Dyches to Watch Out For - The Football League and Beyond, 2012-13

http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2013/04/16/dean-saunders-insists-wolves-wont-go-down/

Deano is some kind of treat

alright Saunders i'll give you that one

Thanks a bunch Charlton

9th place Charlton are mathematically not safe from relegation yet :\

Three games left and fifteen teams in contention for the remaining two slots. Kind of amazing the playoff spots aren't more open tbh.

Bolton loss today hurts, but other results at least contained the damage. In with a chance!

What can I say, their keeper pulled off save of the season. They're shit obviously and they'll finish 20th next season. How much money does their owner have? Will they continue to play that ghastly football?

The hope, presumably, is killing Noodle V right now. Sure you don't want to come chez nous? We really, really have nothing to play for now...except schadenfreude...

i checked the train price on Saturday and reluctantly i'll have to pass. we can do it next season when we stay up cough cough

I think I speak for the supporters of Charlton and Wolves when I say that Stephen Cunt really is that sort of player and can fuck off, for good

who did he fuck up?

Nearly did our keeper, got a yellow, subbed immediately

on the bright side, Karl Henry hit the bar from 45 yards though

Hunt's a combative little sod but i wouldn't say he was evil. lucky to have caught a rare glimpse of Henry kicking a ball forward tho.

anyway yesterday i'm like "we're still okay" but this morning i'm thinking we're a bit screwed

We've all had nights like that tbf

need an absolute minimum of 3 points from Burnley and Brighton, probably need 4, can't see it

If Brighton can beat Leeds next week then they may 'rest' most of the team for the last game vs your boys NV

i'm banking on Brighton not exerting themselves in that last match, but them not exerting themselves could be enough to get something from us. not confident of beating Burnley at home either.

mind you, anything could still happen. home draw next week, everything looking finished, then an away romp against Brighton's kids for a last second reprieve.

kinda worried if we stay up that Saunders will keep his job tho.

Oppet! Fizzles! You nervous?

My phone just autocorrected Oppet to Popey. I'll go with the latter henceforth

Hello, yes I am. To a quite unsettling degree. I keep thinking back to 2002, when we were in the same situation and drew with Reading. This is the only football team I actually care about and I don't think I actually enjoy football as a thing. I've been thinking about whether it's reactionary, small minded idiocy to insist on supporting one crap club and ignore yr European football and yr modern tactics etc. Is it the equivalent of proudly only listening to oasis? Anyway.

I'm heading the same way, with concessions to the Premiership (seven seasons tends to inculcate certain longings...) - not at all the equivalent of Oasis fanship. It's less a sporting contention, a matter of theory and technique (as watching 'top-level' football is for me) and more a communitarian affirmation, a society in microcosm, a my-village-versus-yours, which scratches a different and possibly more satisfying itch

And so...apologies, but today is all about BWP versus Arter and Francis

I'm teaching someone in Hounslow today (currently Acton Town). Will wish fortune upon encountered Bees

Also, just realised that you're playing Doncaster, not Bournemouth. Idiot

Ha, I did wonder. That was a good explanation of the purpose of football for me. I'll try to think on it some more once today's over. BWP has been going well the last few matches. Seems like a 'decent bloke' as well, which I wasn't expecting.

I mean, obviously there's some aspect of sporting contention in local club support, but it's more subjective, more sublimated into the nature of support, which makes it perhaps less pure but perhaps more open to interpretation, perhaps even more exciting (or at least relatable, redolent - tactical considerations suddenly demand empathy).

BWP's a lovely guy unless you're a handbag

load of camra cobblers

I'd say it's more like being in a band, as opposed to being into music xps. It's an interesting topic though, and I'd say give it its own thread if football wasn't all but dead to me nowadays.

Last game of the season in League 2, no teams definitely relegated yet, 2 of 7 possible teams will go down - off to Wimbledon game, if we win we stay up, lose or draw and we're down - never been to a game with such a nervous atmosphere!

smoke bomb in the donny box, put out with a large pile of sand

pile of sand too large to continue game, being stamped down

stewards now on with shovel and are putting sand into bucket

local radio

you can tell phil parry's a ranger cos he can't mention tommy spurr without repeatedly adding he was once linked with us in 2008

looks like we're gonna get this farce over today, nice work lads

gonna have "diagouraga" floating round my head for a month after this

p conflicted about hull right now, v glad they might be blowing auto promo but sad for the wolves

sounds like michael oliver's bungled a clear sending off at griffin park, why am i not surprised

i want City to go up but this choking is hilarious and we're dead in the water anyway

Bruce out

lads i was speaking to last night all thought City wd lose today

Not like you to eschew subtlety, rtc

Looks like our juggernaut came one game too late. Great season though.

tell you what Deano, why not pick the same SHOWER OF SHIT that got beat last weekend, that should work huh?

hull home to cardiff last day, watford home to leeds

hmmm

play offs look mouthwatering either way, bolton are flying (and have just gone above palace), could shock brighton at this rate

bolton palace dougie final would be some shit

oooh but forest play leicester last day in case either of those slip up

Would like to think Brighton are a lock for the playoffs. Never works that way though.

noodles why is sako on the bench????

because Dean Saunders is a cunt

also he's been injured for a couple of weeks

He was an ever-present in the league until he tore his hamstring in the 2-1 win over Bristol City on March 16.

The injury was expected to have ended his season, but with Wolves’ need desperate, the former France Under-21 international has been rushed back into full training and is battling to be involved in tomorrow’s crucial game with Burnley.

longer than i thought

psyched for the Walsall derby

another for barnsley, another for burnley

just need Sam Vokes to score now to make the humiliation perfect