With 11 minutes left on the clock, Liverpool deservedly led 3-0 againstimidimid Crystal Palace, who had little other than professional pride to play for with survival secured.
Staying out of the Championship will ensure they share in the riches offered by the new, highly lucrative, television deal which kicks in next season and Allardyce is understood to have negotiated a handsome bonus should survival be secured.
Life has largely been a struggle for Barnet since their promotion to the Football League in 2005, with their survival being secured on the last day of the season in each of the last three campaigns.
From an evolutionary perspective, if survival is secured by processing these perceptual cues, why should we expect a perceptual system separately specialized to abstract numerical magnitudes?
Will that be enough to secure survival?
They need just 13 more to secure survival.
The worst clubs, likewise, want to secure survival.
Middlesbrough's goose is all but cooked, although an emphatic victory against West Ham at Upton Park will be enough to secure survival if results elsewhere go their way.
Avram Grant's team play Chelsea in Saturday's teatime kick-off still two points from safety, and with games running out to secure survival.
That included Espanyol, whose manager, Constantin Galca, admitted that the knowledge that they were safe affected the way they played at the Camp Nou, and Deportivo, who were quickly leading in Villarreal to secure survival and for whom Lucas Pérez starred.
Neta Pane, executive director of Indonesia Police Watch, a private group, said the general's strategy was to arouse "public sympathy" for his survival and perhaps secure a position in the State Intelligence Agency.
