Yorkie

Sorry aye, they're done, will post em later this afternoon.

Why are Hammers fans anti-Lopetegui? Wasn't he onto a really good thing with Wolves until they pissed around?

Yeah, I like Moyes but that's horseshit. No teams other than the bottom three have conceded more than West Ham. Most of them don't have Declan Rice either. Dead man walking.

A thorn adjacent to two roses.

Hopefully it'll mean the same thing with Man City punting the bald hag into orbit on cup final day.

My prediction at the beginning of the season was 9th, so I think it's a really good achievement to guarantee beating that. When we were in that dodgy spell over winter, it was always a case of: if we can just stay within touching distance of the European places - the kinder run-in will give us a fighting chance. We managed that; wins like Fulham (h) and Forest (a) were crucial and well-timed; drop points in them and we're really looking over our shoulder. Rescuing points from Luton (h) and Bournemouth (h) was vital too. It's been such a mammoth season but we've done really well to enable an "and it all comes down to this..." scenario from our final week.

Didn't see the games in-between but on the basis of this and our win, Spurs look like a side the opposite of what you'd call 'well drilled.'

Not sure how to feel about a Brighton win here. That'll be them buoyed ahead of our game, but by the same token I don't like facing decent sides who are due a win.

Obviously I'm optimistic that we can keep ahead of them but fuck me it won't half be depressing if Chelsea somehow sneak back into the top six. After all their mismanagement and the shitshow with the ownership (which would've been terminal for any club if you scaled it down to anything beneath than the 'elite'), it won't half stick in the craw if they come up smelling of roses, with barely five minutes of hardship. Horrible, shit club.

Would've been absolutely amazing had Tino somehow found him at the back post.

Heading to this one, hoping to make it 17 games in a row without seeing us lose at SJP (over 12 years ). I'm sure my luck will run out at some point but it had better not be at the weekend. Need to go into the Man Utd game with our tails up.

Man City (h) was a pen. Can't recall the other (s?) Ritchie's a top man. One of the best value signings in my lifetime.

Girona secure Champions League footy. Good for them.