[FOOTBALL] May Bank Holiday Weekend Fixtures - Fri 28 April to Mon 1 May

[Reg]

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

15:00 unless stated.

FRIDAY
Cardiff City v Newcastle United - 19:45 Sky Sports 1

SATURDAY
Southampton v Hull City
Stoke City v West Ham United
Sunderland v Bournemouth
West Bromwich Albion v Leicester City
Crystal Palace v Burnley - 17:30 BT Sport 1

Barnsley v Burton Albion
Birmingham City v Huddersfield Town
Blackburn Rovers v Aston Villa
Derby County v Wolverhampton Wanderers
Fulham v Brentford
Ipswich Town v Sheffield Wednesday
Leeds United v Norwich City
Preston North End v Rotherham United
Queens Park Rangers v Nottingham Forest
Reading v Wigan Athletic
Brighton & Hove Albion v Bristol City - 17:30 Sky Sports 1

Rangers v Celtic - 12:00 Sky Sports 1
Espanyol v Barcelona - 19:45 Sky Sports 2

SUNDAY
Manchester United v Swansea City - 12:00 BT Sport 1
Everton v Chelsea - 14:05 Sky Sports 1
Middlesbrough v Manchester City - 14:05
Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal - 16:30 Sky Sports 1

Roma v Lazio - 11:30 BT Sport 3
Bolton Wanderers v Peterborough United - 12:00 Sky Sports 2
Inter Milan v Napoli - 19:45 BT Sport 2

MONDAY
Watford v Liverpool - 20:00 Sky Sports 1

Malaga v Sevilla- 20:00 Sky Sports 2

[Shindig]

I'd love the Championship to go to the wire but we're going to miss Ritchie. Plus I don't see you dropping points to Bristol.

[Reg]

Nah, neither do I (and neither do the bookies). It'll be a party tomorrow, flags on every seat and thousands taking balloons and whatnot.

[Adamski]

I could swear Newcastle have played four times this week.

[Offshore Toon]

I've got mates down so won't be working the 'party' (numerous pitch invasions and two chants on loop).

[Shindig]

Is that Hayden's first goal for us? Apparently not.

[Reg]

Multiple digs in one night. :D

[Giggles]

Newcastle fans see it as 'their' title so they're a bit pissy.

[Samadini]

You've just plucked that one out of thin air.

[Offshore Toon]

I couldn't care less about the title, but I wouldn't wish working late on my worst enemy.

[Foe]

Liam Boyce scoring 4 and basically relegating Inverness is beautiful.

[Giggles]

What did Inverness do?

[Magic]

Holy shit Atalanta v Juve another cracking game. Serie A. :drool:

[Smiffy]

Newcastle on course to land a hefty double with Spurs.

'Mon lads. :cool: #Believe.

[Foe]

What did Inverness do?

Local rivals.

[Giggles]

Ah right. I always thought it was an island.

[Magic]

Ah right. I always thought it was an island.

:cab:

[Giggles]

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How would I know? You've loads of different islands up north.

[Shindig]

14 away wins is a new record for us. One more than our Championship winning season.

[Offshore Toon]

The fact we've done much better when we haven't had to break teams down makes you think we might be alright next season.

[Magic]

How would I know? You've loads of different islands up north.

Right but it's not an island or a tiny village.

[Shindig]

The fact we've done much better when we haven't had to break teams down makes you think we might be alright next season.

I dunno. We'll have a different mentality next season but the side that thumped Spurs on the final day is an entirely different eleven. Plus there might not be room for wor Timmy. :(

[Giggles]

Right but it's not an island or a tiny village.

And now I know that :thbup:

[Max Power]

Celtic could hit double figures here. Absolute chasm between the two sides.

[Offshore Toon]

I dunno. We'll have a different mentality next season but the side that thumped Spurs on the final day is an entirely different eleven. Plus there might not be room for wor Timmy. :(
Obviously it'd be daft to get carried away before we've bright in some talent, but it's not all doom and gloom. We have good days and bad days which tend to determine the result, but we have looked capable on our good days.

[-james-]

Giggles thinking Inverness is an island is one of the highlights of my year.

[Giggles]

I must have fell asleep during the mandatory course on the geography of Scotland.

It's basically Glasgow, Edinburgh, and the rest.

[Magic]

Hopefully there's loads of violence after the game.

If they score again that'll be their biggest win at Shitebrox ever.

[Giggles]

Fucking hell :D

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[Magic]

Lol what's worse than utter capitulation.

[Max Power]

In many ways, Jamie Vardy's best quality is his ability to rile up opposing fans when he scores. Absolutely loves a ear cup and then wheel away to a torrent of wanker signs and flicked Vs. Hero.

Wow Leeds have really shit the bed past few weeks. They looked a strong side whenever I saw them on TV this season. Oh well.

[mo]

I can just imagine the outpouring of sympathy for Leeds fans as they fucked up their best season in 15 years.

[Magic]

2-3 now. :eyemouth:

[Raoul Duke]

Match of the Day sounds like it's going to be unbelievably crap this evening :D

[Smiffy]

Never give up. Believe in the 4-3 Magic.

[Magic]

3-3

[Smiffy]

Leeds or Brentford win would be handy here. Fulham have Sheffield Wednesday away on final day whilst Leeds have relegated Wigan.

[-james-]

Was looking forward to Blackburn or Birmingham biting the dust, but it looks like Forest are right in amongst it now as well. Do they have also have a comically inept board of directors?

[phonics]

Their owners a head case.

[Shindig]

Match of the Day sounds like it's going to be unbelievably crap this evening :D

I might watch the mackems go down. Might.

[Smiffy]

I waited ever so patiently, Scouse. I bet January seems a long time ago and since that fateful day...you claimed 7 points in the proceeding 18 games. :lol:


You've no idea we'll be in the Championship. We've been in worse positions many times before and been fine.


Teams above being worse? Being passed by Newcastle? Burnley have surpassed us despite only coming back up again this season, and I'm the one only basing things on this season? What are you on about?

That you're inclined to listen to some gobshite attention seeker just because he used to be a footballer is quite telling. The 'pundits' know very little - have you not learned that yet?


Good riddance to bad rubbish. Hopefully it'll be a long time until that joke of a club is back in the top flight.

Looking forward to Brighton bottling it now. 'Mon Bristol.

[Byron]

Not surprised that a Liverpool fan is living in the past.

[Giggles]

Festival of football today it seems.

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[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Sunderland :lol:

[Kikó]

Poor David Moyes.

[Shindig]

The annoying thing with Moyes is the fans are moaning about his mentality. 10 years in the Premier League. 11 managers.

Keane, Sbragia, Bruce, Black, O'Neill, Di Canio, Ball, Poyet, Advocaat, Allardyce, Moyes. What an honour.

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[Shindig]

Pardew to the mackems.

[Lewis]

Sunderland should let David Moyes re-build their shit shattered joke club from the foundations, like he did with Everton.

[Yevrah]

Bar that year when Kevin Phillips scored a million goals, Sunderland have always been an absolute waste of time in the Premier League.

[Shindig]

To the wire. Amazing.

[Bam]

Thank fuck the bore me later club Sunderland have gone, they can go and stink the Championship out now. Welcome back Newcastle, proper club with a good support.

[SvN]

Another one to LOL at the shithouse that is Sunderland. Do the Poznan now you shit twats.

League one this time next year hopefully.

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[Magic]

Another one to LOL at the shithouse that is Sunderland. Do the Poznan now you shit twats.

League one this time next year hopefully.

6 points less for you cunts so every Cloud and all that.

[mo]

FYI there is more than one team in Bristol.

[ScousePig]

I waited ever so patiently, Scouse. I bet January seems a long time ago and since that fateful day...you claimed 7 points in the proceeding 18 games. :lol:






Good riddance to bad rubbish. Hopefully it'll be a long time until that joke of a club is back in the top flight.

Looking forward to Brighton bottling it now. 'Mon Bristol.

People have said the same thing about us for the past five years (including me - I've had us down a few times). Finally they've got it right.

[ScousePig]

I don't think we're disliked so much, more just people are bored with our general shitness.

Bam, you nearly had me until you mentioned the support at the end. You let yourself down.

[Lewis]

He was referring to the infamous Sky Sports Geordies. Everyone will welcome that lot back.

[ScousePig]

Everyone's second favourite team iirc.

[Shindig]

In '95, aye. Then we got ideas above our station. Sunderland's support is a lot more longer suffering than ours. It's been a long while since they've been able to attract genuine class. We've got clout that the mackems can't match, in that regard. Especially with that boardroom. I'd still take them in the top flight over Hull.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The problem with Sunderland is that other than football it has literally nothing going for it, so the football team's really got to do the business.

[Kikó]

Amazing how far young Adnan has fallen. From links with PSG to playing against Leeds in a couple of years.

[niko_cee]

Best youngster in Europe (entirely unmerited even then) wasn't he?

[Kikó]

At least he's still got that England call up to look forward to.

[SvN]

Jesus, we've started horrendously.

[ScousePig]

In '95, aye. Then we got ideas above our station. Sunderland's support is a lot more longer suffering than ours. It's been a long while since they've been able to attract genuine class. We've got clout that the mackems can't match, in that regard. Especially with that boardroom. I'd still take them in the top flight over Hull.

Yeah agree with all that. I'd rather both of us be in the premier league than any other scenario.

No idea what happens with us now. Usually when we go down we piss the championship and come straight back up, but that was all 10+ years ago now. Moyes is seen as a cancer of the club by many fans and the assumption is he's staying. We could be fucked for a while truth be told.

I think the general perception of match going fans is a lot different to what people are saying in here. Generally we're quite well liked by other sets of fans, probably due to the large numbers we always take.

[Shindig]

I can see you slipping into a dogfight. Villa territory. The support I've got no bother with. The ones at work are quite passionate and, like I've said, long-suffering. They're complete cunts around derby week but that's too be expected. They bring numbers but not a lot of noise, by some accounts. Granted, they've had nowt to cheer for the last few years. They've had a real perfect storm in the last year, though.

Johnston going to prison, Allardyce getting his head turned by the FA and the board's lack of movement on the whole thing, appointing Moyes and then tasking him with no budget and then tasking him to grab bodies in a short, short space of time. Next year will have to be about consolidation and digging in.

[Adamski]

£210 riding on a Utd win here, come on you cunts.

[Yevrah]

Is the old board completely dead now?

I fancied a read of the David Moyes thread.

[randomlegend]

We've been fucking atrocious so far.

[Kikó]

Jesse Lingard is pointless.

[Smiffy]

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[SvN]

Fooled me, I thought he'd taken his legs at first viewing.

[Lewis]

Can you get odds on Corporate Jose referring to the red card on Thursday if anyone asks him about that dive?

[Smiffy]

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[Giggles]

Rashford :cool:

Experienced head on young shoulders.

[Foe]

Rashford :cool:

Experienced head on young shoulders.

England's strikers are getting well practiced in falling over ahead of Russia. Good thing Rashford hurt himself there, he'll know how to dive safely next time when it really matters.

[Giggles]

England's strikers are getting well practiced in falling over ahead of Russia. Good thing Rashford hurt himself there, he'll know how to dive safely next time when it really matters.

Exaxtly. Everyone does it so you might as well hone it on the quality and safety aspects.

[The Merse]

I sincerely hope we're counting Bailly going off as being in the 60th minute so he gets a clean sheet. Fucking Valencia going off in the 48th has fucked me already.

Edit - hang on. Valencia still on? Did he come on after a few minutes or something as the app says he only played 48 mins.

[Ian]

England's strikers are getting well practiced in falling over ahead of Russia. Good thing Rashford hurt himself there, he'll know how to dive safely next time when it really matters.

Aye, 'cause England are dead good at penalties.

[Smiffy]

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[Giggles]

Fucking Icelandic cunt.

[Foe]

Sigurdssons shooting has been shit today. So that must've been extra sweet.

[Kikó]

Liability of a player. Fuck off Rooney.

[Magic]

Sorry guys my bad, I put Sigurdson on my bench so obviously he would score.

:cool:

EDIT: 27 points on the bench, at the mo. 4 in the actual team.

[Ian]

Another cracking result on the cards, here.

[Yevrah]

Liability of a player. Fuck off Rooney.

And yet.

Kevin Ratcliffe
Former Everton defender on BBC Radio Wales
Posted at
13:36
I still think Wayne Rooney has so much to give Manchester United. These young players can learn so much from him. They give him the ball and he sees the passes which they can't see. His touch has been superb.

[Magic]

I wouldn't go on Kiko's word for how good a player is. :harold:

[Kikó]

Kevin Ratcliffe can fuck off as well.

[Smiffy]

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[Kikó]

What the hell are you on about you brain dead idiot?

[Dark Soldier]

Still undefeated :drool:

[Giggles]

Chelsea to lose to Everton and Spurs to shit the bed vs Arsenal, just now football should work.

[Magic]

Is 5th still Europa?

[Smiffy]

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[Giggles]

Is 5th still Europa?

You'd imagine if there's any league Europa places and there's four champions league places then it's pretty likely.

[Gray Fox]

The fact that United are on such a very good defensive and unbeaten run, yet still are touch and go for just the top 4 shows how competitive the top boys have been this season.

No way City drop points today, but Spurs taking something off Arsenal puts it back in our hands. Just in time to fuck it up tomorrow night.

[ScousePig]

I can see you slipping into a dogfight. Villa territory. The support I've got no bother with. The ones at work are quite passionate and, like I've said, long-suffering. They're complete cunts around derby week but that's too be expected. They bring numbers but not a lot of noise, by some accounts. Granted, they've had nowt to cheer for the last few years. They've had a real perfect storm in the last year, though.

Johnston going to prison, Allardyce getting his head turned by the FA and the board's lack of movement on the whole thing, appointing Moyes and then tasking him with no budget and then tasking him to grab bodies in a short, short space of time. Next year will have to be about consolidation and digging in.

Everything was looking as good as it had for several years at the end of last season. Allardyce had come in and lolled his way to safety, there was a good feeling and we had a genuinely decent team. Fast forward a few months and that has been completely dismantled. Our strong spine of Kone, Kaboul, Kirchhoff, M'Vila and Cattermole was suddenly reduced to one, and he wanted out. Johnson and Khazri were playing well, and suddenly they're either in prison or in the background. Quite how Khazri has only just started playing again is anyone's guess. Both full backs changed, as well as our keeper (although he's better in fairness).

Moyes seems to have been preparing for the Championship from the get-go, and he has his wish.

[Pen]

United's record against Swansea can't be very good in the past few seasons. Wouldn't mind them going down just for that.

To be fair. Seansea were apparently the better side today.

[SvN]

They definitely were. This wasn't one of those games where our finishing cost us. A draw flattered us - we were just awful from the first minute. Picked up a bit in the second half and Rooney missed a sitter.

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[ScousePig]

I was reading about that Lens fella yesterday which seemed to escape me. I also read that you're 11th in Europe for wasting money or something. Henderson must be the only player you've made a profit on in the last decade I swear.

Forgot about Lens, the waster. Mignolet made us a profit, too.

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[Kikó]

Can everyone below Spurs be disqualified from the champions league? Give Leicester another go.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Christ.

[Waffdon]

Thundercunt.

[SvN]

Disgraceful dive, typical City player.

[Smiffy]

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[niko_cee]

It's fair going from Everton to have the worst goalkeeper pairing in the city.

[Adamski]

Smiffy :cool:

[Giggles]

Chelsea :cool:

As if they were ever going to mess this up.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

'The Prophet' strikes again.

[Waffdon]

Fabregas is so good.

[Smiffy]

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[Adamski]

Arsenal 4th
Man Utd 5th
Liverpool 6th

It's how it works.

[Giggles]

Arsenal 4th
Man Utd 5th
Liverpool 6th

It's how it works.

Let it be so.

:drool:

[Adamski]

Calling it objectively although Smiffy on football is one of the most insufferable bores I've ever encountered so that's a nice bonus.

[Smiffy]

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[phonics]

Allardyce 'lolled his way to safety' by staying up on goal difference?

[Smiffy]

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[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yeah, Liverpool are great against the middling teams.

12 points guaranteed.

[niko_cee]

City are a shoe-in with their fixtures (sadly) and it's a coin toss between the rest. Can't see Arsenal doing it (although it would be funny, particularly if they could do it at the expense of the Manchesters) but if anyone is going to shit their way through some tricky games it'll be United. Liverpool could win all their remaining games, or none of their remaining games. They are a complete unknown, although I think if they can win against Watford it'll give them the confidence to close it out.

[Smiffy]

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[ScousePig]

Allardyce 'lolled his way to safety' by staying up on goal difference?

We survived by two points, with a game to spare, and Allardyce wasn't here the whole season. Once he got his team together after January, our form was good.

[Adamski]

You've just plucked that from thin air, Adam. Both United and Arsenal have to face each other and Tottenham. We could be seven points clear of both by time they even face one another. They've left it too late.

I haven't plucked it from thin air, you really are insufferable.

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[niko_cee]

Spurs currently playing with the conviction that they can still finish behind Arsenal.

[Raoul Duke]

Here's hoping. I think the top 6 at the moment is probably as it should be based on the entire season. You couldn't truthfully say neither deserves to be higher/lower than there current positions.

Yes, that's how points tallies work :cab:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I was about to turn it over.

That was lovely by Eriksen.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Arsenal :lol:

[Danny]

Agent Cech making a great effort on that penalty.

He is never saving it like but having a go would be nice.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They got away with that.

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[Waffdon]

why are you telling us this

[Smiffy]

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[Shindig]

Smiffy's got some money riding on it. Possibly too much.

[John Arne]

Jeff Stelling just had a go at Spurs fans for being happy at finishing above Arsenal. "Spurs fans being delighted that they have finished above Arsenal for the first time in 20 years... how desperate is that?.. haven't you got bigger goals?" . Presumably, Spurs aim every season to finish as high as possible - it just so happens that this year they also finished above Arsenal - why on earth cant they be happy about that?

[Giggles]

Wait til the DVD comes out.

[niko_cee]

I'm not sure it's particularly Spurs' fans fault that the great unwashed have found out about St Totteringham's Day and are obsessed with making a big deal of it.

They should call the DVD St Totteringham's Year.

[Shindig]

In all seriousness, they've cemented themselves in the top two pretty nicely. United are in pre-Ferguson levels of mush, City can't spend themselves out of a hole (and Pep's not good enough to manage out of that) and Liverpool are spinning their wheels.

[Giggles]

Spurs aside, it needs to be said that Jeff Stelling has turned into such an unwatchable cunt lately. Someone needs to kick the soapbox out from under him.

[Lewis]

I think this is as good as it gets for Tottenham, which is why them not actually winning anything during this period is far funnier than anything Arsenal can manage.

[Giggles]

I hadn't realised the BT crew had tried to make out Rashford didn't dive :D

[CJay]

Wow, what a goal that was.

[Gray Fox]

What ass pocket has he pulled that from? Madness.

[CJay]

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[Lewis]

You rage-quit Football Manager over things like that.

[Raoul Duke]

Decent effort that.

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[Gray Fox]

Absolutely massive win that. I reckon from here if we win both home games it should be ours.

In normal circumstances, United could easily win out from here, but their injuries have really piled up. Combined with the Europa League semi-final, they may well have to choose one or the other. I'm assuming they will beat Arsenal at the weekend, but should they get through to the final, the Spurs game after that could well be an opportunity to drop points.

Tonights result has also turned the Arsenal v United game into an elimination game almost. If there is a loser, they will almost certainly miss out. A draw would be a disaster for both teams, so I'd expect a very open finish to that game.

I'm still 50/50 on our chances. We've done them a hell of a lot of good tonight, but a win against Southampton would see us on the brink. Our last 2 games are tough to call. West Ham away could see us up against a team on their holidays or one still fighting the drop. Same goes for Middlesbrough. They could come out and play with the pressure off having gone down already, or just turn up to get the game over with.

[Lewis]

United should definitely prioritise the UEFA Cup, to the point where they might as well field youth teams in the league if they have to. Top four would have been fun if it meant keeping City or Liverpool out, but it is only ever a means to an end, and winning the other thing achieves it anyway.

[Pen]

That Can goal is probably the goal of the season (I say probably just in case I'm forgetting something).

I also feel that United dropping points and Liverpool winning has made United getting top fout very unlikely. So Europa or bust from now on.

[Kikó]

I think it'll be bust in both tbh. Vigo will knock us out and we'll lose at arsenal.

[Pen]

I'm going to stay optimistic regarding the Europa for now. But I must confess that I have little idea how good Celta actually are. Being 11th in La Liga would make me think that United are favourites even with the current injury crisis.

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[CJay]

Apparently they're a Bielsa-esque side, similar to Athletic 3 or 4 years ago. All hard running and pressing. They've had plenty of rest the last few weeks as they've been playing their reserves in the league.

[Raoul Duke]

Aspas has been playing like Messi's regen this season. I fear him (albeit not his corners)