Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Mon Apr 14, 2014 11:18 pm  

Off the top of my head I think the record number of wins in a row is 11. Man United hold the record.

I do think if Liverpool win the league it's definitely the best ever PL title win.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Mon Apr 14, 2014 11:23 pm  

I'm a big liar.

Arsenal won their last 13 games in a row to win the 01/02 title. They also won the first game the next season, so that 14 wins in a row is the record, and also to win the title.

And talking of records, Liverpool are 10 short of Chelsea's record of 103 goals with 4 games to play. A lot of Chelsea fans really don't want Liverpool taking that record. For me you can have it as long as we win the league.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Mon Apr 14, 2014 11:41 pm  

Liverpool have won the league. Chelsea and City will drop points, Liverpool won't.

They deserve it too, as much as I hate to see it happen. The likes of City and Chelsea are guilty of thinking they are vastly superior and rotating their squad every week. Liverpool don't, it's the same team each week.

What I think it funny is that there are no accusations that Liverpool are or have bought the title. I read today that they are set to announce losses of £100m over 2 years. That's a staggering figure.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Tue Apr 15, 2014 12:12 am  

Saddened! wrote:

Liverpool have won the league. Chelsea and City will drop points, Liverpool won't.

They deserve it too, as much as I hate to see it happen. The likes of City and Chelsea are guilty of thinking they are vastly superior and rotating their squad every week. Liverpool don't, it's the same team each week.

Liverpool have played 39 games so far this season. Chelsea 51 and City 52 (and they have 2 league games to catch up on).

Man City have played 4 games away in Europe, Chelsea have played 6 games in Europe.

You've got to rotate players if you're involved in Champions League campaigns. Liverpool haven't been in Europe and went out of the cups very quickly.

See how manage if they try doing this next season.

What I think it funny is that there are no accusations that Liverpool are or have bought the title. I read today that they are set to announce losses of £100m over 2 years. That's a staggering figure.

That figure is not allowed under FFP. They're not being audited this year because they haven't been in Europe.

UEFA are making an announcement over clubs that have failed FFP this week. Man City and PSG are supposed to 2 of the clubs to have breached FFP. What they do about it will determine whether FFP lives IMO.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Tue Apr 15, 2014 5:25 am  

Uefa are desperate to keep the European Commission on board with FFP. They can only do that by reserving serious punishments for teams that don't pay the bills or make sustained losses without making any attempt to become profitable. They can't use FFP to prevent new owners investing to break into the cartel. City will be profitable this year. If City are found to be in breach by more than the value of pre June 2010 contracts, they'll probably face a transfer embargo and then FFP will be sorted in the courts

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Tue Apr 15, 2014 5:09 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Liverpool have won the league. Chelsea and City will drop points, Liverpool won't.

Cheslea have won the league, liverpool and city will drop points, chelsea won't.

City have won the league, chelsea and liverpool will drop points, city won't.

It's still so difficult to call, and will probably go to the last game of the season with all 3 still able to win it.

If chelsea go to liverpool and mourinho their asses so it ends a draw, city show their class at everton and win all their other games (4 are home game bankers), city win. City still stand a very very good chance but because you look at the table and see a 7 point gap, plus the fact one of theirmain rivals just beat them it's easy to be clouded by this.

For liverpool to win they'll need to equal the PL record of wins on the trot, I'm not sure how likely that is. I feel like one of their last 4 games will be a draw, with the most likely being the chelsea game.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Tue Apr 15, 2014 5:26 pm  

Right now Liverpool are favourites, Cith 2nd favourites and Chelsea 3rd.

I have absolutely no idea what order they will end the season in.

I don't see Liverpool winning all 4 remaining games. I don't see Chelsea winning all 4 remaining games. I can see Man City winning all their 6 games, but given their penchant for bottling I can also see them slipping up.

My best guess would by 1. Liverpool 2. Man City 3. Chelsea.

But I definitely know that Jose Mourinho has the capacity to win a league and CL double with this Chelsea team too.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Tue Apr 15, 2014 7:24 pm  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

Right now Liverpool are favourites, Cith 2nd favourites and Chelsea 3rd.

I have absolutely no idea what order they will end the season in.

I don't see Liverpool winning all 4 remaining games. I don't see Chelsea winning all 4 remaining games. I can see Man City winning all their 6 games, but given their penchant for bottling I can also see them slipping up.

My best guess would by 1. Liverpool 2. Man City 3. Chelsea.

But I definitely know that Jose Mourinho has the capacity to win a league and CL double with this Chelsea team too.

If it wasn't for hose mourinho I wouldn't have given this chelsea team a prayer. Not that they are a poor team, far from it, they just don't have the strike power up front citeh and 'pool have.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:14 pm  

So that's City out of it then.

Re: Football Chat Thread PART II : Wed Apr 16, 2014 10:40 pm  

They're not out of it, just slipped to third favourites now.

Just shows that points have to be earned. Both games tonight were pretty much considered points already won for Everton and Man City. Everton lose and City draw, both causing massive damage.

Delighted that results shoved Pellegrini's stupid words down his throat.