Table Toppers

West Ham blew their chance of going top this week, but my local club managed it tonight after beating Shrewsbury 3-0 :)
I post this because I have a feeling they won't be there later in the season although I hope I'm wrong ... well done Southend :)

Premier Predictions (Week 7)

A few derby games this week.

Everton v Liverpool
Aston Villa v Wigan
Blackburn v Man City
Man Utd v Norwich
Sunderland v West Brom
Wolves v Newcastle

Bolton v Chelsea
Fulham v QPR
Swansea v Stoke
Tottenham v Arsenal

Premier Predictions (Week 6)

Wow, Friday morning already and nearly forgot to post this.
Hopefully we will improve on last weeks dismal performance :)

Man City v Everton
Arsenal v Bolton
Chelsea v Swansea
Liverpool v Wolves
Newcastle v Blackburn
West Brom v Fulham
Wigan v Tottenham
Stoke v Man Utd

QPR v Aston Villa

Norwich v Sunderland

Confusing

Just came back to check the latest scores on the BBC website, before I went out it had said Man City were 3-1 up, now I see that it was a 2-2 draw? might have been a disallowed goal I suppose but then checking the report it gets really confusing?? it says that Kompany scored City's 3rd goal on 2 different pages!!

Fantasy Football

As I think I said before I'm playing TFF (Telegraph fantasy football) this year for the first time in 3 years.
During the previous years of playing I was working regular hours (or not at all) so had the time to do those last minute transfers after seeing the team sheets, and had set up a pretty comprehensive Excel document to deal with all the info so I knew exactly what players were in each of the 20 teams I'd picked etc.
A bit of luck involved obviously but that level of attention is needed to get your teams into the top 10% as there are a lot of serious players around.

This year I'm winging it just using the web site as I never seem to have the time to set up the Excel spreadsheet and having to use this crap laptop is a pain :)
This years teams are doing reasonable with the top team in around 2,500th place with no transfers made (there are around 250,000 teams in the competition).
I've gone heavy on Man U and City players so that's worked out well so far although most teams have either Rooney or Agruero I don't think I've got both in any team :(
My worst team has Fernando Torres as the striker?? proving that taking chances doesn't always work :)
I think I might drop a few places this week as I missed the transfer deadline again, there was a chance to dump a few under performers before the big teams played today :(

Best Team so far -
Top points - Rooney, Nani, Young.
Worst - Malouda, Brunt, Kompany



Worst team so far -
Top points - Bent, Collins, Hart, Arshavin.
Worst - Surman, Torres, Riise

Millwall 0 West Ham 0

Tottenham loanee misses absolute sitter .... sounds like last season :(
Surely we should have learned the lesson after Keane and all those other crap players we've borrowed from the Spuds over the years.

Premier Predictions (Week 5)

Been away and just got back finally, so here's this weeks games.

Blackburn v Arsenal
Aston Villa v Newcastle
Bolton v Norwich
Everton v Wigan
Swansea v West Brom
Wolves v QPR

Tottenham v Liverpool
Fulham v Man City
Sunderland v Stoke
Man Utd v Chelsea

Paolo di Canio

Never a dull moment with Paolo :)
If you've sat up for the football league show every Swindon game has been a joy so far just to see Paolo's touchline antics.
The end of match argument with Leon Clarke was classic di Canio and most of their other games have seen a di Canio moment to talk about.
Tuesday should be interesting as Swindon take on rich kids Crawley, Crawley's manager Steve Evans has been critical of di Canio calling Swindon the "di Canio circus", di Canio's reaction was "who is he, I've never heard of him" :)

For no particular reason? I dislike Crawley and loved Saturday's 6-0 win by Morecambe which brought them back down to earth, hopefully Swindon can do a similar job.

Rugby

The Rugby world cup has started.
Loads of posh middle class men watching some fella kick a ball over a bar

Bit like stamford bridge when Torres is playing

England v Wales

Well we won
mainly thanks to this man :)

Premier Predictions (Week 4)

Arsenal v Swansea
Everton v Aston Villa
Man City v Wigan
Stoke v Liverpool
Sunderland v Chelsea
Wolves v Tottenham
Bolton v Man Utd

Norwich v West Brom
Fulham v Blackburn

QPR v Newcastle

Premier Predictions

International week so back on 10th September.