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Premier League final day clockwatch – live!

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17:07

Ooh, and now down the other end, Lindelof, who’s holding United together here, nips in front of Vardy after Justin skins Wan-Bissaka.





17:06

At Leicester, Matic sends Martial in behind with a lovely pass, but Martial’s touch, looking to take the ball across Justin, actually allows him to challenge, and he does really well.





17:03

“Spurs fans must be over the moon that they are on course to winning the Project Restart Cup!” emails Peter Oh. “Please celebrate responsibly.”

Yes, it looks like they and Mourinho are stuck with each other for longer.





16:24

Back at the KP, both teams look nervous at the back. Matic and Maguire have both given the ball away in dangerous positions, while United are hinting are putting one of their moves together.





16:22

At Stamford Bridge, it looks to be Wolves in the ascendancy, which is to say that it’s them in possession every time I look at that screen.





16:22

GOAL! Burnley 0-1 Brighton (Bissouma 20)

Both of these have done really well since the break, but it’s Brighton who go in front.

Brightons Yves Bissouma scores their first goal.

 Brightons Yves Bissouma scores their first goal. Photograph: Alex Livesey/Reuters

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16:20

“Re David Silva doing nothing in Europe,” tweets Simon Frank. “Neither did Eric Cantona but that hasn’t tarnished his legacy.”

I don’t think I quite agree with this. If we’re going to criticise Cantona for anything, aside from his support for Ken Loach, it’ll be that. But he also dominated the league for five seasons, which I don’t think we can say of Silva– brilliant though he’s been – and his European experience was different too. Cantona played when English clubs were still learning what they’d missed in the years for which they were banned, and his team had to leave out players because of the foreigners rule. Silva, on the other hand, played in the most lavishly-resourced team in football history, with superb, seasoned players around him, and really City should’ve won a big ears by now.





16:17

I should previously have said that at Leicester, Harry Maguire – who used to play for them, did you know? – has been booked for scissoring Kelechi Iheanacho. He’ll not have wanted that happening so early.





16:16

MONSTROUS GOAL! Everton 0-1 Bournemouth (King pen 13)

Richarlison handles and King opens his body to pass into the bottom right! Bournemouth still need West Ham to do them a favour, but it’s a start!

Joshua King of Bournemouth scores from the spot.

 Joshua King of Bournemouth scores from the spot. Photograph: Robin Jones/AFC Bournemouth/Getty Images

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16:14

At West Ham, Michail Antonio has just poked past the post when in on goal – that’s a huge let-off for Villa – and at Leicester, Mason Greenwood has just nodded over the top.





16:11

“Shame Andy Carroll is not starting,” emails Paul Griffin. “I look back fondly to the all-to-brief comedy days of Suarez and Carroll playing together. When Suarez had the ball, he would draw three defenders to him using moves he learned off Riverdance, then, using special 4-D trigonometry, would slide the ball behind the defence into space. Carroll would be stock still, looking completely puzzled, like a man waiting for the 36 bus, confronted by the 36b, which isn’t even supposed to stop here. When Carroll had the ball, Suarez would make brilliant curving parabolic runs so cunning Henry Kissinger would never have countenanced the levels of constructive ambiguity, yet never received the ball. Luckily Luis has such an affable Zen-like fellow and and never reacted.”

I was at Anfield for Carroll’s debut in which Dirk Kuyt scored a hat-trick from a combined distance of 1.39 yards. Suarez’s skill to set up the first, though, was some of the most bafflingly brilliant behaviour I’ve ever seen close up. Shame about the racial abuse which followed, but.

source: theguardian.com