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True but still unbeaten in 5 and if Cole Palmer gets back into any form then it’ll be interesting.

Chelsea not Brighton. Chelsea unbeaten in 5 in the league (albeit against poor opposition)

I meant second.

I don’t think we have any chance of finishing second. The Emirates game is a banker Arsenal win for me. if we can get a point at Brighton I’d be delighted. Chelsea game is huge. They are back on form. edited.

Aye. The lines are an absolute farce. They don’t do that with the semi-automated anymore do they? The Champions league had it last season (and maybe before that as well) and it works much better. I was just happy with the ball over the line technology but would be fine with offside decisions if it’s at a decent speed. The lines start to get blurred if eg a player hand balled into the net or someone punched a player off the ball etc. It’s certainly stopped a lot of diving in the box. That’s the one good thing.

They spent a good 5 mins checking that Murphy pull. One angle looked like there wasn’t much in it and the other suggested a bit of a pull. The ref was looking right at the incident as well. It’s not like he has missed an off the ball incident.

I’d be more concerned looking down than up. If Bogey team Brighton beat us then the Chelsea game is squeaky bum time. If we don’t win that then going to Arsenal to get 3 points is not a good place to be in. Statistically winning 4 times (any team) v Arsenal in a season is a massive rarity.

I don’t normally like criticising refs but he was out of his depth on Sat. The Bruno disallowed goal was a joke (the defender pushed him into the keeper as well), I’m not sure if Burn tripped Ben Johnson and although Murphy was tugged back there has been numerous incidents recently like this that didn’t get overturned.

I think it goes back to their teams being in the 3rd/4th tier and not being televised, so the fans just pick a top flight team to watch.

I think there are two separate discussion points here. 1) Keeping possession 2) Tactically playing out from the back Every time the ball went back to De Gea high pressing teams would close him down and often get a mistake out of him. This happens to Pope as well which is why he generally just bollocks it recently (clearly been told) and an upgrade would be good in that area soon. I wouldn’t want a team that plays out like a Spurs or Brighton (last year). The juice isn’t worth the squeeze.

Get beat in both and we are probably out of it. 😀

Empty seats everywhere. I think there is a decent hard core support but the rest are made up of double fans. A lot of people from Brighton have a second team. It’s very strange. They are doing remarkably well for a football club. Mid table in the PL, European runs, semi-finals etc. they didn’t even have a stadium 20 years ago and had to travel to Gillingham for home games. Easy to forget the shit times. I hope our supporters don’t.

Aye. The story of their decline was funny but they are officially shit now so let’s just move on. Having an entire pundit team made up of Reds (either ex players or scouse ex players mocking them) means it will most likely not go away until they are good again.

The semi finals at Wembley tarnish the final for me. It’s all about the wonga though.

I think the gloss comes off a Wembley visit the 28th time. I quite like supporting a shit team (in terms of trophies). It makes winning things (or even getting close to them) all that much special.

Yeah. I was thinking that as well. I didn’t watch Man City (a) game but I assume something similar happened? he went full press v Brighton at Amex last season and they just bypassed us with a long ball up to Evan Ferguson every time. Think they did the same against us at home this season (used Welbeck and Ferguson is memory serves).

Lloyd Kelly update. Vital 2-0 win today puts them in 4th but they are still 3 points off 8th (which I think means he’d be back with us).

A semi final is nothing to them these days

It’s not going to be Forest’s day.

If we press high and man for man we’ll get beat. Just sit in and hit the fuckers on the break.

I had a look at their forum today and they are fuming. When they look back on the season then it must be the best they’ve had for most of the fans lifetimes. Still, no pot in the cupboard though.

Dracula probably didn’t fancy a relegation on his CV whereas big nuts Howe had the perfect sized cajones to do the job.

In other news, Wrexham are promoted to the Championship.

The villa midfield was bossed as well. Wharton was good. They are pretty lethal on the counter on their day as well. Watkins was tragic today.