Ten games, all on at 1500 BST. Now that's fixture congestion. It gets so bad that I can't find the Sunderland-Arsenal match anywhere.
Wigan-Man. U. is on Setanta live at 10am EST; Chelsea-Bolton is on FSC live at 10am EST; Spurs-Liverpool is on FSC delayed at noon EST.
Man. Utd. must win to ensure they take the title. Chelsea must win and hope Man. Utd. get fewer than 3 points to win the league. Everton must get a point or more to ensure European competition next year and a bevy of teams near the bottom of the table are sorting out who stays in the Premier League next season. Other than those, there isn't much else to play for elsewhere. It looks like Man City will get a UEFA cup place as a reward for "fair play" this season.
Arsenal will most likely field a team filled with youngsters as the club can neither improve nor slip from third place this year. Hopefully, the game will be exciting because the fringe players will play hard to impress the boss. It's a shame that fewer people will get to see these young players because of the lack of TV coverage. I will be traveling on Sunday so highlights and the blogs will have to do to feed my soccer madness this week.
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I really enjoy that all the teams have to play at the same time for the last game of the season. I was trying to explain this system and the reasons behind it to an uninitiated American yesterday, and he was almost as fascinated as he was perplexed. He stared off into space, squinting, repeating quietly to himself, "Rel-e-ga-tion."
I find it interesting that there isn't such things as promotion and relegation here. What does it say about the business of sports in this country and the psychology of it here?
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