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I saw it mentioned Forest scored 7 in an away game in the 90s. Which I Googled - a 7-1 win at Sheffield Wednesday in 1995.

Fucking hell the final day was goal crazy. Quite brilliant in a way.

Wonder how different it would've been if the ref had penalised that foul by Lovren on Bamford, which he should've done tbh.

No wonder Watford are getting rid of Mazzarri if dross like this has been their regular fare of late.

Huddersfield Town one win from the Premier League. And to think a fair few pundits said they'd be lucky to stay in the Championship in pre-season. Still, would be quite something to see them in the top flight.

So a Chinese bookies that used to sponsor Burnley are the new shirt sponsors... not sure that's a big improvement on Wonga tbh. But then over half the league has a bookmaker as a shirt sponsor by now, even moreso with Everton gaining one too.

Wow that Ayew double miss was brilliant. How the fuck did he miss?

Yeah - Phelan didn't do that badly given what he had to work with in terms of the boardroom inertia up there, but that situation and the lateness of Bruce's forced departure meant Hull were always facing a slog of a season. And yeah, Silva did...

Silva would probably have kept Hull up had he been there for the whole season, but that summer of nothing, their poor first half to the season and consistently shit away form means nowhere else to go I guess. 2 of the bottom 3 I'm not really surpris...

Some NUFC fans flew a banner with "United By Cancer, Divided By Leagues" over the Sunderland game... I mean, its one thing that banter can embrace coarse humour or bad taste, but this feels like its way too far.

Were Forest not similarly ready to bleat about winning the Champions League/European Cup?

They've had a weird season, Man U. Long unbeaten run that was north of 25 games in the PL, mainly cohesive style, most of their new signings have looked good, could well end up winning the Europa League, and yet they've been oddly shit at gettin...

Never in doubt we'd pull it off To be fair its a huge slap in the face for Brighton in the way they lost it, but they seem to have taken their foot off the gas since winning promotion. It sucks for them but its the way it is, and at least, like us,...

And if it wasn't before Assombalonga made it 3, it definitely is too far for Ipswich now.

It looks like Blackburn's biggest hopes now is on Bristol rather than on Ipswich.

Gotta love Portsmouth being champions after only leading League Two for the final half an hour of the season. Better than when Bristol Rovers were relegated to the Conference after only spending a similar time in the bottom two all season I guess.

If Chelsea fail to win the league from here, it might will be the choke of a lifetime.

Its completely fucking dumb, but the Football League seem so good at doing stupid shit just to make it look like they're doing something.

Top 6 decided in the Championship, with Leeds missing out, Wigan down, Forest/Blackburn/Birmingham as the possible teams joining them. I was neutral on that front, but Redknapp annoys me and I still think sacking Rowett for Zola was a whopper of a blunde...

Only so long you can dodge the drop before you fall through it I guess. I remember on here years ago it was suggested Moyes would be a decent option to replace Pardew... thank fuck that didn't happen. Although granted we went for the equally shit op...

I mean, its never dull around Newcastle United, is it? I'm still not entirely sure of the details, and it might not have helped the first I saw of it was [ur=http://newsthump.com/2017/04/26/west-ham-and-newcastle-united-raided-by-police-after-fraud...

I'm mainly bemused that Barton made so many bets on teams he played for (or their reserve teams) and lost almost every time.

I doubt that total's being broken for a long time, but in saying that, the squad as it currently is needs a lot of work to be PL ready.

Well, it might not have been via the easy route, but Premier League promotion achieved. Thank fuck for that.

One win from the Premier League... feels good to say that. Leyton Orient out of the Football League for the first time in 112 years... doesn't really feel right saying that. But bravo to their owner for finding the perfect way to all-but dismantle a...

Its a sink or swim moment for anything not full-on right wing, and given how the last 10 years have been going in general for anything left of Thatcher even without the Brexit vote, I don't really fancy the chances.

Least Jacob Butterfield via a whopping deflection stopped the day from being an absolute disaster. So... 7 clear of Huddersfield and 6 of Reading with 3 to play and goal difference advantages of 30 on both. And I still can't fucking relax due to how...

To be fair if we hadn't slipped up against Rovers twice (and Fulham twice and Sheffield Wednesday twice), we'd have 6 more points and would be in an infinitely more relaxed position.

Fuck me we're choking.

Sooner Ciaran Clark returns the better. Not a sentence I thought I'd be saying in August when he was apparently signed as back-up.

Its been a weird season really - seems to be the trend that we have won games where we play badly (unless its against Fulham or Sheffield Wednesday) then fail to win games we dominate. Yesterday is irritating, but its still in our own hands - 2 more wins...

How the fuck did we not win that?

I guess I can see why the ref thought it might be a red but it was much more of a yellow.

That's the case for Brighton if they beat Wolves and Huddersfield lose. For us, I think it would have been the case if we'd drawn yesterday, let alone won, that promotion would be secured on Friday through those mechanics. But I think if we bea...

Can't really take positives from that tbh. Still 10 clear of Huddersfield at least though.

For some reason I thought he was PL accredited. Apparently not since 2010. But either way, its bad enough the PGMOL released a statement of apology for fucking up, which is probably the first time a ref has done that in years - I recall a ref doing that...

So... what the fuck happened in the Newcastle-Burton game with Ritchie's penalty? I can only judge from Twitter but it sounds like some absurd interpretation of the rules. And 3 minutes added time given the referee took 6 to disallow the goal is the...

Says a lot for how shit Gillingham's defence is to have scored twice as many goals and be below Oldham on goal difference.

So... 10 points clear of third with 7 to play after yesterday. Its going to be a tough & ludicriously busy month first, but the path to getting auto (for me, the minimum goal, although the title would be nice) is becoming much much clearer. Good day....

That is a magnificent miss by Adam Lallana. Not been watching for long but I gather Man City had a similar moment in the first half.

I mean... as if flying biplanes over football wasn't bizarre enough, now apparently we have to have cover all angles for fuck's sake. Its an unusual one but as McClean was not obstructing anyone, interfering with the ball, and was behind Ospi...

I mean, a 0-0 draw at Birmingham to mean its now 3 without a win is not great, dubiously disallowed goal or not. But at the least we're 7 clear of third. Oh I see. I wasn't aware of the illness running through the squad. But I can certainly im...

I do wonder if Huddersfield's rhythm was disrupted last night knowing one of their own players was in such an awful way after such extensive on-pitch treatment. Early reports I've seen look like its not as serious and that Hogg is in a stable co...

I'm really puzzled by what Middlesbrough were hoping to achieve by seemingly trying to play for a 0-0 every week. Maybe Karanka is one of those managers better suited to the Championship.

You can probably ask that question every weekend he doesn't get a yellow to be fair.

Yedlin getting injured is of concern, given he seems more consistent at right back than Anita, and Gamez will be rusty from spending most of the campaign out of the firing line. Whatever happened to Achraaf Lazaar anyway?

I'm not entirely sure of the "Shelvey's at fault for all 3" line. Did badly to not cut out the pass to Cairney for number one, sure, but there are more players I'd blame for 2 (The obvious one is Dummett, although neither CB wakes...

Seems about right that 7 points from the big 3 away games is followed up by a shit home result and display.

Sky saying he's interested. Guessing he'll be there for next weekend. Maybe for him its best to try the 2nd tier after how bad Palace's league form was in 2016, but it'll most probably go the same way - promotion form in half of next...

So, at 1pm, Norwich's manager did his press conference the day before their game with Blackburn, and then by 7pm, he's fired. While they've been crap for most of the time since that game at St. James' Park in September, they seem to h...