Lighthouse

Much easier just to shout, "Oh bother that chap!"

May have to go for my lucky sh*t now before the game. Don't want to put a curse on us by going before the game but I'm touching cloth here. Wish me luck.

I'd quite like wins for Arsenal, Everton, Reading and a draw in the Villa/Fulham game.

I don't think anyone on here is actually in favour of a minutes silence. There is however a world of difference of that and people saying they are glad she is dead, going down the pub to celebrate and saying they would cheer/boo a minutes silence.

Politics is full of the supposed 'good guys' getting into bed with some very shifty characters. We supported Saddam Hussein in the Iran/Iraq war and more recently Tony Blair was seen getting very chummy with Gadhafi. British and US governments have been supporting and supplying weapons to some horrible people because they were politically opposed to our enemies. The Mujahedeen in Afghanistan and the wasps nest which is Israel who I believe break more terms of the Geneva convention than any other state on the planet. I don't agree with any of it but it's hardly exclusive to Thatcher. I'm not whitewashing what she did, she was very often on the wrong side of history. I do think people should at least try and show respect. 2 wrongs not making a right and all that.

Really quite disturbing the sheer number of people apparently rejoicing in the death of someone simply because they hold opposing political ideologies. She wasn't a terrorist or a tyrant. She didn't bring a wave of mass murder upon her own people. The way some of you are going on, you'd think she was at Hillsborough with a machine gun. If you hate her politics fine but she was re-elected by a landslide in '83 and '87. Whatever your opinion of Thatcher, enough people voted to keep her in power for over a decade, so deal with it. This coming from someone who is pretty much neutral when it comes to political issues. This is nothing to do with football and we wont be having a minutes silence. Surely we can lock this thread.

No. There wont be.

I would have loved to have got him from Rotherham when Reading did and at £350k he was a bargain for what he has delivered. I'm sure if we got him instead of giving Connolly another year we'd have won the league. He has been a decent sub for Reading this year but that's about the limit of his talents if you ask me. An impact player for a bottom half team. We should be aiming higher if we have serious European ambitions next year. He is a good finisher and will get goals but does little else. No presence, no pace, very little trickery. He would be best suited staying where he is and trying to bring Reading back up next year.

Why are we bothered about the Hammers views on JRod? They've only seen him play once this season. We might as well discus what Jodie Marsh thinks of DEFRA or H from Steps views on the large hadron collider.

That was my immediate reaction too.

Perfect result for us. Bye bye 'arry!!! Wigan drop another 2 points behind us.

HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Redknapp's face!!

Wow. Not a bad goal that.

Speak for yourself. I want Nigel's team to destroy Saggy Chops. Would be nice for old 'arry to have 'finished bottom with 2 different clubs' on his CV.

I think we can delete QPR and Reading from this thread. They will both have to win 5 games more than us to be any threat. To do that in 6 games would be quite something. We are about as close to Everton in 6th as we to Reading and QPR. Add Fulham, West Ham and Swansea fixtures to the list.

Being above Sunderland would only put you 18th. Safety would be Villa on 33.

If Wigan win they will be 10 points off safety with 18 to play for. So in 2 games time I think.

Harry must be delighted, that's his excuse for anything that happens sorted already.

Wigan have trips to Man City, West Ham, WBA and Arsenal. Being fairly realistic I'd say 2 points from that, possibly a win at one of the 'West' clubs. They also have Swansea Spuds and Villa at home. I'd have a guess at 5 points from that. I'll go out on a limb and say we have to lose all our remaining games to go down if QPR won today. Still want a draw really.

I see where you're coming from but it's not that bad. We won so we will be better off whatever happens. Worst case scenario we will have... - Dropped Reading and QPR completely out of contention, however unlikely they were to catch us before. - Dropped Stoke 3 points behind. - Gained 2 points on Swansea - Dropped Norwich another 2 points behind - Gained 3 points on Fulham OR dropped Newcastle another 3 behind OR gained 2 points on both of them - Gained 2 points and jumped above West Ham - We've improved our GD relative to Arsenal I'll be honest, I wont be putting too much money on Sunderland holding on to their lead either. I reckon draw. It also mean time is running out for the scenario to change. The teams below us now only have 6 games to pull it back.

We can still finish above West Ham although a lot will depend on next weekends game obviously. Their game in hand is at home to Man Utd in midweek and I'd say they are unlikely to win. The Chelsea game is the one I'm most interested in.

Call me premature if you like but what are your thoughts on these fixtures then? Liverpool vs. West Ham Spuds vs. Everton Chelsea vs. Sunderland Newcastle vs. Fulham QPR vs. Wigan Obviously we all want Liverpool and Chelsea to win and (baring any personal persuasions) don't give a sh*t about the Spuds game but what about the other 2. We are only 2 points behind Fulham but I think I'd rather keep Newcastle at arms length (currently 4 points and worse GD) below us. DRAW for me. The late kick off will be good however it pans out. Either Wigan stay 7 points behind, Saggy chops is sent down or a draw which marginally suits Wigan but still keeps them comfortably behind Saints. DRAW for me again.

Well we would be if we beat Stoke on the last day of the season. Would be a shame to be safe before then, I want us on the pitch 3 years in a row.

A game I think a lot of people will want to win a bit more than usual, or at least I do. Nothing personal against West Ham but it would be nice to be the top promoted side at the end of the year. I also remember a lot of the pundits droning on about how much better they had taken to the Premier League because they were beating Norwich, Villa and QPR whilst we were losing to Utd, City and Arsenal. That annoyed me a bit. Anyway, same team as today from me. Let's try not to make the mistake we did at Upton Park by going in hard on Carroll all the time. I've never seen a 7ft Geordie fall over like a school girl in a ballet quite so often.

Good, I'm off out for a curry so I can have another couple of pints before I wander back.