Morning all.

The next four days of Premier League football will pretty much decide who is going to be crowned champions.

Fulham host Manchester City at lunchtime today a game the visitors have to win if they’re to keep the Premier League title fate in their own hands. The Fulham players have been spotted flying kites and having fun away from the training ground which I think is great. I’ve read some comments which suggest the players won’t be in the right frame of mind today but I beg to differ. Fun time is just as important as training in my opinion.

Bernd Leno:

My focus is of course my club and my performance. If we take some points from City, I think a lot of Arsenal boys will text me. A couple of them text me already and I said to them ‘guys don’t worry we will give 100% because we want to finish our last home game in a positive way as well.

I hope our old number 1 has the game of his life and walks away from the pitch knowing that his clean sheet has given his old club a chance. Even better would be Willian scoring a winner….

I know I’m being optimistic but I am a glass half full kind of girl.

Later today, Totts host Burnley and of course, I’m hoping for a home win because we really need them to be going into the City game on Tuesday with a chance of finishing 4th place which they will have if they win today and Liverpool beat Villa on Monday.

I’ve read that Totts fans would rather their club finishes fifth than to help Arsenal win the league which I can understand but it’s a shortsighted view. Champions League football would be a good finish for Big Ange and it would make a big difference to them going forwards financially.

Troy Deeney agrees as The Sun quote him as saying:

I’m getting to a point where, as a football fan, I want a different team to win the league. Not because City are terrible but it just gets boring. We want to see the likes of City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United and, hopefully, Spurs all pushing and competing until the final ebbs of the season. I want to be sat there thinking, “Blimey, who’s going to win the league?” rather than, “This is a done deal, it’s City, roll on the summer” because it becomes a waste of time. So, here we go: Tottenham should WANT to help Arsenal win the title by getting a result against City. It will give themselves and everyone else hope that they can win it one day.

For once, Deeney makes sense, up until the bit about Totts winning the league but it has become a boring affair with City being crowned champions nearly every season. We laugh about football across Europe being a two team affair but the Premier League has become similar in a way. Not because the rest in the league are average though but because City has spent vast amounts of money on the best players and manager.

Every football fan barring City’s should hope for another club to burst their bubble. I actually hope Man Utd win the FA Cup for that very reason. Oh, and it might mean ten Hag gets to keep his job for a bit longer.

Anyway, I’m not confident that Fulham will pull off a shock result today but it’d be great if they did. For the sake of football I hope they do.

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