Predictions and Fantasy Football

The New Season is almost here so time to think about all things Premier.

Season 4 of the Nothing Better Than Football Premier predictions competition is about to get under way :)
Usual format, I post the weeks fixtures, you predict the scores in the comments.
3 Points for a correct score, 1 point for a correct result (Home, away, draw), 0 points if game is postponed.
The league table will be decided on -
1st Outright weekly wins,
2nd Shared wins,
3rd Total points scored.

Hopefully the 5 regulars that played last year will play again, and anyone else that visits here is welcome to join (just let me know your name and which team you support).
Seasons 1-3 have been a Chelsea Bluewash so the rest of us need to up our game, congrats to Biopunk for winning last season after deposing 2 time champion Longy.


A bit of added interest this season - Fantasy Football

I've been playing various Fantasy football games for the last 15 years.
So far I've only won about £200 but have a bundle of league winners medals and cups.

Most of the popular ones are run by newspapers, Sun, Mirror, Telegraph etc.
You don't have to buy the newspapers as the games are all online :)

I think the Sun dream team one is the most widely played but I find it boring as you get stuck with injured players for weeks waiting for transfer windows.

The Telegraph game tends to be the most popular amongst Fantasy football managers as you can tinker away all season with 30 transfers allowed and make changes to your team right up till the first kick-off of the day.
You can have as many teams as you like, the first team is free but if you want more you can upgrade to either 5 teams for £5 or 20 teams for £20.
Many different cash prizes if your good enough.

The Premier league runs it's own game "Fantasy Premier League" and it is free to play.
You choose a squad of 15 players in your budget, then pick a starting XI for each game, transfers are available during the season - 1 is free, anymore cost you points, wildcards are available twice a season to let you ship out several players at once if half your squad get sold to Real Madrid in January.
You can only have one team each, but you can put it in multiple leagues.

So if anyone who reads this blog wants to join in this season?
I have set up "Nothing better than football" leagues in the Premier league game and the Telegraph one.

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Fantasy Premier League 2013/14
http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb.html
League name: Nothing Better Than Football
Code to join this league: 225975-270358
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Telegraph Fantasy Football 2013/14
http://fantasyfootball.telegraph.co.uk/
League name: Nothing Better Than Football
PIN: 8043485

(You can have as many teams as you like in this one, I've put in one for now but need at least 5 teams to make it an official league, so if I don't get 5 by the end of August I'll add a few more of my own .. but hopefully I won't need to)

The Premier league game is open to everyone worldwide (as there are no cash prizes), sadly the Telegraph game is UK residents only :(