Monday 27 January
The Vitality Stadium
KO: 20:00
LIVE on BT Sport
Massive game. Hopefully Bournemouth don’t take it seriously as they are in the midst of a tough relegation battle and I really want to go far in this cup. We haven’t made it past January since winning it in 16/17.
I wouldn’t mind that. If Arteta starts resting playing in the PL and goes all out for the EL I wouldn’t complain, just don’t want to be in the shitty Europa League again.
Would you rather EL or no European football ? The EL shits me also at times, but no European football would just send us further down the revenue table which is no good under a self sustainable model.
It would only be for one season though. Yeah we wouldn’t win the league. But I hope it’d help us a little. We’d be fresher for the top 4 race at least. And even if we somehow failed at that, it’s unlikely we’d miss out on the Europa League places as well.
But…and it’s a big Beyonce but, you could argue that no team will have a freak season like Liverpool are having this season next season.
Leicester would be title contenders if this was a normal season. We’ve just got to hope for a little bit of normality next season and, if all we have to focus on is the league, you never know your luck, Oz.