Mum, cancel them beers!
Mixed results for us this week. Charlton and Watford lost, which is good in so far as it makes any late season heroics that much harder for either club. Both look like they’re near certain to drop.
But someone will need to go down with them. Man City could be that team, and they lost at home to Spurs today. Radio 5 said that there’s considerable unrest among the natives too. Sheffield Utd won away, good for this irrepressible and hardworking side, bad for teams like us looking down. As I write this West Ham lead Manchester Utd 1-0 (UPDATE: CONFIRMED RESULT), which is cleary a Very Bad Thing for us. We don’t need a revival at Upton Park. Other teams like Reading and Wigan are starting to falter but should put enough points on the board to stay clear of the hairy positions.
Which leaves Middlesbrough, our Northern equivalents. They’re not a bad side, not a good one, quite good at home, quite bad away. We need to win this game badly. All four teams below us have Fulham in their next few games, and we need to do better than just break even in these matches if the winter is to be anything other than a bad one. With the Fulham injury list growing by the second the winter fixture conjestion looks impossibly scary, and those of us prone to knee-jerk pessimism are in for an extremely nervous time.
Come on you whites! Please!
