Weekend Football

[Sutekh]

The current bottom 6 of the Championship:

19 Blackburn Rovers 32 9 8 15 30 41 -11 35
20 West Bromwich Albion 32 9 7 16 32 47 -15 34
21 Portsmouth 30 8 9 13 27 39 -12 33
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22 Leicester City 32 10 8 14 44 51 -7 32
23 Oxford United 32 6 10 16 28 44 -16 28
24 Sheffield Wednesday 32 1 8 23 19 64 -45 -7

Next Sunday will see Brammall Lane host the steel city derby. A home win will mathematically relegate Sheffield Wednesday into League One for next season.

[Sanguine]

Ian Wright, like Eze, was 27 when he joined Arsenal from Palace, fwiw.
As Sutekh said, the chance to join a club like that doesn't come along often.

[Sanguine]

Stat-watch. Middlesbrough now top of the Championship table. Manchester United, way back in 1905/06, are the only second tier club ever to have amassed Coventry's 43 points after 18 games and not be promoted. Just 16 points from their subsequent 13 matches.

Also, Celtic's late winner blows the SPL race wide open. I really want Hearts to do it. But there's an inevitability about the Old Firm.

[Royal Rother]

And again, Arsenal got exactly what they deserved.

The whole mindset as set by Arteta is just not good enough. Why take a short corner in added time rather than playing one of their killer balls into the 6 yard area….? Because it will use up a few more seconds against the team with 9 points. That’s just crap and weak.

They are screwing themselves over week after week and it ain’t going to stop. Man City are used to this situation and will be loving the challenge. Looks to me like Arsenal are hating it.

[Winston Biscuit]

If Arsenal and Man City get through their next Champions League games then they meet in the QF, and they would have these 4 out of 5 consecutive fixtures against each other:

22/3 - Arsenal Vs Man City (EFL cup final)
7/4 - Man City Vs Arsenal (CL)
11/4 - Chelsea Vs Man City / Arsenal Vs Bournemouth
15/4 - Arsenal Vs Man City (CL)
18/4 - Man City Vs Arsenal (PL)

Its like a slightly more rubbish version of when Real Madrid played Barcelona 4 times in 18 days!

[BRO_BOT]

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(tbf I'm deluded enough to think we have a chance at the title )

[genome]

Spursy

[windermereROYAL]

That Wolves equaliser was eerily similar to the one Arsenal shipped against Sunderland, Gabriel and Raya getting in a tangle.
They deserve all the predictable bottling jibes they will be getting, that 2nd half just wasn`t good enough, they strolled the 1st half and thought the job was done.
Just deja vu, season after season, Arteta`s position will surely need to be reviewed if they end the season empty handed again given the position they`re in.