The relegation run in

Deggo · April 28, 2015

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.

Can't see sunderland picking any points up whereas I think villa will myself

Rook · April 28, 2015

Sunderland afc said:
Cheers

Will be my seventh relegation and to be honest it's been coming a while.

craigw · April 28, 2015

Burnley and QPR are certs to go down now. I really feel sorry for Burnley. They have gone about it the right way.

ilikecheese · April 29, 2015

Hull's win today puts Villa closer to the drop. The dream is alive!

Prevenger17 · April 29, 2015

Don't really understand the Villa hate. Am I the only one spooging in my pants at the prospect of Newcastle going down? Newcastle, like.

ilikecheese · April 29, 2015

Prevenger17 said:
Don't really understand the Villa hate. Am I the only one spooging in my pants at the prospect of Newcastle going down? Newcastle, like.

Don't get me wrong mate...Newcastle going down is lovely...but we've seen that movie recently. Let's give Villa their day.

ijjysmith · April 29, 2015

craigw said:
Burnley and QPR are certs to go down now. I really feel sorry for Burnley. They have gone about it the right way.

Well. Probably not. As they're going down.

bizzaro · April 29, 2015

Prevenger17 said:
Don't really understand the Villa hate. Am I the only one spooging in my pants at the prospect of Newcastle going down? Newcastle, like.

You know what they say about Villa ?

bizzaro · April 29, 2015

peteblue said:
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.

"Always in our shadow"

lol

Rawk :bye:

edge · April 29, 2015

newcastle or villa? just about newcastle as they and ashley deserve it, and nothing better than seeing them crying on tv, happy with either really, hope sunderland stay up by a piont and sent the barcodes down last day, with a minute over extra time added, offside goal, so we can have a split scene between the grounds on tv , makems going mad that lot crying heaven

roydo · April 29, 2015

edge said:
newcastle or villa? just about newcastle as they and ashley deserve it, and nothing better than seeing them crying on tv, happy with either really, hope sunderland stay up by a piont and sent the barcodes down last day, with a minute over extra time added, offside goal, so we can have a split scene between the grounds on tv , makems going mad that lot crying heaven

That would get my vote.

Bluerifleman · April 29, 2015

Worked with a lot of mackems in a previous job. Absolute bells the lot of them. Never a good word to say about anyone or anywhere else especially liverpool and scousers. Aswell as scraping for survival for the past few seasons (17 wins in 3 seasons) I can't think of anyone I would rather see go down.

blue4eva77 · April 29, 2015

Deggo said:
Can't see sunderland picking any points up whereas I think villa will myself

Sunderland will be looking at their Southampton/Leicester fixtures as their escape route. Anything else is a bonus but I think 6 points will be enough from the remaining games.

Villa have their eye on the cup final. It's a distraction for them. The decent players at villa know they will be elsewhere if they go down and don't really give a monkeys. The likes of Benteke, Vlaar and Delph...they will care about a medal and a pot though personally.

I'm convinced it's Villa, if we get 3 points at the weekend.