Archive for May 22, 2022
Incredible and partly Disappointing Finish…
….of a brilliant season. David Moyes’ side must settle for Europa Conference League after a 1-3 defeat at West Ham’s bogey team Brighton, but in a nerve-wrecking finish to the season Manchester City score three goals within the “Rapid Viertelstunde” to beat Aston Villa 3-2, coming from 0-2 down, and win the Premier League title only one point ahead of Liverpool! They now call it the “Five minute miracle” (The Telegraph).
BBC match report from the Amex Stadium:
Michail Antonio’s blistering strike lit up the game only for a rare goal from Joel Veltman to level matters.
Pascal Gross flashed a shot past Lukasz Fabianski and Danny Welbeck headed home a third in stoppage time.
The win sealed an impressive top-half finish for Brighton after a record-breaking season on the south coast.
For West Ham, the 56th game of their gruelling season was a step too far but at least they can look forward to another European adventure next year.
Bye-bye Lawro, Welcome Back Sunderland!
BBC football pundit Mark Lawrenson will retire this weekend after more than twenty years of “Lawro’s Predictions” and loads of wrong results.
Especially West Ham had a lot to complain about Lawro’s predictions:
In January of the 2015-16 campaign, the Hammers were lying sixth in the Premier League but in Lawro’s League Table – which is at the bottom of every predictions page, and is based on his results, not reality – they were 19th with just two wins all season. It didn’t go down well at Upton Park…
The former Liverpool defender who also won 39 caps for Ireland didn’t really mind that many of his predictions did not materialise. When confronted by a fan who criticised him for false results, he answered:
“I said ‘OK, fair enough, but do you know what… if I honestly thought I could accurately predict the results of football matches, I wouldn’t be here, freezing my backside off. I would be in Barbados, in Sandy Lane hotel.”
This week’s predictions would see Manchester City win the League, Tottenham remain in fourth place, Manchester United win and West Ham draw, and Leeds get relegated.
Let’s hope that he will have got West Ham’s result wrong once again like he has done many times: 
Other news: Sunderland AFC are returning to the Championship after winning Saturday’s play-off final 2-0 against Wycombe ▶️Black Cats win League One play-off final at Wembley
Finally, after six long years, Sunderland‘s fans have something to cheer. Consecutive relegations saw the club fall from England’s top tier to the third in just a year, and that is where they have remained until this year.
Sunderland fans finally celebrating after six long years!Their downfall was partly picturized in the Netflix series “Sunderland ’til I die” with the wonderful soundtrack of the Lake Poets full of melancholy ▶️https://youtu.be/eNa-asBNGXY
EXTRA TIME 
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