Safety In Numbers

With Hull’s defeat at home to Sunderland and Burnley’s trashing by Liverpool on Sunday, the thrill and excitement of the relegation battle has turned into the whimper of a miniature Chihuahua on a wet day in Manchester.

Of course Hull are six points behind the Hammers with two games to play; away to Wigan and at home to Liverpool. Well we all know how Burnley faired at home to Liverpool, so Hull fans may be asking for a bit too much.

Mathematically Hull has a chance of escaping the drop. However, mathematically scholars can prove the world is flat and that Lindsey Lohan is a great actress and will win five Oscars next year after adopting 15 African babies, so let’s not get too carried away.

The goal difference between the Hammers and Hull is 23. So for Hull to avoid the drop, the math goes like this, the Hammers lose to Fulham 5-0 and Hull beats Wigan by 5-0 which then makes the GD is 13. Then on the last day of the season, the Liverpool squad is struck down by a virulent strain of the H1N1 virus and has to field their under-14’s team, which means Hull win by 7. This leaves the Hammers to lose at home to Man City by 7; Hull stay up.

I called the William Hill bookmakers to ask for some odds, so I could place by 10p bet and was told that it was 2,500,000 to one. Perhaps, mathematically, I could be a rich man.

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