'Even allowing for inflation, this thread is not worth 198 Terry Francises' - EPL 2017-18

Arsenal in fairness have dropped points to pretty much every relegation-threatened team except West Ham and Huddersfield.

if

lfc drop below us

and win the cl

does it start to get .... nervy

I don't think so unless they somehow contrive to finish fifth.

And that would also require Chelsea finishing third. Seems very unlikely if not impossible.

Even if Liverpool finish 5th the top four would qualify anyway, wouldn’t they?

I thought they'd changed it now that if club from outside Top 4 wins CL, Top 4 still all qualify.

Think only way 4th can miss out was if CL & Europa were both won by PL clubs outside the Top 4.

lookit let me be its unnatural not to be shitting it at this stage

poch in

just working out permutations that could relegate Crystal Palace despite us being 11th, having literally the easiest finish possible in playing the bottom two, and coming off a 5-0 win

that permutation would be 'sell zaha'

there'd have to be points deductions and spontaneous combustion of Zaha on pitch for that shit to fly!

proposal: team finishing bottom of fair play league drops two places

*team finishing top of fair play league drops two places

i'm just thinking of next season

We're not a one man team, guys

<audible noise from earpiece>

I'm sorry, I'm just hearing that yes, we are in fact a one man team

He hasn't scored that many

He never has in his entire career.

Looking at it, Everton appear to be the pivotal team in the relegation fixtures, if they decide to put their feet up against West Ham and Southampton then everything is wide open.

P sure The Big Sam would like to stuff West Ham on his way out the door from Everton

on the way to Arsenal

https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/31706371_1607225499376145_5134000212519419904_o.jpg?_nc_cat=0&_nc_eui2=v1%3AAeEVdizCQ5ppi4XvDQemywEBmaRKCwrT_U9DO3TI1yy2oRYVMcx3UTA5b5n7nFLACU7FDBBL8y7buUPqgLunRSfsV4RCF8MY2sR8Yrc_3VTguQ&oh=1da18be09052c5212855620e38561ace&oe=5B90150A

Apropos of nothing, but this beauty got shared on fb by a friend. This is one for ye lads. Charlton Athletic v Huddersfield Town, 1947

a classic fixture, whether in the mud, whether 7-6, whether breaking lee clark's 'unbeaten run', whether tony watt briefly tantalising all of scottish football, or whether renewed next season ;)

We might be a bit shit right now, but not abject enough to be twice relegated :p Lol at the days of Lee Clark's Geordie-boy hubris, and the most boring and pointless record breaking unbeaten streak ever!

Oh I only meant once relegated. You know we're pretty much in the playoffs for sure? :D

(turns out Lee Bowyer is one hell of a manager, who knew?)

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/47/ce/85/47ce856d4247365ab6a79b8b14feb784.jpg

The Valley was the largest football ground in the League, drawing crowds in excess of 70,000

o_O Love how the stadium looked around the 40s.

Time was, eh?

Do we have a thread for football of yore

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5a/f4/0e/5af40e1c4141d207dd93b0ef04a976eb.jpg

oi stadium designers, this is what a real stand looks like!

https://odysseyonline-img.rbl.ms/simage/https%3A%2F%2Faz616578.vo.msecnd.net%2Ffiles%2F2016%2F09%2F14%2F6360948027775480071537775930_hgjhgjhfj.jpg/2000%2C2000/jHtS8OmtRQD3I%2BaL/img.jpg

congrats to the albion but ffs that was a shocking united performance. pogba was shit, rashford looked like a player severely lacking games, and i never want to see fellaini start for us ever again

Despite your pretty mediocre season tho you're still going to finish second and have a good chance of winning a trophy to boot

let them moan

It was an absolute atrocity. I really just can not go on supporting ManU. Not with the devil, the great destroyer, at the helm.

xp Finishing second. Yeah, what a beaut. That might suffice for Spurs fans (ducks for the 51s) but yeah, no.

a pox on u

united fans suffering suffices for this spurs fan

Srsly tho, Spurs are a dead entity. No prizes, no capital to match the big shots. Always playing for second place. Stuck in limbo innit. #fp'd myself so u lot dunna be othered. Truth talk tho.

are you

are you serious

netherlands cocaine surplus crisis deepens ;)

Always playing for second place.

That high?

Srsly tho, Spurs are a dead entity. No prizes, no capital to match the big shots. Always playing for second place. Stuck in limbo innit. #fp'd myself so u lot dunna be othered. Truth talk tho.

Still more fun than supporting a Mourihno squad afaic.

the barely-appreciated trophies and capital are ofc what gives rise to the deathly stench around utd

lmao lj

Tell me what Spurs is for then! Whatsa boy like Eriksen to do to ever win a prize in his life? Staying with Spurs certainly aint it. Dembele, supreme dude, he won't win nowt if he stays with Spurs. Cemetery. Make a move already. Either try and compete with big capital or be West Brom. Nowt in betweeen.

Still more fun than supporting a Mourihno squad afaic.

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I agree!

if spurs won the pl three years in a row i'd lose interest tbh

Look fwd to that resolution being tested

Also lmao @ man u selling soul to the devil and getting pretty much fuck all

Still better than it was under LVG

"the barely-appreciated trophies and capital are ofc what gives rise to the deathly stench around utd"

Honestly being a United fan these days sounds fucking miserable, like a Drake song that goes on for three years.

mourinho is poison utter poison

Either try and compete with big capital or be West Brom. Nowt in betweeen.

Football is about the journey as well as the destination.

yeah i find that entire sentiment repellent tbh

football is mostly the journey, the constant failure in the struggle for some perfect expression of collective, lucid consciousness. it's both a continuously evolving tactical discourse and a series of intense, sometimes sublime moments. at their best the prizes lend extra weight to those moments, but there are also protracted collapses and slow burning anguish, and when they afflict the truly Big teams who consider their trophies proof of their league nobility, yr juves and reals and bayerns, the gnashings of teeth are ofc more glorious and real than the reflected glory their fans want to bask in