Dark Munster

Someone gave a link some time ago (I can't be arsed to find it) for the rule that in this instance the PL gets one extra CL spot (Liverpool), but loses a EL spot to another country. So 8th cannot qualify for EL.

Except the Skates of course, but that's moot.

They've taken us to the cleaners a number of times in the past (e.g. Fourpast, Bale, Paul Mitchell), admittedly that's sometimes Saint's fault too for being mugged. Throw in MP and Alderweireld, and so the last club I want to win the league is Tottenham ****ing Hotspur.

This. Again there seems to be confusion about being crap and being overrated.

Incredible fortune with injuries (9 of their starting 11 have played in all but 2 games so far, apparently), all 11 players having the season of their lives, the big clubs well below par, 10 penalties for and only 2 against, a shitload of 1 goal wins. My money is on someone there having a pact with the devil.

He's a "legend" apparently!

I'll see your Anders Svensson and raise you a Frannie Benali.

If Utd lose today we'll only be 3 points behind them. They have a game in hand, so not easy to catch them, but not impossible. On the other hand, a win for Spurs keeps them in the hunt to catch Leicester. Maybe a draw is the best result.

Correct. And if that happens it would be most amusing if Spurs were to finish 4th. Unfortunately the odds of all of that happening are about 5000-1.

He put in some quality crosses into the box too.

I think there is a misunderstanding of the term overrated. It means an ordinary player who is/was widely rated by many. Gaston and that head-butting shit, for example, weren't overrated, simply because most of us never rated either of them. Likewise Mr. Lee. My nomination for the most overrated is mistress Oakley.

He appears to be very much a cup manager. If they win the FA cup this year it should stay his execution for a while.

Yes, but that game in hand is against us.

He appears not to be a Leicester-level fit player.

What's Leicester's secret with injuries (or lack thereof)? Is it really just pure luck?

Over on one of the Leicester forums they dispute that, saying that the "sports science" (or something like that) that Pearson introduced is the reason they have so few injuries. They are either talking bollocks, or if not, it's something we should try to emulate.

Nice thread bump. Although Batman may disagree.

Wellbeck is one of those rare players who seems to play better for his country than his club (at least during his time at Utd).

One of the main reasons England has been a failure for the last 50 years is that we are ****ing shit at taking penalties.

By that logic the club would be wasting their time trying to extend his contract.

How about offering a 2 or 3 year extension with a Barca/Holland release clause? I think that he may go for that.

I thought that was their version of this one at Staplewood:

Oi, hands off our Ronald!