SaintBobby

Do everything to create chances for Ings to give him a chance of the golden boot. I’d start with Long.

If anyone thinks Bournemouth are likely to stay up (or will even stay up “easily”), they are about 1/4 to go down with most bookies, so you can about quadruple your money by backing them to stay up. I’m surprised to see that they are also narrow favourites to beat Saints today. The 2/1 available on a Saints win is quite attractive, I’d have thought.

You expected at least three points tonight? Maybe 4 or 5, but you reluctantly would have settled for three if really pushed? !

Not persuaded by either. Weak spot for us is that whoever partners Ings is maybe okay, but not at all inspiring. I might even play redmond up front rather than either Adams or Obafemi.

A particularly glorious few seconds of footage was Neville awarding the Motm award to Martial in the 94th minute for "scoring the match winner" LMAO

Here's a mental stat to conjure with.... In the Premier League era, Man Utd have played 537 games at Old Trafford. In all those 537 games, they have only dropped a total of 5 points in stoppage time - a full 40% of which were in last night's match! Sweet.

An advantage we had was that we had Swansea in one of those last games. If Bournemouth still had matches against West Ham and/or Watford, you might see a way out for them. That Swansea 0-1 win truly was a six-pointer and deserved the “must win” tag!

Magnificent display. As I said on the pre-match thread, I liked our odds of 10/1 and shoved £20 on it (sadly, the poster who said he rated our chances at worse than 100/1 wouldn’t come back and offer me odds! Which is a shame, because betting is basically a pretty efficient way of taxing bullshit!) KWP was Motm for me, but obviously several worthy candidates!

If you're willing to offer me 50/1 or better, I'd like to place a bet then please. Say £200?

Genuine question - is there definitive evidence that being in European competition damages your domestic performance? At least for the relatively smaller clubs, maybe ignore the top six who have such deep squads? Or is it a myth along the lines of "2-0 is the most dangerous lead" or "it's often harder to play against ten men"? I know there will be anecdotal examples (as there are of 2-0 leads being squandered etc), but is it a stone cold statistical fact that Europa League hurts you?

Reported across various media: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8473931/Sky-Sports-pundit-Matt-Le-Tissier-says-review-wearing-Black-Lives-Matter-badge.html https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/matt-le-tissier-holds-talks-22275642 Interesting questions over BLM. I wonder if you can believe black lives matter while distancing yourself from the wider platform of the BLM organisation, which i gather supports defunding the police and destroying capitalism. Bold love by MLT.

Not sure I want us to be up for signing KWP permanently, but does anyone what sor tof salary he is on? This site suggeests £20K per week, which seems low. If PEH goes to Spurs, I guess he could be a makewight?

We're big underdogs for this one, obviously, but i'm quite tempted by the 10/1 avialble on a Saints win. I put our chances of a win at higher than 9%, I think!

Agree with this line-up. Possibly need KWP and RB to be a bit more defensively minded than normal and allow JWP to get forward.. I think our midfield and attacking players can also that Arsenal defence a lot of headaches.

I still think they’ll beat Villa on the final day and probably stay up. Sadly.

I just loudly cheered a Spurs goal. I need a shower. And probably a priest to confess to...

Last few matches really do ease any tiny remaining fears of relegaton, surely?

If you squint at the league table, cross your fingers and pray, it's just about possible for us to qualify for the Europa League (assuming 8th place would be sufficient) Heck of a long shot, but just about conceivable.

Glad to bury yet another football myth....namely, "if you start slow, it's very hard to pick up the pace". Rubbish. We started really poorly. Not sure why. Maybe Norwich just burnt themselves out in the first 15 mins? We cruised it from there, really. Ings was superb - made at least three great contributions defensively too. But I'd also highlight Redmond - didn't see much of the ball in the first half, but looked great through out every time he was involved. Happy days. Safety is now (even more) assured.

I've heard "late August or early September". Didn't know they'd agreed to Sept 12th, if they have. Gets tricky if they leave it too late as Euros are in June, right?

The weird thing about that Hawkeye screw-up was Sky discussing that there was a window of one minute and 9 seconds where they could have used VAR. Sure, there was also a shorter window where they could have used, you know, "eyesight."

Thanks for your work on this, Steve.

That is true....but why is the line drawn between seasonal flu and Covid-19? We seem to be wiling to do absolutely everything to combat the latter, but not to really disrupt our lives at all to combat the former. The former does kill about 10,000 a year every year (sometimes 20,000+). It seems a relatively small sacrifice to simply suspend the football season over the Winter to mitigate this. I'm not suggesting a full on, economy-wide lockdown, just no football in, say, December, January and February to limit the spread of flu. Seems a small price to pay to save some lives. Football just isn't that important. The numbers of lives saved could be dozens, maybe even hundreds.

No, but seasonal flu is. we may want to adopt a mid-season winter break in future to ensure that players like Danny Rose, who can survive flu easily, doesn't catch it and then pass it on to his grandparents. Can't be too careful.

the deaths from other causes are also age specific. Example: v few people die from fireworks, those who do are typically not under 40 (they will survive some nasty burns). Same goes for lightning strikes - the fittest are more likely to survive a hit. It is true that the C19 numbers are based on current deaths - so you might think lockdown has kept a zero or more off the death toll. Maybe it has. So far though, the number who have died is like a very bad bout of seasonal flu. That tends to kill about 10,000 people a year - but in 2014/5, it killed 28,000 Brits - not massively different to the number currently killed by C19. The number of people under 50 who have died from C19 is vanishingly small in aggregate terms - not far off a rounding error to zero. The average age of a death from C19 is 82 in a country where life expectancy is actually just 81.