The Fish

nailed it

Expecting a draw, fearing a loss. Not even hoping for a win, too nervous.

Especially if West Brom do us a favour and put a few past Norwich.

If we ignore the Mackems we have; Norwich, Swansea, Crystal Palace, & Villa which are all winnable games, there's 8points at least imo Manchester City for a cheeky point or more, especially with our game coming when it does for them; In 10 days they have: a tough league game v Pulis' WBA, Champions League Quarter Final (hopefully away), tough league game away to a resurgent Chelsea, then us at St James' when hopefully Rafa will have had time to firm up our our back line. Depending on where we are/they are Liverpool (3 days after their derby), Southampton & Spurs may be games we can earn a point or (especially if Spurs have already confirmed their final position) grab a very unlikely 3pts.

We probably need 12-14 points If my maths is right there are 19 successful combinations of results out of a possible 55 (1/3) combinations to get 14pts or more. And, say we will only manage 4 wins or less, the chances of getting 14pts are 6 from 55 (1/9). Obviously, 38pts is an arbitrary figure and we may not even need the 14pts to get to that to survive.

Look at you, with your reason!

I still feel the same about you pack of arseholes too.

No Armstrong though.

Not been on here long have you?

Big difference between the occasional typo or the omission of punctuation, and using the wrong words, though. I certainly wouldn't send a work email containing an error like that when it costs nothing to get it right. Of course, being bothered about this kind of thing has always drawn criticism. As if not caring about clarity of language is something to aspire to.

Brown bread. RIP (Always found him a bit creepy, but I suppose I find all "magicians" a bit creepy)

Lualua equalised for Pompey against us didn't he? Didn't Sir Bob say "He's hurt us" Edit - Yes he did

No one likes a show off.

Honestly, its a genuinely worthwhile follow on twitter

Bit concerning, no?

@CourtNewsUk is worth a follow for gems like this; CHELSEA, PUTNEY A raging Frenchman staged an incredible cheese fight with supermarket staff after they caught him stealing his favourite Camembert, a court heard. Battling gaul Bernard Conche, 67, used his trolley as a battering ram as terrified customers dived for cover before hurling lumps of cheese across the store. Conche had been banned from the shop before and was spotted taking boxes of Camembert at Waitrose in Kings Road, Chelsea, last November 20. When duty manager Kimberley Taynor, 31, asked the Frenchman to leave at around 2.10pm, he began mumbling incoherently and reached for the cheese in his trolley.

Lemsip would do today like.

Any Maths bods out there know how I can better calculate permutations of results? 9 events, 3 possible mutually exclusive outcomes for each. Obviously I'm talking about W,D,L. Also it doesn't matter if it's; 5xW, 2xD, 2xL or 5xW, 2xL, 2xD obviously. It's been so long since I did Permutations and Combinations, I can't for the life of me remember how to work it out, rather than manually working out each variation. I've done that and come up with 55. It'd be useful if I could punch in a formula that works out the variations though.

There's always someone worse off than you.

It's properly snidey as well "although certain individuals tell you". Also, if I'm sufficiently dissatisfied with a restaurant, or a cinema I will go and complain to the people in charge of it. And if the only time I get to do that is as part of a crowd, then sure I'll shout.

Jesus Christ, have you read this statement from Charlton AFC? That's not burning bridges, it's eradicating all life on the planet.

Yeah, it's excellent. Use it whenever me and my lass do city breaks, haven't had a bad experience yet.

Add to his absence the fact they've 4 games in 10 days ( I think) .Away to Chelsea on the Saturday then away to us on the Tuesday.