We're used to seeing fans moved to tears at the prospect of their team dropping out of the Premier League. But relegation doesn't seem to have hit this Wigan fan too hard. He's up for a laugh with fellow supporters. And is he asking that steward if he can head for the exit now the [...]
In May of 2009 with two games to go, we all thought we were sitting pretty in 4th bottom place, but above Hull City on goal difference, and we had just gained 3 points on Hull City when we beat Middlesbrough 3-1 at home on a Monday night. Alan Shearer couldn't save us four [...]
Sunderland and Stoke draw is good news for Arsenal by FD
This is a particularly unpredictable end of season at the bottom of the Premiership. Recent results have dragged teams who probably considered themselves out of danger only a few weeks ago back into relegation contention, and tonight's share of the points between Sunderland and Stoke City didn't help to make the situation any clearer.
1. David Luiz is trying to develop a tabloid persona as 'the Smirker'. 2. It's getting tight at the bottom. 3. 'Agh win it late, C!' is an appropriate anagram of Wigan Athletic after Callum McManaman's late winner against West Brom. 4. Indeed, it was a day for late lifelines at both ends of the [...]
Out of the seven Premier League matches today, six of them could have huge implications on the race for Europe and/or relegation. The only dead rubber is Fulham against Reading, where the fate of both clubs is already sealed.
Depending on your persuasions, the biggest matches of the day could either be the battle to avoid relegation (West Ham vs Newcastle, West Brom vs Wigan and Norwich vs Aston Villa) or the race to finish in the top four in order to qualify for the Champions League (Spurs vs Southampton, Swansea vs Manchester City, QPR vs Arsenal).
The world of football is upside down. Barca are thumped, the German's are all the Champion's League and we lose Harry while possibly gaining Steve Bruce. Doesn't make sense.
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Steven Gerrard and Daniel Sturridge of Liverpool (Image via LFC Official Facebook)
In my weekly column on SWOL, I take a look back at the weekend's English Premier League and domestic cup action and the talking points that it throws up, as well as any significant news related to English football at large.
It's been huge news over the weekend that Liverpool can score goals without Luis Suarez, and that Newcastle United, who finished 5th last season and almost reached the semi-finals of the Europa League this season, could be relegated next month. Mike Ashley must be feeling anxious And we all know that could be the [.
It's almost that time of year again. Clubs at the wrong end of the table are starting to fret; supporters are getting anxious and take to Twitter. Managers' palms - well, of those managers who haven't been sacked - are sweating a little more ... The specter of the drop starts to loom, as the freshness of the early season is but a distant memory, long ago having given way to the reality of not having accumulated enough points.
Earlier today we brought you some entertaining pictures of David Luiz wearing a Chelsea Pensioner's outfit to his fancy dress birthday party. What we didn't realise at the time was that QPR goalkeeper Julio Cesar attended his compatriot's bash, presumably dressed as Luiz. That meant that, in the week that QPR virtually ensured their relegation [.
Goals from Peter Crouch and a penalty from Jonathan Walter's ended Stoke's dismal run of 7 consecutive defeats as the Potter's all but ended and Harry Houdini act as QPR went down 2-0 at home.
Jonas Gutierrez has been interviewed in the Daily Mirror and he says it's been his worst week ever, and the hammering by Sunderland last Sunday which shocked and angered Newcastle fans, was even worse than relegation four years ago. Jonas Gutierrez worst week ever at Newcastle The Argentine winger says he has stayed at [.
This was the worst possible result for Newcastle and the the 3-0 loss to Sunderland this afternoon does nothing for our relegation safety at all, and makes our goal difference a terrible -17. Papiss Cisse in action this afternoon This was the first Sunderland win against Newcastle since October 25th of 2008 our relegation [.
Everton take on Queens Park Rangers on Saturday in a must win game for both teams. Everton are six points off a Champions League place and need to win to keep up the pressure on the London trio above them while QPR, seven points from safety, need the points to keep alive their already slim hopes of playing Premier League football next season.
Usually at this point in the season, the relegation battle is heating up in the English Premier League.
However, this season two of the three clubs that are to be sent down to the Championship have basically been determined after the last set of results this weekend.
I'm not the only one who cannot believe Newcastle's massive change of fortune from last season to this and although we haven't used the R word yet Alan Pardew has today admitted that we are in a relegation scrap but he hopes the lads can get us out of it before the [...]
It's official. The season of 2011/ 12 was the best audiences had been treated to in a long while according to the Premier League. It had it all! Relegation battles, controversy, fights for European places and a thrilling final day decider, which meant Manchester City found themselves in a position needing a win against QPR to seal their first premiership title in 44 years (and more importantly get one over on their city rivals, Manchester Utd).
Welcome to the first edition of the football fan-vote, where we take a step back and let you control the front page. The Sports Bulletin team has been busy weaving a series of short surveys between the daily football news items to build the ultimate guide to the Premier League season, through the eyes of the people who matter most, the fans.
It was hugely surprising to learn of the recentpremier league newslast week that Alan Pardew had been handed an eight year deal to stay on as Newcastle manager until 2020. Now in this day and age, we all know just how volatile a managerial hot-seat is – Opta index and their latestfootball magazinesay that since the start of the Premier League in 1992 the average tenure of a Premier League manager is 701 days.
All royalties from this title will go to Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research Diagnosed with leukaemia in November 2008, Chris Todd tells the story of this period of his life in diary form. It is a personal, honest and often humorous account of a leukaemia sufferer's battle with this life-threatening disease, and also of Chris's career [.
Arsenal must beat Wigan but a win would help our rivals by FD
It does your head in. You've got twenty clubs each playing 38 matches over the course of a long Premier League season, and yet we always seem to arrive at the final stages of the campaign with the remaining fixtures contriving to throw up a set of possible permutations only an evil and twisted mastermind could have devised.
It may be a crucial game for Arsenal tomorrow in terms of reaching the Champions League, but for Wigan it is even more important as they are fighting for their Premiership lives. Roberto Martinez has performed miracles to keep them in the top flight over the last few years, and he is fully expecting to do the same thing this time around.
One match nearer, and it doesn't get any easier. After an uncomfortable evening watching Arsenal hold on for a crucial victory against QPR, thoughts turn to our next game when Wigan visit the Emirates.
At this stage of the season, it's all about getting the points, so I'm not going to get too concerned about performances.
The highly-talented French striker Loic Remy has been linked with Arsenal for many years but when he finally moved to the Premiership in January it was to our London rivals QPR, amid fears that he was injury prone.
Remy has since been very vocal in making it clear that he didn't want to leave Marseille (never mind to join QPR) in January, and would have preferred to show his best form at the French giants before moving to England.
The close season is traditionally a time where clubs jettison their weak players, replacing
them with footballers with the skill to take the club one step further, whether that be to qualify
or European competition or avoid another year's relegation struggle. With that in mind I thought it
would be interesting to see which clubs decided a wholesale change would be preferable to keeping
faith with the players who toiled their way through the 2011/2012 season.
Relegation has a habit of creeping up on you. Throughout the closing weeks of the season, the natural disposition of the football supporter is to look up the table, to calculate how many matches are going to result in three points, and often to studiously ignore the evidence of our own eyes. We know that the team has been out of sorts for most of the last eight months, but we hope amongst hopes that they will find reserves of something from somewhere and will manage to turn it around.
At least, for the supporters of AFC Wimbledon, the task ahead was clear. The way that the fixture calendar fell elsewhere meant that, even though they went into Saturday's final round of matches in League Two in one of the division's relegation places, a win at home against mid-table Fleetwood Town would ensure their survival at the end of a season which has proved to be a struggle for the club that took just nine years to proceed from the Combined Counties Football League to the Football League.
Only a few weeks into his new Match of the Day pundotry gig, and good ol' Henry James Redknapp
has been lured back into the crazy world of football proper, courtesy of an 'advisory role' with
AFC Bournemouth.
With Major League Soccer set to start the 2013 season this weekend, I felt it was time to suggest some resolutions for the forthcoming season. Some of these might not be acceptable to some (or maybe a large amount) of MLS fans, but I am of the opinion that trying to abide by these resolutions would result in the 2013 MLS season being an enjoyable season, for us all.
Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini has conceded Josip Ilicic could leave the club after they were relegated to Serie B. The Rosanero lost 1-0 Fiorentina on Sunday to seal their demotion to Italy's second tier after nine seasons in Serie A. Their relegation has placed the futures of a number of star players in doubt, most notably Slovenia defender Ilicic.
Italian Serie A Relegation Clock Set To Countdown is a post from: Serie A Weekly Italian Serie A Relegation Clock Set To Countdown is a post from: Serie A Weekly We are heading into my favourite part of the season, the crowning of the Scudetto winner. In Italian Serie A four games remain from season end but odds are leaders Juventus should wrap up the title when they meet relegation candidates.
I must admit that I have not followed the Danish league in detail for ages. Living abroad, with plenty of work and with outstanding leagues to watch in South America, North America and Europe, the Danish league falls a bit in the background. And the fact that my favourite side, Brondby, has been at the bottom for a couple of years has not helped on the desire to follow the Danish "Super" league.
Panic has set in among many boardrooms over the past few weeks as chairmen roll the dice for the last time in the hope that a change in manager will be enough to turn fortunes around in the latter stages of the football season and in most cases, avoid relegation! March saw a total of [...]
Real Sporting de Gijón is a Spanish soccer team from Gijón, Asturias. The club currently plays in the Spanish Segunda División or Liga Adelante following its relegation from La Liga...
AS Monaco: Relegation, Ranieri, Russian billions...Revolution? is a post from: Just Football
AS Monaco: Relegation, Ranieri, Russian billions...Revolution? is a post from: Just Football Having been relegated in 2011 the road back to prominence has proved tougher than AS Monaco might have imagined.
