Heartland

Should have put this here yesterday but the inlaws arrived a day early.
Fill in your own witty bits. I'll be out with them and my best behaviour trying not to lose either of them.
We've already 'agreed' not to talk politics

Morning.
Massive hangover, but should shake it off before the Palace match.
Scores will be up shortly

edit: Scores on the doors are up

So Sunderland are relegated after 10 years in the top flight

Aguero & Jesus!
I knew I did something right with my picks this week

North London Derby next. COYS!
Last one at the Lane.
And a big one for the title race. I've got two players in this as well.

Another hugely dodgy penalty for Utd too!!!!

Swinnow wrote:Another hugely dodgy penalty for Utd too!!!!

Very. Rashford should have got a card for simulation TBH. He was on the floor before Fabianski got near him & Fabianski even pulled his arms out of the challenge.

what a lovely afternoon

emilystrange wrote:what a lovely afternoon

I had an idea you might be happy with that

still only 4 points behind Chelsea. keeping the title within reach and 3 GW to go was for me slightly more important than stuffing Arsenal. that was nice, but there's a bigger picture...

if we don't do it, i'll still be proud of my boys! Catching Chelsea was always going to be waiting for them to slip up, tbh

i'm enjoying looking at my points total for once. 1 player to go!

emilystrange wrote:i'm enjoying looking at my points total for once. 1 player to go!

& I see the Roker Roar is fairing somewhat better than Sunderland

is that difficult?

emilystrange wrote:is that difficult?

Oooh!
Zinger!

Oh great. Coutinho off injured after 13 minutes

Nobody said "oh, great" in my house, the language was far more choice lol

Swinnow wrote:Nobody said "oh, great" in my house, the language was far more choice lol

Yep. But "oh great" doesn't invoke the asterisk fairy at least.

Poetry in motion.

my word. that was a GOAL.

Get out of jail card used at the end, phew

Not a lot of goals this week, but some quality strikes amongst those that did find the net.
Not happy with the new level of diving that's going on.

yet another below-the-average points haul. down to 21st which is about where ai started.

Thoughts with Aaron Lennon and his family, get well soon and be strong.

Swinnow wrote:Thoughts with Aaron Lennon and his family, get well soon and be strong.

Indeed. Great Leeds player - happy to have him back any time. Kia kaha bro.

A heartfelt 'we're with you' for Aaron Lennon and his family. It's a long journey from where he is now, and a slow one, so best wishes for a smoother upward journey than a down.


This GW started with a rather dull Saturday and few goals - first time that MOTD has started with a 0-0. The goal that really counted was King's for Bounemouth, sending Sunderland down as the first Premiership casualty this year. The others are still all to play for. I suppose Tadic's missed penalty livened things up.
Sunday was a little more exciting. Swansea, bless 'em, contained MU to a 1-1 draw to help them and embarrass JoMouth. If he doesn't stop humiliating his players in public he's going to get several mouthfuls back. Everton got stuffed by Chelksi, sadly, but Cahill scored so I mustn't grumble too much in FPL terms. In RL, he should have stayed at home The other Mancs only managed a draw too, which is not good enough against Middlesborough for them. Spurs of course did a smashing job and kept the Strange sofa inhabitants awake after a day of being OUTSIDE.
Watford/Liverpool, though, provided the best moments with Can's brilliant goal, so good that i watched it on tv then went to the ipad, cos there's a delay of a couple of minutes. You can watch live stuff twice! The build up alone was worth a second look - good to see Lallana back and on sparkling form.
Just had a look at the yellow cards - only the Palace and Southampton games had less than four bookings, with Middlesbrough/Man C clocking up 8. Decided I didn't care much for Monreal.

Let me see... here's the table, showing a close score this week but still no win for IGM. Large range of individual scores too - not a predictable week at all!



The Yellow Jersey remains with Damage Dunfermline along with the Crown:




The Big Shout Out for 80 points goes to The Roker Roar - a bittersweet week?



GW36 will be over at the Shed soon. It starts tomorrow - be warned!

Love and Rockets
Ems

the H2H table: