How does everyone feel about this? Most of the pundits seem to think we'll stroll it, but if there was ever a banana skin in the making...

Separately, I wonder whether the Leicester fans will still be chanting "W*nker" to tune of "Shear-ah!" or "Alan Shearer, what a w*nker" now that Lennon's gone. Talking of Lennon, I gather there was a report in the Scottish press that he likes to sh*g to the strains of Atomic Kitten...

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002

Answers

Leicester will not want to face us, given our goal scoring record. There is really no chance of us doing anything than tonking them off the pitch 3-0+. Which means we'll scrape a draw after a controversial penalty and a Leicester player red carded. Obviously

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002

As Niall and Biffa point out, we lost 2-0 to Leicester after beating Man Utd 5-0... Also, that Deane gave us a bleeding hard time at the Riverside earlier in the season..

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002

The worst thing the players can do is go down there thinking this will be a stroll. I'm cautiously optimistic that notion has finally been drummed out of their thick heeds, but will bite my nails til the final whistle. Or 'til we're 7 or 8 goals clear, whichever comes first. ;-)

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002

Deane has always given our defenders a bit of a tough time.....Izzet is back for them....we only scraped past them this season and you'll remember the 94th minute winner at home last year....

Definitely a banana skin but so are all the games at the minute....we need to be focused and make certain we keep ahead of the competition (still spurs and villa in my mind!)....

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002

Getting the balance right between confident swagger and sleeves rolled up graft is paramount. I'm sure YBR will be hammering home the anti-complacency message in his prematch team talk, whether the daft sods listen is another matter entirely. If we're serious about a top 3 finish these are the sort of games we should taking in our stride. Anything other than 3 points will be a massive disappointment. Looking forward to letting Robbie Savage know I'm sitting in row B.

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002

Aye, give him an earful from me n'all, the cheating foppish twat.

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002

And can the last geordie out of the town please burn it to the ground as they leave....

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002

Banana skins? I thought the phrase these days was potato skin - well, atl least according to Seņor Robson.

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002

We should win. My main concern is another of our, by now standard, slow starts and finding ourselves a goal down again after 20 minutes. We've done this far too many times this season, and if we don't work out why we do it it will inevitably start costing us points/places.

Sod the banana skins, this is the kind of game we must win if we are to be serious contenders for the big banana. Lose these games, and as Gav says, we can concentrate on staying ahead of Spurs and Villa.

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2002

It would be great to win our last ever match at Filbert Street...

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2002

Redknapp, who basically thinks we are interlopers at the high table, thinks we'll draw...

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2002

... that's rich coming from someone who has never even had a sniff of The High Table.

-- Anonymous, January 19, 2002