Where am I?

HOME
  • SPORT The Game Blog

TheGame - Times Online - WBLG

Britain's best football supplement comes alive on Times Online You can subscribe to a feed of posts at: http://timesonline.typepad.com/thegame

« Bill Edgar's fiendishly difficult Friday football quiz - with the answers | All Posts | Your handy guide to the last-day drama »

May 09, 2008

Tell us what your team deserves and why

Fan

The most exciting finale in Premier League history is upon us and there is barely a fingernail left to chew.

Tears of joy and sadness will fill living rooms the world over come 5 o'clock on Sunday as the great football judge in the sky bangs down his gavel and delivers his sentence.

At the top end, it's Manchester United v Chelsea in the title race with Sir Alex Ferguson's team requiring victory at Wigan to retain their crown. Although if Chelsea beat Bolton by 18 more goals than United beat Steve Bruce's side by then Avram Grant will be grinning from ear-to-ear.

Will Wigan roll over? Or is that insulting to the integrity of Bruce's men? Are Chelsea fans really in with a shout? Or are they living in a fantasy land?

It's even more nerve-racking at the bottom with one of Fulham, Reading and Birmingham a light breeze from being blown into Championship oblivion.

Can Roy Hodgson complete the great escape with victory at Portsmouth? Do Birmingham deserve to drop after the way they treated Bruce? Is there room in the top flight for Steve Coppell's battlers or are they more suited to the second tier?

Here's your chance to tell us what is going to happen. It's open day on TheGame: let us know what fate awaits your side. Why should they win the title? Why should they avoid the drop? Or if you've got a mean streak, tell us why a team deserves pain and misery. And if you just want to send your boys a message of support, this is the place to do it.

The usual rules apply - we want passion and pathos. But if you want to get your comment seen, you'd better keep it clean.

in TheGame | Permalink Bookmark and Share

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451586c69e200e552306acb8834

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Tell us what your team deserves and why:

Comments

Man U to win the title, they are just too good for Wigan.

Reading’s saving grace is that everyone wins at Derby. Pompey will show enough professionalism to draw with Fulham. Birmingham to join Fulham in the drop, bad news for the Brummies is my team Blackburn are desperate for a win, to secure the Intertoto place, we need Villa to slip up against West Ham.

Then we await August, will Chelsea or Man U win the league, which of the promoted clubs will stay up, a few will slug out the UEFA cup place- we all know the script-Keegan is right. I’ll enjoy today and think about August, or July if we manage the Intertoto, later.

Posted by: Alan Gregory | 11 May 2008 09:07:55

In Ferguson's press conference today, he pointed out that while the media keep the issue of Wigan 'rolling over' for United at the top of the agenda, they choose to ignore Bolton's reponsibilty to not 'roll over' for Chelsea. Down at the Chelsea press conference, Avram Grant was asked about Ferguson's comments. He smiled and said "we know why Alex says things sometimes." The inference is that Ferguson is trying to put pressure on Bolton. Moments earlier, Grant had been giving yet another diatribe about Wigan's integrity, as he and his Chelsea players have been doing for the past two weeks. But it's alright. We know why Chelsea say things sometimes.

Posted by: Alex | 9 May 2008 19:37:58

In response to Mr McConomy's musings, your paranoia about 'Chelsea manipulating the media' is pretty funny. It'll be down to the Russian mafia again no doubt ;)

The more likely reason why the press is focusing it's attention on the Wigan v ManU game is surely because this is the real title decider. It's theirs to lose, so obviously the contribution of their opponents will come under more scrutiny than Chelsea's.

It's simple for Chelsea...they have to go and win whilst hoping that Wigan turn up. No-one really expects us to win, so the pressure is all on Utd.

Come on with the 18+ goals!

Posted by: Faye | 9 May 2008 14:28:51

ttttttttttttt

Posted by: | 9 May 2008 13:20:17

Wigan 3 Manchester United 4
Chelsea 19 Bolton 1

Ha! That would be an exciting day wouldnt it!!!

Posted by: Dominic | 9 May 2008 12:21:26

Why has all the comment been about Wigan 'rolling over' and letting Man Utd win? Chelsea also need to win to be in with a chance, but nobody has mentioned that Bolton are also safe and effectively have nothing to play. Why is Bolton's attitude and professionalism not being called into question? All-in-all, it seems like very clever manipulation of the media by Chelsea to motivate Wigan for a game that, and lets be honest here, has no significant meaning to them.

Posted by: J McConomy | 9 May 2008 10:43:34

Post a comment

Comments are moderated, and will not appear on this weblog until the author has approved them.

  • Your
    writers

    Oliver Kay
    Our Football Correspondent. A voice of authority
    Read Oliver's posts

    Gabriele Marcotti
    Our European Football Correspondent and cornerstone of TheGame Podcast
    Read Gabriele's posts

    Matt Hughes
    Our main man in London who also covers England. A burgeoning talent
    Read Matt's posts

    Tony Cascarino
    He's been there, done that and you know the rest. The incisive voice of experience
    Read Tony's posts

    Graham Spiers
    Scotland's Sportswriter of the Year on five occasions.
    Read Graham's posts

    Any comments?
    Email us at thegame@timesonline.co.uk

    AHEAD OF THE GAME

    Sign up for our free daily email, weekdays 4pm

    THE GAME
    FANZINE FANZONE
    THE NEWS
    PLAY THE GAME
    PLAY FANTASY FOOTBALL
    YOUR TEAM
    YOUR WEB
    • Soccerbase
    • Football 365
    • Who ate all the pies?
    • You Tube
    • Football Shirt Culture
    • News Now
    • Fanbase
    • Pyramid Passion
    • Mike Floate's Football Ground Frenzy
    • The Spoiler
    • 101 Great goals
    • Kickette

    Archives

    • View previous blog posts

    Feeds

    Get the latest news and comments via RSS

    All the latest from Fanzine Fanzone

    All the reader comments

    All the posts from TheGame

    A complete list of all Times Online Sport stories

    Use the buttons below to add the feeds to your RSS reader, or right the links above, click and choose "save target as", then paste the url into your RSS reader.

    For more information on using RSS, and for more feeds from Times Online, visit

    10/12/2008 the main RSS page

    Bloglines
    Google
    Yahoo!
    Netvibes