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The relegation run in

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zirc said:
I'll never count them out after their Houdini act last year. Stuff of legends that was.
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i'd never count anyone out - we've seen teams like wigan just come from nowhere. just look at leicester winning on the bounce coming back from what looked perilous.

does this stuff happen in the other big leagues? surely not as regularly as the prem anyway. especially not on the flip side where you see a hull being 4th at xmas and going down. always a team suckered into it - newcastle will be, but they've got just enough points in the bag.
 

Villa are going. Once we go there and pick up 3 points next weekend, they'll have 3 games left. I'm looking at the fixture list for those involved and i can see Villa's game against Burnley as being the one that gets them relegated. Burnley will already be down and have nothing to play for, which can be dangerous as the pressure is off. Villa will not only be very nervous but they'll have an eye on the cup final. You can say they won't, but they will and there minds will be elsewhere.

Villa for me.
 
blue4eva77 said:
Villa are going. Once we go there and pick up 3 points next weekend, they'll have 3 games left. I'm looking at the fixture list for those involved and i can see Villa's game against Burnley as being the one that gets them relegated. Burnley will already be down and have nothing to play for, which can be dangerous as the pressure is off. Villa will not only be very nervous but they'll have an eye on the cup final. You can say they won't, but they will and there minds will be elsewhere.

Villa for me.
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Arent we playing them Wednesday? But either way, there are going to be some extremely nervous chairmen these next few weeks.

But I would love the Geordie beauts to not pick up another point, and go down on GD or something.

I have developed an irrational dislike for John Carver, and every time he opens his mouth, it gets worse and worse.

If Viz had done a strip called Geordie Manager, he would be it.

edit. No , it is Saturday, my bad. Was sure there was a full fixture list mid week. Oh well.
 

blue4eva77 said:
Villa are going. Once we go there and pick up 3 points next weekend, they'll have 3 games left. I'm looking at the fixture list for those involved and i can see Villa's game against Burnley as being the one that gets them relegated. Burnley will already be down and have nothing to play for, which can be dangerous as the pressure is off. Villa will not only be very nervous but they'll have an eye on the cup final. You can say they won't, but they will and there minds will be elsewhere.

Villa for me.
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they'll be fine. think they'll beat us. burnley are the worst team in the league, whether the pressure is on or off - they'll win it for sure. reckon they may win at saints as well tbh. i can honestly see them getting 8 points minimum from those 4 games.
 
roydo said:
Arent we playing them Wednesday? But either way, there are going to be some extremely nervous chairmen these next few weeks.

But I would love the Geordie beauts to not pick up another point, and go down on GD or something.

I have developed an irrational dislike for John Carver, and every time he opens his mouth, it gets worse and worse.

If Viz had done a strip called Geordie Manager, he would be it.

edit. No , it is Saturday, my bad. Was sure there was a full fixture list mid week. Oh well.
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You're right there, he looks massively out of his depth.
 

roydo said:
Arent we playing them Wednesday? But either way, there are going to be some extremely nervous chairmen these next few weeks.

But I would love the Geordie beauts to not pick up another point, and go down on GD or something.

I have developed an irrational dislike for John Carver, and every time he opens his mouth, it gets worse and worse.

If Viz had done a strip called Geordie Manager, he would be it.

edit. No , it is Saturday, my bad. Was sure there was a full fixture list mid week. Oh well.
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Imagine that ? Goodness me.

That would make it a 11 or 12 game losing streak.
 
toffeejack said:
i'd never count anyone out - we've seen teams like wigan just come from nowhere. just look at leicester winning on the bounce coming back from what looked perilous.

does this stuff happen in the other big leagues? surely not as regularly as the prem anyway. especially not on the flip side where you see a hull being 4th at xmas and going down. always a team suckered into it - newcastle will be, but they've got just enough points in the bag.
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Happens in the bundesliga sometimes. Frankfurt were 7th in January a few years back and went down. Gladbach survived from nowhere one year too.
 
24 April 1954

One of the darkest days in Liverpool Football Club's history came on April 17, 1954, as 50 consecutive seasons of top-flight football came to an end.

A 1-0 defeat at home to Cardiff City, a game in which the legendary Billy Liddell missed a penalty, consigned Don Welsh's Reds to the dreaded drop.

The writing had been on the wall for some time. As club captain Bill Jones commented: "Things didn't go right for us and I want to forget that season."

Five straight losses early in the campaign made things difficult ¿ then a disastrous December saw the Reds ship five goals in three consecutive games.

There were 3-0 defeats at Highbury and Blackpool's Bloomfield Road, though neither summoned the humiliation of a 6-0 reverse against Charlton at the Valley in September.

A late rally of four victories in six games gave fans hope, but Liverpool's fate was effectively sealed by gaining just a single win from 20 over winter and spring. The stats said it all: 97 goals conceded and just 68 scored en route to a scant tally of 28 points.

The crux of the problem was a lack of anyone able to net goals on a regular basis. Even the iconic Liddell could only manage seven in all competitions, while the club's top scorer was Sammy Smyth with 13 from 26 appearances. Depressingly, he wouldn't stick around to help the Reds bounce back.

Eight years languishing in the obscurity of English football's second tier followed, in which time Kopites were forced to learn the way to unglamorous destinations such as Leyton Orient, Rotherham, Brighton, Doncaster and Lincoln.
 

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