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I reckon you'd get 33-1 on it at this point.

The three teams relegated from the Premier League last season will all get promoted this season and the three teams promoted to the Premier League last season will all get relegated. That's probably never happened before in Football League as well as Premier League history.

I saw almost every home game of Brian Little's reign and a lot of away matches too, including all 3 play-off finals. In my opinion he is one of the best managers we have ever had, certainly in the top 5. When he took over the club was at rock bottom and had just had its worst season ever, only avoiding relegation to the 3rd division by the narrowest of margins on the last day. The transformation under him was immediate and dramatic and we had 3 tremendously exciting seasons between 1991 and 1994, culminating in the brilliant day when we beat Derby and won at Wembley for the 1st time. Some people might say that he should have got the club promoted sooner but in each season there were big clubs in the 2nd Division who had much more money behind them. The likes of Blackburn, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Derby, Forest, Crystal Palace, Wolves were all in the mix at various times. Losing to Swindon was a big disappointment but what a match that was. The real hallmark of his teams during that period was their ability to score vital last minute/injury time winners and equalisers. It is quite remarkable how often that happened during those 3 promotion campaigns and shows what a great never say die attitude he had instilled in the team., And he did it all on a Poundland budget with players like Gary Coatsworth, Jimmy Willis and Ian Ormondroyd, who all became heroes after starting out as villains. Would we have stayed up in the 1994/5 season if he hadn't left for Villa? Impossible to say but I think we'd have made a better fist of it than we did under Mark McGhee, who took us down with a whimper. Ludicrously, at that time McGhee was being talked of as the natural successor to Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford. Ferguson stayed on for another 20 years while McGhee failed everywhere he went. I didn't boo Brian when he came back with Villa a few weeks later and I was very sad that so many supporters did. But hopefully that's water under the bridge now and he can be seen as a truly transformative manager whose time at the club will be fondly remembered by all those who experienced it.

Rooster Russell against Tranmere at Filbert Street April 1992. 95th minute and no VAR in them days.

That's a good question. If we'd stayed up last season the management might have thought ''Oh well, Jamie can't cut it in the PL anymore, it's time to bid him farewell.'' But this way we get to see him for another season, scoring winners and enhancing his stature yet further. Sometimes your loyalty to your club can be outweighed by your loyalty to an individual player. I felt that way about Steve Walsh in the 1990s and I feel the same way about Jamie now.

Exactly. I wasn't born when the Doog played for us but I remember him playing for Wolves in the 70s and for being a panellist on World Cup broadcasts.

I agree with this. The chances are that if Everton survive they will finish above Bournemouth next season, thus making their survival that much more difficult to achieve.

I think to qualify as a great escape, you have to still be in danger on the final day. In 2014/15 we were actually mathematically safe going in to the last match of the season. In my opinion, the greatest of the great escapes was probably West Brom in 2004/05 when they were bottom going into the last match, won it and stayed up.

Good to see the Reds chuck 2 points away.

This could well knock the stuffing out of Everton. Bring back Fat Frank.

Not quite. West Ham are still in the mix and they have got a tricky run in.

We are desperate and so is he. A match made in heaven.

That was a great game. We were 2-0 down as well, so a proper comeback. Very similar to the match against Arsenal in 1994 after Brian Little resigned and Alan Evans stood in for one game as caretaker which we won 2-1. We didn't beat Arsenal again for almost 25 years after that.

I wonder if they will equal or exceed our points total of 102 in the 2013/14 season. They need 5 wins from their remaining 7 games to get to 102 points. It's a tall order but I wouldn't put it past them.

I'm not saying it's a hard and fast rule which is applied on all occasions. In football every managerial contract and termination of contract is unique and tailored to suit the needs of both the club and the manager. Sometimes a club will sack a manager and not care whether he walks into another job the same day. They might think he's completely useless and unlikely to prove an asset to one of their rivals. West Ham, like ourselves, are deep in the mire, even more so after last night and we still have to play them on the last day of the season in what could be a winner stays up game. It would make sense for the board to insert some kind of clause in BR's leaving agreement to stop him taking another PL job before the end of the season, or even specifying certain teams he cannot join. Of course Brendan wouldn't have to agree to it if he didn't want to but then the club would pay him considerably less severance money. I think the board still rate BR as a manager and the last thing they would want to see is him keeping West Ham up at our expense.

In professional sport, money is often the answer to the question. When a manger is sacked by a club or leaves by mutual consent, the club will have to pay the remainder of the manager's contract. They can enhance his severance pay by requiring him not to take a position at another club or another club in the same division for a specified period of time, probably until the end of the season. The manager might also be required to sign a non disclosure agreement which prevents him from talking about this arrangement. I imagine that when LCFC sacked Brendan he was told that he would get a bigger pay-off if he didn't take over at another PL club until this season was over. Same with Potter probably.

Klopp. I can't stand his ''the whole world is against us'' attitude that comes over in his interviews.

Spurs sacked by Conte.

When was the last time a PL club was docked points? I remember it happening to Middlesborough in the 96/97 season because they didn't;t turn up for a fixture due to having lots of players injured and sick but has it happened since?

Anyone remember Billy McNeill in the 1986/87 season. He began the season as Manchester City manager but quit a few weeks in to take over at Aston Villa and both Man City and Villa were relegated to Division Two. And guess who was the third team to go down with them. Yes that's right, it was us.

That was the last game of the 91/92 season. We needed a win to get automatic promotion and Newcastle needed a win to avoid relegation but both clubs were also relying on other results elsewhere to go their way. Newcastle won the game 1-2 and stayed up and we went into the play offs for the first time instead of being promoted into the first season of the Premier League. But because of the way the other results panned out, the game at Filbert Street didn't matter. Newcastle would have stayed up whether they won, lost or drew and we would have been in the play offs whether we won, lost or drew. I was at the game and nobody really knew what was happening at the other games.

Newcastle staged an open-top bus parade of the city in1998 after they lost the FA Cup final that year. I wonder if they'll do the same this time.

We want six.

They don't make managers like that anymore. Shankly had been dead for 40 years but his former players still worship him today.

Does anyone really know who Mel Morris is? I can't say that question has agitated me much before tonight but I've just looked at his Wiki entry and it is remarkably reticent. It claims he was born in Littleover in Derbyshire but there is no date of birth and next to no real information about him. If you google his name and click on images all you see are the same half a dozen pictures of a bloke who looks in his late 50s early 60s.