't be too concerned with next year being their year and everything. Or was that last year, or this year, or come to think of it, it maybe the year after that....

Talking with the son of a good mate on Sunday evening - he's about 38.

They're a family of reds and he'd been at Anfield earlier in the afternoon.

Unlike many of 'them', he was very realistic about their game, said they'd deserved nothing and Gerrard deserved everything he got - no ifs or buts.

What really surprised me though was his attitude to actually going to the game, he first told me he was close to 'jippin' it'.

I was surprised and when I asked him why, he sounded like a blue having a pop - "Well first, it's murder trying to get hold of a ticket through the normal channels, the place is full of woolybacks and Norgwegians, you're listening to nob-head comments all through the game. The place is chocker with football tourists who know fuck-all, they do me head in."

He then wistfully (but seriously) said "If some sort of team was set up, maybe by a couple of local ex-players and it was called..um..Real Liverpool or..something, with a ground that held about 4000, I'd follow them"

He then thought about what he'd said and laughed "Mind you, if that did happen and they got to the conference or whatever, bet the place would soon be full of fucking German's and Norwegians."

If he does knock it on the head, he'll be the third red I know who will have packed in for those reasons.

Whatever stops blues going to the game, I don't think this type of thing is going to be a worry, not for a while anyway.

Good story Eugene but there doesn't seem any end to people who want to go the the match, a taxi driver I know, was telling me he picked up a fare after the game who said he'd sold three tickets for that match for ٠,400 and knew of other people who were getting more than that.

I could never sell tickets myself for more than what they were worth but I suppose there is supply and demand.

Dave (15) – Oh I've no doubt it'll be full every game, but should the shit ever really hit the fan over there (we can dream), the tourists might do what tourists always do when they're not happy – go somewhere else.

Actually that makes me wonder how long the tourists will stick around if things continue as they are.

Even though we've done nothing particularly special in recent years, with fuck-all we've still managed to finish above them a few times and when we haven't, more often than not, we've been right behind them (which means either we've done okay for a team with no money or they've pissed a fortune away).

Plus are their 'supporters' in Tokyo, Thailand, Jibrovia, Ollianstan, (wherever) prepared to wait another 23 year without a PL title?

Eugene you are preaching to the converted, without their foreign supporters we would get bigger gates than them.