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Tbh if we can't get anything from Leicester or Palace then we are a joke and deserve to go down.

Sadly, there's a lot of truth in that statement, and you can add Newcastle to that list. All three will be extremely tough and worrying.

So if we don't get points from Leicester or Palace we deserve to go down? Surely its been proved season in, season out that the three teams with the least points at the end of the campaign 'deserve' to go down!!

In my opinion, if the team finish 17th or better, they DON'T DESERVE to go down, regardless of who they win or lose against. If they finish in the bottom three, they do.

To be honest, I think there's a case to be made that some teams in some seasons are harder done by than others in terms of relegation.  Objectively speaking, would you put the West Ham team who got relegated on 42 points in 2002 on a par with the Derby side who got relegated on 11 six years later?  It seems pretty obvious to me that in terms of Premier League history as a whole - not just the season in question - the 2002 Hammers side got a tough break, as did Blackpool in 2011 and a few others in other years.  Likewise, we got pretty lucky in 2005 (and last year!) as did Villa in 2012, etc.