Premier Predictions (Week 27 + 28)

Another double week for you this time, and not straightforward.
Week 27 is 6 games on Saturday and 2 on Sunday plus a bonus game of the League cup final to make up the numbers (28th February - 1st March).
Week 28 is 3 games on Tuesday, 7 Games on Wednesday and an extra game on the Saturday (so that all the Prem games get cover) (3rd March - 7th March).
Which might be an agonising wait if it's still close :)
Usual rules, post before kick off's however you want to do it? :)

Still with me? here goes ...

Week 27
West Ham v C Palace
Burnley v Swansea
Man Utd v Sunderland
Newcastle v Aston Villa
Stoke v Hull
West Brom v Southampton

Liverpool v Man City
Arsenal v Everton
Chelsea v Tottenham (LCF)
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Week 28
Aston Villa v West Brom
Hull v Sunderland
Southampton v C Palace

Man City v Leicester
Newcastle v Man Utd
QPR v Arsenal
Stoke v Everton
Tottenham v Swansea
West Ham v Chelsea
Liverpool v Burnley

QPR v Tottenham
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Good Luck All :)

Premier Predictions (Week 26)

Think I need a secretary to cope with all the paperwork I've had to do this week.
I'll be glad to get back working next week for a break :)

Excuses for lateness of this post out of the way, here we go with week 26.
A few good looking games this weekend with Pardew v Wenger and a few six pointers at the bottom on Saturday, the return of Liverpool's ex Southampton's players on Sunday might be lively? and obviously the big london derby where this weeks newspaper target Big Sam gets a chance to shut everyone up with a win at Tottenham ... please :)

Aston Villa v Stoke
Chelsea v Burnley
C Palace v Arsenal
Hull v QPR
Sunderland v West Brom
Swansea v Man Utd
Man City v Newcastle

Totten ham v West Ham
Everton v Leicester
Southampton v Liverpool

Good luck all :)

Parking The Bus

Great moment before the Paris SG v Chelsea euro game tonight, the Chelsea bus driver managed to get it stuck in the tunnel leading in to the Paris stadium.
Given that Jose's usual tactics in difficult away games is to 'park the bus' it looked like they were starting early tonight :)

Hope they got insurance.

Concentrating On The League

Oh well another season over without a trophy :(
Wasn't even close, Fat Sam trotted out the injuries and tiredness excuses forgetting that West Brom had played the same days as us last week and all 11 starters for them had played Wednesday.
Probably the poorest performance of the season and I just hope that we were saving ourselves for next week?

Sad news concerning the accident on the M1 which accounted for the less than full ground at the start, it appears the 3 people that died were Hammers fans on their way to the game, so heartfelt sympathy for the family and friends of those concerned :(

The Boss?

Was shocked to read that Nigel Pearson had been sacked by Leicester today, but it turns out it was the press making up stories as usual.

I'm no Leicester fan but I think this guy is great, the team seem to have been really unlucky this season and have played well every time I've seen them without getting the result.
Pearson was slagged off recently because he used to sit in the stand instead of being on the touchline, but a couple of recent incidents have showed that is probably a safer place for him to be.


If he does get shown the door by Leicester I think a change of career should be considered, every time he gets interviewed I think he would make a great movie villain, he looks way more menacing than Vinnie Jones ever did and a career in low budget British gangster films beckons now that Danny Dyer has sold his soul to Soapland :)

Premier Predictions (Week 24 + 25)

Right here we go with a double week, usual rules post before the games kick off. Either all at once for the forgetful people (Longy) or singly.
This weekends games are 7 on Saturday and 3 on Sunday including the North London derby and Merseyside derby.
Next week there are 4 games on Tuesday and 6 on Wednesday.
The following weekend is Cup week again.

Week 24
Tottenham v Arsenal
Aston Villa v Chelsea
Leicester v C Palace
Man City v Hull
QPR v Southampton
Swansea v Sunderland
Everton v Liverpool
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Burnley v West Brom
Newcastle v Stoke
West Ham v Man Utd

Week 25
Arsenal v Leicester
Hull v Aston Villa
Sunderland v QPR
Liverpool v Tottenham
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Chelsea v Everton
Man Utd v Burnley
Southampton v West Ham
Stoke v Man City
C Palace v Newcastle
West Brom v Swansea

Good luck all, chance of a new leader this week unless Dave fights back?
Only 2 wins between everyone which means even Paulo in 8th could be leading this time next week :)

Here's the full table with all the info for those that like that kind of thing :)

Transfer Madness

Fingers crossed that those deals that were being talked about have all fallen through?
Carlton to West Brom? Carroll and Sakho injured that just doesn't make sense.
Adebeyor and Kaboul to West Ham, don't the Hammers hierachy ever learn?
Nearly every player we've ever signed from Tottenham has been crap (Etherington and Zamora excluded) Keane and Bentley played like they were being paid to miss as many chances as they could?
Kaboul is probably the worst defender in the Prem and Adebeyor didn't want to come to us a few years ago when he was half decent, now he's well past it he likes the idea?
Was hoping 'arry would be in for Nolan as he loves ex-hammers but it doesn't look likely.

Fantasy Football Update

Fantasy Football update for week ending 2nd February

FPL - Gary extends his lead and I'm still suffering "second season syndrome" can't do anything right?
TFF - Blog league still doing well, only dropped a couple of places despite a bad week for all.
Personally still in with a slight chance in a few of the money prize events, 11th in the goals, 25th in the "one league" and 33rd in the Twitter league so fingers crossed :)