Boxing Day Games

[miller0863]

Brentford 1-0 Spurs
Fraser Forster deputising for Lloris doesn’t cover himself in glory and Janelt bumps it over the line from close range.

[Kev0909]

Thought brentford would help us and get a result today

Hopefully stays the same but spurs always start slow

[miller0863]

Good save from Forster denies a Brentford second. Spurs decent possession without creating any clear chances, Son the danger with Kulusevski looking lively, Kane not had a kick

[miller0863]

Kane with the fewest touches on the pitch, including both keepers, 40 gone.

[miller0863]

Toney shows Núñez how to finish a one on one but he’s half a yard offside.

[miller0863]

Sloppy attempted clearance by Eric Dier shinned out for a corner. Corner swung in from the Brentford right and it’s a tap in for Toney from 2 yards and Spurs’ bright start to the second half wasted.

Brentford 2-0 Spurs
55 gone

[miller0863]

And that’s why Harry Kane is such a valuable player, hardly a sniff all game but wins a header in a crowded box and places a brilliant header across the keeper into the corner.

Brentford 2-1 Spurs
65 gone

Mbuemo spurns a real chance for 3-1 as I type.

[miller0863]

Lucky deflection on Kane’s ball into the box and it falls to the feet of Hojbjerg who calmly equalises into the corner.
Two goals in 7 minutes

Brentford 2-2 Spurs

Spurs the comeback kings

[miller0863]

Two horrendous dives trying to get a penalty one at either end, Mbueno booked, Doherty not.

[miller0863]

84th minute and Kane heads against the crossbar

[miller0863]

Straight down the other end and Toney puts it over from close range under pressure

[miller0863]

F/T Brentford 2-2 Spurs
Decent game, fair result

Now we need to take advantage and get within 5 points with a game in hand by winning at Villa.

[Insidious]

F/T Brentford 2-2 Spurs
Decent game, fair result

Now we need to take advantage and get within 5 points with a game in hand by winning at Villa.

Echo these sentiments.

Going to be a grind this season but a slow, stubborn clawing-back of the points might be what it takes.

A Top Four finish and bringing something like our best against Real Madrid are imperative. I'm rather indifferent to the FA Cup given the injury situation and the slow start - extra fixtures are a hindrance we don't need just now.

[miller0863]

Amartey with a terrible tackle gifts Newcastle with a penalty on two minutes

Leicester 0-1 Newcastle

[miller0863]

More brilliance from Almiron, beating a couple of flat footed Leicester defenders to put Newcastle 2-0 up at Leicester.
Newcastle heading for second place

[miller0863]

Mina gets a free header from a 7th minute corner and it’s an early lead for the bitter shite.
Mina only playing because Cody can’t play against his parent club.

Everton 1-0 Wolves

[miller0863]

Adam the Llama puts Brighton 1-0 up at Saints with a header.

Southampton 0-1 Brighton
15 minutes

[miller0863]

Well worked Wolves equaliser from Daniel Podence

Everton 1-1 Wolves
21 minutes

[miller0863]

Think Brendan has gone to clear his desk…

Leicester 0-3 Newcastle
Joelinton 32mins

[miller0863]

Decordova Reid 32 mins

Palace 0-1 Fulham

[miller0863]

Mitchell straight red for Palace, so a goal down and a man down before halftime

[miller0863]

Perraud og

Southampton 0-2 Brighton

[dicko1969]

Man City Arsenal Newcastle +1 top4.
Between United Spurs Chelsea Liverpool
A long way to go but the injuries, age, and lack of investment is catching up with Liverpool.
Chelsea will sack Potter soon.
Conte gets results
United a new beginning.
Gonna be very intriguing the 2nd part of the season.
We need a lot of luck , no more injuries (lol), and a few signings in January.

[Insidious]

Think Brendan has gone to clear his desk…

Leicester 0-3 Newcastle

Sick of Newcastle hoovering up points at the moment.

[dicko1969]

Really can't stick the smarmy Howe face. Newcastle fans are in the very near future going to be despised more than Chelsea and Man City.
They are already so self righteous. Think they know everything.
Newcastle will soon lose their soul.
The big stumbling block is even if there is shit loads of cash , geographically and weather wise it isn't Barcelona or even Italy nor London.
(Sorry no disrespect if you live there)
But footballers are a bit stupid and probably don't realise where they'll be living and working.
This could be the difficulty.
Already I see Guimares asking £200k a week. Newcastle won't be able to keep their best players because Newcastle isn't fashionable or desirable enough. Especially for the wags.

[CCTV]

Big enough stadium, and Howe is doing a good job as much as it might annoy people.

Seems to have learnt a bit from Simeone in terms of defending and brought the big spending together nicely so far

[Steveo]

Put big spending owners in at a club with genuinely passionate support and it takes very little time. The Saudis don’t have to tippie toe like UAE had to.

[Steveo]

OMG Wolves steal it at the death. Everton were all over them. Pushing for the win. And boom - the sucker punch..

Frank looked utterly sick

[miller0863]

Knowledgeable Goodison crowd baying for their team to lump it forward, they finally relent and do as they’re asked. It immediately breaks down and Wolves breakaway in numbers and snatch the three points in the 95th minute.

F/T Everton 1-2 Wolves

Ah dear, poor bitter shite

[Daffydd]

Massive 3 points for Wolves over Everton!

[dicko1969]

Ev in another relegation battle.
Lucky for them there is another 10 clubs involved.

[scientificred]

Ev in another relegation battle.
Lucky for them there is another 10 clubs involved.
Desperate measures by some of them soon, for sure.
Perhaps someone will go for that Moroccan manager?

[miller0863]

Arsenal started well but Bowen is ankle tapped bursting into the Arsenal box.
Benrahma slams in the resulting penalty

Arsenal 1-0 West Ham
27 gone

[scientificred]

Arsenal started well but Bowen is ankle tapped bursting into the Arsenal box.
Benrahma slams in the resulting penalty

Arsenal 1-0 West Ham
27 gone
Still hope for us! Come on you Hammers!

[Insidious]

Ev in another relegation battle.
Lucky for them there is another 10 clubs involved.

Yeah, Everton are scoring (slightly) more than sides below them I think and conceding less - think Nottingham and Southampton have conceded something mad like 30 goals or so each.

[Daffydd]

No home wins on Boxing Day?

[scientificred]

Poor goal to concede

[scientificred]

Gk should not allow that space at his near post

[miller0863]

Crowd really behind Arsenal here, not even a whisper of dissension in the ranks when they went a goal down.
Half an hour left…

Arsenal 2-1 Wham

[Daffydd]

Arsenal the first side to 40 points as it stands.

[scientificred]

Crowd really behind Arsenal here, not even a whisper of dissension in the ranks when they went a goal down.
Half an hour left…

Arsenal 2-1 Wham
Has the Library of Highbury moved to the Emirates!

[scientificred]

That was a good un

[dicko1969]

Yeah, Everton are scoring (slightly) more than sides below them I think and conceding less - think Nottingham and Southampton have conceded something mad like 30 goals or so each.

Except Wolves today lol
Lets hope agent fat Frank can finally get on his cv "got the bitters relegated "

[justincredible]

Bournemouth are roaring into a nice 0-2 down to Chelsea at d'Bridge...
41 minutes gone....

[dicko1969]

Good news

[justincredible]

Didn't know you were a Chelsea fan dicko..? Lol

Still 2-0 in first half injury time....

[dicko1969]

Miss read that
Chelsea winning 2-0
Roaring lead me to believe that Bournemouth were winning.
Ah not so good news then !

[justincredible]

Miss read that
Chelsea winning 2-0
Roaring lead me to believe that Bournemouth were winning.
Ah not so good news then !

Nope, 2-0 half time. Bournemouth were clinging on for dear life towards end of the half there...

[miller0863]

Bournemouth are average Championship level, really poor.

[dicko1969]

Big disappointment is Liverpool losing points to forest and Leeds (defeats) 6 points which have definitely put us in a very difficult position for CL qualification.

Arsenal and Newcastle need some bad luck and injuries to key players.

This could be a very exciting season for the purists to see the top 4 qualification.

[miller0863]

Can’t worry about what’s gone, looking forward we need the midfield to protect the back four better and we should be able to put a couple of really strong runs together. Despite missing Bobby, Jota and Diaz we are making plenty of chances at the other end.

[Insidious]

This could be a very exciting season for the purists to see the top 4 qualification.

Yeah there won't be many true "neutrals" that watch the Premier League but you would imagine that games like -

Tottenham v Chelsea
Tottenham v Man United
Tottenham v Liverpool
Chelsea v Man United
Chelsea v Liverpool
Man United v Liverpool

etc etc will be quite fun this year for casual viewers as the stakes could potentially be quite high.

Take our match at Anfield against Man United in early March - every chance there will only be a few points between the clubs at the time? If it's a 6-point gap say, it becomes the difference between a 3-point gap and a 9-point gap. The casual Super Sunday crowd will enjoy that.

[worldpanel]

Looking for the spirit of Clough, Shilton, Gemmil, Withe, Byrtles and Woodcock to shine through in the next couple of hours.
A little help from Larry too

[justincredible]

Looking for the spirit of Clough, Shilton, Gemmil, Withe, Byrtles and Woodcock to shine through in the next couple of hours.
A little help from Larry too
Don't forget big Stan C...

[Daffydd]

Jesse Lingard against his old club?

[Insidious]

Looking for the spirit of Clough, Shilton, Gemmil, Withe, Byrtles and Woodcock to shine through in the next couple of hours.
A little help from Larry too

Forest and Bournemouth represented nice ways for Man United and Chelsea to ease their way back in.

There'll be other nights. Assuming the Mancs win and anything else is a bonus.

[miller0863]

How did we lose to this Forest side, HOW??

[miller0863]

Utd get very lucky with a very long and protracted VAR call on a Forest goal.

Still 2-0 Utd.

[dicko1969]

Utd get very lucky with a very long and protracted VAR call on a Forest goal.

Still 2-0 Utd.

VAR . LOOKS like Howard Webb already settling in nicely in his new role.

[Kev0909]

Lingard is terrible, what a signing for forest not considering the wage he's on..... he's been awful for them.

we have 23 games to catch spurs and utd, not to worried especially now we're signing another attacking option which is needed with Diaz out until god knows when, and salah is on and off.

[Daffydd]

Back page of The Times: Who needs Gakpo?

[justincredible]

Liverpool do....

[justme]

stupid twatty Leeds keeper palming it out in front of himself. another useless keeper.

[justincredible]

stupid twatty Leeds keeper palming it out in front of himself. another useless keeper.

Obvs....

[justincredible]

In fairness, City do have a habit of grinding a team down. Even to the 98th minute...

[justme]

Rather laughable coaching standard in this league. Leeds are playing at home and they are unable to pass the ball to each other.First thing a coach should do when he arrives is to make sure his team keep possession.You just spend half the time running around after it, if you don't