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That Sancho fella looks good. Surprised a premier League team hasn't snapped him up...
Any predictions for Real v Bayern tonight?
Not a fan of ‘domestic’ finals so hoping for Real tonight and Dortmund to win
However, like most Spurs fans, I’m hoping for a loss to avoid handing the title to that lot down the road.
+1. There's little point in adding European matches into the mix when Davies or Royal are the options with Udogie or Porro out. Hopefully, Ange will add more depth to the squad for next season.
Oh dear Neuer 🤦
Oh dear oh dear
Real bloody Madrid
Looks like my crystal ball was on fire tonight but enough about my problems.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c3g8ejvezv3o
Just read this on the BBC website regarding their incident reviews. Turns out they can't even unanimously agree on if things are penalties or not...
I don't think there is anything wrong with that panel review. I would have thought most fans would say those three incidents were in the grey area.
You wouldn't necessarily expect them too, they are three subjective decisions. All three were also voted 5-0 against VAR intervention (ie against an obvious error being made) so even those that disagreed with the onfield decision weren't that certain
The Citeh juggernaut continues. They didn’t even need robostriker on the score sheet yesterday.
I doubt Arsenal will even need to break a sweat to give us an absolute shoeing this afternoon, with what I expect will be about 157 shots on goal as our static defence stands there watching them
Spurs are going to do the most Spursy thing imaginable and thrash City at home to hand the title to their most bitter rivals, aren't they?
It's a weird one. City probably need Utd to help them today, Arsenal do need Spurs to help them midweek.
A 2-2 draw today would be ideal.
A draw?
We’ll be starting with a central defensive partnership of Jonny Evans and Casemiro, with a combined age of 68 and the mobility of a pair of supertankers
Up against the pace of Arsenal upfront, I can only see that ending one way. It could be a cricket score
Its not worth betting on an Arsenal win as the odds are so low (1.3/1), but I think I’ll stick a few quid on Casimero to get carded (if he actually gets close enough to anyone to hack them down) and quite possibly sent off
Mercifully we’re off to a mates house for a barby who has zero interest in football, definitely doesn’t have sky sports, so I’ll be keeping up with the regular Arsenal goals on my phone and not have to endure watching it
No Martin... it will unfold like this.
1. Utd beat arsenal today
2. Liverpool beat villa Monday
3 spurs thump City Tuesday
4. Palace beat villa on Sunday
5. Spurs score in the 5th minute but fail to kill the game, conceding 2 late goals to lose against Sheffield
6. Arsenal lose aganst Everton
6. City are cruising against wet spam until a var controversy, they lose their sh1t completely, west ham score 2 late goals to send the title to the Emirates and Moyes dances in peps face and is signed up for another 10 years at Stratford.
We’ll be starting with a central defensive partnership of Jonny Evans and Casemiro, with a combined age of 68 and the mobility of a pair of supertankers
It's the midfield where it'll be won or lost, Arsenal have Odegaard, Rice and Partey in there, up against Mainoo, Fernandes and Eriksen, on paper that looks unbalanced as ever, ManU could be run over easily if they're not on top of it, of course we are also talking about Arsenal holding their bottle in the title run in, and we know how that ends over the last few run ins 🤣
Surely even Arsenal can't bottle it against that midfield? Especially with that static defence behind it?
I'm not sure Bruno is fit and I doubt he's got 90 minutes in him. So at some point, if not from the start, they could be facing (and waltzing straight through) Mainoo, McTominay and Eriksen
They interviewed a couple of fans on Five Live earlier. The Arsenal fan was saying this could be the opportunity for revenge for the famous 8-2 and 6-1 drubbings that Arsenal have received (an awful long time ago) at OT. I doubt that as either of those scorelines would involve us actually finding the back of the net.
The United fan just said that all the way through the season we've been thinking it can't get any worse and yet somehow it always has. I don't expect today to be any different
I just don’t see arsenal being that confident at OT, think it could be a nervy win for them to keep the title going to the line, but not seeing 4 or 5 today
Yeah, but the Sheffield squad didn’t cost the same as the GDP of Norway
Anyway… I’m watching the Womens FA Cup final so I can briefly enjoy watching some United players who are actually fit to wear the shirt. They’ve started well.
Is it me or is this one hell of a boring game? I looked forward to the adverts.
Utd have to try and get something from this game but they're just letting Arsenal knock it around. No intensity at all - you'd have thought at least they'd be trying to get a foot in, but they've committed three fouls in the whole game so far according to stats. One every 20 mins.
Looks like the weather will liven the game up. Should see if Steve McLaren has a brolly.
Fine, let's get the red carpet out for city on Tuesday.
End of season clear-out starts early at Old Trafford.
https://twitter.com/jaymietee/status/1789722784567849276
If anything stands as a metaphor for the state of the club it’s the roof of the North Stand. Its been pissing in rain for years now, without the owners feeling like they might possibly want to do something about it.
Luckily it doesn’t rain much round here 🙄
They can’’t even be arsed to fix the roof to keep the fans dry but they happily pay Martial a quarter of a million a week for a season where he hasn’t played. Again!
United did ok today - I can’t recall a worse starting 11 than what they put out today? Perhaps some of the line ups in one of the Fergie transition seasons, Kleberson, Djemba Djemba etc.
Kleberson, Djemba Djemba etc.
*shudders*
Yeah, Fergie wasn’t immune from making bloody awful signings. IIRC those 2 clowns were signed on the same day
The rain pouring through That Roof seemed like a metaphor.
Yeah, first thought was that they didn't do badly in the game, but to give ManU their weekly kicking the roof starts leaking like a sieve and is the story, they can't catch a break on or off the pitch!
Surely the leaking roof must be failing some public safety measures?
It always makes me curious when some teams have long injury lists - makes me wonder what they do in training to hobble so many players.
It always makes me curious when some teams have long injury lists – makes me wonder what they do in training to hobble so many players.
Too many FA cup replays 🤦
Regarding injuries - it doesn’t surprise me that Newcastle, Liverpool and Spurs seem to get so many, with the fitness demands of a pretty high intensity style. Training must replicate the match, to a large extent. But that fails to explain United’s injuries, given most players seem to amble out and are pretty passive during games.
Good question! I think some is down to style of play, injury is linked to fatigue and high intensity pressing type styles lead to a lot of fatigue and accumulated fatigue. I believe that's been Newcastle's issue earlier on in the season, as players get fatigued and injured others incur more workload and in turn are more susceptible. There has been a shift in Newcastle's intensity, it is much more measured now and wait for a chance to commit rather than trying to force one.
At the same time, NUFC quite publicly got rid of their sports science team / head physio mid season, so also signs that they weren't managing that loading and recovery well enough.
Not sure what situation at man utd is though....they don't seem to run around an awful lot.
Chelsea are statistically the worst affected team by injuries.
Can't be down to just style of play. Don't forget Chelsea signed Lavia & he has barely played for half an hour.
An interesting result last night. I wonder how Spursy Spurs are going to be tonight?
A comfortable win for Citeh tonight.
I've been proved wrong again with us beating Utd, although we didn't look that great really. All the cricket score predictions were a bit ridiculous. Sutton predicted 1-5!
All the cricket score predictions were a bit ridiculous
Not really if you consider the hoofings that Arsenal have handed out this season, coupled with the same dire United squad conceding 4 against Palace less than a week earlier, which could well have been more
Luckily Villa played with 12 men - their own team and Alexis Macallister who was unable to make a pass. Poor pass straight to a villa player that set Villa up for the first goal and what the hell was he doing for the second? In between that was a lot of hitting the ball at Villa players...
Enjoyable game as a neutral (who dislikes both teams equally as much).
But to be fair to Utd – they always seem to play well against the top teams,
I don't agree, IMO some of the scorlines have flattered the performances that united have put in against the top teams.
In any of the Liverpool players had put their shooting boots on in any of the games against us this season, they could have been in double figures by half time, they created so many chances
Luckily for us… Nunez
A Spurs fan has just been on Five Live saying the Spursiest thing that could possibly happen would be to beat Citeh tonight, to hand the title to Arsenal, then to go to Sheffield on Sunday and lose, missing out on the Champions League anyway 😂
nah the spudeist thing is to play well and still lose to ManC and lose on Sunday and finish below Chelsea on goal difference
So, will Spurs find a backbone tonight? I know it's the North London derby but I never thought of it as being malicious and hate filled like Reading Oxford.
Caher, you've never been have you!
Reading Oxford? Yes.
I’d hope Oxford v Reading wouldn’t be quite as dull as this
It seems to be taking place at walking pace, in a library
I think you know i mean The NLD. The history with Woolwich is extensive and feelings run deep.
Sturridge is such a poor pundit.
Sturridge is such a poor pundit
He’s an absolute quarter-wit. The only amusing thing is when they put him next to Roy Keane who just spends his entire time glaring at him with a look of utter contempt on his face
So, 5 in a row then?
Probably, unless there’s a bit of an exodus, Bernardo Silva, KDB, Kyle Walker. But they’re so good at replacing players.
Looks that way. Robostriker does it again
The spurs fans are making more noise and seem a lot happier now they’ve definitely lost it, than they did the whole game.
I totally get that though. Our season has been absolutely bloody awful but we put the scousers out of the FA Cup and then ended their title challenge, so you know… on reflection… could be worse. 😉
I could go into the reasons for the hatred, the underhand dealings, but at the end of the day the scale of the passion and reasons don't always match. Spurs and Arsenal are not just rivals, there is a true hatred between the fans.
Softie Southerners
Congratulations to Villa for achieving CL next season.
Spurs and Arsenal are not just rivals, there is a true hatred between the fans.
I've got 2 mates who are Spurs fans, they drone on about their hatred for Chelsea virtually all the time. They grew up in Reading.
Anyway… never mind all that title race and champions leagues spots nonsense, it the real business end tonight…
Who’ll get that UEFA Conference League place? Who’s going to be spending their Thursday nights in Kazakstan?
Now that's one game I'd deliberately lose. Having to spend the prior Wednesday in a bivouac in Kairat Almaty before the game.
Bring on the Euros, some meaningful matches for a change. It's quite unedifying watching millionaires fighting for scraps from the billionaires table.
so how do you think it'll go ? personally I think it's slowing sucking all the Joy from the game.
There's been a lot of talk about scrapping it in Scotland. Decisions take far too long and there are still as many contentious decisions. It's probably worse in Scotland as some games don't have enough cameras for accurate offside decisions. It's not just VAR though, the handball rules now are a lottery and offside isn't much better.
Its stupid to scrap VAR, the reality is that it gets far more decisions right than used to be the case, and the semi-automatic offside equipment should massively speed the process up next year.
The biggest problem is the idiotic pundits misrepresenting the rules and the decisions, usually with a thick dollop of bias for the teams they once played for, creating a atmosphere of whining against the refs and VAR.
Who’ll get that UEFA Conference League place? Who’s going to be spending their Thursday nights in Kazakstan?
You won't find many West Ham fans who regret competing in the Conference league.
Not sure why the stand on the back of the ankle by Amrabat wasn't deemed a foul?
Ouch, just seen the aftermath
You won’t find many West Ham fans who regret competing in the Conference league.
Well no, not if you win it. But there can be little doubt that teams that take part in such gruelling midweek journeys affects league form.
Well no, not if you win it. But there can be little doubt that teams that take part in such gruelling midweek journeys affects league form.
Sure, but unless relegation is a risk, does it matter? Let's face it, the league title and champions league places are largely sewn up.
Let’s face it, the league title and champions league places are largely sewn up
How can you say that when the title has literally gone down to the last game after being a three horse race for most of the season, Villa are in the Champions League, Newcastle are in Europe and United and Chelsea are absolutely nowhere?
The only predictable constant this season has been Spurs being Spursy
How can you say that when the title has literally gone down to the last game after being a three horse race for most of the season, Villa are in the Champions League, Newcastle are in Europe and United and Chelsea are absolutely nowhere?
City are about to win their sixth title in seven seasons, so you'll forgive me for not finding the league to be particularly competitive. Only established big six teams have ever pushed them at all, and that a single team outside that group has qualified for the CL is not evidence of much at all.
I know it was 8 years ago (or last month), but remember when Leicester won the league?
Major turning point for NUFC in the summer. are we ambitious and can Howe sell the 'hard workers'? Longstaff, Burn, Almiron and Wilson just aren't good enough (or never fit in Wilsons case) and need to go. I see two scenarios next season:
- Bruno and Isak starting first game of next season, with a couple of quality signings alongside.
- Longstaff and Wilson starting, Bruno and Isak elsewhere.
which one is it going to be Eddie??
City are about to win their sixth title in seven seasons, so you’ll forgive me for not finding the league to be particularly competitive
They haven’t won it yet. It’s the last game on Sunday and they can still lose it. There were 3 teams neck-and-neck until a couple of weeks ago
The 4th spot has gone down to the last week. The 2 biggest spending clubs have had woeful seasons and are absolutely nowhere
Are you seriously suggesting that’s not a competitive league?