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    GovindaTim wrote:
    turtling. wrote: You forgot 1 other thing el ad, your dimwit of a manager pointed out to the whole world that you lot can't compete with the others because your players budget level is set at the bottom 6, so don't get carried away, he's given you a great excuse to lose, you've got more chance of making the play offs than Steve Evans of being able to fit through the turnstiles at Rotherham
    Quite right. This season has been a complete disaster, playing crappy football in a crappy stadium, only getting crowds of 20,000 at home games, only beating 1 premier league side this year. If only we could have had a succesful season like Palarse have had. Oh well, only 5 more matches to endure and then we can all go watch cricket.
    *ahem*

    TWO PL sides (Sunderland and Newcastle...)"
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El-Abd on Royals mission

8:00pm Monday 9th April 2012 in Albion By Andy Naylor

ADAM El-Abd reckons Albion can turn the tables on Reading, just as they did against Southampton.

The Seagulls lost 3-0 at table-topping Saints earlier in the season but beat them 3-0 at The Amex in January.

That has given El-Abd confidence for second-placed Reading's visit on Tuesday night, after Albion's 3-0 defeat against the Royals at the Madejski Stadium on Boxing Day.

The long-serving defender told The Argus: "It is just an example of how crazy this league is. There is so little in it, such a fine line between winning and losing.

"It can be a referee or linesman's decision, half a mistake from a player that costs a goal or a playing pulling out a bit of magic and putting one in the top corner from 30 yards.

"All those things can happen to change a game, because goals change games. If we can get the first goal there is no reason why we can't go on and win."

El-Abd believes the margin of Albion's defeat at Reading was misleading.

"After 89 minutes were 1-0 down and had created quite a few chances," he said. "It wasn't our best performance of the season by any means but we were in the game for a large period of it.

"They have been on an unbelievable run which we are all aware of, the whole league. They have bounced up that table but there is so little in it in this league between winning and losing.

"There are always upsets and I predict it is going to be a very tight game with not much in it."

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