The end of laughter and soft lies (Bumper Easter Weekend Footy Spoilers)

Vandle

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This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend
The end of our elaborate plans
The end of everything that stands
The end

Man United V Sunderland.(k.o 19:45)
Premier league status for the inhabitants of wearyside hangs in the ballance tonight.
The eleven pointed band of beleaguered brothers need a result to stave off relegation until at least Monday when their bigger and better dressed cousins come rolling into the cathedral and airportless city looking for a win to push the outside chance we have of a UEFA cup spot on a ground where we have never lost.
Canny.
Its looking bleak for the mackems as they are playing the inform team in the league and Sunderland are without the only player capable of playing in this division.
Julio Arca has obviously been spending too much time in the Athens of the North and has caught the NUFC hamstring disease.


This is a massive weekend of football and my favourite weekend of the footballing calendar.
These fixtures always have a huge bearing on who laughs or cries come the end of the season and this weekend is no different.

Saturdays games include:

Arsenal v West Brom, 15:00
Bolton v Chelsea, 12:45
Everton v Tottenham, 15:00
Fulham v Charlton, 15:00
Newcastle v Wigan, 15:00
Portsmouth v Middlesbrough, 15:00
West Ham v Man City, 15:00

Newcastle go into the encounter with Wigan high on confidence after back to back league wins and Im confident of a win.

Sunday, 16 April 2006
Aston Villa v Birmingham, 12:00
Blackburn v Liverpool, 14:30

Monday is a big day too :
Monday, 17 April 2006
Charlton v Portsmouth, 15:00
Chelsea v Everton, 15:00
Middlesbrough v West Ham, 15:00
Sunderland v Newcastle, 15:00
Tottenham v Man Utd, 12:45
West Brom v Bolton, 20:00

Ha'way the lads.
 
Nice opening post :cool:

Hopefully we can batter Sunderland by 5 or 6. I'd feel much better about our slim Championship hopes if we can boost our goal difference a bit.
 
Newcastle, im confident of getting 6points from this weekend... and surprisingly it could put our uefa cup place in action..... would be a really weird and great turn around to the season
 
JohnnyG said:
0-0 at HT & the Sunderland 'keeper is having a blinder, hang in there lads:)
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To be fair, he isnt, as he has only made one save.
Nothing else has been goal bound :p

He isnt a patch on the last sunderland goalkeeper that played at OT.... Macho i think it was, he never had, or ever will play as well as he did that day.
 
Bolton must be some kind of trophy , thats twice I ve seen that phrase on here in the space of a few days. :confused:

Bit of a bizzare night , great result for sunlun , relegation and the title almost handed to Chelsea (unless they fail to win Bolton , natch).

Decent collective performance by Sunderland , individually they were gash though.
Still , they did better than most there (including us :o ) this season.
 
lemonkettaz said:
if chelsea win bolton its definitely chelseas.

otherwise man utd will still be in with a chance.
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No matter what else happens in the run in, if we beat Man.U we are champions unless something ridiculous happens with the goal difference.
We can also win it on Monday now if we beat Bolton then Everton if Spurs nick a point of Man.U.:)
 
andi said:
Hopefully we can batter Sunderland by 5 or 6.
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Hoho, these sort of statements usually come back to haunt one :) The days of MU having a divine right to simply turn up and and be given 3 points on a plate against the Premiership alsorans are gone I'm afraid.
 
Wigan are in Toon today for their first ever league visit.

NUFC Squad:
Given, Harper, Babayaro, Elliott, Carr, Bramble, Moore, Boumsong, Ramage, Faye, Clark, Emre, Dyer, Bowyer, Solano, Shearer, Ameobi, Chopra, Luque.

Parker is out for the rest of the season with glandular fever.
Steve "The Power" Taylor is on the comeback trail and so is Englands Michael Owen (insert sarcastic waving arms smiley here) , he had this to say this week.
I have been running for about a week now, so everything is going to plan. I’m still on target to be playing for Newcastle this season, which, for now, is my real goal. My weight and my body fat levels are where they would have been even without an injury, so now it’s just a question of stepping up the ball work
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Nice of you to mention your employers Mickey lad.

Referee today is Mr Token Blackman. aka Uriah Rennie aka the worst ref in the league.
This bloke has a real hate against our leader and punishes him at every given opportunity , its his last chance to send him off today.
He’s a magistrate apparently and I’d hate to be up in front of him. He’s also a black belt in some sort of high kicky martial art of some sort. Rumours that he patrols the streets of Sheffield at night as a yellow card-issuing vigilante are totally untrue.

We owe Wigan one today after league and cup defeats at their place already this season.
Hopefully we can carry our decent form into this game and get a result.

Toon FACT - Wigan are the 38th different side we have faced at home in the premiership.

Forza Toon , as they say in Turin.
 
Not expecting too much for us from the Blackburn game,would just be nice if all our players get home with their legs intact for a change :(
 
Arsenal NEWS (like FACTS, only more topical):

Fat Sol out with a broken nose, Senderos in to replace him.
Kolo the Dynamo possibly rested, Djourou moved to the middle to cover, Eboueboueboueboue starts on the right.
Alexandre "Why on Earth am I wearing an Arsenal shirt" Song Billong Furlong out due to rubbishness, Gilberto in.
Reyes on the left, Henry and Barn Door Adebayor up front, one of Ljundberg/Pires/Hleb on the right (probably Hleb).

It's at home, it's a lower team, we should win, but these things are never that simple, eh? We should have beaten Portsmouth, but we got unlucky, so here's hoping for a reversal of fortunes today. If we do get a goal, everyone's going to start keeping an eye on the Everton game too, as Spurs dropping a couple of points here would be much appreciated. Have a word with the lads if you would Davey, ta. ;)
 
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