Dude, are you trying to start a war? 
You might as well look for a post by Rafael Benitez offering up congratulations to Sir Alex.
Come to think of it, chowder is probably Rafa in disguise. I’ve never seen them both together in the same room.
I rest my case.
I think he’s trying to say chowder is secretly Rafa Benitez. 
(Edit: goddamn guerrillas pipping me to the joke…)
A five goal shift isn’t that implausible, but I still think Boro are doomed. Moreover, I think Newcastle are too; while Villa are on a poor streak of late, O’Neill doesn’t seem the type to let his players off with a half-assed final effort. That said, all the talk of Man U putting out a B team against Hull doesn’t carry much water; we’ve all seen what their kids can do, and if you consider that at least some of the second string will be viewing the Hull match as a last chance to stake a claim to a CL final spot, I don’t think the effort will be lacking.
Predictions:
Aston Villa 2 - 1 Newcastle
West Ham 1 - 0 Middlesborough
Hull 1 - 3 Manchester United
Sunderland 0 - 2 Chelsea
So the current bottom three to go down. Failing that, I think the geordies have the best chance of pulling a result out of the hat, and staying up at Hull’s expense. But they’ve looked so abject of late that only Boro could make them look good, and that’s not good enough to back.
You should have shot straight away instead of taking a touch.
We’re both mancs from opposite sides of the fence. The war has already been going a long time
I was out in Manchester city centre just after the game on Saturday - it was full of people singing, carrying flags, wearing United tops etc. We were all hoping the City fans would come out and join in our celebrations but they seemed to be keeping their heads down for some reason…?
A variety of bookmakers bet on who goes down like so:
Middlesbrough are between 1/200 and 1/29 (quite a variation there).
Newcastle are generally 4/9 to 4/7.
Hull are available at 6/4 to 15/8.
Sunderland fluctuate between 6/1 and 9/1.
Makes you wonder what time all those people with flags and such got back to London;)
As for my not offering my congrats:
I did say “Ho-hum” in my best Nelson Muntz voice
I actually think all four of the relegation matches will finish in a draw. In my perfect world, United reserves cruise past Hull, Spurs beat Liverpool by a few (3-1 or so, with a hat trick for Robbie Keane, and a Michael Dawson og), Chelsea beat Sunderland, United end up with a better goal difference than Liverpool, Chelsea finish 2nd, Pool on 3rd, and Newcastle lose and drop.
Okay, my rule for next season:
If a player is down on the floor and requires attention; he must stay off the pitch for at least 2 minutes before he can return to play.
Give the timekeeping job to that ever-elusive fourth official.
My rule:
Any player/s harassing the ref by in-his-face actions or by surrounding him in an intimidating manner shall be shown a yellow card and serve 15 minutes in a rugby style sin bin.
For a second offence of a similar nature the player/s will be shown a red and sent off for the rest of the game.
They will also serve a 3 match ban
How else would we know that the referee got the call against Manchester United wrong?? 
Well, the Geordies are down, Hull City stay up and get to pretend they are among the big boys another year, and 'Boro also take the plunge. My bets: 'Boro come right back up, but the Toon are on a long slide to who knows where?
Defeat at London Road, of course!
Well that’s it over for another season :(.
Ignoring such trivialities as the FA Cup and CL Final we have to wait for about 2½ months before the big kick-off.
Wake me up in August
Blues get 5th, Geordies relegated and a cup final next week - there’s not much that makes stripping artex off your bathroom wall bearable on a Sunday afternoon, but this will do 
Last time Everton won at Craven College was 1966 - and we all know what glorious cup success took place in that year. Everton v Sheff Wed 3 - 2 in the FA cup final
Question for those who got to watch more of them this season than I did: what exactly is wrong with Newcastle? Where are they weak? How come they couldn’t do what Tottenham managed?
Side note for the snide among us: 'Arry 'Oudini did it again, you will note. From bottom of the table to eighth place, not a bad run!
Spurs had a decent but ill-balanced squad, poor morale and poor discipline. Redknapp managed to fix at least two of those problems, and has the team working to something near its potential.
Newcastle, by contrast, had a terrible squad, riddled with permanent crocks, pie fans and Fabricio Coloccini, who gets a species of terrible all to himself. They also had poor morale and discipline, but even if Alan Shearer could tackle one of those, the essential rubbishness of the squad couldn’t be overcome. This team is playing to its potential; and its potential is shit.
Pretty unlucky to lose Kinnear in the manner they did, too, and the indecision following that was disastrous. I suspect Shearer will turn out to be a pretty rubbish manager, but no-one can really turn a side around in eight games. The real problems afflicting both sides were much the same, really - idiotic owners instituting stupid management structures that pissed off their employees and led to shit signings. Spurs are just lucky that their disastrous system didn’t survive long enough to completely wreck the squad.
Coloccini I’ll give you; I’ve always wondered what he’s doing on the field of play anytime I’ve seen him in the last two years. But name some other examples of crappy players, please? And were they really crappy? Or were they just not playing to potential because there wasn’t any good reason to?
Crap: Coloccini, Smith, Ameobi (rejected by Stoke. Stoke!), Lovenkrands (a Schalke 04 reject), others I can’t be bothered to think of (they didn’t put in the effort, so I’m not going to ).
Crocks: At any given time, around three of Owen, Viduka, Smith, Ameobi and Martins have been struggling with injury. Owen was a perma-crock when purchased for insane amounts of money. Viduka has always been injury-prone. We’ll stick Barton in this category too; be it through actual injury or brain damage, which manager over the past couple of years has had him available on a regular basis? It’s a squad assembled on the basis of wishful thinking.
Pies, who ate all the: Viduka. Can’t play more than 70 minutes even when not injured. Flips a coin to decide whether he’ll show up, then spends the coin on more pie.
I take it back, though; they weren’t playing to potential, and this squad probably could’ve scraped home if a respected disciplinarian had come in right after Keegan and properly taken charge. But when your first choice central defensive pairing is Coloccini/Bassong (and your best left-back is Damien Duff), your best forward can at most be described as “mercurial” and the others are injured or crap or both, then yeah, you’re likely to get relegated.
I haven’t been watching Newcastle but, according to a lot of the ‘professional’ critics, their main problems are woeful lack of discipline and complete lack of pace.