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Begrudgeonly, to be fair on our chinese mouse hung friend, it isn't him who's the bedwetter, if anything he has been over confident. It's the southern Beeb loving, Islingtonati tofu eating, lentil munching, hover board riding, bed pissing exiles you should be directing this at. No names like.

The next 3 games are going to be great. How long is it since we had anything positive to look forward to at this stage of a season? We've waited decades for this. Whatever happens, this is the beginning of a special time in this club's history.

Democracy honks, especially this thread which is as corrupt as Putin's Russia. I mean the state of the title man. "Stuttering Brighton" have just beaten what were the champions elect until a month ago, and are guaranteed second. 3 fucking nil away from home. And why did he put "Stuttering"? Cos he jumped the gun after they were slaughtered by an Everton team HE told us were relegated! It may be time to consider the unthinkable. Start a parallel thread for the true supporters. Salvage want we can. Abandon thread.

Would anyone be confident of going to the Emirates and winning then going to old Trafford and doing the same a few days later? If anything that result on Sunday is a warning we need to be focused, cut out the shit, give them the respect they deserve and be on it all game plus be prepared to do a bit of defending. It's going to be a hard game but it's also going to be a hard game for Brighton after they've went to arsenal and twatted them to expect them to come up here and do it all again when, if anything, our need realistically is greater than Arsenal who in their hearts must've knew it was over anyway. Keep the faith, crank the noise up, don't be fucking fannies in the stands if Brighton are keeping possession, treat it like arsenal at home last year, patience when not on the ball and get at them when you can. Beat these and at the very worst we are four points ahead of Liverpool with two games left presuming they beat Leicester. If anything, Brighton might have just extra focused a couple of minds by beating arsenal so well. It's a tough ask for them as well to follow that up again up here a few days later. They're not Man City however good they play at times.

😂 Gundogan who if he leaves Man City will be one of the top free agents in the world, and who will likely be on 200,000 k a week at the very least, if not much more given his free agent status, would apparently "do a job" for the lads.

Don't worry about it lads. While you're all pointing fingers and looking for someone to blame (and watching child porn), I'll sort this shit out by guiding us through the last three games in the top 4.

Is this the same Renton that spent the weekend in an argument with someone about how we didn't need to worry about Brighton ("is this the Brighton who just got hammered by Everton?" etc), and then discovered 35 games into the season that "Errr lads is anyone watching this Arsenal game? Turns out Brighton are fucking shit hot." Literally arguing Brighton are shit on Sunday morning and arguing they're fucking amazing on Sunday evening. Shut your entire face and let a REAL MAN who doesn't even know HOW to flip flop like that deal with this.

Well that was absolutely fucking mental….it’s kind of weird. I just took it in my stride and it kind of kicked in when we’d finished and left. The tape recording was incredible, as was recording the band live with baffles. Still some bleed from different channels. A lot of work getting everything set up but worth it. Dunc from Maximo Park was engineering/producing it, so we had some expertise in the room. He’s such a nice bloke and I grew up with Maximo park so using their studio/working with him was insane for me. I used to queue for the band to sign my vinyls Then we all went to the pub and got smashed. Wonderful.

Agreed. Except I don't think the away leg is relevant. We hadn't evenb signed Isak at that point. And since then, who has been the better team overall? We need a bit of luck, luck that wasn't forthcoming against Arsenal. My head says we will get it. My sphincter is less certain.

Nothings changed. We still need 2 wins. Getting top 4 isn’t supposed to be easy.

Someone needs to tell them signing world class talent this summer is Mag-like behaviour

Fucking this x 100. Brighton did Arsenal because Arsenal won their cup final against us and thought Brighton would be piss easy. I get two things out of that. Firstly the fans of Arsenal/ManU/Liverpool/Citeh might try to tell us we're nothing, just a jumped up temporary visitor to the top of the table but Arteta, Guardiola, etc know that's not true, so they prepare their teams to the minute detail to beat us. Arsenal didn't use their "game management" against Brighton like they did against us, because they don't (rightly or wrongly) fear Brighton and where they will sit on the table in seasons to come, you fucking know they do NUFC. And the second thing, Howe would never allow his team to be so lax and disregarding of any opposition - he's made that mistake in the FA Cup this season and won't fuck it up again. He knows it isn't our right to be up the top of the table - you get what you earn, irrespective of history; although I do fear he is naive enough to believe there isn't a bias towards the "established" top clubs by officials but that will change. So Gemmil get your big balls and tiny chinese mouse cock out and wave them all about, as we cruise to our top 4 finish.

Always looks like he's just been on a trolley dash through the club shop.

Their fatigue showed against Everton and they got mullered. Our fatigue showed against Leeds and we still should have won the game. We're a nastier side than Arsenal and Brighton are. If the boys are up for it (and I'm convinced the crowd will make fucking sure they are, we can bully those lily-livered namby pamby, soft southern yella-bellied, rats with wings.

You're fucking going to the match with that attitude reflected by your user name? Ffs. As bad as Gemmill tbh. Show some fucking cajones and stop this becoming a self fulfilling prophecy you southern Beeb supporting ponce. Arghhh! We're turning on ourselves!

Well considering Maguire and Lascelles captain top 4 Premier league clubs I wouldn't read too much into captaincy

the entire team is a fucking disgrace, well and truly thrown the towel in. if I was a leicester supporter I'd be fucking furious with their lack of fight, but then leicester's support have been abysmal too, couldn't be a more polar opposite to the backing leeds supporters gave at elland road.

Can’t believe that the team who regularly go on 9/10 game win streaks who benefit from massively favourable decisions are doing it again. Who could have guessed?

Moves to Scotland, gets a Tory. Unlucky!

The only people I have more disdain for than those doing the live streams are people who are watching them live

I don't know how you fucking dare!

Aye. Unbelievable that. I feel like I should start the thread again in case that absolute shitshow has jinxed it.

I wouldn’t even let a mackem work there.

A Ty and Robbie duet. "De Zerbi is a nobody". Well he just fucking ended your title challenge and emptied your stadium, you weapon. Fair play to that Robbie for lecturing him about being humble

Brighton are definitely going to be tough. Maybe the toughest match of the season in terms of their style as they are perhaps the most press resistant side in the PL. We produced our worst xG (0.15) from open play against them earlier in the season. This game comes on the back of our 4th worst performance in terms of xG created from open play of the season against Leeds. The only worse performances on that metric were the two 0-0 away draws to ManU and Arsenal. which were perhaps examples of a couple of games this season where we played for a draw (at least somewhat). So, basically, it's going to be a tough match in terms of creating opportunities from open play since we tend to create quick chances from turnovers high up the pitch, which is exactly what Brighton seldom allow against them. And we are typically not the type of side to score goals from patient build up play. And the less said about our likelihood to score from set pieces the better (as of late). That all being said, Brighton have two massive away games inside a week. That takes a toll. It did us in against Villa (although that was three in a week but still). Playing 2nd and 3rd away from home in quick succession is difficult for anyone. Everton got the better of Brighton because they were tired on the back of a short turn around so hopefully we can do the same. If Everton can then we fucking absolutely can at a canter. Plus, there's always that element of difficulty in getting the same level of performance in two big games in a row, regardless of the rest period in between. So, there are numerous things going in our favour in terms of the fixture timing. Given the tenseness of the situation and the importance of the game and potentially some weariness in their legs, the start is going to be more important than your average. Score early and we'll do them easy. Like I said, 4-0 earlier. Believe!

Is a good way to look at it. I was listening to the much-derided TF podcast this morning and the youngest lad on there was was saying "we have to enjoy these games. At this stage of the season, usually the only thing we are playing for is survival. This time were guaranteed Europa League and have a massive shot at CL."

Thats the thing. It will be disappointing if we don't get CL but then if someone said we'd finish 5 at the start of the season we'd all have taken it. They'll get a fucking great send off from me no matter what.

We need to go back to being solid and hard to break down in this game (and rest of season) Everton nailed it by flooding the central midfield areas which have been porous for us recently without Sir Sean. I think Eddie will know this but whether he backs us to over run them or not will be interesting. But their away record shows they'll be hard to beat and not dominate possession.

If Everton survive (again!) and we miss out on top 4 despite hitting the magic 66 points with games in hand, Gemmill’s reputation, already in tatters after last season’s Everton debacle, will hit a new low. A summer of soul searching beckons.

You certainly leave yourself wideopen on here with monotonous regularity

Gemmill's Stuttering East Boldon "Real" Man riposte!

What did @The Fish do to be dragged in to this?

Even if it’s offside VAR isn’t going to save Leicester tonight. They’ve dry-bummed them. Not even a courtesy spit.

He's a bit of a wonka supposedly

Aye, but Eddie isn’t trying to bang their lasses, soooo…

Which one of them is UM’s mate?

Enjoy. "What I say? Ben White. He's got him on toast blud!"

fuck off, I’m still ice cold.

De Zerbi will be gutted he hasn’t earned Ty’s respect though

"Could"...

100% it'll be nerve-shredding mind. i forgot what it was like to watch a tough away match at the business end of the season when there's so much at stake. i was pacing around the living room in the final 10 minutes against leeds. i'm looking forward to getting shitfaced and trying to help roar the lads home on thursday. the crowd could make the difference. i hope we - as supporters - don't turn up expecting to win and the fans are as vocal as they would be against man u or liverpool at home. we have to go into this knowing that a win is absolutely massive for us given the strength of the opposition and the atmosphere could make a massive difference. i still believe we should be celebrating whatever happens. no fuss was really made of it at the weekend but we should be celebrating now as the lowest we can finish is 5th. we're guaranteed europa league footie next season - who wouldn't have taken that at the start of the season?

'Errrmmm, well, like errrrrm, wellll, heee heeee, eeeerrrrrrrmmm, like' 'Here pet, shut the fuck up and this is how it is'

There's a chance they're a bit fatigued too. They've played 4 in the last 15 days, including the shoeing at Everton, 100 minutes vs Man United, and then that big effort at Arsenal. And they have to travel up here. Our last 4 games have come over the last 19 days.

it’s official: Holden the first man down to turn to jelly (not counting CT)

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