Relegation: Offical predictions thread.

[Jetfire]

For the first time ever the final week of the premiership has nobody who has already been religated. It's been a damn exciting month for anybody who is following it.

So which of the 4 will beat the drop?
Final weekends gaems are:

Charlton Athletic - Crystal Palace
Southampton - Manchester United
Fulham - Norwich City
West Bromwich Albion - Portsmouth

I think Southampton are screwed unless Man Utd really can't be arsed anymore which could be a possibility if Chelski end their 2nd place hopes and a FA cup final to concentrate on. A shame really as I've enjoyed Southampton .One of around 8 teams who have always been up since the premiership started. Another shame is Southampton actually have a good teamwhich is very good in places. A great foreard line, a good midfield and a great keeper. But a f##king useless defense.

Crystal Palace. They have a good chance. Johnson has been awesome all season but Charlton are a tough outfit to beat on their day.

Fulham. Norwich have the best chance. Fulham haven't been as good as they should be recently and Norwich have a point advantage if everybody loses.

West Brom. Nobody seems to care about them. Nobody likes them. Including me. No logical reason for this indifferance, but I feel nothing for them. But they probably have the best final game to win out of the 4, Pompay at home. Pompay are safe, have been crap since Reddnapp left and might give their fans what they would love, Southampton to go down. But only if they are really, really, really, reeeeeaaaally evil

I'm going for Norwich to stay up but would be happy if Palace (local) or Southampton (Fondness for their survival skillz for over a decade) were to stay up.

[Brendocon]

It's been a damn exciting month for anybody who is following it.

No it isn't. It's a ******* nightmare. It's like a plague. It's like a nightmare about a plague.

Norwich, West Brom and Palace have all taken points off Man Utd in the space of the last month or so. Sadly Saints' defence is shockingly bad and we have to adapt to not having Crouch.

Charlton have been abysmal, but they'll be up for a home derby match.
Fulham are capable of beating Norwich, especially at home, but they're also capable of just giving up.
West Brom won't enjoy going to Fratton Krap, but I wouldn't trust Portsmouth to let the sun rise in the east if they thought it would give 'arry a chance.

Southampton are more than capable of beating Man Utd on past history, no matter how bad we play - the 3-1 under Merrington, the 6-3 under that **** Souness, the 1-0 under Dave Jones c/o Kev Davies, and the 1-0 under Strachs thanks to Beattie in the last minute.

It's possible, but ******* unlikely.

Norwich deserve to stay up for sheer pluck. Saints deserve to go down for sheer ineptitude. Palace staying up would violate seven distinct laws of the universe. West Brom should be nuked off the face of the planet on principle.

I hate this entire thing. If we were already down I could take it. If we just had one team to worry about I could cope - been there loads of times.

At the moment, we can stay up IF we draw with Man Utd, Norwich lose, whilst Palace and West Brom don't win.

If we beat Man Utd, we just need Norwich to not win, and hope that Palace don't win by two more goals than us.

Cracking, ain't it? Sounds simple. I hate it.

It's the hope that hurts the most.

The small glimmer of possibility that means, if a myriad of unlikely things actually go your way, then maybe... just maybe things will work out. It's the small shaft of light that stops you from resigning yourself to a fate you know deep down is inevitable. The fact that your team can still mathematically stay up, but relies on the implausible-but-possible. That's what ******* hurts.

I hate hope.
I hate the word "if"
I hate West Bromwich Albion

[snarl]

Hmm... I thought Brom were ****, they are still in with a chance though.

I think it will be either Palace or Norwich, I hope it's one of them anyway. I hope we have Dean Ashton if Norwich go down.

Looks like we've **** up Europe now. Crapola!

[Impactor returns 2.0]

I think Southampton have a huge chance against United, as they dont seem bothered to do anything at the moment.

United two finnal games of the season are a bit of fun with Chelski, and of course the Cup finnal.

[Jetfire]

Well good luck to Southampton, Norwich and Palace.

I'd be happy for the Saint's (Rednapp and the fact they have a very good midefield and forwards), Norwich (Played posistive football all season) and Palace (Dowie is a great man and a great character and they are the team most local to me). I'd happy for any of these to stay up. Which means West brom might do it as they technically ahve the best final fixture out of the 4 and that will p### me off as I hate them. No real reason why, I just dislike them.

[snarl]

Saint's midfield is **** afaic.

The defence is ubershit.

[Jetfire]

Update its:

Saints/Utd 1-1.
Fulham 1 Norwich 0
West Brom/ Pompay 0-0
Palace/Charlton 0-1

As it stands Southampton will survive. Bound to change in the nest 50 mins or so.

[snarl]

Ooh, goals galore!

In the last 2 mins -

1-0 to the brom

1-1 for palace

1-2 to Man United

I want 1 of the new guys to survive anyway.

[Jetfire]

Well I'm seeing Southampton go down. Sad as only a few teams have survived longer in the top flight.

I think I'll be happier for Palace over Norwich to stay up. Only because of Ian Dowie as hes utter quality, both as a character and a manager.

however this woman.....:



...is equally as entertaining (for the wrong reasons of course) and her cook book is still the best and easiest to get right.

[Jetfire]

Final update. West brom are staying up.

The worst result in the relegation battle.

Still disapointed about I am I can switch off as I don't support any of the teams.

No. Birmingham beat us.......Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Still 2nd place. No to shabby a season for the Arsenal.

[Brendocon]

West Brom are cack.

Really.

I mean how the hell did they even get promoted? Does anybody actually know?

I'm proud of Saints, I really am. They've taken "throwing it away" to whole new levels this season.

2-1 up at Highbury with three of the two minutes of injury time played. Drew!
2-0 up against the Boro with 89 minutes on the clock. Drew!
2-1 up against a pony Everton with seconds left and the ball thirty yards out. Drew!
2-0 up at half time (and coasting!) against Aston "****" Villa. Lost!

The youth team walked their divison, and pretty much wrapped it up by Christmas. Plus into the cup final.

Then what happens? Prost goes in for a cancer op and Steve Wigley takes over. And what happens? They turn to ****. I don't think they won a single match after he took over. Lost the play-off final thanks to a flukey goal in the 119th minute of the second leg... then went down 1-0 to Blackburn in the league play-off semis.

What the [composite word including 'f*ck']?

At least the reserves came second.

But seriously... West Brom? How many points did they get all season? 12? And they stayed up with it? Ye gads.

Portsmouth throwing the match was the least surprising thing of the day, but Saints really didn't need their help to get relegated.

Goodbye to!
Anders Svensson
Jo Tessem
Henri Camara
Callum "useless" Davenport
Olivier Bernard
Graeme Le Saux
Jamie Redknapp
Aledianne Yahia

Hopefully Mikael Nilsson, sadly not Andy "I'm commited to the club, if not winning the ball" Jackobsson

Niemi, Phillips and Crouch are probably off in the summer. Not to fret, we have Paul "even Sven thinks he's good" Smith in goal, plus Marians is back (woot!) and even Fab Fernandes and Neil McCann will look good in the first division.

Oh, and Killer Svensson will return! wooha wooha wahey.

Still, it answers the question as to why Ormerod, Jones, Griffit, Folly, Best, Kenton, Baird and Blackstock spent most of the season in the Fizzy Leagues. Scouting out the division!

Oh, god. Kenton. I forgot him... he can [composite word including 'f*ck'] off, too.