Premier Predictions (Week 15)

Let's do it all again for this weekends matches :)
8 Games on Saturday with 1 on Sunday and 1 Monday.
The big one kicks off at 12:45 on Saturday :D

West Ham v Chelsea
Arsenal v Swansea
Fulham v Tottenham
Liverpool v Southampton
Man City v Everton
QPR v Aston Villa
West Brom v Stoke
Reading v Man Utd

Norwich v Sunderland

Newcastle v Wigan

Dave Sexton R.I.P

Dave Sexton sadly died on Sunday at the age of 82.
He was probably most famous for managing Chelsea to the 1970 FA Cup and 1971 Cup winners cup, and for almost winning the league as manager of QPR.
He had 4 years as manager of Man Utd and managed the England under 21's.

As a player he had his most successful period at West Ham in the early 50's scoring 27 goals in 75 appearances.

A workmate met him during his time at QPR and said "he was a true gent" which seems to be the opinion of most that knew him.

Fantasy Football

Amazingly I'm hoping for a Liverpool win today!! I'm only 3 points behind the leader and hoping to win the £250 weekly prize. So ideally Liverpool to win 3-0 with a Suarez hat trick, Lambert hat trick in a 3-1 win over Newcastle, Aguero and Mata score in a 1-1 draw and Bale gets Tottenham goal in a home defeat by us where the Spuds defenders get an own goal each :D

Good Memories

Back in 1981 in our first season back in the top league after 3 years of 2nd division football our first away game was a midweek trip to Tottenham.
Tottenham had won the FA Cup the previous season and we had just finished one of our best seasons ever winning the 2nd division (only losing 4 games) and only narrowly losing to the cheating scouses in the League cup final replay.
I travelled there in hope of us picking up something but we had been disappointing in our first game drawing at home to Brighton.
As it turned out it was one of the greatest days of my football supporting career as David “Psycho” Cross banged in all 4 goals in a 4-0 away win :)

Time For A Statue?

Premier Predictions (Week 14)

I know week 13's games haven't started yet
but here are the fixtures for next weeks midweek games :)

Tuesday
Sunderland v QPR
Aston Villa v Reading

Wednesday
Chelsea v Fulham
Everton v Arsenal
Southampton v Norwich
Stoke v Newcastle
Swansea v West Brom
Tottenham v Liverpool
Man Utd v West Ham
Wigan v Man City

Soap Opera

Crazy

I know the wages are good, and no matter how crap you are at the job you'll usually walk into another high paid job after you get sacked but you have to feel some sympathy for football managers.

Roberto Di Matteo becomes the latest "hero to zero" despite in only eight months winning the Champions league, the FA Cup and steering Chelsea into 5th place after their poor start last year.
They sit 3rd in the Premiership despite losing Drogba and having Terry, Cole and Lampard missing for a lot of the season.

Ancelotti got lumbered with over £70 million worth of misfiring striker and an erratic centre half because Abramovich wanted them, and AVB and Di Matteo have carried the same burden, but of course it's their fault.


I don't really like Nigel Adkins but can't believe they are talking of dumping him after 2 straight promotions, and Brian McDermott is another who has performed miracles to get Reading to the Premier league and is also being tipped to go soon?
I can't really sympathise with Mark Hughes who must take some of the blame for bringing in so many average and past it players to disrupt any team spirit that QPR had.

Premier Predictions (Week 13)

Here are the games for Saturday and Sunday (week 13),
I will do another post for next weeks midweek games (week 14) later in the week.

Sunderland v West Brom
Everton v Norwich
Man Utd v QPR
Stoke v Fulham
Wigan v Reading
Aston Villa v Arsenal

Swansea v Liverpool
Southampton v Newcastle
Chelsea v Man City
Tottenham v West Ham

Premier Predictions (Week 12)

Here's next weeks games - 8 on Saturday, 1 Sunday and the big game on Monday :)
Quite a few tricky ones to predict (they are all tricky for me).
Pressure is on Paulo :)

Arsenal v Tottenham
Liverpool v Wigan
Man City v Aston Villa
Newcastle v Swansea
QPR v Southampton
Reading v Everton
West Brom v Chelsea
Norwich v Man United

Fulham v Sunderland

West Ham v Stoke

Premier Predictions (Week 11)

All to play for again with this weeks collection, First 7 on Saturday with the rest on Sunday.
European games again this week with Arsenal and Man U on the plane and Chelsea and City facing tough home games.
Europa league on Thursday with Tottenham at home, Newcastle going to Belgium and Liverpool having to travel to Russia (shame Newcastle aren't going there) :)

Arsenal v Fulham
Everton v Sunderland
Reading v Norwich
Southampton v Swansea
Stoke v QPR
Wigan v West Brom
Aston Villa v Man Utd

Man City v Tottenham
Newcastle v West Ham
Chelsea v Liverpool

Old Spice

Sorry to Jamie Gleeson but he looks like an impression of David Beckham in about ten years time, who's been wiped out by Pointy spice and has been living on the street selling the big issue.