[Football] Easter Weekend Fixtures (14-17 April)

[Reg]

Happy Easter!

Full TV schedule http://www.live-footballontv.com

15:00 unless stated.

FRIDAY
Brentford 4-0 Derby County
Bristol City 2-1 Queens Park Rangers
Huddersfield Town 3-2 Preston North End
Norwich City 1-3 Fulham
Nottingham Forest 0-1 Blackburn Rovers
Rotherham United 1-1 Birmingham City
Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 Cardiff City
Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-2 Brighton & Hove Albion
Burton Albion v Ipswich Town - 19:45
Newcastle United v Leeds United - 19:45 Sky Sports 1

SATURDAY
Tottenham Hotspur v Bournemouth - 12:30 Sky Sports 1
Crystal Palace v Leicester City
Everton v Burnley
Stoke City v Hull City
Sunderland v West Ham United
Watford v Swansea City
Southampton v Manchester City - 17:30 BT Sport 1

Aston Villa v Reading

Inter Milan v AC Milan - 11:30 BT Sport 1
Bayer Leverkusen v Bayern Munich - 17:30 BT Sport 2
Napoli v Udinese - 19:45 BT Sport 2
Barcelona v Real Sociedad - 19:45 Sky Sports 3
Monaco v Dijon FCO - 20:00 BT Sport Extra 3
SC Braga v FC Porto- 20:30 BT Sport Extra 2

SUNDAY
West Bromwich Albion v Liverpool - 13:30 Sky Sports 1
Manchester United v Chelsea - 16:00 Sky Sports 1

Ross County v Celtic - 12:30 Sky Sports 2
Valencia v Sevilla- 15:15 Sky Sports 3

MONDAY
Middlesbrough v Arsenal - 20:00 Sky Sports 1

Fulham v Aston Villa - 14:45 Sky Sports 1
Barnsley v Brentford
Birmingham City v Burton Albion
Blackburn Rovers v Bristol City
Brighton & Hove Albion v Wigan Athletic
Cardiff City v Nottingham Forest
Ipswich Town v Newcastle United
Leeds United v Wolverhampton Wanderers
Preston North End v Norwich City
Queens Park Rangers v Sheffield Wednesday
Reading v Rotherham United
Derby County v Huddersfield Town - 17:00 Sky Sports 1

Sheffield United ( Hammer's MIGHTY BLADES) v Bradford City - 12:15 Sky Sports 1

[Shindig]

On tenterhooks, lads.

[Mike]

Got a soft spot for Brighton due to my current FM save.

[Shindig]

I've got a soft spot because of Chris Motherfuckin' Hughton.

[Giggles]

It's about my favourite place in England, so yeah, Brighton.

[Lewis]

Our Kelv has upset Liverpool again. On Hillsborough Eve as well. Speaking of which, this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/1a5e1066-bbb2-464f-9a1a-c03b05ffc127) reads like a spoof:


I was two years old at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy. I can’t remember it happening. My mum tells me about how we went to Anfield to lay flowers on the pitch, but, obviously, I can't have processed what was going on. I have friends who lost family that day and know others who were there, but no-one really directly related. So why do I feel so personally invested? It’s because I am personally invested. I may not have lost direct family members that day, but the people of Liverpool are my extended family. I’ve inherited Hillsborough, just like we all do.

There was a lad at school whose old man was on Piper Alpha when it went up, so as of now I am personally invested in that.

[Reg]

Knockaert fantastic again.

Gotta chuckle at Murray complaining that Knockaert didn't pass even after he's seen the ball go in the net. :D

[Magic]

Great game this. Very tense.

[Giggles]

How close are Brighton to being confirmed as up?

[Magic]

Bottled it tonight. Mitrovic is a cunt.

[Adamski]

:D

[Samadini]

That was a cracking game.

[Shindig]

Well, we've fucked that. Just get over the line, lads.

[Magic]

Holy fuck haha. We nearly smashed the TV to pieces.

[Reg]

How close are Brighton to being confirmed as up?
We need 4 more points if Huddersfield win all their games.

[Magic]

Milan derby is actually a dece game.

[Giggles]

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:D like a ballerina.

[Reg]

Adams’s Spanish is limited but, having worked in Azerbaijan, he believes he can coach better through demonstration than instruction and will keep things simple.
:D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Heung Min Son is so good.

[Magic]

Milan derby is actually a dece game.

Holy shit what a game. :D

Milan equalised in the 97th minute literally last kick off the game. Brilliant stuff.

[Waffdon]

Aye, very good viewing for 11.30 am.

Bournemouth conceding three is the least surprising thing ever. Their whole back five is a pathetic mess.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Sokratis :drool:

[Shindig]

I'm starting to like Spurs. If they reeled in Chelsea, I'd be amazed but they're smacking the goals in.

[Lewis]

If they weren't going to lose anyway, United should throw tomorrow.

[Reg]

That's such strange keeping from Forster. :D "Can't do anything" says McManaman?!

Edit- I love 'clean', quick moves like that. Agree with Kiko - Sane is going to be huge. Potential to be top 5 in the world.

3 now. De Bruyne is so good at crossing.

[Smiffy]

I'm starting to like Spurs. If they reeled in Chelsea, I'd be amazed but they're smacking the goals in.

United do them a favour then Spurs are winning the title on goal difference.

Chelsea beat Southampton
Spurs beat Leicester

4 points.

Chelsea draw with Everton
Spurs beat Arsenal

2 points.

Spurs beat West Ham
Chelsea beat Middlesborough

2 points.

Chelsea draw with West Brom
Tottenham beat Man United

Tottenham top on GD.

Chelsea beat Sunderland.
Spurs beat Hull.

Champions.

Believe. :drool:

[Max Power]

Or we hold Spurs to a draw on the penultimate game of the season to give Chelsea the title despite us having nothing to play for. Everyone round Ngolo Kante's house for a booze up. Lovely symmetry folks.

[Giggles]

I'd put money on them coming 3rd in a 2-horse race again than I'd put it on them winning it.

Then again at least if they finish ahead of Arsenal they can release DVD or something.

[Reg]

The most iffy of those predictions might be United winning tomorrow, Smiffy.

[Waffdon]

Spurs are not winning every game left of the season. Nae chance. Their away form will let them down.

[Smiffy]

I thought I tuned in for WBA v Liverpool.

We're either losing in typical fashion or we're romping to a 3+ goal win.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Spurs winning seven points behind is meaningless. As soon as they get a sniff of it they'll fall to pieces.

[John Arne]

WBA fans booing the ref because they don't know the very simple backpass rule :D

[Dark Soldier]

http://i.imgur.com/MfhXSH8.jpg

I feel sick

[Boydy]

This Liverpool game will end up 1-1.

[Smiffy]

Mourinho has given up on the top four it seems?

[John Arne]

WBA timewasting when they are 0-1 down is a novel tactical approach.

[Dark Soldier]

Mourinho has given up it seems?

Yup.

[Lewis]

Were it not for Fellainimania it would look like a sensible counter-attacking (and hard-working, more importantly) side. But there he is in the middle of it all, so who knows?

[Jimmy Floyd]

This will be a ghastly goalless piece of shit. Both managers overjoyed.

[Waffdon]

Yeah, take out Fellaini and that's the sort of team that would trouble Chelsea.

[Reg]

I'd argue Ibrahimovic, Mick and Carrick would trouble them more. But maybe Mourinho is resting those three for the Europa League. Or maybe he's bonkers.

[Lewis]

1-1 with a good Marcus Rashford performance would be ideal, because I would rather see him given more responsibility than have 'Greaseman' and his BOTTLING and his shit celebration.

[Boydy]

Fucking Moreno. Jesus Christ.

[Smiffy]

Moreno. :D

I could almost picture the equaliser coming right after. Good 3 points.

[Pleb]

I sense a 0-4 in the pipeline here lads.

[Smiffy]

I've got Costa running wild thanks to Hazard.

[Waffdon]

Conte would normally have put Pedro at wing back, so mon the draw it is.

[Danny]

What a fucking pass

And a massive handball

[Lewis]

'Zlatan' would have recycled that back into the midfield (handball lol).

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just got in.

The Herrera pass was fucking magnificent.

[randomlegend]

Costa is such a piece of shit.

[Lewis]

Marcos Rojo would end Diego Costa.

[randomlegend]

Rojo :cool:

[Lewis]

You're just waiting for Fellainimania to set them up with a shite touch.

[randomlegend]

He's going to score with his chest from the halfway line.

[Lewis]

If Rojo had been on it there he would have just sold the elbow on landing, rather than wanting a bit himself.

[Waffdon]

Costa should have been dropped weeks ago.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Who else plays up top? Hazard?

Batshuayi is well below standard.

[Reg]

Fair play Waff, called it right with the United lineup.

Although I don't think anyone saw arguably a back six, man marking job(s) and a front two coming before the game. That ball for Rashford is a nightmare for them, he's having a great game.

[Smiffy]

I'm actually hoping it remains as is. Leicester > Spurs > L.... :henn0rz:

[SvN]

:cool:

[Dark Soldier]

Always had a good feeling about today.

[Waffdon]

Conte's record against the "top" teams away from home must be pretty awful.

[SvN]

I reckon that's abysmal goalkeeping, actually.

[Waffdon]

Cahill :D

[Reg]

Cahill being a gentleman rather than defending. Classy bloke.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Herrera :rave:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Mourinho has found out 'the system'. Would have won the cup tie if that idiot Herrera hadn't got himself sent off. The only shame for United is their league campaign is basically done.

No sign of any other managers doing so. Palace was a total fluke.

[Lewis]

Big Sam could out tactic anything Chelsea throw at him.

[GS]

In a one-off game, there's really nobody else you'd rather have managing the side than Mourinho.

[-james-]

Title race well and truly on after Chelsea lose this game and have 3pts deducted for their manager's suit and a baseball cap combo.

[GS]

Out of Chelsea's six games left, four of them are against total shit at home with Everton away the only vaguely threatening fixture.

There's no way they're chucking it from here, although we'll no doubt be confronted with HYPE in order to try and keep the whole 'show' rumbling on.

[Raoul Duke]

Big Sam could out tactic anything Chelsea throw at him.

Genuinely a shame that he didn't get a decent crack at a tournament with England. Would have loved to have seen him donning Jogi Low by playing a strike force of Crouch, Carrol and Shawcross 5-0 in the WC final.

[Ian]

Time to bring on Hernandez to seal the deal.

[Adamski]

Of course it's back on. 4 points is nothing and they won't beat Everton. Anything can happen.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If we had gone from 1 to 4 points clear this weekend everyone would be declaring it TITLE OVER.

[Giggles]

If we had gone from 1 to 4 points clear this weekend everyone would be declaring it TITLE OVER.

But, MOMENTUM. Or some other Sky bollocks.

[Adamski]

That's because you'd be on the ascendancy instead of losing two of your last 4.

4 points is nothing regardless of NARRATIVE.

[Adamski]

Be thankful it's Spurs I suppose.

[Pleb]

Rashford just got robbed of his BPLSPB MOTM there.

[Giggles]

As Jimmy said earlier, Spurs are brilliant at chasing from way back but now it's 4 points they'll shit the bed.

[Reg]

United and Mourinho got that spot on.

Gary's having a laugh with that man of the match. Rings of an "I'm cleverer than you" choice.

[Adamski]

Just looked at Spurs run in and there's no chance they'll do it.

One more win for Spurs I reckon :D

[randomlegend]

I know he's top scorer, but Ibrahimovic really does make our attack ponderous and that games showed it.

I wanna see us start with Martial-Rashford-Mkhitaryan up front.

[Shindig]

Is Berbatov still looking for a club? Imagine a front three of Crouch, Berbatov and Ibrahimovic.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Mourinho will roll over for them if United are out of the top 4 race by then, but other than that I'm sure they'll drop points elsewhere anyway. Also we can still lose another one even if they win all six. I just can't see it. I'd be the first to declare us fucked if we were.

[Lewis]

United's remaining big games read like a potential Jose Mourinho victory parade.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There are a silly number of games still to go for this time of year. Why do Arsenal have three games in hand?

[Reg]

United do them a favour then Spurs are winning the title on goal difference.

Chelsea beat Southampton
Spurs beat Leicester

4 points.

Chelsea draw with Everton
Spurs beat Arsenal

2 points.

Spurs beat West Ham
Chelsea beat Middlesborough

2 points.

Chelsea draw with West Brom
Tottenham beat Man United

Tottenham top on GD.

Chelsea beat Sunderland.
Spurs beat Hull.

Champions.

Believe. :drool:
I take it back Smiff. Nailed it. Get the next five right and you're a modern day Nostradamus.

[Lewis]

That smug face. :drool:

[Adamski]

Marcos Silva hasn't lost a home game in 3 years and they're fighting for their lives. Spurs will fuck that.

[Max Power]

Decent scenes at Bastia-Lyon.

And as I said earlier, it is written that we will draw with Spurs to give Chelsea the title. Probably with Vardy giving a Nazi salute to the away end after a late equaliser or something.

[Giggles]

Decent scenes at Bastia-Lyon.

And as I said earlier, it is written that we will draw with Spurs to give Chelsea the title. Probably with Vardy giving a Nazi salute to the away end after a late equaliser or something.

Is Leicester not Tottenham's next game?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

No, Palace next.

Leicester is their penultimate game.

Smiffy fucked up again.

[Smiffy]

I didn't even have Spurs to play Palace. :cool:

Still. Champions in waiting.

[Raoul Duke]

What the fuck was Cahill doing there? Also, did David Luiz duck that?

[Reg]

That goal was a delightful train of fuck ups.

[Giggles]

Missed the start. Why was Begovic playing?

[Smiffy]

Other one got injured....promoting another sport.

[Giggles]

Safety first :D

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[Shindig]

Frisking through telepathy. :D

[Magic]

Is that David Blunkett?

[Magic]

FFS Villa.

[Magic]

Wendies winning too. We're 1 point from 7th and if we lose Fulham go ahead on GD.

[Smiffy]

Wendies winning too. We're 1 point from 7th and if we lose Fulham go ahead on GD.

Fulham still have Sheffield Wednesday and Huddersfield. Four points should do it.

Reading are going to be the ones who miss out anyway.

[Magic]

Hopefully. They're getting beat at the moment and QPR just equalised lol.

[Smiffy]

Reading have Forest, Burton Albion and Wigan after today. #safety :nodd:

You'd think they would have no problem but the wheels seem to have come right off, no?

[Magic]

We're getting dominated at home by a severely weakened Wolves team so...

[Magic]

Wolves 1 up. :(

[Jimmy Floyd]

I didn't realise just how close poor old Gianfranco has taken Birmingham to the drop. Surely the worst sacking decision in the last 20 years.

Blackburn richly deserve relegation and Coventry-style oblivion though.

[Kikó]

Tony Adams might prove that one wrong.

[Shindig]

We're really blowing this in a very Newcastle way.

[Lewis]

Remember that afternoon when Jack Grealish's international status was supposed to matter?

[Smiffy]

We're really blowing this in a very Newcastle way.

Rafa will get you over the finishing line. :nodd:

[-james-]

Brighton. :cool:


Big lol at Rafa though.

[Waffdon]

Safety first :D

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What a horrible grass that bloke is.

[Magic]

Well, Reading, Wednesday and Fulham all winning. We're bottling it against a shite Wolves team. Good stuff.

[Shindig]

Huddersfield ahead. None of our remaining games look nailed on.

[Giggles]

God I'd love it to get to Newcastle losing a playoff semi :drool:

[SvN]

It really would be glorious to see Newcastle lose in the playoffs.

[Raoul Duke]

This Arsenal team is all kinds of derp. Three at the back?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'd quite like to see Fulham up via the playoffs, just to complete the southern takeover. Northern football outside Manchester and Liverpool = dead or dying.

[Reg]

About ten TTHers willing us on is what did it!

Can't believe we're in the Premier League.

[Magic]

Blundersfield fucked it too.

[Shindig]

That might be our lifeline. I would not back us to come through a play-off campaign.

[Max Power]

This Boro team are fucking pointless. Got to be the most forgettable side ever. Not even hilariously shit. Not even having a meltdown. Just dull and shit.

[Giggles]

This Boro team are fucking pointless. Got to be the most forgettable side ever. Not even hilariously shit. Not even having a meltdown. Just dull and shit.

You'd near forget they were in the division.

That was nice work from Downing though.

[phonics]

Boro fans try to start a 'Wenger, we want you to stay' before coming to the realisation that they won't be playing Arsenal next year.

[Weaver]

I'd quite like to see Fulham up via the playoffs, just to complete the southern takeover. Northern football outside Manchester and Liverpool = dead or dying.

Brighton, Reading and a playoff winning Fulham replacing Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Hull City.

[phonics]

Fellaini would have been proud of that chest down.

[Magic]

Brighton, Reading and a playoff winning Fulham replacing Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Hull City.

Nobody wins in that scenario.

[Giggles]

Football wins.

[Shindig]

I'd have question marks over Fulham.

[Pleb]

I had question marks on Newcastle from day one.

Brighton :drool: :cool:

[7om]

And so comes to an end one of the most disgraceful episodes in footballing history.

Just for background: When Gary Rowett was sacked we were 7th and outside the playoffs on goal difference having just beaten Ipswich at home. They sacked him the day after with Zola already lined up behind his back. Zola comes in and immediately changes the tactics to ball possession which fails spectacularly because our players are shit. Rowett got the best out of them by playing to their strengths: solid defensively and fast on the counter attack. And so of course the results plummet.

After we lose game after game, the fans start calling for his balding head around February time. And this is when it starts getting snidey. Club Director and resident snake, Panos Pavlakis (if that is his real name) goes total radio silence on twitter except for when Zola gets one of his rare wins when he suddenly jumps on there and proclaims how great he is and how the fans should stop moaning.

Zola ends up with two wins out of twenty four games and we are now three points above the relegation zone with three to play. To say this is unfathomable is an understatement. The board absolutely wrecked what was a very promising season probably because they didn't like Rowett's defensive style and liked Zola's name recognition. Sickening.

One stat that sums it all up: Gary Rowett got more wins in his first eight days as Derby manager than Zola did in four months as Birmingham manager.

[Lewis]

lol

[Raoul Duke]

Shocking that random nouveau riche Chinese plebs wouldn't know how to run a football club

[Jimmy Floyd]

There are so many clubs being run into the ground by dodgy foreigners (and the odd dodgy Brit, perhaps) and nobody wants to do anything about it.

[phonics]

Harry Redknapp linked to the job today. Brilliant.

[7om]

Honestly, could've been worse. I feel confident he'd do a good short-term job in keeping us away from the relegation zone over the last three games. I'll take it.

He's confirmed, by the way.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Would be classic if he took them down.

Don't think Blackburn are good enough to get 6+ points though.

[7om]

To be honest, I really don't care. After so many shit years under Carson Young, Rowett really had something going with us. Almost universally liked by the fans, he brought stability and results on crap budgets and rejected other offers when people saw how good he was. For the first time in years the fans actually started to care again and now look where we are.

We've traded one of the brightest young managers in the country for a proven loser in Zola and a guy nearing retirement in Redknapp.

It's shit like this that makes me just want to knock it all on the head and not even bother with football any more. What is the point of even developing any sort of attachment when you look at our transformation over the last four months. I just cannot be bothered with it anymore.

[Mazuuurk]

Despite not scoring that much yesterday, I actually thought it sort of made sense to play like that for Arsenal.

If they just fucked Xhaka off, got a decent center back for Gabriel and had someone a bit more interesting than Monreal on the left it might work out pretty well.

[Magic]

Tony Adams might prove that one wrong.

Lost all 3 of his games so far.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That Granada side is an utter mess in fairness to him. 16 of their 25 squad members are there on loan.