Jareth

Here's a scenario - safety by next weekend. We beat West Ham and Leicester and Sunderland lose to Southampton and Everton. We'd have 38 points, Leicester 34, S'land 33. Their next game is against each other. If Sunderland win, then Leicester cannot get to 38. If Leicester win then Sunderland need to win both away games at Arsenal and Chelsea. Safety next Saturday would be complete and utter joy.

V happy with the result today. Would have preffered sunderland to lose, BUT everton was our hardest game and we blitzed it, there is no way newcastle get more points than us, plus leicester play sunderland - we are safe. That tottingham result was huge.

\We are on form, there are 5 teams in it, newcastle are doomed so long as cisse doesn't show up.

I didn't dream of a win today, but we did it, well done us. Us fans are not crucial, those players will do it, and they seem to know what they have to do.

Well we are less safe in a lot of ways but there are now more teams in it and newcastle are in danger, direct danger, one loss away from relegation. On what we've done the last few games, then we will do west ham and that will be that. Given the numbers involved, and our momentum, i think we are safe.

Noooocastle are foooooooked, factamundo, they are fighting each other, WBA are only 2 points ahead, they will organise themselves and the geordies willl lose. QPR are officially down, they will play with confidence. Fair play villa, we did all we could do - cleverley is a hero.

F*ck it, this is huge, we hold on and we are nearly there. Huge. (A point would be ok)

They have west brom at home then QPR away next. WBA will beat them. QPR will beat them. Final day of the season they have west ham at home - anything could happen.

A few more for Leicester and newcastles goal dif will be buggered - looks like its us, them or sunderland to go. Part of me wants a sunderland win as well as a villa win today..

The very fact his agent has surfaced is cause for alarm - it is merely 'statement one' of the agent's PR plan where the final statement is delieverd upon a move for Beneteke and a fat payout for said agent. Ah well, we were never gonna keep him forever, the heartbreaker he is! £40 mill, no less, to a foreign club, and it's a win-win.

Yep - it is that time of year when every game of those below us is watched as though watching villa - every point difference betwen them and us matters. In a sick way I shall miss the excitement, should we fare better next year - in the prem - I won't miss the stress though.

Perason lost it in the post match presser last night, I don;t know why but clearly he's a bit unhinged. Hopefully that rubs off on the team who will also be knackered on Saturday. It does feel like a premier league story where they've been on an incredible run only to fall at the last hurdle - so can see Leicester now feeling the pace and faltering a bit more.

3 more points on Saturday and we are nearly there - just 3 more points and we can dare to dream.

Better for leicester to lose, for shizzle.

They were singing boring boring chelsea - way to shut em up!

Let's have a couple more chelsea for Leicestershire's goal dif.

Thing is for newcastle (35 points) is that if leicester beat them on Sat, and west brom (37 points) lose to man u then next game is newcastle vs west brom - could see west brom going for it in that game for sure. Then its just 2 games for newcastle to play - it's possible they could go down if Sunderland were to get two wins.

36 will do it

If Leicestershire get beat by Chelsea (v.likely) then beat Newcastle at home, then Newcastle's next game against West Brom becomes a relegation battle - Newcastle could quite easily be in big trouble still, would be amazing given the flak we've copped for a bit of fun last time they went down.

We've much in common with Sunderland, naive yank owners, both let Martin O'Neill spend daft money, both clubs have had Roy Keane in a management position, both signed Bent. Both been shite for last 4 years. About time we started doing our own thing...

For anyone needing to understand Sunderland's situation just head to Ready To Go and have a read. It's a parallell universe to VT, however, strip out the doom merchants and overly positive posters, and you get some proper assessments of their team, and some stats that are hugely worse than ours. Basically - This is not last season where they pulled off miracles with the good feeling they had on appointing Gus P. They couldn't score so have shipped in an ageing Defoe, they lost their supporters so shipped in old-school Dick Advocat, one of their key players shagged a child and it is safe to say, not in the right frame of mind for a relegation battle. They have Arsenal then Chelsea away on the final day (you know, the champions, playing at home completely relaxed but wanting to win). They MIGHT pull of a good result or two, but so will we. And they will need to get three more points than us to be certain of finishing ahead of us. Chillax!

Reasons not to panic. The players are going to try, we know this from their consistent peformances over the last few games. They can handle the pressure and they will be at it against Everton as they can see how close we are. We have immense characters across the pitch and a red hot goal scorer. We have a manager that will try to win games. We have key players back from injury. We have winnable fixtures. We are in good form. Why is anyone depressed because Hull have shown some fighting spirit? Good on Hull. We can also do that.

Our last 4 prem games were Citeh, Spurs, QPR and Man U - which yielded 4 points - no wonder we feel like we've been stuck in quicksand while everyone catches up. We'll do better from our next 4.

Liverpool loss today gives Saints added incentive against sunderland.

If anyone's worried, spare a thought for Sunderland fans - their reaction to the goal - http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/hull-v-liverpool-match-thread.1069851/page-7