The first Super Sunday of the Season

The second last weekend of the season and its the first genuine "Super Sunday" on Sky sports.

The exciting race to reach the Premiership and stay in the Championship will reach its climax tomorrow, and for the first time Sky's alliterative title for Sunday football will be a fitting billing.

Stoke look set to join West Brom in the automatic places. The real excitement lies in the race for 5th and 6th. Watford are in freefall,whilst Crystal Palace are charging up the table. Wolves and Ipswich will also be full of optimism, and Sheffield United will be wishing the season was just a single game longer!

Southampton appear to be everyones favourites to avoid the drop, but it is hard to see them beating a Sheffield United side wanting to give themselves every chance of stealing 6th place.

For some reason I feel Leicester will snatch at least a point at Stoke. Ian Holloway has his faults, just ask any Plymouth fans, but when it comes to rallying his troops when they are the underdogs, it is hard to think of anyone more adept in that situation.

He will certainly have his players prepared to run through brick walls to avoid relegation, and if they do stay up I'm sure he will have a great press conference up his sleeve.

Something along these lines maybe.............



Classic Holloway

Certain Dive

Show me the money!

Flamini is learning fast.

Not how to dictate play from the middle of midfield against the best teams in Europe. No, no he has been attending the Wes Brown school of how to get far more money than your limited ability deserves.

Brown has managed to secure a reported £60,000 a week as Manchester United wanted to secure his services beyond this summer. Brown has played nearly all of United's games this season, looks set to win a League winners medal and appear in a Champions League Final, and still he felt he should try to push his luck even further and threaten to leave on a free so he could sign a lucrative new contract.

Brown is undoubtedly a very good player,England international and regular for the potential champions of England and Europe. But for him to try and hold United to ransom over his new deal is a slight over estimation of his importance to the team.

With Arsenal supposedly tabling a £50,000 a week contract for Flamini, how much does he think he is actually worth?

Footballers only have a limited time in the game so yes they have every right to maximise their income while they are playing, but maybe Flamini should be showing some loyalty to a manager who has shown enough faith in him to drop the captain of Brazil to allow him to play.

Arsenal took Flamini from Marseille when he refused to sign a long-term contract with the French side after emerging from the youth team. There he exploited a loophole that allowed him to move for mere "training compensation" and was shrewd enough last year to threaten to buy out his contract and leave if Wenger did not start playing him this year.

So clearly Flamini is all about doing what is best for himself.

Maybe it is time for him be a team player and show some loyalty to a club who has given him the chance to show case his talents on the biggest stage of all.