I'll be hoping for a rag win today.
- I prefer us to win the title by us winning a game rather then someone else losing one. It'd be so much better to do it by beating Chelsea than having to celebrate a Liverpool win.
- Makes it harder for Liverpool to get top 4 and therefore CL.
- Thinking bigger picture, if 2 happens that's a significant loss of revenue for them, when we know they've been struggling financially, from the auditor's qualification of their accounts, The owners aren"t likely to pump money in so they'll probably cut back on spending and/or sell. That helps get rid of a potential rival, which helps us short and longer term.
- I believe their players are on heavily incentivised contracts so they'll lose some of their wages if they're not in the CL. Hopefully quite a few won't be happy and will look to leave, particularly the better ones like Salah & Mané. They're both heading towards 30 and won't want to spend the rest of their careers playing in Eastern Europe on Thursday nights if they can get a CL gig. So that's another blow to their ambitions.
- It seems unlikely but there's still a chance that the shower of blue shite at Goodison could finish above them, which will hurt them so badly and may lead to a shift of power on Merseyside (although that's probably very wishful thinking).
So i'm quite happy to wait a week to win the title again, at the expense of them waiting another 30 or so years to do the same, as that's a rival out of the game for quite a while.