Champions League Contention

[ChicagoLion]

The Torres situation is a real worry, we are down to an almost bare X1 with scarce replacements and we are likely to suffer more injuries and fatigue before the season ends.
Not lose at Luton and beat Spurs will go along way towards securing a CL place.
Expect a very different team to take the field in Amsterdam.

Melchester Rovers?

Villa reserves.

[Brazilian Villain]

I think United are nearly gone, City will annihilate them and send them into another crisis. 6 more wins should do it. Beat Luton and we will go into that Spurs game full of confidence. Need Konsa and Torres back fit asap though.

The fact that we're 1/14 for a top 5 finish and Yanited are 10/3 suggests that many agree with you.

[brontebilly]

I think United are nearly gone, City will annihilate them and send them into another crisis. 6 more wins should do it. Beat Luton and we will go into that Spurs game full of confidence. Need Konsa and Torres back fit asap though.

The fact that we're 1/14 for a top 5 finish and Yanited are 10/3 suggests that many agree with you.

I wouldn't be backing us at that price with money borrowed from that garden centre in Kerry

[Somniloquism]

I think United are nearly gone, City will annihilate them and send them into another crisis. 6 more wins should do it. Beat Luton and we will go into that Spurs game full of confidence. Need Konsa and Torres back fit asap though.

City annihilated them in the other match (apart from actually putting the ball in the net). The only other time a club was so outplayed but the score didn't represent it was when played the Bluemanc ourselves. I'm pretty sure the media stated it showed Manure was back being as they were drawing with the big guys.

[Brazilian Villain]

I think United are nearly gone, City will annihilate them and send them into another crisis. 6 more wins should do it. Beat Luton and we will go into that Spurs game full of confidence. Need Konsa and Torres back fit asap though.

The fact that we're 1/14 for a top 5 finish and Yanited are 10/3 suggests that many agree with you.

I wouldn't be backing us at that price with money borrowed from that garden centre in Kerry

Agreed, you'd probably need to have sampled some of their merchandise to take those odds.

[Brazilian Villain]

https://twitter.com/FootRankings/status/1762084891598922164

[algy]

Right, the next person to say the industrial revolution didn't begin in Coalbrookdale is getting levelled. And a stamp on the head for anyone mentioning French weavers.

Shocked and appalled that SE is the only person to mention Coalbrookdale as the birthplace of the industrial revolution, when it so clearly is.

[Richard]

I think United are nearly gone, City will annihilate them and send them into another crisis. 6 more wins should do it. Beat Luton and we will go into that Spurs game full of confidence. Need Konsa and Torres back fit asap though.

City annihilated them in the other match (apart from actually putting the ball in the net). The only other time a club was so outplayed but the score didn't represent it was when played the Bluemanc ourselves. I'm pretty sure the media stated it showed Manure was back being as they were drawing with the big guys.

Are you thinking of the Liverpool 0 Man U 0 as Citeh hammered them 3 0 earlier in the season and will do again next Sunday.

[Dogtanian]

https://twitter.com/FootRankings/status/1762084891598922164

Aren't we currently third in the coefficients, behind Italy and Germany, and so need to buck our ideas up to get a fifth pair of trotters in the trough?

[Percy McCarthy]

https://twitter.com/FootRankings/status/1762084891598922164

Aren't we currently third in the coefficients, behind Italy and Germany, and so need to buck our ideas up to get a fifth pair of trotters in the trough?

Yes, that 91% chance of finishing in the top 5 needs tempering with the percentage chance of England getting the 5th spot.

[Hookeysmith]

https://twitter.com/FootRankings/status/1762084891598922164

Aren't we currently third in the coefficients, behind Italy and Germany, and so need to buck our ideas up to get a fifth pair of trotters in the trough?

Yes, that 91% chance of finishing in the top 5 needs tempering with the percentage chance of England getting the 5th spot.

But with 5 English teams ('The Mighty Reds YNWA' / Cit£h / Arsenal / Brighton / Us) still in Euro competitions and with 3 of them favourites to win the comp they are in i think that will take us above all the other leagues

[Dave]

https://twitter.com/FootRankings/status/1762084891598922164

Aren't we currently third in the coefficients, behind Italy and Germany, and so need to buck our ideas up to get a fifth pair of trotters in the trough?

So come on you Irons and Seagulls.

[eamonn]

Cheers Dave, good commentary too, didn't have a clue how this all worked.

[Drummond]

Opta now has the following chances of finishing 4th:

Aston Villa 59.6%
Spurs        31.1%
ManUtd       3.2%

For Top 5

Villa        91.6%
Spuds     74.1%
ManU      26.2%
Newc        4.5%

Likely for Top 7 places to get European Football, so Top 8 if one of Top 7 win the FA Cup. The chances of that are pretty big given that Newcastle, ManUtd, Liverpool, Wolves, Brighton and ManCity are still in it.

[Sexual Ealing]

Right, the next person to say the industrial revolution didn't begin in Coalbrookdale is getting levelled. And a stamp on the head for anyone mentioning French weavers.

Shocked and appalled that SE is the only person to mention Coalbrookdale as the birthplace of the industrial revolution, when it so clearly is.

I appreciate the support, Algy. Coalbrookdale is also good because of the utilitarian nature of its name. There is coal there, there is a brook there, it is in a dale. Done.