Football

Cech out of Saturday's game.

Went up for a late corner tonight and did a hamstring.

You couldn't make it up.

The atmosphere in the stadium....Maybe some crowd sponsored encouragement, gooners!?

Stayed up until about 5am watching spurs. Personally I think harry isn't right with that mask on. Fustrating game.

Was also watching Arsenal and Liverpool games in a bar owned by a very happy Leicester fan... highlight for me was the gooner at ht who ran across the bar shouting get it when they showed a replay of the opening goal. .. douchebag was very quiet after that.

Got to love man city's we are tired excuse. Would be great to see utd get 4th and lvg stick around.

COYS

How many broken noses/cheekbones have there been in the PL this season?
Chelsea alone have had at least 4 this season.

I did say to you on Monday that Swansea have become a bogey team for Arsenal in recent years. Let's hope they can find the backbone to get a draw on Saturday.

Great set of results last night, I wonder what happens when Arsensal don't get top four, it feels like it could be cataclysmic.

It doesn't suprise me that Chelsea have their noses out of joint.

@>>>>>>, @Markyboy, @roboto
Ups and downs of the title race, we did Leicester a favour by not showing up for the West Ham game.
Still think we're a season or two ahead of where we should be in our progression. But we're in the title race and so you've got to try and win the thing.
This season we've always bounced back from defeats but the arsenal game takes on even more significance now..
Only good thing was arsenal losing as well, though they were damned unlucky, and Man City, which means that we're still waiting for Leicester to make a mistake which we then have to take advantage of..

Players had stronger faces back in the day, back when you could tackle from behind with both feet.

Personally I think harry isn't right with that mask on.

On Sunday he did hurl himself headlong at a near post half-chance and went clattering into it - didn't look like he was being at all tentative.

Ha!

I do remember that. I was thinking more of his eyesight and a cross from the right last night that he got onto with his left foot and fluffed.

Movement with chadly or son up there might of worked better last night with hindsight.

It is against the laws of physics

Still think we're a season or two ahead of where we should be in our progression.

This is exactly, to the word what Brendan Rodgers said and I have to tell you, it is absolute bollox. What does it mean exactly? Nothing. It's an excuse for bottling it. Look what happened to BR and Liverpool after the nearly season

Spurs will get raided this summer anyway, so they'll be back to their usual middle-of-the-top-half mediocrity soon enough.

@cliveo Thought I should flag, there is an excellent piece in this week's Country Life on the demise of red trousers. Quite a good read but I can't find online content to link to.

that piqued my interest, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/12181163/Red-trousers-are-being-killed-off-by-hipsters-and-hooray-Henrys-Country-Life-laments.html

Still think we're a season or two ahead of where we should be in our progression.

In which case we must be a decade or two ahead

we're still waiting for Leicester to make a mistake which we then have to take advantage of

We made a mistake on Tuesday by not burying West Brom, you didn't take advantage...

Er, WHU didn't allow them to take advantage...

I told you that Michail Antonio is amazing.

I know you did.

It's not bollocks mike, managers use it as a way of taking pressure off players yes, but ultimately its about how you gain the experience necessary to win things. Do you think players are born winners? That teams instinctively know what they have to do to win?

It means you don't just get up to the top, and know what to do, how to handle the pressure and expectation, from both within and without, and to prepare for teams who before might have taken you lightly, but now you're in a title race, play like it's a cup tie. You've got to gain the experience to overcome the pressures, which for some teams and players happens all at once, but for most, takes time to build to. You make a run, you finish 4th, you make a run you finish 2nd, you make a run you win it. Because the team blend is strong, everyone knows how to handle it, or those that don't are coached by those that do.

Different sport, but it relates, Michael Jordan, joined the NBA in 1984, went to the playoffs for his first six years in the league and didn't win a title until 1991. Was he ready to win straight away, did he have what it took the first time he got into the crucible of crunch time pressure, did his team, did his coach? did he bottle it?
Sometimes you're ahead of where you should be, and where the organisation thinks you should be, and as I've said many times before, this season and it's title challenge is a bonus, champions league qualification is the thing (which gives us another season together, as the players will want to have that adventure) and despite all the win it now pressure, I'm thinking this group will be together next season and the season after, and if we challenge again know how to get through it...

I know you did and we didn't take advantage, so now we have to wait again, and show that we're capable title contenders..

83 points MAX for the winners of the EPL?

I like to think of you as title favourites