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[Reds4Life]

Controversial.

Who is?

[spider-neil]

Definitely want a draw in tomorrow's game. Spurs lose points, Chelsea lose points.

[bouncebrigade]

Hmmm, I wouldn't wish a serious injury on any player, but a timely bout of a debilitating shitting virus at Chelsea and City would be nice right about now.

 

Maybe some of that lasagne Spurs had a few years ago?

[John McClane]

Definitely want a draw in tomorrow's game. Spurs lose points, Chelsea lose points.

Disagree

Spurs and chelsea hate each other, Levy putting strange pressure on Sherwoods position, Maureen (fucking still) unbeaten at home in the PL. Sherwoods biggest game of his (short) managerial career especially if united win before they play. It will be brilliant of Spurs can take all 3.

We need Chelsea and City to drop points in at least 1 other game than the Anfield games.

[johnsusername]

I'd be interested in england doing well in the world cup (for the first time in a few years), what with all the liverpool players in there, plus the abscence of all those sh*theads like terry and ferdinand and hopefully cole (shame rooney's still there, not sure why though he's never done anything decent for england). But part of me thinks they're going to fail - and it's going to be hodgson's fault, but the liverpool players will get the blame. Just like gerrard's taken stick for years even though he's been wasted by every england manager, even sticking him on the left wing for years.

 

Hodgson's somehow landed himself quite an attacking talented group of players and he's going to have them doing the Mister Burns Edwardian workout for 4 hours morning and afternoon.

 

''Push out the jive, bring in the love. Raise your left hock! Aerate! Raise your right hock! Aerate! Let's go! I want to see more Teddy Roosevelts, and less Franklin Roosevelts!''

[Rambo]

https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/the-football-association-investigate-daniel-agger-s-challenege-on-jack-wilshere-during-the-international-friendly

 

 

 

 

John Henry ordered the challenege..He did it to destory Arsenal...

They might want to investigate Wilshire shitting out of a 50/50. That's hardly the lion hearted midfield they FA will want in Brasil!

[Major Tom]

Definitely want a draw in tomorrow's game. Spurs lose points, Chelsea lose points.

 

Yep. Not sure whether to look up or down.

[mouse1989]

Draw > Chelsea win > Spurs win

[PestiRed]

They might want to investigate Wilshire shitting out of a 50/50. That's hardly the lion hearted midfield they FA will want in Brasil!

Wilshere's version of what happened

 

"When I was going for it I thought: 'I'm going to get this.' About a step before, I realised: 'Oh, no I'm not.' But I'm not going to pull out of a tackle. If I had pulled out I would have got hurt even more."

 

He's a brave, brave English lion, Hodgson should make him captain

[John McClane]

Yep. Not sure whether to look up or down.

Look up

If Chelsea lose all we need is City to slip up once and it is in our hands.

[johnsusername]

Wilshere's version of what happened

 

"When I was going for it I thought: 'I'm going to get this.' About a step before, I realised: 'Oh, no I'm not.' But I'm not going to pull out of a tackle. If I had pulled out I would have got hurt even more."

 

He's a brave, brave English lion, Hodgson should make him captain

But he did pull out of the tackle, didn't he? That's why he got injured.

 

Tomorrow - Chelsea loss, nothing else matters.

[PestiRed]

But he did pull out of the tackle, didn't he? That's why he got injured.

No! Jack Wilshere is English! He is a future leader! He shouts at senior team-mates when the game is lost! HE IS A LION

 

Forget what you may think you have seen and get with the programme

[Ne Moe Imya]

Draw > Chelsea win > Spurs win

 

Are you an Arsenal fan then?

 

Can't understand why anyone wouldn't prefer Chelsea to lose this game.  We have, statistically speaking, about a 15-20% chance of winning the league.  Chelsea lose and that goes up to 25-30%.

 

Why would anyone be worried about Spurs at this point?  They have Arsenal and Southampton to come still before they come to Anfield.  We should be at least 8 points ahead of them before that game, even if they do beat Chelsea.  They're not catching us unless we suffer an absolutely catastrophic collapse.

 

Believe!  It's long past time to start looking up, not down.

[Jairzinho]

Spurs win please. No chance they'll be finishing ahead of us.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Spurs win please. No chance they'll be finishing ahead of us.

Fuck. Off.

 

Spurs will definitely finish above us, etc.

[JermainePennant]

A draw is best result for us, I wouldn't like spurs to get a confidence boost and a draw would put getting ahead of Chelsea in our own hands.

[Jairzinho]

Fuck. Off.

 

Spurs will definitely finish above us, etc.

 

no u

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

no u

Nah, I'll draw and finish 5th.

[Ne Moe Imya]

A draw is best result for us, I wouldn't like spurs to get a confidence boost and a draw would put getting ahead of Chelsea in our own hands.

 

Will you be saying the same thing when Chelsea end up on 85 points, just pipping us to the league by one point?

 

You're worried about Spurs, under Tim Sherwood, getting a "confidence boost?"  Mental.

[JermainePennant]

Will you be saying the same thing when Chelsea end up on 85 points, just pipping us to the league by one point?

 

You're worried about Spurs, under Tim Sherwood, getting a "confidence boost?"  Mental.

Yes that is there toughest game left and if they got a win there, the first home loss mourinho would have had there then yes I would be concerned.

 

They have arsenal at home after they dominated them at emirates already this season and if things went well they could come to anfield brimming with confidence.

 

Id rather a draw which basically kills there champs league hopes and also makes Chelsea catchable, yes we will prob have to win every game but I think we need to do that to have a chance at title anyway.

[Dr Nowt]

Spurs are a terribly average team who will drop their own points on the run-in elsewhere.

 

All about where Chelsea will drop points for me.

[Ne Moe Imya]

Id rather a draw which basically kills there champs league hopes and also makes Chelsea catchable, yes we will prob have to win every game but I think we need to do that to have a chance at title anyway.

 

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree about Spurs, but I disagree with the bit in bold as well.

 

According to the best statistical models, Chelsea is currently projected to end up between 82-86 points.  If we win every game from here on in we would get 89.  If we win 8 and draw 2 that would give us 85 and a better than 50-50 chance at the league, especially if we beat Chelsea (ie they were not one of the draws).

 

There is not much of a margin for error at this point, but there is a tiny one.  We can still lose one game, or draw two, and realistically hope for the title as long as we beat City and Chelsea at Anfield.  If we drop points in more than 2 of the remaining 10 games, which we probably will, then all we can do is hope that Chelsea drop unexpected points.  That's why I hope they lose to Spurs - because I'm not worried about Tottenham (projected to finish on 68-72 points, by the way) and we need Chelsea to start dropping points if we're going to have any margin to catch them for the title.

 

In case anyone's interested, these are the season projections from the model currently most favourable to us (Michael Caley from sbnation.com):

 

Chelsea - 83 points, GD +39

City - 82 points, +55

Liverpool - 80 points, +46

Arsenal - 76 points, +29

Spurs - 68 points, +6

 

We are currently projected at a 98% chance of top 4, and a 20% chance at the title.

[Jairzinho]

Spurs are a terribly average team who will drop their own points on the run-in elsewhere.

 

All about where Chelsea will drop points for me.

 

Yes. For e.g, when we twat them everywhere on the 30th.

[MLB]

Spurs win is definitely the ideal scenario for me. As others have said, they will definitely drop points elsewhere, including against us.

[Newport]

Spurs next two games are against Chelsea and Arsenal. That's at best one point for them. Then they play Southampton and I wouldn't be surprised if they dropped points there as well.

 

The Cardiff win was not convincing at all and a better side would have come out of that game with at least a point and even Cardiff nearly did as well.