The Race For 4th

[fortworthspur]

Not until 4th is mathematically impossible, it don't:razz:

fair enough.

 

[StartingPrice]

fair enough.

:up:

 

[nuttynoah]

This time next week we could be 1 point behind City and still in with a shout.
Alternatively we could be 13 points behind.
Having to rely on Bolton doing us a favour last game of the season and winning away at Livpool for the first time in 800 years is not ideal but makes for an exciting end to the season.
COYS

 

[jurgen]

"We have big plans with Jerome," City's technical director Mike Rigg told German daily Bild.
"He's an important part of our plans for the future. We'll be playing Champions League qualifiers next term and want to do so with Jerome. He's not for sale."

We can but hope these pricks are so convinced they're there that they switch off. However our boys haven't exactly been tearing it up at the prospect of losing the big stage next season...

 

[gregga]

You are a very depressed person. From your thread, it is clear things have gone downhill since the A.C.Milan win, but I think we have reached the bottom of the hill. Think about it this way, the only way is up.

Or, quite plausibly, we could fail to win another game this season and barely scrape 6th.

 

[Hoddle_Ledge]

Maybe we should just support City in the hope they finish 3rd and the gooners crash out at the qualifying stage.

 

[teddyboy]

[FONT=&quot]Can’t help but feel proper gutted about how we’ve slip up this season - I know the premiership has been very unpredictable this season but even still we have thrown away an awful lot of points...

I’ll always be Spurs, always! But it does make me think we are cursed the way things always turn out for us...


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[kaz Hirai]

if city make it, i would love it if they got done in the qualifiers and didnt even make the group stage, luv it!

 

[rawhide]

Ibuleve.

Me too! It eases the pain.

 

[hughy]

Just the way that our season has gone, I can see us finishing strongly. However, I feel it will be in vain, and we'll all be thinking "why the fuck didn't we start playing like that 2 months ago".

My (semi)realistic predictions:

Tottenham 3-1 Blackpool
Everton 1-1 City
Fulham 2-2 Liverpool

City 1-2 Tottenham

Liverpool 1-1 Tottenham
City 3-0 Stoke

Villa 2-1 Liverpool
Bolton 0-0 City
Tottenham 2-1 Birmingham


Which leaves us as:

4th - City 67 points.
5th - Spurs 65 points.
6th - Liverpool 57 points.



And that's thinking fairly positively. Unfortunately we're not going to do it.

 

[StartingPrice]

Just the way that our season has gone, I can see us finishing strongly. However, I feel it will be in vain, and we'll all be thinking "why the fuck didn't we start playing like that 2 months ago".

My (semi)realistic predictions:

Tottenham 3-1 Blackpool
Everton 1-1 City
Fulham 2-2 Liverpool

City 1-2 Tottenham

Liverpool 1-1 Tottenham
City 3-0 Stoke

Villa 2-1 Liverpool
Bolton 0-0 City
Tottenham 2-1 Birmingham


Which leaves us as:

4th - City 67 points.
5th - Spurs 65 points.
6th - Liverpool 57 points.



And that's thinking fairly positively. Unfortunately we're not going to do it.

But Everton and Bolton have been very strong at home, and Citeh have been poor away:shrug:

 

[hughy]

But Everton and Bolton have been very strong at home, and Citeh have been poor away:shrug:

Even if they do lose to one of them, and we finish equal on points, they'd still finish above us due to their goal difference. Or our lack of goal difference. :lol:

 

[StartingPrice]

Even if they do lose to one of them, and we finish equal on points, they'd still finish above us due to their goal difference. Or our lack of goal difference. :lol:

Why ONE of them?

I think there is a good chance that they could lose to both of them.

 

[invictaspur]

I got myself all excited stuck in traffic this morning daydreaming about what might be...

If Everton can somehow beat City (shall we say 2-0) and we can win on Saturday (and preferably win big, 4, 5, or 6, which I know sounds silly as we haven't done it this season, but then, we are due to hand out a whipping some time given the chances we've missed) then the pressure is all on City.

The gap would be four points and GD is down to say eight or nine going into the game at Eastlands when the pressure is even more firmly on them. Them needing a draw might actually help us as we'll just have to go all out to win and bing bang bosh, we've won 3-1 and righted some of the wrongs of the opening day.

Well would you believe it? A one point gap and the goal difference is down to five.

We're off to Liverpool on the Sunday knowing a win (which we have not had in living memory) would take us fourth by two points. Now everyone knows we haven't won at Anfield since Jamie Redknapp was born, but we never win at Arsenal either do we, and we never beat Chelsea home or away either!? An unexpected 2-1 win follows and we're fourth, two points clear and goal difference is back to minus four.

Now the pressure on City to beat Stoke is immense, they don't want Saturday's cup heroics (a 3-1 win, coming from behind) to be the end of their season, they want the CL place, but the nerves are jangling and it's goalless going into the last 10 minutes. Eventually the inevitable arrives and they sneak a 1-0 win, which takes them a point clear with a goal difference of five.

But what emotional price did they pay for living on the edge for so long? Well we find out when they fall 2-0 down inside 10 minutes at Bolton on the final day with Sturridge doing the damage against his former club. Meanwhile Spurs are being Spurs and making hard work of the game with already-safe Birmingham. Goalless at half-time while City have pulled one back at the Reebok.

Anyway, a blast from Huddlestone and a tap-in from Defoe after the break give us hope, while the jumbotron shows City have levelled. Hearts fail around the lane when Lee Bowyer bangs one in from distance a minute from time but the final whistle sounds at the Lane while 200 miles north seven minutes of injury time are played almost entirely in the Bolton area until Jaskellainan claims a corner and boots the ball high into the sky, with Phil Dowd blowing the final whistle to spark a spontaneous pitch invasion at the Lane.

Tell me none of those things could happen.

Believe.

 

[Dangerous_Clive]

I came.

 

[mattyspurs]

Where Clive, 4th?

 

[jonnyrotten]

Roy of the Rovers territory, yet not impossible.

 

[ChRiStOpHe]

*mops up after self*

:hump:

 

[nicdic]

It's still on.

 

[Real_madyidd]

It's not.