h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We've already got :
- Scunny as League One champions
- Leeds ignominiously relegated
We could be looking at :
- Three London teams down from the Premiership
- Leeds bankrupt to boot
and best of all :
- Chelsea winning zip, unless you count the girl-fight in the Non-Cup Final
- The Sullen One finally off to scowl and whine in somebody else's league

It only needs McLaren to fall under a bus.

You've forgotten Sir Neil on Question of Sport

Actually I'm a little disappointed with the demise of London teams from the Premiership. I've discovered this year in Big School that the league is very much North Western based. Therefore as an Away-Blade that would involve use of extensive sections of the M6, and that is never a good thing.

That said, I would be pleased to see that ratty little club Fulham fall into the pit. So could I please substitute Fulham and Wigan for the current not quite down London clubs?

Wo GD

Maybe spoke too soon. The penultimate round of results just in put a bit of a different look on things in the Premiership, yeah? First allegiance is very definitely nursing the Blades home now.

The other team we agree about, Fulham, stay up thanks to an unscheduled fixture against Toxteth Ladies. Not a lot of justice in this lucre-swilled football heaven, is there?

I can agree it would have best for Charlton to stay up among the Londoners embroiled, but we can't afford to think like that now, my son. Particularly not when poor Mr Pardew himself has an upcoming bye against the Benitez Belles.

And as for West Ham, why couldn't they just have lost? It's all going to get so tawdry now, on any foreseeable outcome. Sheesh.

Still, good old Ken has saved the Mighty Whites by a brilliant stroke of commercial acumen, so not everything is awry with the Beautiful Game, what? Shame he's still got a controlling interest in the pristine new corporate entity, mind. Just might put the odd investor off, that. Touch Bates, and your bargepole falls off, that kind of thing.

So it goes. One way or another, you aren't going to have to work out the Wigan excursion next year, not now.

Pin

So basically you're saying, "Come on Chelsea". We need the special one to inspire his team and make the last game of the season at Old Trafford a real game and not just a parade.

Wash your mouth out.

I don't like ManU either, but I don't think they'll field a second team against West Ham.

Mind you, there is the Cup Final...

Now I'm really depressed

Hopefully we can rely on Spurs to follow their dream of European footie next season, and as a result remove poor old Charlton from the equation.

Then all it takes is a draw on Sunday.


God, I'm getting nervous...

My home team Necastle United were beaten again...But Spurs were always my back up side.

Here in Oz we have the luxury of being able to watch the FA Cup and The Champions League Final live on free to air TV. I will probably go for Chelsea and Liverpool respectively. Man U played a dreadful game aginst Milan.

Just the humble opinion of an Ex-Geordie



Steve, formerly of Blyth

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I read your posting Pinniped, and suddenly it was d just as you predicted. I have just watched the Spurs Vs Charlton match, good result for Spurs!

I would have thought that Shearer will eventually take over at Newcastle, maybe Allardyce will just be an interim manager to help with a rebuild.



Steve

Charlton down. One from three. Let's go!

Oops. I think the only times I've ever been yikesed are in my own journal. I keep assuming that there'll be more latitude here, because it's not as if you're foisting your views on others. People have to pay a visit and so make a positive effort to be offended.

What? Oh, right. I just said something a bit unkind Scousers. OK, a lot unkind. But what do they expect, when their horrible little team goes around casually rescuing relegation basket-cases?

I'm actually quite pleased that a reject Blade laid nut on Xavier Alonso. Just a shame it couldn't have been Gerrard.

I'm still nervous...

Though this weekend at Bramall Lane will be a certain novelty value for me as, for the first time ever, I'll actually be in the stand at Bramall Lane. The Kop was sold out when I went to buy a ticket. So the only seats left were for the top tier of the Bramall Lane end (can't remember what silly corporate name it's got these days.) I'm looking forward to finding out if the Kop really is as noisy as we think that it is

We have live Premier League here so I am looking forward to a night on the couch with an or six to watch the end of season matches.

At 5am our time we have Tottenham vs Blackburn...Come on you Spurs. A win should get us into Europe next year.



Steve

I watched a Scouser get a good kicking yesterday evening. The last time I said what I thought about them, a few posts back there, I got yikesed. So here's another wad of mod-fod, maybe.

This guy came in the pub sounding off about Warnock being a whinger and that the Blades were going to get relegated. A local
said yes indeed, anyone not playing Liverpool 3rd XI in the run-in was probably in danger. Then the guy started getting aggressive.

Pretty soon someone shouted out about Liverpool fans killing their own at Hillsborough. I don't personally think it's very nice bringing that one up (although I know several witnesses, including members of the emergency services, who are categoric about it being true). As it turned out, that was the cue for it to get physical.

The Scouser had precisely one mate for company, and the second guy was obviously very keen to be somewhere else. On the other hand, there were maybe twenty guys in striped football shirts in there, and red ones ones and blue were both listening intently, and none of them were smiling. I don't know what sort of brain you need to have to start something with odds like those, but this guy obviously didn't care. He pushed the 3rd XI-commenter of his stool.

The landlord stepped in before anything got broken. The visitor went to the floor pretty hard, though, and sampled footwear from both Blades and Wednesdayites, and even (as we later found out) from a Chesterfield supporter.

It's a long time since I got involved in any of that stuff. There's still something inside me that quite relishes it, though. This one was thoroughly deserved, and goes in my fair game category. He could have got hurt a lot worse, in fact, and it would still have been fair game.

3-0 to Milan at half-time would be satisfactory, provided that the Italians really knuckle down in the second half and win by about 8. And since we can dream, how about a disrepute charge against Benitez for the disgrace against Fulham?

I take it that you are not a Liverpool fan, Pinniped....



Steve

Yes, I'd noticed that theme as well.

Though for myself, I don't have any objection to them. In fact I have positive thoughts in their direction, what with them being John Peel's favourite team. No doubt Pin will turn that around and say something along the lines that supporting Liverpool was the one weakness of character that the Great Man had.

Anyway, I'm really getting nervous now. I couldn't sleep last night, and I'm about to hit the road North. I should be in the Sportsman for 1pm

Yeah, I'm not a Liverpool fan.

Sure, we'll forgive Mr Ravenscroft. Anyone who calls his wife after a fat animal can't be all bad.

And yes, the events of the next few hours now take precedence over all else. I won't be there myself. Maybe should have been; too late now.

I've got the shirt on though.

If clouds have silver linings, it is that six months ago a greedy socceroo thought he'd double up his signing on fees by joining relugation-doomed West Ham with an escape clause which would allow him to join Liverpool in the summer. Now he's stuck in a contract with lowly West Ham. Should have stayed at Blackburn. Hahahaha.

B*ll*cks!

Definitely not a perfect season any longer

Lots to say, and yet not a lot you can say. It was weird at work today.

Injustice? Maybe, but those are all battles you can't win. The Premier League is a circus. It glitters all right, but lift the tent-flap when nobody's looking and there's a whole lot of elephant-shit out the back.

I think we lost it at the end. Two hapless performances when a single point would have been enough. Or even less goals shipped at Villa, as it turned out.

Not much of a consolation maybe, but next season could be the one we've never seen. Two well-matched and competitive teams in the city at the same time, going head to head?