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And now the end is near, and so we face the final curtain; and the result against Sunderland suggests that as always, for better or worse, we'll be doing it our way. Albion just don't play the game on easy mode, which is just as well, because there'll be no easy mode available in tomorrow's early kick-off at Filbert Street (look, I just got used to there being no Yugoslavia or Zaire anymore, don't rush me), where we face a Leicester side to whom we've lost four on the bounce - conceding an average of 3 goals per game - and are winless in seven. While we're enjoying our best unbeaten away run since the winter of 2019-20 and could even equal that run by avoiding defeat on Saturday, the fact is that Leicester have averaged 2 goals a match at home across the season, securing them a 75% win rate and more clean sheets than they've kept since the season they won the Premier League. Not only is there no easy mode tomorrow, there's nothing awaiting us in the East Midlands but rage-quitting, controller-smashing ironman mode.

All the same, we have to try and produce something of a performance, even if it ultimately goes unrewarded, to restore some momentum to the final charge. For all practical purposes, we do have to prepare for the worst this weekend with our result and with others, and snatch any bonus that drops our way with due gratitude. But that worst-case expectation doesn't absolve us from putting in the hard yards and showing some self-belief on the pitch. Because that's also doing it our way.