25/26 Match Week 29 Recap

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March 06, 2026

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☝️Results

  • Arsenal win while 2, 3 and 4th place drop points.

  • Relegation battle getting interesting as Forest, West Ham and Wolves win, this could come down to the final match day.

  • Spurs are in trouble.

  • Gunners “stall tactic” their way to a 1-0 win, taking 30 minutes of the 90 to get the ball back in play across the match.

  • If the Gunners win the EPL this season, are they the “worst” team to do it? The answer is probably not - sitting on 67 points with 8 to play.

  • Here are the top 7 teams with the fewest points to win the EPL

    • 75 Man U 1996/97

    • 78 Arsenal 1997/98

    • 79 Man U 1998/99

    • 82 Man U 1995/96

    • 83 Man U 2002/03

    • 84 Liverpool 2024/25

    • 84 Man U 1992/93

  • By the way - the most EPL points

    • 100 Man City 2017/18

    • 99 Liverpool 2019/20

    • 98 Man City 2018/19

  • City dominated play, until Forest found two great goals and had the “Save of the Season” - not by the keeper on the last kick of the match.

  • 🎥Gibbs-White with the HEEL Watch

  • 🎥Defensive PLAY OF THE SEASON Watch

  • Newcastle went down to 10-men before HT with the score 0-0, then scored at 45+6’ and while a United goal evened it at 45+9’ they could not find the net in the 2H, but Newcastle did.

  • 🎥Gotta see what happened at the end of the end of the 1H - red card, penalty, equalizer. Watch

  • 🎥Osula with the winner at 90’ Watch

  • 🎥Another great view of the winner. Watch

  • All Villa in the first 20’, missing chance after chance. All Chelsea the final 70’.

  • 🎥Hat trick for Jao Pedro Watch

  • For more on the history of this match, check out section 2 below.

  • 🎥Gomes, Salah, Andre and a Rob Edwards celebration and Wolves get an improbable 3 points. Watch

  • Meh - no action, no video’s.

  • Nice point for bee’s tho although Bournemouth could’ve had all three.

  • Could Everton pass Liverpool in the standings this season? Sure hope they are within 3 on the final match day. BTW, they play April 19.

  • 🎥Tarkowski goes high at the Hill Watch

  • Typical Fulham, ignore momentum at home and lose to a relegation side.

  • 🎥Summerville makes a case for the Hammers at Craven Cottage. Watch

  • HUGE road W for Sunderland who are surely staying up this year. Leeds have work to do.

  • 🎥Leeds took the lead at 65’, until it got wiped off by VAR. Then at 70’ Black Cats score on a penalty to go up. Watch

  • Spurs are a big club dumpster fire.

  • 🎥Van de ven red card doom Spurs Watch

✌️ Wolverhampton Wanderers

Wolves took down Liverpool at Anfield this week.

  • Andre's goal for Wolves against Liverpool was the FIRST TIME EVER a team in the relegation zone has scored a 90th-minute winner against the reigning Premier League champions.

  • Just the third win in twenty for Wolves v Liverpool, and just the second win in 18 at Anfield.

  • Earlier this season a candidate for the worst team in Premier League history have drawn with the top of the league, beat the team in third place and beat the team in fifth place in their last four matches.

THE GREAT ESCAPE?

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  • In 2006/07 West Ham were 10 points below the relegation line with 9 matches to play. They won 7 to close out the season avoiding the drop by 3 points. The most points overcome with 9 matches left to play.

  • In 2004/05 West Brom was last in the table at Christmas. They became the FRIST TEAM EVER to go from last to avoiding relegation with 34 total points and just 6 wins.

  • In 2014/15 Leicester City sat with 19 points, 7 behind 17th, after losing 7 straight matches with 9 to play. 7 wins and 1 draw in their final 9 matches took LCFC all the way up to 14th.

  • 2013/12 Sunderland were 7 points back in relegation with 6 left to play, they finished 14th in the table.

Wolves sit 12 points behind the drop line, 13 points behind 16th place, with 8 to play. Can they do it? The schedule is favorable - the highest team in the table left for Wolves is Brentford at 7th - and they play the 19th, 18, 16, 15, 14 place teams. Could make things interesting.

👌 Table

  • Looks like top 5 will earn the coveted Champions League spot next year, meaning the top 7 will earn a European League spot.

  • Looks like the top 14 teams all still have European hopes.

  • Spurs are in big trouble. Just 1 point above relegation and no wins in their last

🍀 Champions League

  • Sweet Sixteen - home/away matches March 10/11 and 17/18

To Win the CL Title

+250 Arsenal

+550 Bayern Munich

+650 Barcelona

+800 Man City

+1000 Liverpool

+1000 Paris Saint-Germain

+1200 Real Madrid

+1600 Atletico Madrid

+2500 Newcastle

+2500 Chelsea

+2500 Tottenham

+5000 Bodo/Glimt

+5000 Sporting

+8000 Bayern Leverkusen

+10000 Atalanta

+20000 Galatasaray

✋ FA Cup

Sweet 16 - Matches this weekend March 6-8

Friday March 6

  • Wolves v Liverpool

Saturday March 7

  • Mansfield Town v Arsenal

  • Wrexham v Chelsea

  • Newcastle v Man City

Sunday March 8

  • Fulham v Southampton

  • Port Vale/Bristol City v Sunderland

  • Leeds v Norwich City

Monday March 9

  • West Ham v Brentford

Tickets going for $800+ at the Racecourse Ground

🕕 CS World Cup Corner 🌎🍵🏪🕕

97 Days to the first match

Host Nation Schedules

7️⃣ Scheduling AND Level 2 - The Championship Playoffs

Starting NEXT SEASON

SCHEDULING - Starting NEXT SEASON

  • Both the Premier League and The Championship will take a 22 DAY BREAK next season in 19 September - 10 October for International Break. International Break will now be ONE WINDOW instead of spreading out.

PROMOTION PLAYOFF - Starting NEXT SEASON

  • The top 2 teams in the Table will automatically be promoted to the Premier League.

  • The 4-team playoff for the 3rd and final spot will move to 6 teams.

    • 5th will play 8th in the table in one match.

    • 6th will play 7th in the table in one match.

    • Winners will play home/away against 3rd and 4th teams.

    • Semi-final winners will play a final at Wembley Stadium.

CURRENT CHAMPIONSHIP TABLE

🎱 Liverpool Behind the 8 Ball

Most EVER losses in 2H stoppage time goals this season. Still 9 matches left to add to the record.

Everton, Man U & Man City fans will love this video - Liverpool fans will not.

9️⃣ Iran

Getting hard to separate Soccer and Politics lately.

  • Messi and Inter Miami at the White House.

  • MLS seemingly promoting an agenda.

  • Former USWNT player sounding like an idiot, again.

  • Concerns over Mexico cartel activity with the WC 100 days away.

  • Questions on the federal government making promised payments to host cities in support of the competition.

  • It’s more than these - but they come quickly to mind.

Now we add Iran to the list.

The Iranian National Team has qualified for the World Cup. Should they play in the tournament?

Answer - YES

The majority of Iran stands against the Iranian Guard. The current conflict is against the regime, not the people of Iran. The US should welcome the soccer team and help them attend if necessary. It’s possible the IRG will not be in control before the WC starts.

The Iranians Women’s team recently played matches in the Asia Cup (South Korea) and they refused to sing the anthem of the Iranian Republic. This was seen as support to the US action. The IRGC is now threatening the women with retaliation. In their next match the women did sing the anthem and salute the flag. They did so under instruction.

Mehdi Taj, the president of the Iranian Football Federation cast doubt on Iran traveling to the tournament. What else is he going to say?

Match 1

Match 2

Messi & Inter Miami at the White House celebrating their MLS Title.

Messi and Inter Miami at the White House

🔟 Follow the Money

Historically, during extreme heat, soccer matches have allowed “water breaks” mid-way through each half. This has become more prevalent in recent major event.

There is more drama as we head to the World Cup as FIFA has announce that instead of choosing which matches may qualify as extreme heat, EVERY WORLD CUP MATCH will have a Hydration BREAK. And guess what, broadcasters are going to cut away to commercial. So in essence, the World Cup has now become 4 Quarters instead of 2 Halves.

Ted Lasso would be proud.

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