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[Ivo]

However extra time also gives the home team an unfair advantage as they get 33% longer playing time at their home ground...

But a lot of the time - certainly in earlier rounds at least - they would have earned that privilege by performing better in the previous round(s). Surely this would at least partly mitigate this? And it doesn't compare with knowing that a score draw (in the 30 minutes) will win the tie.

 

[jon0844]

Let's be honest spurs started falling down and time wasting and were lucky to win the tie. Was great to watch though

Very lucky indeed, and I say that as a Spurs fan! We need to step up our game for the next round and AVB needs to have words. The squad shouldn't need to rely on a couple of players as much as it appeared to tonight.

 

[Ivo]

Sorry Jon - your post was erroneous so I've corrected it

Very lucky indeed, and I say that as a Spurs fan! We need to step up our game for the next round and AVB needs to have words. The squad shouldn't need to rely on Bale as much as it appeared to tonight.

 

[jon0844]

I was going to say that but it isn't just Bale!

 

[Clip]

Well the Europa draw is in

Chelsea v Kazan
Spurs v Basel
Fenerbache v Lazio
Benfica v the toon


Some good ties there think I'll book me flight now before the price gets too much and no stupid expensive visa's this time.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Champions League draw

Malaga v Borussia Dortmund
Real Madrid v Galatasaray
Paris St-Germain v Barcelona
Bayern Munich v Juventus

First leg : 2nd/3rd April
Second leg : 9th/10th April

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Bayern v Juve there is absolutely mouth-watering. I think the winners there will be the champions come May.

 

[richw]

Everton have almost certainly just ended the title race
Everton 2 Man City 0 despite Everton playing most of the 2nd half with 10 men.
Everton's second goal came 4 mins into injury time,

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Everton have almost certainly just ended the title race
Everton 2 Man City 0 despite Everton playing most of the 2nd half with 10 men.
Everton's second goal came 4 mins into injury time,

That result surely will give Chelsea the extra emphasis to gain a top two placing by the end of the season. It was Steven Pienaar who was sent off for Everton.

 

[richw]

That result surely will give Chelsea the extra emphasis to gain a top two placing by the end of the season. It was Steven Pienaar who was sent off for Everton.

Not only Chelsea but Spurs as well.

 

[SS4]

Most important game today is at Villa Park so of course I'm watching the rugby
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4 Premier League games kicking off at 3pm today. That's less than half

 

[richw]

Most important game today is at Villa Park so of course I'm watching the rugby

Probably best for you to keep watching the rugby, not looking good for you so far.

 

[Ivo]

Someone explain how you can beat City 2-0 but lose 3-0 (at home) to Wigan...?

 

[hairyhandedfool]

4 Premier League games kicking off at 3pm today. That's less than half

About standard for the Premier league these days, bearing in mind there is a late kickoff (on ESPN), there is normally an early kick off and two are normally televised on Sunday with another on Monday and sometimes one on Tuesday aswell.

 

[richw]

About standard for the Premier league these days, bearing in mind there is a late kickoff (on ESPN), there is normally an early kick off and two are normally televised on Sunday with another on Monday and sometimes one on Tuesday aswell.

With 3 teams playing Thursday night in the Europa is giving 3 games on a sunday, which may have been scheduled originally for Saturday, and if these teams are not the televised games, we could be looking at 5 sunday games.

 

[SS4]

Three points despite an obscene amount of injury time. Benteke has been worth every penny thus far

 

[richw]

Three points despite an obscene amount of injury time. Benteke has been worth every penny thus far

6 points clear of the drop zone, villa were poor first half but played well 2nd half

 

[SS4]

6 points clear of the drop zone, villa were poor first half but played well 2nd half

Wigan need to lose one, or preferably both, of their games in hand really. Our goal difference is awful, thanks mainly to results against Man City, Chelsea and Spurs.

Sunderland could do with losing and we should aim to overtake Newcastle, Southampton and Norwich.

Our fixtures for the rest of the season

• Liverpool (H)
• Stoke (A)
• Fulham (H)
• Man Utd (A)
• Sunderland (H)
• Norwich (A)
• Chelsea (H)
• Wigan (A)

Of those I reckon we could win against Liverpool, Stoke and Fulham. Norwich and Wigan are crunch games but I hope we don't have to rely on a result at the DW on the last day of the season. Man Utd and Chelsea I'm writing off, if we get anything it'll be a bonus and just keep the goal difference down

 

[andrew bell]

Our fixtures for the rest of the season

• Liverpool (H)
• Stoke (A)
• Fulham (H)
• Man Utd (A)
• Sunderland (H)
• Norwich (A)
• Chelsea (H)
• Wigan (A)

In order, my predictions is D,W,W,L,D,D,L,D which means another 10 points for Villa, which should be enough to stay up, but the last game at the DW could easily be a relagation decider

 

[familyguy99]

Oldham 0 Bournemouth 1

Awful for Oldham today the player didn't took up and to be fair Bournemouth dessert they win, only good thing about today was that Colchester was only team around Oldham won mean Oldham are still two points be hide Scunthorpe in table.

EDIT: Forget about Latics penalty missed which I didn't get why Baxter wanted to chip the goalie when we was losing 1-0 :-x

League One table (16th to 24th)

16th Preston - 46 points
17th Carlisle - 45 points
18th Shrewsbury - 44 points
19th Colchester - 43 points
20th Scunthorpe - 38 points
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21th Oldham - 36 points
22th Hartlepool - 32 points
23th Portsmouth - 31 points
24th Bury - 30 points

looking at that I say is between us and Scunthorpe for drop but win on Tuesday against Hartlepool (which we need to do) then I say anyone from Shrewsbury to us will go down with Hartlepool, Portsmouth and Bury who I think have already gone.

Rooney just score for Man Utd (1-0) if Man Utd win this game then they only need to win four of they next nine games (in Premiership) to win the title.

 

[andrew bell]

Is it me or does Jonathan Pearce always commentates on Manchester United games for MOTD?

 

[Ivo]

I'm amazed by how close the bottom of League Two is. York in 19th are on 41; every team below them - Torquay, Plymouth, Barnet, Aldershot and Accrington - is on 40! However, York and Aldershot have played one game more than the others, which might prove crucial...

Is it me or does Jonathan Pearce always commentates on Manchester United games for MOTD?

Insert the word "nearly" and you are correct.

 

[SS4]

Is it me or does Jonathan Pearce always commentates on Manchester United games for MOTD?

Seems that way. Personally, I'm of the opinion that he should go back to commentating on fighting robots

 

[richw]

I'm amazed by how close the bottom of League Two is. York in 19th are on 41; every team below them - Torquay, Plymouth, Barnet, Aldershot and Accrington - is on 40! However, York and Aldershot have played one game more than the others, which might prove crucial...

I just looked and thought that it would be a good run in.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Conference Premiership

Hyde 3...Dartford 0

Second consecutive win in less than a week brings six welcome and much-needed league points to Hyde in their fight for retaining their place at this level of football.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Never truer words spoken:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21810265

 

[richw]

I note the highest scoring Englishman in the premier league hasnt been considered for an England place. Rickie Lambert has 13 goals

 

[Ivo]

Lambert has come a long way over the years - he was in League Two not so long ago - and in doing so has proven the value of determination, effort and self-belief. He deserves his shot in the Prem and is making a good go of it.

I definitely agree that he deserves a chance at international level.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

With only eight matches still to play this season, the recently-promoted clubs of Reading and Queens Park Rangers both have only 23 points....a matter of a 7 point gap has now appeared between them and the club in the position of just outside "the bottom-three".

 

[richw]

With only eight matches still to play this season, the newly-promoted clubs of Reading and Quuens Park Rangers both have only 23 points....a matter of a 7 point gap has now appeared between them and the club in the position of just outside "the bottom-three".

Qpr aren't one of the newly promoted teams, west ham, Southampton and reading are the new teams this season. Southampton took time to adapt to the premier league but now seem to be doing ok. Bear in mind Southampton have pretty much the same squad that won league one 2 years ago.