I used to hate the tinpot fans trying to stroke up a rivalry. Walsall mob saying our game was the "M6 El Classico" and I distinctly remember some Barnet fan who was ironically bald turning up on twitter all the time to have a pop.
I do feel like the players will be particularly up for this.
If we can win this it puts the poor result in the away game to bed and so far ahead of them we’re basically out of reach.
Would be fantastic if Boro came up with us. Not just because they're not a parachute club but our record against them suggests its 6 PL points already in the bag.
Even if we lose every game, and our rivals with theirs, the soonest we can be knocked off top place is 4th Jan and out of the top 2 the 20th Jan.
We've given ourselves a lot of room for error.
I think people are forgetting about the bug that has been going through the camp when judging performances.
No, were not as fluid as we can be but there are huge mitigating circumstances and we're still picking up hugely important points.