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The race for 86 points

afsoc4life said:
Focus is secure top 4. We are on our way to breaking the 70points barrier as well. One game at a time. Swansea away vs old Spurs boys can be tough. I hope they win today to help ease matters midweek.
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For me it's top 3, with 2nd being absolutely fantastic.

The bonus being we're in with half a squeak of a title run. Makes it fascinating.

I consider consecutive CL qualifications for the first time to be huge strides forward.

Achieved with the league's youngest team, whilst missing several key first team players for extended periods.

What a brilliant manager, and massive credit to Levy.

Big midweek ahead, and I can't wait for Saturday to say my personal goodbye to WHL. Haven't been in a couple of seasons for various reasons, so hopefully I can see it off with 3 points.

What a great time time to be a Spurs fan.
 
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That graph seems to just add total number of points available to the current points tally. It assumes every other team getting zero, which obvs can't happen.
 
Robbo said:
If only we were, say Liverpool or Manure, it would be such a great story. Sky must be so extremely annoyed.

Right narrative, wrong club.
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That would only matter if Sky were part of your life, and quite frankly why would they be?

@milo is right, it would be a great story, the greatest story to you,me,gg, the club and all members of the yid army.

ie. the ONLY ones that matter.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
That would only matter if Sky were part of your life, and quite frankly why would they be?

@milo is right, it would be a great story, the greatest story to you,me,gg, the club and all members of the yid army.

ie. the ONLY ones that matter.
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I guess it's a contradiction to my post, but I really don't care about what Sky think or don't think (not too much anyway :oops:) - and they're definitely not a part of my life! What I do think about them is that they have had a really bad impact on English football. The shameless hype and promotion of a selected few teams is a part of that. They base their reporting on names, not actual achievements - which of course is a part of the culture we live in - something I really think is detrimential to English football as we all love it.
 
Gazza Dazzla said:
That graph seems to just add total number of points available to the current points tally. It assumes every other team getting zero, which obvs can't happen.
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At first I thought that too, but now I don't think so.

For example, if Hull win all their remaining games they would reach 51 points. At the moment only the top 5 teams have more than 51 points so, on the simple basis that I initially thought the graphic was using, I'd expect them to say the highest that Hull could finish is 6th. However, Arsenal (currently 6th on 51) and Everton (7th on 50) still have to play each other - so one of them is guaranteed to get more than 51 points. The graphic seems to represent this by saying the best place that Hull can finish is 7th.
 
Robbo said:
If only we were, say Liverpool or Manure, it would be such a great story. Sky must be so extremely annoyed.

Right narrative, wrong club.
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Not just Sky. ESPN fookin' 'ate Spurs.

I couldn't possibly watch every show, but when I do, conversation on their lame-assed ESPN FC show lazily revolves around other clubs in the top six. It's hilarious to see that potato-headed Scot scouse Steve Nicol talk about Spurs. Booze-bloated face like a rusty padlock, always finding something negative when we win. He epitomizes everything scornful Liverpool fans display looking up these past few years at Spurs.

I don't think Craig Burley (ex-Chelsea) has ever mentioned Spurs unless it's to speculate over who is leaving. And, of course, ex-West Ham keeper Shaka Hislop has to do his standard duty and lift his skirt for Arsenal. Not pretty.

But pretty damned amusing.
 
Robbo said:
I guess it's a contradiction to my post, but I really don't care about what Sky think or don't think (not too much anyway :oops:) - and they're definitely not a part of my life! What I do think about them is that they have had a really bad impact on English football. The shameless hype and promotion of a selected few teams is a part of that. They base their reporting on names, not actual achievements - which of course is a part of the culture we live in - something I really think is detrimential to English football as we all love it.
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I wholeheartedly agree, (and i wasn't aiming my post at you btw) i think they did a lot to move the technical aspects of broadcasting games forward but the circus invented around it is just worthless and embarrassing and as you say, narrative driven. It really is tedious. And i really don't need them blowing smoke up my beloved Spurs. I know if we are good or not, i don't need them to tell me. (they'll probably just be latching on to something and with no depth of knowledge anyway.)

This never fails to make me smile.

 
Robbo said:
I guess it's a contradiction to my post, but I really don't care about what Sky think or don't think (not too much anyway :oops:) - and they're definitely not a part of my life! What I do think about them is that they have had a really bad impact on English football. The shameless hype and promotion of a selected few teams is a part of that. They base their reporting on names, not actual achievements - which of course is a part of the culture we live in - something I really think is detrimential to English football as we all love it.
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Very good post and i agree with all of it, ( imo) Sky are the worst thing that has happened to the game.
 
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We've played the most games against other top half sides.

Average points totals of remaining opponents:

Crystal Palace 45
Manchester United 45
Watford 45
Leicester City 43
Middlesbrough 43
Southampton 43
West Bromwich Albion 43
Bournemouth 42
Everton 42
Swansea City 42
West Ham United 42
Chelsea 40
Emirates Marketing Project 39
Sunderland 39
Arsenal 38
Burnley 38
Hull City 37
Stoke City 37
Tottenham Hotspur 36
Liverpool 34

After Swansea we have Watford and Bournemouth at home before the semi final, neither having much to play for.

Chelsea: City (H), Bournemouth (A), Utd (A)
Tottenham: Swansea (A), Watford (H), Bournemouth (H)
Liverpool: Bournemouth (H), Stoke (A), West Brom (A)
Emirates Marketing Project: Chelsea (A), Hull (H), Southampton (A)
Man Utd: Everton (H), Sunderland (A), Chelsea (H)
Arsenal: West Ham (H), Palace (A), Middlesbrough (A)
 
alekaras said:
Nope. I would say but for those 4 dropped points against Wet Brom and Leicester. We didn't deserve anything at Anfield, but we sure were miles better against those two.
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Add Sunderland away. I really felt we could have won that game.
 
afsoc4life said:
Add Sunderland away. I really felt we could have won that game.
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Yup, that result does stick out.

Sunderland's record against the Top 10 this season is: W:0 D:4 L:13 GF:8 GA:34

Liverpool being the only other club in contention for a CL spot who've dropped any points to Sunderland this season.

Bedfordspurs said:
Didn't test the keeper much against Sunderland

Against Brom their keeper was MOTM

Against leiceter they scored with their only shot which came from Victors only mistake all season
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We're the only side in top half that Sunderland have kept a clean sheet against this season.

Such fine margins in those other games you mention... Every point counts when we're aiming for a return to the glory days though.
 
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I think we should just stop talking about the title. It's a distant dream. However, I do think Chelsea will drop more points, but not enough for us (or anyone else) to catch them.
Of the 9 remaining games, I think we'll Win 6, draw 2 and lose 1, getting 20 points, leaving us with 82 points. Chelsea then only need 14 points of the remaining 9 games, which they should manage. I think they'll take 17-19 and end on 86-88 points.
 
Kandi1977 said:
I think we should just stop talking about the title. It's a distant dream. However, I do think Chelsea will drop more points, but not enough for us (or anyone else) to catch them.
Of the 9 remaining games, I think we'll Win 6, draw 2 and lose 1, getting 20 points, leaving us with 82 points. Chelsea then only need 14 points of the remaining 9 games, which they should manage. I think they'll take 17-19 and end on 86-88 points.
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But it does give all the doom mongers the chance to trot out "Tottenham always bottle it" mantra and deflect from the failings of some popular giants who they had tipped as title challengers at the start of the season.
 
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