The race for 1st,2nd,3rd or 4th (delete as appropriate)

i would rather hold onto modric than bale lads.

i think when he plays well he makes spurs tick. i know he has been a little below pa lately but how many times has bale been similar.

just my opinion

1-2 now vermalen with a bullet header

Forget it, Arsenal will easily win that one. We need not worry about them anyway, it's Newcastle we need to worry about, and maybe Chelsea if the way they played yesterday was anything to go by.

In Martinez we trust !!

Plenty of twists and turns yet lads, we have to go the QPR Saturday and that will not be easy considering the way we are playing.

tippspur wrote: »

Wigan !!

Trouble with Arsenal is that they always try and walk it in!;);)

Wow what a result, Wigan looked like they could score every time they went forward. Arsenals defence is wider than Jordans legs, usually they out score teams but not tonight.

Martinez could may well have a big future, the system they played last night was flawless. There’s nothing I enjoy more than seeing Wenger flipping the lid.

mickman wrote: »

people were also complimenting the system he played against united. he must know a thing or two alright

Very true, and they were mighty unlucky against Cheski. It’s rare that wenger comes unstuck in a tactical battle. He was helpless on the touch line berating the fourth official.

Can’t see Chelsea winning that game what with Barca on Wednesday. A draw is the best they could hope for?

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

Considering chelski are now leading barca do we have a definitive answer as to what happens champions league places if they win the competition but finish outside too 4 ?

Re. Liverpool 2005 - 2006 - Five eligible clubs for four available places

England’s high country coefficient allowed the maximum number of teams (four) to be entered into the Champions League competition. In the 2004–05 season, five English teams had qualified under the previous UEFA guidelines for the competition: Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United and Everton, who had finished in the top four places in the Premier League; and Liverpool, who had won the Champions League. The choice of which team to be excluded (either fourth-placed finishers Everton or Champions League winners Liverpool) fell to the FA, which was given this authority by the version of Champions League Regulation 1.03 then in force.

At the request of the national association concerned, the UEFA Champions League title holders may be entered for this competition, as an additional representative of that association, if they have not qualified for the UEFA Champions League via the top domestic league championship. If, in such a case, the title holders come from an association entitled to enter four teams for the UEFA Champions League, the fourth-placed club in the top domestic league championship has to be entered for the UEFA Cup.

This situation was unusual but neither unprecedented nor unforeseen. Real Zaragoza finished fourth in La Liga in 1999–2000, but went into the UEFA Cup because Real Madrid, who finished fifth, were given Spain's fourth Champions League place as reigning champions. Indeed, the FA itself foresaw the same situation arising in the 2003–04 season and released a statement on 10 March 2004 that if Arsenal or Chelsea won the Champions League, but failed to finish in the top four Premier League spots, they would nonetheless be automatically entered in the next year's competition and the fourth placed Premier League team placed in the UEFA Cup.

A year later, the FA decided that the top four finishing teams in the Premier League would be entered into the Champions League regardless of Liverpool’s Champions League triumph. When the inconsistency was pointed out to the FA, the FA pulled the previous year's statement from its website, and promised that an explanation would follow. In the event, no explanation was forthcoming.

If Chelsea win the CL the team that finishes 4th forfeit entry into next seasons Champions league, assuming Chelsea finish outside the top 4.