All in all it's been a great season so far. Yes, we still need a world class striker but who doesn't. The manager's age. Bentekes lack of goals, talk of getting a grafter manager and not a top flight one, promotion of youth? - are all good debating topics, But a little devil on my shoulder is still saying we are not mathematically safe ,,,,

Again???

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Not mathematically - we still need 1 point or for Villa and Bournemouth to drop another. If they both won their last 5 (very unlikely but remember Oldham in 92 or 93 I think) and we lost our lost 4 we'd all be on 42.

Mathematically no.

And remember we are the only team in the history of the premier league to be relegated who were not in the bottom 3 at the start of the last game of season.

There are some real proper idiots on here!! they keep saying remember Oldham!! that was totally different. We were the only team above Oldham, and there were 3 games left, but both teams had similar goal difference, in fact Oldham's was better which is why they overhauled us!! But this time we have 5 teams below us, of which 2 of them in the bottom 3 would have to all win their remaining 5 games (unlikely because they have barely won 5 games the entire season!! and they have games against the likes of Man City, Chelsea etc)- PLUS they need to overhaul our vastly superior goal difference of around +10 or +11, and also it would mean that Watford and West ham who are likely to be safe anyway, would have to leap frog us as well. It is utterly ridiculous to think about at least 5 miracles that would have to happen. Honestly who thinks of threads like this!!!!

If West Ham drop points against Burnley tonight then we're mathematically safe. Realistically, we were safe after beating Bournemouth 2-0.