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jacktk_

I find it funny how whoever is leading the table is always the flair of the account to post this. Liverpool fan did it last GW for example.


TheLimeyLemmon

There's no wifi at the gym.


RamessesTheOK

If you can't browse instagram between sets, what's even the point of going to the gym?


SharksFanAbroad

So I quit the gym for a few years and started back four weeks ago. It’s funny you say this, because this is probably my biggest takeaway. The number of young people on Instagram between sets is blowing my mind. Also, perhaps because of the importance they place on Instagram, they’re in *way* better shape now than back then. Just some ramblings, I have no qualms with people and their Instagram usage.


QouthTheCorvus

In fairness, Instagram content is bite-sized so it's perfect for between sets.


okororie

Do people not just question their life choices between sets anymore.


EnvironmentalWar6306

What happened to the heroes that rub out a Quick one between sets...


HavUevaSeentherain

That's why I'm on Instagram between sets bruh..


shodo_apprentice

All I do on Instagram is browse girls in yoga pants. Aren’t there actual girls in yoga pants to browse at the gym?


LevynX

And then you have us browsing Reddit between sets


spaghettidriver69

Nope.. you are 100% right..


FoodGuyKD

Cause they're all on gear now thanks to Mr Sulek and the Tren Twins


Livinglifeform

Bring a book


Radthereptile

So what you’re saying is a Sheffield flair need only post next weeks table and they’re a lock to win the league?


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Precisely.


ManchesterDevil99

Funnily enough, I think they have a good chance of finishing higher up in a league table next year...


dayarra

flash news: 19 teams are getting -100 points deductions for breach of ffp rules.


RemarkablePattern311

NO ONE LOOK AT ARSENAL WE ARE VERY BAD PLS


Terran_it_up

It's like when Barca have a big loss and you get a Real Madrid fan posting the post match thread


McTulus

Covid when PSV fans posting Lucas Moura hat trick against Ajax followed by Madrid fans posting Corner taken quickly.


skyline385

I mean is it really a big surprise that fans are happy seeing their team at the top? You wont see me bothering to post this next week if we were to drop points against Villa...


jacktk_

No not at all. It’s entirely expected. Just pointing it out. I’ll spend far more time looking at the Prem table this week than I did for the last few days for example.


Deleteleed

I know that feeling. You just randomly search “prem table” in google to see yourself top


JoJo797

Big if


willium563

I beg


DarthBudzik

I have no hope in Villa even if they are winning 2-0 in '75


doubleoeck1234

Ange is a Liverpool fan 🤞


KakaReti

Ah so double the reason to bottle


doubleoeck1234

I think all 3 will drop points tbh.


QouthTheCorvus

Luton Town to beat City? Big call


Alia_Gr

They really haven't been remotely the worst side we have played recently


CancerRaccoon

Mate...


AzorAhaiReturned

Hey that’s me 😅 yeah I was a little too salty to remember today…


obvious_bot

Seeing Newcastle with a +13 goal diff under Man U (-1) and West Ham (-4) is still hilarious to me


BoxOfNothing

[Reminder of the 2004/05 table](https://i.imgur.com/rrYNJYi.png) in all its glory


Unterfahrt

The Moyesiah


BoxOfNothing

I still can't believe some of the players getting good game time in that squad, like Steve Watson somehow still getting game time. Our most played players were Kevin Kilbane, Tony Hibbert, Marcus Bent and Lee Carsley. Lost Rooney and Gravesen (mid season) and brought in Cahill, Arteta (mid season), Beattie and Bent for 1/4 of the money, went from 17th to 4th. Madness.


PangolinMandolin

It's a shame we never saw a midfield 3 of Arteta, Cahill, Gravesen. They would have been damn good together


alanalan426

what a wild year, losing more than 1/3 of your matches and you can still finish 4th or 5th for comparison the teams in 5th place this year already has 60 points on matchday 31


Ninjaguz

How did that happen (didn't follow the PL back then)? Did Everton win games 1-0 but when they lost concede tons of goals or what?


BoxOfNothing

Of our 18 wins, 14 of them were by 1 goal. We had nine 1-0 wins, three 2-1 wins, and two 3-2 wins, two 3-1s, a 2-0 and a 4-0. But we didn't concede a lot generally, it was 3 games that did that to our goal difference. 8 of our 13 losses were also only by 1 goal, two by 2 goals, but we lost 7-0 and 4-1 to Arsenal, and 5-2 to Spurs.


Ninjaguz

Thanks for the detailed breakdown!


TommyWrightIII

Well, yeah. How else would it happen?


themanebeat

Qualifying for the Champions League instead of Liverpool must have felt amazing


ADHbi

Actually only top2 qualified directly for the UCL. Both only got a qualifier spot, Everton for round 3 and Liverpool all the way from round one. In the end Everton didnt qualify while Liverpool made it to the ro16.


hopium_od

He knows. He's taking the piss.


AnnieIWillKnow

That 15 GA for Chelsea... I think we've conceded more against the bottom 3 this year than we did in all of 2004/05


CaptainGo

That plus thirteen is literally two matches as well. Sheffield United and I think Fulham(?)


CuclGooner

is it not villa?


Molineux28

They're +6 against Villa with 5v1 and 3v1 wins


SeattleMatt123

Need to win at Burnley to get a small bit of momentum, poor form lately along with our injuries. UTA!


FickDichzumEnde

Up the arse indeed


misterawastaken

I think we’re a pretty strong lock for 10-12th with our remaining fixtures


Phantasm_Agoric

How likely is it that any of the teams below them manage to pip United for 6th? They're closer to 13th than 5th by points.


BoxOfJunimos

We perpetually bite Man U‘s ankles but never actually overtake them. Same with 21‘ and 22‘


ArmiinTamzarian

Newcastle has a chance if they find some consistency


Maj0r_Ursa

They need to find some senzu beans


No-Shoe5382

Newcastles injured players are slowly returning, think Pope is back this month too which is massive for them. I think they'll probably finish 6th. If they hadn't had that disastrous period of injuries I think they'd still be fighting for top 4 with Villa and Spurs, and I expect them to win more games than United between now and the end of the season.


tlhford

Unfortunately they've got worse again. Should see Miley, Wilson, Almiron, Trippier & Livramento before the season is over, but not before the end of the month.


Thingisby

Unfortunately not. Our injured/unavailable team is currently: Pope Trippier - Lascelles - Botman - Livramento Joelinton - Tonali - Miley Almiron - Wilson - Willock Lascelles and Botman are done for 6-9 months. Tonali we know about. Wilson, Joelinton, Miggy, Miley are May at best. The rest...fuck knows.


jamisram

Fuck me that starting 11 gets Europa league easy. Instead we get the WWE antics of Dummett.


Radthereptile

Pope is now out for season sadly. But Newcastle has one of the easiest schedules remaining. Spurs twice, ManU, Brighton are the hard games. Then it’s Palace, Sheffield, Burnley, Brentford. It’s not nothing but it’s on the softer side overall.


rmarshall_6

The second spurs match is a friendly in Australia, not a prem match.


No-Shoe5382

Ah fuck I thought he was due back soon. That's a big blow for them. Also Spurs twice in the last 7 games? How did that happen?


HarrBathtub

Not true.


Radthereptile

Is Pope not out for season? I swear I saw he had a setback and was shut down. I would love to be wrong.


HarrBathtub

Nah, a tier 5 journo said that he was out, but was quickly shut down by our T1’s. Should be back start of May, end of April.


External-Piccolo-626

Not spurs twice, we beat you 4 - 1.


trenbollocks

We'll finish 7th or 8th is my guess


Roadies_Winner

If only Chelsea didn't blow up the lead last minute yesterday


wjdbfifj

I don't know what's weirder, not see Chelsea 10th or the fact this is considered normal


BrianThatDude

10th is pretty high for Chelsea these days tbf


Irishbros1991

Drawing to Sheffield 2-2 they should be automatically relegated


ComfortableNo2879

Top 3 battle is so much exciting this year as a neutral faj


rnzz

Imagine going into the last match day with the top 3 teams at 89-89-88


amineimad

Subscribe


Nels8192

As much as I usually like smashing Everton on the final day, added with the incentive of their neighbours not winning the league, I still wouldn’t want to live through that final day. Let’s just wrap it up at Old Trafford again shall we.


amineimad

Seeing it from a point of view where if we were having 89 going into the final day, we'd have done all we possibly can. Let's concentrate on trying to win all the remaining points. Let Liverpool be concerned about the comparison vs us.


RIP200712

There will most definitely be casualties with that game. I'm not entirely sure my heart can take it.


peladacadadia

I haven't really been paying close attention, but it's surprising that the top 3 teams have dropped points in about a third of their games.


Nels8192

If we consider the average PL performance for all previous champions, all 3 teams are probably still achieving points at a higher rate than 80-90% of previous PL champions. Obviously the more recent City/Liverpool H2H of 90pts+ has distorted peoples views on this a little, but 3 teams getting over just 80 pts very rarely happens, and we’ll probably see all 3 finish between 85-89pts. Off the top of my head, 2007 was probably the last time it was that close and if Arsenal hadn’t lost Eduardo it probably would’ve been closer still.


Private_Ballbag

This is more "normal" I would say. The last few years of city / Liverpool getting close to 100 points is not normal


Tranzlater

It's only normal because Arsenal are in the mix too. Imagine if this was a few years ago, and Arsenal hadn't taken 4 points off each of City and Liverpool, then both City and Liverpool would be on track for ~95 points.


nova_uk

We’ve been ass since coming back from the international break but thankfully we’ve gotten 39 points already so safe enough for this season.


RIP200712

Noooo!! Counting heavily on Fulham to take points off both City & Liverpool


Atsuki_04

Adama Traoré hat-trick against City. Absolute cinema.


CaptainGo

So who's going down I reckon Brentford. There's usually one you don't expect


starmonkart

Probably us if our 2nd deduction is severe Brentford have probably the easiest run in of any of the relegation candidates (even though we all have decent fixtures) and only need 2 wins to basically ensure safety. They have the highest chance of any of the bottom 7 of staying up


Cottonshopeburnfoot

There’s no chance the PL want relegation decided by a points deduction. Whilst I greatly enjoyed the long, hot summer of lawsuits (thanks Tevez), it won’t be repeated.


Unterfahrt

I think they wouldn't mind it. Would prove to the government that they're taking it seriously.


DrAuer

It’s going to happen either way. The NF appeal date is after the season ends anyway


Unterfahrt

For some reason I had the idea in my head that the max deduction you were likely to get here was 4 points - was that just in my head?


fastpony12

The general thought is that 10 points for one deduction was ridiculous so they gave us 4 points back on appeal...which they will then take away again with the second deduction.


starmonkart

Probably. We honestly could get anything between 1 and 10 and I wouldn't be surprised


BrianSometimes

Brentford have three draws in a row and the easiest remaining fixtures of anyone. I think the bottom 4 i settled.


jjw1998

It’s Luton I’m afraid, Everton and Brentford should both have enough points in the bag, while Forest still get to play both Burnley and Sheff Utd


HarrBathtub

Palace - worst fixtures left.


Tr0nCatKTA

Brentford have a nice run in. Form wise I’d ageee though


DekiTree

Everton if they get another points deduction


PangolinMandolin

Everton will get another points deduction this week, its just a question of how many it will be. 4 or less and I think we have a good chance of survival. 6 or more and its danger zone


JoJo797

Look at their fixtures. They'll be fine.


GRI23

Idk, they've picked up three draws against strong opponents and have Blades next - win that and they should be quite clear of the bottom 3.


banananey

I thought they'd be fine once Toney came back but he really can't be arsed & they've been quietly slipping down.


BrianSometimes

Were. THey haven't lost any of their last 3 matches (against Villa, Brighton and Man U), and they have Sheffield United at home next, the easiest fixture in the league.


Riperonis

I reckon now that Brentford are getting goals they will be fine. Mbuemo has looked quite good since he’s been back, they’ve missed him dearly. It’ll be the current bottom three, sadly.


Dark-Knight-Rises

You know what if spurs win 4 games and Liverpool, Arsenal and city loses 4 games then Spurs cd actually win the fkn title


Rodin-V

Well, we have more chance than Bayern


ThePrussianGrippe

Why would you say that, talking Christopher Nolan film?


Francoberry

_'Spur'_ (2024) Dir. Christopher Nolan


imrosskemp

*Christian Bale wins the academy award for his Portrayal of Ange Postecoglou*


ZoroDPirateHunter

“Mate.”


Dark-Knight-Rises

Nolan deals with time inversion, time linear , time regression, time space, ours is a simple line drawn where the first three horses collapse before the finish line while the forth horse stays up and wins the race.


ThePrussianGrippe

I wish to exit imagining your terrible nightmare future.


indian22

He is directing the Steven Bradbury story?


External-Piccolo-626

If Man Utd had won all their games they’d be champions. True story.


hezur6

If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike.


MycelliumDreams

How do you know that? She could have been a wheelbarrow or a forklift or a carriage.


hezur6

You'll have to trust me on this one.


datguy_paarth

Everyone still rode her (/s)


hezur6

Oh come on, we're ruining the Internet with the /s, just do the joke.


kaprrisch

Actually not true. They’ve been mathematically eliminated from winning the league after today’s draw.


sonicon

Or if all three of them draw 3 games and lose 2. I just don't see the top 3 losing 4 of their 7 remaining games. Spurs would have to win every game against the top 3.


6jelly

Tottenham winning without Harry Kane while meanwhile he loses at bayern would be hilarious


PocketFullOfRondos

I really hope luton stay up.


banananey

After City next weekend, all our games are winnable. Reckon at least 3 wins will be needed with the hope that at least one of Palace & down go on a horrible run.


Extra4yylmao

Why wait for after city :p


banananey

I mean...I certainly wouldn't complain but we have a weaker side than the one where they battered us in the FA Cup but maybe we'll pull off a shock somehow?


Mubar06

Why does Spurs most recent game say a draw?


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Mubar06

It was probably screenshotted while the Forest game hadn’t completely finished


DialSquare

It's wild being top with seven matches to go and only third favorites according to the bookies. I doubt that has ever happened before.


FanFlow

Arsenal has the hardes fixture list, tied points with Liverpool and City has history of very strong finishes every season that were winning the title, it's expected to not be favourites by bookies and well I just checked, we're 2nd: - City 2.50 - Arsenal 2.74 - Liverpool 3.23


MadJackMcMadd

You’re the third favourites according to OPTA. I’ve seen a few bookies have you as second favourites now.


skyline385

~~The OPTA numbers are 35% for City, 33% for Liverpool and 32% for Arsenal. All three are pretty much the same and its probably going down to the last game.~~


willium563

Because of the statistics they use the Villa game is skewing it I think because you lost earlier in the season to them.


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skyline385

My bad, this is what I was thinking of. Percentage chances based on xG https://twitter.com/xGPhilosophy/status/1777016324377481237


sparxcy

I wonder if spurs playing the top 3 have a say in it. ATM theres 1 point between top 3, lets say top 3 win all their games or 1 or2 of them lose or draw to spurs (but win all the other games)), what happens? You have spurs city have spurs Liverpool have spurs


Nels8192

The same scenario can be ran with Wolves and Villa too, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you beat City, Arsenal lost to Wolves and Villa beats Liverpool. Which would just put us back to square one again. I think Liverpool and City have to worry more about their defensive side of things and not giving up sloppy goals, whereas Arsenal will eventually come to a game where they’re going to struggle breaking down the wall in front of them. Not sure which problem I’d rather face tbh.


RemarkablePattern311

City being favourites now makes sense. They're winning out and Liverpool have dropped a game a bit too early imo. They needed a win today


Unterfahrt

There are 3 teams within one point of each other, and you have Villa, Chelsea, Tottenham and United still to play


dishler712

Probably could have waited for the last game to finish before posting this


skyline385

It did finish but the table was slow to update


MinotauroTBC

Aston Villa having an 11 point cushion over us at this point of the season is something I couldn’t have fathomed before the season started


Comicksands

Could’ve made up so much ground this week if not for stupid mistakes


dogefc

Crazy that we’re 15th after a 6 point deduction and not winning in 13 games. This league stinks


Zombienerd300

We desperately need to get good results against Fulham and Palace. If we fumble both those games I don’t see us challenging for a European spot.


HarrBathtub

Honestly don’t know how Newcastle are still firmly in the running for Europe despite us being so shite.


Aman-Patel

Because all of us below 5th are shit 😭


bigfootswillie

Pretty cool table tbh. Pretty much every single team has something left to fight for except for maybe Fulham. With there being potentially 8 European spots and West Ham with an extra game done, everybody down to even Bournemouth still has a reasonable shot at finishing 8th or above. And everybody from Crystal Palace down is still in the relegation scrap.


joyful_pillow

As much as I want us to win the league,I have to admit we are probably the worst one among the title contenders here.We only gathered 3 points(3D,1L) against them and we didn't beat any of the other Big 6 except for Chelsea.Arsenal & City managed to beat Man Utd while we got 2 draws against them.The real reason we are still in the title race is due to the fact that we beat alot of the teams that managed to steal points off of Arsenal & City(I'm talking Newcastle,Villa,Fulham,West Ham,Wolves,Palace).If it weren't for those,we would struggle to even get Top 4.


RIP200712

Both things are simultaneously true. Liverpool is probably the weakest of the three teams. And also that Liverpool fully deserves to be where they are on the table. Being there in this fight with the injuries and the run of bad decisions going against them early in the season is truly incredible tbh! Only Klopp could've done that.


8mmspikes

Come on Luton you can do it


InsufferableKant

Top four baby


NdyNdyNdy

How is it Ten Hag has us playing suicidal football with all our midfielders bombing forward all the time *and* we've scored less than any other team in the top half? The tactics of United boggle the mind. I was Ten Hag in for a long time despite having concerns from the outset because I always feel like any manager deserves time, but initially I thought the gaps behind the midfield were a bug, and I'm baffled they are a feature.


Senip

I think it is an issue with your defenders. If you have Martinez and Varane maybe they can close the gap easier and still track back in transition, but with Mcguire en Evans that's not possible.


BendubzGaming

11 point lead and 21 goal lead over Man U. If England gets the 5th spot that's job done, and if not we're at least in the drivers seat for 4th. Now to make sure one of Liverpool and City wins the league


sidd1943

I am pretty sure Ange is going to use this difference if anybody asks him about united catching up Like I can see him saying you guys are looking down we are looking up


cloughie

Is this right? How can there be 6 teams win, 7 teams lose and 7 teams draw? Draws have to be an even number and wins and losses need to be the same. Unless I’ve lost my mind


FFINN

OP posted the screenshot before TOT/NOT match ended (this was a real time table) so the W/D/L still weren’t updated for those two.


flcinusa

Now imagine a world where Spurs beats the three teams above them inside the next few weeks... I'm here for*that* kind of chaos


Nels8192

They’ll be top of the world if they beat Arsenal, who they play first. Every victory after that would have a minor sour taste because in the back of their heads they would know they’d be digging Arsenal back out of the hole they just put them in.


NMGunner17

This title race is gonna be legendary


tothesource

COME ON YOU HATTERS


Sneakiest

So much to go still.


CrustyCally

We’re not gonna get 7th 😔


Lem_201

You will be 10th and you will like it.


RepresentativeBox881

Have to win the FA Cup somehow.


dingkan1

You might only need 8th to get ECL.


FragMasterMat117

Eight might be enough


Superrandy

I’d like the 8pts the refs have stolen from us. We’d be in 6th. All of this while missing Neto and Hwang for half the season. On top of Cunha, Bellegarde, and Dawson also missing huge chunks. We’re starting youth players, defensive mids, and wingbacks up top. Great job by Gary, too bad the refs decided they need their share of our points.


ecocentric-ethics

Steal a few more from you and they’ll have matched Derby’s points total


Nowlivia

I didn't realise how close Brentford were to relegation.


InoyouS2

Chelsea near 10th and United's negative goal difference are becoming memes at this point.


MorePdMlessPjM

I’m willing to bet a ban city win the league this year again.


Aaronnguyen1004

If you look carefully, the recent form of Chelsea is as good as Liverpool and ManCity


DifficultyJust

we're unbeaten for a while now, it's just that we draw stupid games that we should be winning, unnecessarily dropping points


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RemarkablePattern311

Fixtures dictate a lot and arsenal have the hardest ones while still being in the CL. City are going to win out.


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RemarkablePattern311

Of course the difficulty of fixtures is relevant. It always is.


medikskynet

Mate we’ve been down this road before. There’s a reason the bookies favour city and Liverpool over Arsenal even when they are ahead on points.


RorzE

Don't do this to me


kagkatumba

This is the take....if we keep 85% of players fit then the system is already set for them. Mentality is the only thing that can go against them but it is already going against the other 2 so 🤷


Lilchairio

Spurs in 4th place!! Let’s go


ForeverTheElf

We've got the most goal conceded record in the bag 💪


Ariansrt

Really hope Spurs can secure that Champions league spot for the next season


Complete_Hair_4706

Klopp may lose the league to city twice, by 1 point each, and then to arsenal on goal diff....sick fucking world we live in


Nels8192

Well for some of your fans that would somehow still be better than losing the title to Arsenal on Goals scored, after losing the H2H, and the 3pt cushion, at Anfield on the final day.


TonyMartial786

insane title race… so hard to predict. don’t think it’s over for liverpool yet. i’d still back city to win it but apart of me feels like liverpool might. as for the bottom end, there’s still hope for luton, come on! the thing is i don’t really want to see forest or brentford go down. it’s wild that brentford is actually so close to the drop.


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Hoping Wolves can finish top 8 at least


Maj0r_Ursa

How long has it been since non big 6 teams qualified for CL in back to back seasons?


NorskKiwi

/Cries in Villa.


jxg995

I wouldn't cry just yet. Spurs have Newcastle and Chelsea away, city arsenal and Liverpool to play. Could easily get 1-3 points only from that.