Because there's more than just the Champions League on tonight.
Tonight is about the bottom half of the Championship as every team from 14th downwards plays in what is becoming an incredibly tight battle for survival. Bottom and third from bottom meet at Oakwell with Barnsley hosting Burton, imploding second bottom Sunderland travel down the A1 to 20th placed Bolton while the other ex-PL crisis club Hull go the other way to 9th placed Middlesbrough. At the top, Aston Villa could return second with victory at home to Preston and Sheffield United would be 1 point from the play-offs if they beat QPR. In the other two divisions, Shrewsbury will return to the top of Europe's most difficult league (League 1) with victory at home to Gillingham, and Barnet will move off the bottom of League 2 if they benefit from Carlisle's 300-mile trip to London.
All games at 7:45pm UK time unless stated.
>Champonship Aston Villa v Preston North End Barnsley v Burton Albion Brentford v Birmingham City Middlesbrough v Hull City Millwall v Sheffield Wednesday Nottingham Forest v Reading Sheffield United v Queens Park Rangers Bolton Wanderers v Sunderland (8:00pm)
>League 1 Fleetwood Town v Portsmouth Shrewsbury Town v Gillingham
>League 2 Cambridge United v Notts County Crewe Alexandra v Exeter City Barnet v Carlisle United (8:00pm)
>“If you’re at a club like Sunderland where there’s exceptional passion and a lot of supporters, those fans need people here who care about the club as much as them,” Coleman said. “Therein lies a problem. Obviously Ellis wants to sell the club and they recognise that maybe his love for the club was yesterday. He wants to sell the club, that’s common knowledge, so until we get someone that wants to turn a corner with it and love it, care for it and look after it, you get the negativity. If the people here who do love the club don’t think you feel the same way, then there’s a problem. We know about all that and the anger and frustration from everybody. Myself, Martin and the players have to accept that. We’ll take that on the chin. But until we have a new owner with new ideas, we are where we are.”
lol
Matthew Brown
>burton will never fuck off
Jace Cook
>Barnsleh
Jaxson Bennett
who's going down from the championship lads?
Asher Collins
>(You)
Nathan Lopez
>blunderland
Levi Hernandez
POSITIVES
Parker Thompson
>blunderland
double relegation please
Parker Hernandez
that goal was quite possibly one of the worst defended ever
Alexander Brown
>villel wew
Jacob Wilson
>blunderland concede due to a keeper fuckup Is there any side with a worse selection of goalies than Camp, Ruiter and Steele?
Benjamin Cook
>boro
Blake Barnes
THE BRAZILIAN SNODGRASS
Brandon Brown
>Evandro Goebel scoring >City scoring from a short corner
Don't believe it
Christian Brooks
>and then aina he did that against wolves earlier in the season
John Wilson
Oh fuck off City not that Sausage Boy
Logan Collins
I thought Notts County were supposed to be good
Jordan Morgan
Sunderland hopefully
Julian Ward
>brum
Isaac Cruz
THINGS
CAN ONLY GET BETTER
Nathan Powell
>conceding 3 to a Tony Pulis team >Will Keane falling over
Brody Cruz
Have you not been listening to Adkins la? Will Keane is like a fucking new signing alright. Our saviour.
Michael Watson
Just read that 334 City fans went to the Emptyside tonight.
That's fucking woeful.
Liam Baker
Aye, one of the lads on Twitter pointed out the difference since our last midweek trip up to the Smog.
Not sure what Friday night's match will bring. One of my mates reckons the protests will be enough to get it abandoned but I can't see it.
Nolan Mitchell
>The absolute state of Birmingham
Ryan Scott
lol why did the new manager decide not play any strikers tonight
we're losing to millwall
admittedly it's because the defenders are shit but still
Landon Anderson
I'll be amazed if they stay up.
They're zombies.
Bentley Butler
Brentford playoff push
Asher Morris
First boring season supporting Carlisle
How do perennially mid-table Premier League teams even keep fans interested
Brayden Hall
>+13 minutes injury time at Mi'waw because a Sheffield Wednesday player got smashed in the face
Cameron Powell
who /bottom of the league/ two seasons running?
Christopher James
while he had his head injury millwall scored as well lol
Lincoln Young
Blade here, I know what you're going through and you have my genuine sympathy. The word fraud is far too generous to this piece of shit for manager. He's the only former manager I have any resentful feelings towards.
Just remember that it can all be undone.
Jayden Hernandez
Cheers m8, enjoy Friday night
Levi Lewis
Still daren't say as much! Don't want to jinx it but would be a pleasure to earn him the sack if possible to free you from his tyrannical positivity.
