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I can, it was Chelsea v PSG last season. And Chelsea in the CL semi-Final about 5 years before that too, I remember Drogba going on, and on, and on, and on...

I'm fairly sure there's no more Leicester-y a club than Saints. Both relegated to League One in the late 2000s, recovered from administration when bought by rich owner, have recruited well without splashing the cash. Both promoted back to the Prem in the early/mid 2010s, both finished bottom half in first season back, very similar ground and capacity, similar sized cities. The only similarities between Leicester and Portsmouth are wearing blue and racist orgies.

Oh, and in case anyone thinks "that's not the point", this suggests it is entirely the point - because this is wrong too (if still funny):

The Premiership ceased to exist in English football in 2007. Just saying.

Semantics due to the lack of Oxford comma, which is entirely necessary in this case to clarify the sentence - and make it untrue of the implied meaning. Because otherwise they're just 3 unrelated Schmeichel facts, as opposed to one implying causality. It's also true that Frank Lampard Senior has won the league, had a son, and that son has won the league since Liverpool won the title, but I'm fairly sure no-one cares about the second division title West Ham won in 1981. Each of those things IS individually true, but the implication is that Peter Schmeichel's son has been born and grown up since Liverpool last won the league, which is not true.

As Chelsea showed, us just drawing with them would have been perfectly satisfying given the outcome.

Cumulative yellows deadline has passed for 10. I find it vaguely comical that there are people talking about him getting 5 bookings, which stopped being a thing nearly 6 months ago. As for "didn't want to..." what it was was Clattenburg absolutely failing as a referee. He knew perfectly well he should have sent Dier off (and probably twice before that as well), he sure as hell didn't forget with Willian pointing it out to him, he just chose not to do what he is supposed to. I'd have the FA Cup Final off him for that, tbh.

They're not playing for anything if Arsenal lose away at Man City on Saturday. Spurs would be guaranteed second no matter what.

Well *I* know that, and it's an argument between "never going to happen" and "extremely unlikely to happen". Nevertheless, finding out the actual odds will be fun for someone (not even me).

Yep, well done for not letting Spurs do it, into the history books. Incredible achievement. Moving on, can't wait for the fans of about 15 clubs with completely unrealistic expectations for next season all kicking off at the same time... including Leicester's.

Are you getting twitchy because the Northam sang more of RLSGM than "Le Tiss" on Sunday when they were on the pitch? Funny as hell that you can't understand why that might be, and also weird that you think it needs stating. They're not remotely comparable based on Premier League goals alone, and Le Tissier wasn't even a striker most of the time. EDIT: Just read the rest of the thread, good to know the obvious answer is usually the accurate one (see also MLG's pretend troll backtracking).

Without getting into the "likely v impossible" debate of the Nutjob thread, we were almost certain to finish top 8 after our win yesterday irrespective of Chelsea results.

I just assumed he meant in that match, Dier must have made 5 yellow card challenges as well.

You can, but it's not true. Kasper was born in 1986, Liverpool won the league in 1988 and 1990.

I was hoping they'd somehow get to us needing to win, but I'll take them losing the title at Chelsea whilst managing to get half their team injured or suspended. Assuming retrospective punishment for Dembele, Alli already out, Dier somehow avoiding the suspension he definitely should have had, but Alderweireld and Rose injured and possibly Lamela out too.

You need the odds of Skates winning both games is 1.8x2.2=3.96. PLUS 3 of the following Accrington to lose both is 4.5 x 9 = 40.5 (That would be 200/1 just for the Portsmouth and Accrington results btw). Now if someone wants to do the maths on the WDL permutations above... Oxford were 1.95 to win, 3.8 to draw and 4 to lose last weekend. They're 1.33 to win, 5 to draw and 9 to lose next week. Bristol Rovers are 1.22 to win, 6 to draw and 12 to lose this weekend coming, were 1.5, 4.75 and 6 respectively last weekend. Plymouth 1.67 to win, 3.75 to draw, 5 to lose coming up and W 2.63, D 3.6 and L2.7 the game just gone. Anyone?

Yeah, I don't recall any Saints fans talking about us having a core of young English players since we sold all of them nearly 2 years ago. Have they just created a myth about a myth?

I'm sure I could extrapolate something from this regarding the likelihood of a skewed fixture list after 36/46ths of the season rather than 36/38ths, but I think it's more pertinent to say that if we were in the kind of position in the Prem that they are in in League 2 with regards to crowd sizes (and probably turnover) compared to the other teams, we'd be absolutely gutted to only be 6th/7th.

Partially true. They will play Plymouth, but they can swap positions, which will change who plays at home first - which as I keep banging on about, is a big deal when you're as single-faceted as the Skates are at attacking - if they go behind more often than not they're screwed. We'd like them to be home in the first leg, which means we'd want them to finish below Plymouth.

Highly suspicious timing with the Radio Taxis advert on the screen is all I'm saying.

Just watching bits of the live coverage from yesterday, amused to see a warming-up Aguero saying something to Davis to try and put him off immediately before the corner Van Dijk headed onto the bar for Mane's second (Saints' third). Turned the game back in our favour with City having started the second half well. Re: Wanyama, is it any surprise he looked good? This is another of the teams he thinks he should be signing for. When he does it every match again like he did last season I'll start being impressed again, but I'd still rather he left so we can get someone reliable in. Looking forward to him taking Spurs apart on Sunday though, definitely in the "playing to impress them" category for him.

Funny that, I came on here to consider posting something about what a solid signing Martina has been compared to some expectations (especially mine after Salzburg), and yet we have planks thinking a player is to blame for a rebound off him when someone in front of him slices the ball off into him. That one was down to Fonte, nothing much Martina could do, just bad luck. Interesting that Ru-Endly (Cuco) has played in a couple of our more tricky defensive games (Arsenal home and Man City home), yet we've only kept 2 clean sheets in the games he's played - away to Vitesse and the game he also scored in against Arsenal. He played against Sunderland and Newcastle home, conceded in both, and Norwich away, which we lost. W6 D2 L4 with him (50% win rate) and W14 D8 L10 without (44%), much of a muchness really. We seem to prefer him when we know we need to be defensive, as Cedric is the choice when we need a more attacking player.

That happened about a week after Koeman arrived, half the team had left from the previous season and we've very rarely pressed high up the pitch the way Pochettino liked to.

That's still six results they need teams not to win in (plus their two wins).