Terry Venables will need to keep things going because at Easter Middlesbrough travel to Arsenal and Leicester and face Ipswich at the Riverside. Then they meet Man United. Boro's search begins at Goodison Park on Wednesday. A draw seems a reasonable prediction and both sides might settle for it now. Man United, Leeds, Leicester and Ipswich.
Easter is bad, too.
Villa, Liverpool, Arsenal. The Toffees' crunch could be Bradford at Goodison on April 28th. Bradford, whose last four matches are Derby, Everton, Middlesbrough and Coventry, should be still fighting by then. Derby, meanwhile, represent the spanner in all this. Is their recent improvement sustainable or are they this year's Wimbledon.