The Round Ball Game

[cloughie]

Poor Cloughster.

I'll trade the defeat happily for a top 6 or even better top 2 in May.

[EdgeleyRob]

I'll trade the defeat happily for a top 6 or even better top 2 in May.

And finally

plastic dons 1 Chelsea 5 Easy peasy lemon squeezy

[teamsaint]

another great win for Leicester.

Just for once, the top of the PL is really interesting. Spuds still chalking up the wins.
And the Saints did the foxes a big favour too.

My lads were both at the Emirates tonight, so should be pretty happy with their nights work.

[johncorrigan]

another great win for Leicester.

Just for once, the top of the PL is really interesting. Spuds still chalking up the wins.
And the Saints did the foxes a big favour too.

My lads were both at the Emirates tonight, so should be pretty happy with their nights work.

Leicester flying high...terrific result.
...and I would like to suggest that Forster is already making a difference to the southern Saints, ts. Top stopper...and the other two guys you got from your northern nursery club are no mugs either, I would suggest.

[gurnemanz]

Re Palace - all gone quiet over here.

[Alison]

Yes thank you Saints !

Big win for Foxes.

[jayne lee wilson]

Yes thank you Saints !

Big win for Foxes.

Congratulations to them, and to you! Stunning strike by Vardy on the end of Route One....
Commentator-Praise was heaped on that lovely Barcelona-style Foxes' move but did it produce anything...? Relevant to....

So frustrating for Liverpool fans week in week out, fine passing & movement but poor finishing. Brittle, uncertain defence. But - imagine if a fit Sturridge had played the first half!..
Benteke can't fit in, Firmino fades in and out and yes, Klopp's working for the longer term, but I hope he has a goalscoring Plan B for the League Cup Final. Or the other cups, which we still have to get excited about! Put the youngsters back in for the Hammers, they showed great passing and movement and.... hmm, yes....

Leicester's next two games really could be definitive. Through those, their main worries are key injuries to the front two, or Kante - does Ranieri have the squad depth? And as always, that final run-in of the last 5 or 6 games. If they're in it with City and Arsenal, it will be ALL about pressure - who copes with the 1-0s the 1-1s, who stays cool & focussed, who just edges it the right way... Leicester remind me of Liverpool in 2014. Stunning fast attack, but we couldn't cope with that last few weeks, those last few games. I so hope Ranieri is a wiser fox than Brendan Rogers was then.

Just a slip or two away, we blew up while City plodded through to the title, game by dull game...as the Liverpool of the 70s and 80s often did... Claudio, Nota Bene...

[EdgeleyRob]

Sorry just results today folks,not had time to look up stats and match reports.

Everton 3 Newcastle United 0
Watford 0 Chelsea 0
Arsenal 0 Southampton 0 and/or
Leicester City 2 Liverpool 0 and
Crystal Palace 1 Bournemouth 2 and
Manchester United 3 Stoke City 0
Sheffield Wednesday 1 Burnley 1 I think
Harrogate Town 2 Stockport County 1
Partick Thistle 1 Motherwell 0

[Beef Oven!]

I fancy Leicester to beat City. Their away performances are so strong. 3-1 win for the Foxes is my prediction.

[EdgeleyRob]

Brighton 3 Brentford 0 Convincing win after a poor run of form,promotion bid back on track
home team 1 Leicester City 3 Oh how we enjoyed that,Foxes have lost just 1 of their last 16 away games
Liverpool 2 Sunderland 2 Threw away the win after being 2-0 up then conceding 2 in the last 8 mins
Newcastle United 1 West Brom 0 Improved display takes Toon out of the bottom 3
Swansea City 1 Crystal Palace 1 Secured the point with an equaliser just after the break,ending a run of 5 straight defeats
Southampton 1 West Ham United 0 Early goal sealed the points and a 4th win in 5 despite playing most of the 2nd half with 10 men
Birmingham 1 Sheffield Wednesday 2 Super away win,2 goals in 3 2nd half minutes,in the top 6 at last
Bristol Rovers v Wimbledon was postponed
Northampton Town 2 York City 0 Miserable afternoon v the top of the table side,red card early in the 2nd half,remain bottom
Notts County v Hartlepool United was postponed
Wrexham 2 Forest Green Rovers 2 Came back from a goal down at half time to lead 2-1 then conceded on 94 mins
Stockport County v Hednesford Town was postponed
Hemel Hempstead Town v Chelmsford City was postponed
Wealdstone 4 Truro City 4 Amazing game,Truro went 4-0 down in the 48th min,completed the comeback with 3 goals in the last 9 mins
St Mirren 1 Queen of the South 0 Scored in the 25th min to seal back to back wins
Berwick Rangers 2 East Stirlingshire 2 Salvaged a pont after going behind twice to their relegation threatened rivals

FA Vase 5th round

Hartley Wintney 1 Hereford 4

Scottish Cup 5th round

Dundee United 1 Partick Thistle 0 A game of few chances played in poor conditions,conceded on 85 mins
Motherwell Inverness 1 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 2 Winning at half time but were pegged back,won it in the 91st min

Bournemouth v Arsenal,Chelsea v Manchester United and Port Vale v Coventry are tomorrow

[johncorrigan]

I fancy Leicester to beat City. Their away performances are so strong. 3-1 win for the Foxes is my prediction.

I hope you got down to the bookies in time, Beefy...you could be raking it in tonight after that great Leicester win...every team needs a Huth.

Not a bad day for a few of the Board teams today. Believe it or not the Buddies are now 4 points off the play-offs.

Thanks Rob.

[Alison]

Don't have BT sport so really looking forward to MOTD. EnJoyed the radio commentary. Perhaps the high point of the season so far.

Well done John, let's take a look at the league tables again ....

[teamsaint]

sounds like things are turning round for the Buddies.play offs would be great.

Thanks for the round up ER.
I was at a very wet and windy SMS for a nail biter. Sending off looked pretty harsh, but we defended exceptionally well, and won the game with a really nice goal.
A generally very annoying performance from Mark Clattenberg, one of those refs Saints fans dread getting.

game was a good adrenalin level raiser though.

and what a season it is in the PL.

Leicester now the bookies favourites, and most of the country willing them on. I hope Alison has her tickets booked up for a few visits.

[teamsaint]

Don't have BT sport so really looking forward to MOTD. EnJoyed the radio commentary. Perhaps the high point of the season so far.

Well done John, let's take a look at the league tables again ....

hope you have a nice glass of something to celebrate a great win Alison.
I managed to see a bit of the game on an internet stream, and Leicester were cruising.

[jayne lee wilson]

Unhappy day at Anfield (again...)..
2-0 up after 69 minutes, some fans staged a (questionable) 77th-minute ticket-price-protest walkout.... score finishes 2-2. Klopp in hospital with appendicitis, Lovren and Allen injured (again...)...
Apart from all that, things are looking, er....interesting. As in "teamsheet for Tuesday should be interesting..."

This night owl dragged herself out of bed for coffee & croissants & Leicester away to.... The Citizens (that one OK, Edge...?). How steely cool the Foxes looked. Just one 87th-minute wobble at 3-1, and even Aguero picked the wrong shot (I like Michael Owen's use of the word "recycle" for what strikers pushed wide should do instead of attempting to score from impossible angles).

Watching Vardy's style or gait - flatfooted whippet with a coathanger in his shoulders - I was reminded of - who was that? Finally I got it - anyone recall Derek Randall, cricketer for Notts and England?

But the SkyBlues were in their too-familiar listless mode, the one which helped Liverpool to that 4-1 victory at the Etihad and gave us fond illusions of "doing a Leicester"....
Oh, happy days....

Touched by some of the home fans holding a banner with Pellegrini on it which read "This Charming Man"....all say ahhhh...
But Pellegrini, near the end, wore the look of Peter O'Toole as King Priam, grimacing as Troy burns....