Dan

I put two bets on the other week as insurance against us collapsing which were Leeds 1st Ipswich 2nd, and Ipswich 1st Leeds 2nd. So naturally, obviously, Southampton are going to do it.

I still eat pizza here. Well aware it isn't the same as having it in Italy but it isn't like you can't have what's generally a nice dish that's quite hard to get completely wrong. I'll always unfortunately be a sucker for that greasy meat feast pizza. Probably explains quite a lot. Very much on the anti pineapple bandwagon though. Just thoroughly unpleasant.

A wise man told me similar before your game with Ipswich. I'm beyond wanting favours. We've had more than we could've bargained for lately and not taken advantage. It's almost shameful that we still have the ability to lose a game and have the title in our hands.

Fantastic achievement. Cannot be understated. This isn't a great Bayern side but I think even great Bayern sides would've struggled against these this season.

If we go up it'll be about as joyless a promotion as you can get. A shame almost being wasted on us.

Two of the worst back to back displays ive witnessed from us have somehow seen us get closer to promotion. It's astounding.

How low can we actually sink?

Playing a bit risky again here. Reading have been decent on the whole and Barnsley getting a whiff of negativity about them. Preston's price is really quite generous here for me. They've picked up 37 points at home to Norwich's 21 away and I was listening to this thing about "away fatigue" earlier, teams who play away after a midweek game have been struggling and Norwich are one of the worst offenders - apparently only picked up 3 points from 12 away games afterwards. I just think there are quite a few things going in Preston's favour here, 3.25 is very kind.

Incredible nature of this league in that you can lose to a dire Millwall and it actually be a net positive week for you. We went into it with 6 games left knowing we could lose one of them, and we've come out of it with 5 games left knowing we can still lose one, despite losing the game. I think a lot hinges on this game. Win this and I think we'll get over the line. Fail to and we're putting the pressure back on ourselves with trickier fixtures. We're much better than Plymouth but this lot have continuously let us down in big games.

Southampton will be ruing that draw at Blackburn particularly after seeing the way they've folded tonight, because they're probably that bit too far off being able to claw their way into this. But you never know. All of that about the points tallies the top four were on course for and it now looks extremely unlikely anybody gets to 100.

We've basically totally gotten away with it.

Fans have properly turned on Maresca. Plenty saying they want him gone even if we go up. To be honest I agree. I saw potential early doors but he's so brazenly one dimensional it's unreal. You might get away with that when you have at absolute worst the 2nd best squad in the division. Well I'd say it's highly unlikely he has that regardless of the league we're in next season. We're on a crash course for sure. Best line I read to describe him was he sets the ships course and then just never steers it. Guardiola, who is clearly his inspiration, does not do this. He has multiple plans. He retains tactical principles, but he does not stick doing the same thing every single game, no matter who the opposition, no matter who the personnel he has available. I don't think our fans as a collective have really been on board from day one and I think that's usually a telltale sign. Time does do its thing. I've been behind him for most of the season but he's lost me in recent weeks. There are literally no signs of development to him whatsoever. I've cracked it and that's that. He'll learn the hard way.