I should be working but I'm paralysed with joy - Premiership survival assured and by such a sweet method: beating West Brom yet again. 26 games, 1 defeat. Altogether now: 'We always beat West Brom'.
Actually, I'll quite miss West Brazilwich, and having them replaced with Wolverhampton isn't really a fair exchange. If people think Stoke play - ahem - 'direct' or 'physical' football, wait until they see the yam-yams hack their way to 0-0 results.
To my friends: note that SCFC are now above Blackburn Rovers, above all the other promoted teams, and above Newcastle etc. etc. We'll turn Newcastle over on Saturday, beat whoever we have left at home, then end the season by being the first team (I think) to beat Arsenal at Highbury this season. Probably.
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Highbury?
:)
I stand corrected. I mean, of course, Oil-rich Corrupt Undemocratic Polluters Stadium.
Newcastle will be far more difficult then you may anticapte, they were unlucky to concede two soft goals vs Chelsea and a clear goal disallowed Shearer will use this as an incentive.
Blackburn also are too good to go down.I liked the style of play offered by Mombray who needs to rethink his defensive powerness or lack of.
I do think NUFC have underperformed, but we're pretty formidable at home - a 1-0 home victory and a couple of red cards for us is my prediction.
My dear chum Laura is a Rovers fan so I really wanted them to go down but it's true that they have some great players. Shame Hughes abandoned them.
West Brazilwich has a certain ring to it. You can now join the ranks of other such glorious teams - Burnley being amongst them - who always beat us.
I want to go back to the days where Neil Warnock used to have to cheat to beat us. There's a lawsuit in that somewhere.
Join the ranks? We lost to the Baggies ONCE in the past 26 meetings. We genuinely do have a song that goes 'We always beat West Brom'.
The only teams that are too good to go down are the ones that stay up. Unfortunately for Newcastle, this year, due to a number of factors, they are not too good to go down. They may survive but I do see the trip to Stoke being the first nail in their black and white coffin. For all the fuss about Chelsea and Man City, Newcastle are the ultimate spend-to-win team. How many £10 million+ players can you buy and still be hopeless? Stoke may be unattractive but Beattie is clearly (and weirdly) the purchase of the season. (bit of stats - he has a 'price divided by goals times games at club this season factor of 5.8, Berbatov is 115.3 - trust me, big isn't good with this sum)
Chelsea scored twice because Newcastle defended badly. Even if Owen's goal had counted it would still be 2-1. You could say a goal might have turned the game around but equally true is the fact that if Newcastle went all out for an equaliser Owen would have picked up another injury.
Newcastle do serve to remind the football world though that a British owner who is a fan of the club can be far worse than a foreign owner looking for a new play thing. I do feel for the Newcastle fans because they are amongst the most loyal and passionate in the league but possibly a year in the championship might help bang a few heads together at executive level. The team needs streamlining. It needs younger, better, hungrier, cheaper players.
And it goes without saying that Stoke will go down next year anyway.
I think a couple of draws or a win will keep us up, so Newcastle is a big game for both of us this Saturday. Survival this year augurs well for an extended stay in the Premiership.
That's what Reading said.
True enough. So did Wigan.
So did West Brom, Bradford, Ipswich, Middlesborough the first time.
You are no Wigan.
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