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EFCNIK said:
I've always been confused by that. And also don't Bilbao fans get arsey about getting called Bilbao?
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not sure they really get arsey about anything - Basque culture is probably the nicest in Europe, they are all sound providing you dont go in there dressed and acting as Franco.
 
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After today's fixtures, game 30, Atletico are on 73, Barca on 72 and Madrid are still on 70.

Atletico have the toughest run in so I think they'll finish third, Madrid and Barca will be fighting it out for the title, which I think will be won by Barca on the final day.
 
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After today's fixtures, game 30, Atletico are on 73, Barca on 72 and Madrid are still on 70.

Atletico have the toughest run in so I think they'll finish third, Madrid and Barca will be fighting it out for the title, which I think will be won by Barca on the final day.
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Barca will win all of their remaining gets apart from Villarreal away, which they will win

That should see them rap up their 5 title in 6 years
 
Fuleco said:
Will this be considered a disappointing season? Didn't win either cup and were poor in the CL.
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Good points

Still, they won the league and did it clinically

The standard of opposition in the league is getting better ever so slightly, look at Aberdeen for proof of that, but the problem is all the other teams cancel each other out, which makes it hard for someone to maintain a proper title challenge

Cups are one off games, so shouldn't be a real barrometer of the clubs season

They were much worse in the CL this year though, so this season would have to be classified as a disappointment in that regard

Here's hoping Aberdeen or Dundee United can mount a proper challenge next year
 
bicycleheader said:
Ill be there! All it needs is both teams to keep winning to set up a title decider! Amazing. Great midweek of football!

....having said that its the derby on Sunday and Espanyol have ruined Barças title dreams before.
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Me too!

What if it goes down to the wire with RM FCB and Atleti all needing a win to claim the title, RM are cruising at Valladolid and it's 1-1 at the Camp Nou with minutes on the clock would one of the sides just let the other one win to ensure RM don't win the title?!?!
 
http://www.theguardian.com/football...-thistle-scottish-premier-league-match-report

Few of Celtic's previous 44 league titles have arrived as straightforwardly as this one but, according to the old adage, you can only beat what is in front of you. Neil Lennon's players have done that efficiently and ruthlessly, landing Celtic their latest championship with seven games to spare.
This 27th victory in 31 matches – with just one defeat, away to Aberdeen – was fairly typical, as Celtic were contained to one early goal in the first half before pulling away in the second. The highlights for the champions were a double for Anthony Stokes and a first goal for the 17-year-old substitute Liam Henderson on a night he will always cherish.

Partick Thistle, needing a win to pull away from potential relegation problems, never looked likely to achieve their other aim of preventing Celtic from winning the title at Firhill. When they did score, six minutes from the end, the visitors responded with two more of their own.
Lennon thus became the fourth Celtic manager to win three successive titles, albeit that the last two have come without the inconvenience of having to play bitter rivals Rangers. That has inevitably devalued the achievement in the eyes of many, but Lennon said: "It's breathtaking to win the championship. That's nine since 2000-01 so the domination continues. You can see the progress the team is making. In the league the consistency of the performances has been fantastic. It's what the Celtic public demand and the style of football we're playing is very pleasing.

"We lost seven games last season but the Champions League took a lot out of us. It did this season but we wanted to stay focused on being consistent. We'll come back next year and try to improve on our cup form as well as our league form.

"We're an outstanding team and the club's strategy is spot on. The players' will to win is everything you could ask for as a manager and I'm very proud of them."

Lennon's side took 150 seconds to get their night on its ultimately successful track. It was a ridiculously simple goal: the left-back Emilio Izaguirre took a pass from Kris Commons before cutting in and delivered a right-foot cross. The ball found Stokes standing on his own – but clearly onside – at the far post and the striker headed past Paul Gallacher at his leisure to notch his 100th goal in Scotland.

Any realistic hope that Alan Archibald and his players had of a third successive home league win after having to wait until February for the first ended there and then. After weathering further Celtic attacks they gradually came more into the game, largely through the efforts of Kallum Higginbotham, but neither side looked like adding to Stokes' early opener even if Lyle Taylor was only fractionally offside before lobbing Fraser Forster for what might have been an equaliser.

Celtic brought on Henderson for the injured Adam Matthews at the start of the second half and it took him only three minutes to send the large visiting support into raptures. Izaguirre was again the provider and this time his low cross was dummied by Commons and then Leigh Griffiths. That freed up the teenager and he took one touch before calmly firing a right-foot shot past Gallacher.

Henderson did not see the ball find the net. "I didn't even see it go in. I was away celebrating before it went in. It was an unbelievable feeling and it still hasn't sunk in yet, it will take a few days. I am really happy by scoring the goal but it is the boys have done it from the very start, they have won the league and I have just been very fortunate that I have been given a run of games."

Unlike the first half, Lennon's side quickly followed up with another. It was the best of the opening three as Stefan Johansen, who became a champion for the second time in sixth months after winning the Norwegian top flight with Stromsgodset, exchanged passes with Griffiths before continuing his driving run and drilling the ball into the Thistle goal.

Christie Elliott pulled a goal back six minutes from the end, but Celtic had the last laugh with injury-time goals from Stokes and the top scorer Commons.

"It's fantastic," Johansen said. "It's a thing you dream about. That's why I came to Celtic because it's a winning club. Now we want on keep on winning in the rest of the games because we want to reach 100 points. You want to win everything and sometimes it's difficult but that is what we are going to try to do with Celtic."
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