Birmingham put 2 past Stoke, away from home, in the week. You can say what you like about Stoke but they have a tough defence at home and anyone who scores a couple there has proven their ability to score on the tour.
For that reason I have the thought that the brummies will push up looking for glory and they may indeed get one in the net - the counter to that is that they'll become stretched at times and we'll capitalise on that. It'll be tough as hell but I can see us popping in 3 or 4 to Birminghams 0 or 1 and I'll be putting a wager on the 3-1 result (will still be happy if it's 4-0 though).
The rags are away at villa and I think they'll struggle - most likely a draw (rags getting one back on 96 minutes) and the arses have a tough 'un against a determined everton away so they may drop points too.
All being even, we'll be on equal points with arsenal and 1 point behind the rags by the end iof the weekend but if karma does it's best we'll be on equal points with the rags and 1 point ahead of the arsenal.
No pressure though 'cos it's a long season and we're only just getting into our stride . . if things go badly this weekend then I'm sure we can make the ground up.
