Amazingly both sides still have something to play for on the final day of the season, although Everton’s reason is more about pride than anything else.
The Toffees know that a win today will ensure they finish above Liverpool for only the second time since the Premier League began whilst Newcastle know that they have to win to be in with a shout of qualifying for the lucrative Champions League whilst hoping that either Tottenham or Arsenal (or both) will slip up in their games this afternoon.
It’s all shaping up to be a fascinating final day of the season. The destination of the Premier League title is still yet to be officially decided, there is still one relegation spot to be filled, and obviously we have a three-way battle for third place which is the one we’re involved. It’s all jolly good!
I don’t need to go into much more detail as myself and Statto have already done so. Once again Statto has provided us with one of his excellent “Stat-Attack” articles, plus you have my very own match preview to view should you decide to take a look at any injury news, team news or history of the fixture.
Unfortunately the TV powers that be have decide to screen the title showdown between the two Manchester clubs. A shame but you can kind of understand it. That means that we are relying on streams to see what goes on at Goodison so naturally if you happen to find a good one then by all means share it.
However, regular commenter Jill has been in touch and has an alternative if anyone fancies trying it. The game is being shown on Fox Soccer 2 Go which is a subscription service that usually costs $19.99 a month. However Jill has a code which allows a one month free trial, which you can then cancel right after the game. The code you need is XOOMFOX.
That neatly wraps things up and now it’s up to the lads to do their bit and try and claim a Champions League placing. Will they be successful? We’ll find out in a few hours!
Everton: Tim Howard, Tony Hibbert, John Heitinga, Phila Jagielka, Leighton Baines, Darron Gibson, Phil Neville, Leon Osman, Steven Pienaar, Maraouane Fellaini, Nikica Jelavic
Subs: Jan Mucha, Denis Stracqualursi, Tim Cahill, Magaye Gueye, Seamus Coleman, Ross Barkley, Sylvain Distin
Newcastle: Tim Krul; James Perch, Mike Williamson, Fabricio Coloccini, Davide Santon, Hatem Ben Arfa, Yohan Cabaye, Cheik Tiote, Jonas Gutierrez, Demba Ba, Papiss Cisse
Subs: Rob Elliot, Shane Ferguson, Ryan Taylor, Dan Gosling, Sylvain Marveaux, Gabriel Obertan, Shola Ameobi
what a goal line save by fatty kenny 😆
mark(Quote)
well done Jonas
richietoon(Quote)
Citeh game 2.2 now
kimtoon(Quote)
city 2-2 😯
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
goal by City.. 2-2 4 mins left 😥
mark(Quote)
Richie there won’t be too many takers for our defence if there watching, because we are lucky to only be 2 behind
Big Dave(Quote)
fkin hell
hitman(Quote)
manure win
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
fuk Citeh are drawing
Big Dave(Quote)
Well done city 3 -2 in stop age time
aussie magpie fan(Quote)
oh my 3-2 city wtf
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
*** Man City
geordie deb(Quote)
Dave…I’m hoping this game has put alot of big teams off all our players 😉 😆
richietoon(Quote)
Fuk city are infront
Big Dave(Quote)
city win!!
mark(Quote)
3.2 To Citeh
kimtoon(Quote)
the premier league the best league in the world 😆
hitman(Quote)
whey manure 😆
Newkie(Quote)
wow swansea beating cesspool
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
bolton gone
hitman(Quote)
that has got to be the best finish ever in the prem! 2 goals in 2mins for City to steal it late
mark(Quote)
Cahill what a bellend
Newkie(Quote)
mental finish this like
****** joke
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
QPR begged to lose that. Just punted the ball up field and let City run at them! Should have tried to kepp hold of the ball, what did they expect?
Well done Toon. 5th place will do nicely. Europe next season. Wooo yeah! 😀
Shamrock(Quote)
What a **** Cahill 😆
toonsy(Quote)
That’ll be an interesting MOTD for the city game 😆
Andymag(Quote)
scum finish 13th 😆 😆
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
well done toon, superb season! well done City, very exciting. bye bye Bolton 😆
mark(Quote)
Cahill = pr!ck
Poor performance, but soooooo proud of the team greta season 😎
richietoon(Quote)
All three promoted teams stayed up. When was the last time that happened?
toonsy(Quote)
*great* 😳 time for another beer to sort my spelling out
richietoon(Quote)
BB unlucky for some 😆
kimtoon(Quote)
Toonsy
What did Cahill do? Was it Tim or Gary?
Andymag(Quote)
Cabaye baited him there but that goes on all of the time in football.
lacedaemonian(Quote)
when does ligue 1 finish ❓
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
Well the lads have done us proud overall but at times they just crumble, we need a real leader that can grab hold of a game and tell the players to up their game
Big Dave(Quote)
Won’t hurt manure to miss out for a change…
The commentator said at the end of our game.. Newcastle will just have to settle for 5th.. i’ll take that thank you.. 🙂
aussie magpie fan(Quote)
Thats the french league 1 😕
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
Brilliant season lads, been a pleasure sharing in it with you.
Also thanks to this blog for keeping me updated with objective stories.
lacedaemonian(Quote)
Congrats to Dunston for winning the FA vase this afternoon
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
Lace I noticed Cabaye wasn’t to quick to push Cahill 😀
Big Dave(Quote)
fkin buzzing.
the season we have had has been fantastic.
NOW ashley open ya wallet and spend some money and dont sell owa heros
hitman(Quote)
next sat 20th BB
premandup(Quote)
Lace – stick with us thru the summer t/f period as it all unfolds for pre season.
Hopefully gonna get wor defence overhauled once and for all
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
Big Dave – We need Stevie Taylor to be fit for the full season!
Shamrock(Quote)
Dya reckon the Manure fans were celebrating prematurely? 😆 😆
richietoon(Quote)
cheers prem. 1st signing on the 22nd then 😆 😆
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
wish i had got a stream that worked. Seems like Marv showed his worth?
premandup(Quote)
Wow what a season. Disappointing today but at least it wouldn’t have any difference to us in the league table. I agree with you Dave, whenever we’ve gone behind in any game we’ve never looked like being able to bring it back. The only exception I can think of is Spurs at home. A few “leaders” required.
Jon R(Quote)
P.S. I saw Barton lost it again. Elbowing Tevez and fighting with Aguero. Does he not realise the Falklands is over? 😆
Jon R(Quote)
JON R yeah we need a leader…bring back JOEY BARTON 😆
ron(Quote)
Just showed some footage here Rich… old red nose looked well pissed off.. they were hanging at the ground waiting to celebrate 🙂 🙂 then they wandered off a bit down in the dumps 🙂
aussie magpie fan(Quote)
Samuel Ameobi @Sammy_Ameobi
“@Joey7Barton: Why do people always want to solve any conflict with a fight? As a pacifist, I find it incredible……… #mindboggles”
lol barton hypocrites much?
ron(Quote)
i didnt like the performance today.
But we are 5th!
HWTL
We have three danish teams in europa league, and i hope newcastle could get a match against one of them.
if anyone of you ends up on a danish stadium for an away game, i will invite you all for drinks, beers, booze!
DanishToon(Quote)
Glad for Citeh even if they are moneybags as it’s nice to see someone different win it ,was bloody close though ,I would hate to be a Citeh fan going through all that stress poor sods.
kimtoon(Quote)
ron
is that a genuine barton quote, priceless 😆
andymag(Quote)
Aussie 😆 I’m chuffed Citeh won it like, about time a new name was on the trophy.
richietoon(Quote)
Kim
If they hadn’t won it this year, I think there may have been ‘words’ with Mancinni by the owners 😈
andymag(Quote)
There’s Only One Joey BARTON!!
Blackbartoon(Quote)
Danish….that’ll be expensive for you, last time I was in Denmark it was a wee bit pricey……and that was in the 80’s 😯
richietoon(Quote)
andymag i dont know ask sammy…but it sounds like something barton would said
ron(Quote)
Just saw the barton footage.. the guy is a peabrain.. an embaressment to himself, his club and the game of football..
aussie magpie fan(Quote)
He might’ve gone on a extended ‘vacation’ and ‘decided’ to leave City as he wanted to stay on ‘holiday’.
Disapointed by the result but we knew it was unlikely we’d get into the CL from the todays fixtures, I’m looking forward to Europe, sad there won’t be football for a while and I now no longer give a **** who wins the CL (though would prefer it to be BM as chelsea don’t deserve it).
andymag(Quote)
cabeye or barton
hitman(Quote)
Andy..I’d have been more gutted if Le **** and Spuds had lost and we played like that.
richietoon(Quote)
Don’t think I’ll watch football first now, think it’ll be MOTD for me. 🙁
andymag(Quote)
Anyone got any footage of Barton losing it? Just want to see how changed he is? 😆
toonsy(Quote)
Richie
That would have killed me, that we could’ve gotten CL football if we weren’t so **** 👿 😆
andymag(Quote)
Hitman….not the best day to compare after Cabaye started on a ballboy, but I reckon I’ll go cabaye 😆
richietoon(Quote)
Well what have we learnt today lads. 1. we ain’t quite the finished article and are prone to bottle it 🙄 . 2. A few clubs may think twice about nicking our best players 😀 . 3 Always believe you can win no matter how late in the game ,just ask Citeh 😎 .4. We may have an unlucky away strip?, bring back the orange 😆 . And finaly Mr Joey Barton is STILL one big prize knob 🙄 😆
BUT HEY WE ARE IN EUROPE ! HWTL 😀 😀 😀
kimtoon(Quote)
richie
I heard about that, what was actually going on?(ball boy cabaye incident, not barton I heard all about that 🙄 😈 😆 ).
andymag(Quote)
http://www.the-wanderer.co.uk/boards/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=18092&start=40
batty(Quote)
just to add to what Danish said, if we draw a Spanish team and ya over here, ya can **** off if you think I’ll get the drinks in…unless it’s Toonsy s’pose as I owe him a drink 🙄 😆
richietoon(Quote)
Did Cabaye get a card at the end? We were poor today. Maybe it’s just as well to show up our shortcomings. Over to you Ashley.
georgio(Quote)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZGoAX_GdL4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Changed man indeed 😆
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toonsy(Quote)