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Offline Flamingo Lane

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2955 on: December 31, 2025, 10:22:48 AM »
And whilst Villa get to play away at Chelsea and Arsenal, and Wolves away at Liverpool and Man Utd, no London team has a fixture outside of London.
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Offline Richard

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2956 on: December 31, 2025, 10:30:46 AM »
Quote from: Flamingo Lane on December 31, 2025, 10:22:48 AM
And whilst Villa get to play away at Chelsea and Arsenal, and Wolves away at Liverpool and Man Utd, no London team has a fixture outside of London.

That's quite incredible and unfair.
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Offline Villan82

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2957 on: December 31, 2025, 10:32:05 AM »
Definitely the weirdest set of Christmas fixtures I can remember.

On CL qualification, we need 9 wins in my opinion.
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Offline Ads

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2958 on: December 31, 2025, 11:11:53 AM »
Wolves closing the gap on us concerns me.
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Offline Drummond

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2959 on: December 31, 2025, 05:38:04 PM »
Quote from: Ads on December 31, 2025, 11:11:53 AM
Wolves closing the gap on us concerns me.

Who exactly is minding it?
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Offline aj2k77

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2960 on: December 31, 2025, 05:43:19 PM »
Quote from: Drummond on December 31, 2025, 05:38:04 PM
Quote from: Ads on December 31, 2025, 11:11:53 AM
Wolves closing the gap on us concerns me.

Who exactly is minding it?

Someone with a telescope because it's fucking huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge.
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Offline Baldy

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2961 on: January 01, 2026, 09:57:21 AM »
Halfway stage of the season and we have already played Arses twice.

It should help us that Man City and Chelsea have still got to play each other twice.
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Offline Lsvilla

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2962 on: January 01, 2026, 10:02:30 AM »
If you look to the end of the season Arsenal don't leave London after 18th April - last 5 games. 
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Offline Stu

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2963 on: January 01, 2026, 10:21:05 AM »
Quote from: Lsvilla on January 01, 2026, 10:02:30 AM
If you look to the end of the season Arsenal don't leave London after 18th April - last 5 games.

My old dad used to complain that they once won the cup not having to play a game outside of London lmao. No idea if that’s actually true.
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Offline eamonn

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2964 on: January 01, 2026, 11:59:38 AM »
Not their fault there's so many London clubs. You could spin it another way and say they have lots of derby games - isn't that a strong boast we give over our last title-winning season, the fact we had to play so many of our scrawny midland neighbours, desperate to get one over on us? Whereas this season, all we have is the Wulfs down the road whose claws were trimmed and mani'd in early autumn.
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Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2965 on: January 01, 2026, 12:10:16 PM »
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How is the Premier League doing in the race for five Champions League places?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cgk8yz68ynlo
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Offline Brazilian Villain

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2966 on: January 01, 2026, 12:47:39 PM »
Quote from: Lsvilla on January 01, 2026, 10:02:30 AM
If you look to the end of the season Arsenal don't leave London after 18th April - last 5 games. 

We need SHA, Albion, Walsall, and Coventry to be promoted to the Premier League to ease our travel issues at the end of a season.
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Offline Percy McCarthy

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2967 on: January 01, 2026, 12:54:40 PM »
Quote from: PeterWithesShin on January 01, 2026, 12:10:16 PM
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How is the Premier League doing in the race for five Champions League places?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cgk8yz68ynlo

Football Rankings reckon England has a 99% chance of being allocated a fifth CL spot.
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Offline Stu

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2968 on: January 01, 2026, 01:54:34 PM »
Quote from: eamonn on January 01, 2026, 11:59:38 AM
Not their fault there's so many London clubs. You could spin it another way and say they have lots of derby games - isn't that a strong boast we give over our last title-winning season, the fact we had to play so many of our scrawny midland neighbours, desperate to get one over on us? Whereas this season, all we have is the Wulfs down the road whose claws were trimmed and mani'd in early autumn.

There was no logic to an intense dislike and belief they are the jammiest team the world over.
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Offline LeeB

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Re: Will we qualify for the CL?
« Reply #2969 on: January 01, 2026, 01:56:02 PM »
They cheated their way into this division in the first place.
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