[Albion] So How's It Going To Go Wrong?

chaileyjem said:

In 2020/21 Southampton were 3rd after 13 games with 24 points.
They then had a dreadful rest of season , finished in 15th place with just 43 points - just 2 more than us that season. Almost looked like they were going to get relegated at one point but beat Palace and Fulham out of the blue in May and hung on.
Had a great FA Cup run too only to lose to Leicester in the SF....

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Jimmy Grimble said:

That’s a stat to bring you back down to Earth. Any idea what happened for them to have such a collapse?

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chaileyjem said:

It was the Covid season. and also the 9-0 defeat to Man U season . This is a good fan write up https://lastwordonsports.com/football/2021/06/03/southampton-season-review/#google_vignette

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Bodian said:

I used to think that. However - there is no actual written evidence of the saw pit derivation. The teeth on the chain holding the logs in place is called a dog - like the teeth at the end of the chainsaw and on a sewing machine - basically the gripper bit that holds the item steady. But when sawpits like this were in common use, no-one ever wrote about the sawyers being top/under dog. They seemed to have been referred to as top sawyer and pitman.

It may actually be that we have later reverse-invented a derivation because it sounded likely.

The first found printed references to underdogs in the mid 1800s referred to dog-fighting. And dog-fights often took place in pits - sometimes the very same sawpits as above.

Top-dog being the one that one, and came out 'on top'.

Overdog is used in some older articles about dog-fighting, along with upper-dog,

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maffew said:

We are due a ref/var howler and a pgmol apology.

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Justice said:

I can’t work this place out threads appear after Saturday’s win top four can we go for the title, how good is Fabian to let’s shit ourselves over the team who have picked up one win all season

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Stato said:

So, who had 'Playing a second half looking like we'd just been introduced to each other and conceding a goal to a player who shouldn't have been on the pitch?'

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Bodian said:

'This place' knows it's onions!

Someone should have done - because the very same thing has happened before. Was it last season or the season before that an equaliser was scored by someone who clearly should have already been sent off?

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Ooh it’s a corner said:

Against Fulham at home I think - thug(Paulina?) elbowed Pascal in the face in the first half - ref and VAR ignored it - Solomon for them in the final minute - maybe to win it??

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Bodian said:

That's the one. They were wearing pink as well.....

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Sarisbury Seagull said:

Is there a single Brighton fan who didn’t expect these two games to go EXACTLY as they have though?!

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Weststander said:

Me.

Jokes aside I could only see an Albion win last Friday. Ston in recent times have not been an Albion bogey team.

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Sarisbury Seagull said:

Oh I quite agree Southampton are another level of dreadful. But we just don’t win those home games against teams we’re expected to beat after a good run of results.

And tonight was absolutely nailed on.

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Weststander said:

Me.

Jokes aside I could only see an Albion win last Friday. Ston in recent times have not been an Albion bogey team.

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Sarisbury Seagull said:

Is there a single Brighton fan who didn’t expect these two games to go EXACTLY as they have though?!

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