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Man Utd fans are quiet this morning, still in your bomb shelters?

Not that I give a shit what happens in Spain but it bodes well for the final.

@ManUre

Quick tip for running search dog exercises. Make sure you count out how many fake bombs you hide and count them all back in at the end of the training.

My eyes hurt from all the laughing....

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How could the Spuds lose 5 fucking 1? To Newcastle United?!? Incredible...

Poor Corny...

Putting aside the notion that they nearly won the league and this was their best chance for half a century, third is a good result. Offer them third at the start of the season and they would have bit your arm off. But still, 5-1 to a ten man championship side, a bit wank.

Surely a sheriff is entitled to the occasional facepalm?

I'd rip his star off his lapel and kick him out of town...

They need someone with a more positive take on things, even when they go badly.

Martinez is free...

Their perfect demonstration of how to implode wasn't down to the manager.

I gather even Arsene couldn't contain his joy.

I didn't see the game, did they try and kick the shit out of them?

It was a combination of them not being very good on the day and Newcastle having their best game for a decade. With ten men.

I'd still say that we won the disappointment stakes this season but reckon Spurs feel worse than we do. You'd not want to carry that sort of form into the new season.

We've had all season to get used to it tho', the Spuds thought they'd won the league 'til about two weeks ago...

I've been saying for a while now that all this talk of Spurs being the team win it next year is bullshit. The way they capitulated when the pressure started to kick in this season, was spectacular, but also says something fundamental about the manager and group of players. West Brom was one thing, the games since they lost it could be put down to the season being over (although they were desperate to finish above Arsenal for once), but the Chelsea draw was really telling. Not just giving up a 2-0 lead when it really mattered, but the indiscipline. Lucky not to have four players suspended. Poch's inability to cope with the pressure on the touch line spread through his team like a virus.

Yes they're a young squad, yes they've done better than they expected, but I reckon this collapse will scar them, even if they hang on to their best players. From contenders for champions of England to second best, yet again, in north London. That will hurt, and I don't think they'll respond well.

They've done a Libpool...

But finished third... Beyond Libpool...

Pretty conclusive stuff.

since liverpool joined the 1st division in 1962 we've never finished as low as 10th

waves down at chelsea

From a lofty 8th spot, you're welcome to it... Remind me, when did you last win the league?

Looking forward to a Liverpool injury crisis around October

I would disagree, but then again you'd expect that wouldn't you.

Capitulation after they went to ten men isn't good. But it's the only game of the season where we've been done over like that. So though not happy at getting done over by a team already relegated and letting Arsenal above us in the table (currently the only thing they have to celebrate, and boy are they celebrating it!)

I'm not sure whose been blowing the Spurs to win it next season missives into your ear, spurs fans, media, other clubs fans? But don't think anyone with any sense is doing that.
Think we'll challenge, but win it all? That's a big ask with the added pressure of competing in the champions league, where we won't get the chance to sack it off, field the youngsters and concentrate on the league.

Next season, hopefully the maturation of the side carries on, this defeat can be used as motivation that you need to play and compete in every game to succeed, (and sometimes being scarred by an experience is good, makes you not want it to happen again, drives you to do better, but we'll only know when it gets to the nitty gritty next season) and the Sheriff will gain more experience about how to manage a team at the sharp end.

As @Ramsaye said I'd have snatched your arm off for this placing and performances at the beginning of the season, and one duff match against relegation fodder, and a slipping of intensity after the league was won isn't something to be dismayed about.

Hopefully next season brings another challenge for a top three spot, and into the knockout stages of the champions league...

I'd still say that we won the disappointment stakes this season but reckon Spurs feel worse than we do. You'd not want to carry that sort of form into the new season.

Villa say hi.

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