2014 And All That

Not a bad year for footie, England going well in the Euro 2016 qualifiers, my own team West Ham looking almost safe already :)
The Premier league had a good ending to the 2013/4 season with 3 teams still in with a shout with a few weeks left, although City had the bottle to see it out, this season is looking like it's down to a 2 horse race already, Chelsea should have enough to win although Mourinho is having to resort to mind games earlier than I expected :)
Luis Suarez was the best entertainment on the pitch and oddly I miss him? the game needs characters.
The Brazil World Cup was one of the best ever, if you forget about England's underwhelming performance I enjoyed the majority of it. Germany were worthy winners and the 7-1 victory over Brazil was one of the games all time greatest results.
Hopefully in the rest of this season the Premier league will tighten up a bit with the likes of Man U, Arsenal and maybe even West Ham!! still challenging in May.
Tha FA Cup starts this weekend and I'm hoping for a few shocks along the way.

Personally the new year is going to start at the bottom (the only way is up?), made redundant today and now my dodgy shyster of an employer has declared himself insolvent meaning I won't be getting any redundancy pay or the money he owes me :(  so looks like I'm going to be doing some reading on legal matters.
Hopefully I'll get something sorted before I run out of money and have to start making cutbacks on essentials like Internet, phones, food etc
Happy New Year all :)

Predictions comp still open for tomorrow on the previous post, good luck all.

Premier Predictions (Week 17-18-19-20)

Merry Christmas to all :)

Here we go with a bumper Christmas edition of the predictions competition :)

Each set of games is separate, so you can either post all of them at once or do them individually, don't worry I will keep track (as long as the comment comes through).

Week 17 - Games played 20th-22nd December

Man City v C Palace
Aston Villa v Man Utd
Hull v Swansea
QPR v West Brom
Southampton v Everton
Tottenham v Burnley
West Ham v Leicester
Newcastle v Sunderland
Liverpool v Arsenal
Stoke v Chelsea
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Week 18 - Games played 26th December

Chelsea v West Ham
Burnley v Liverpool
C Palace v Southampton
Everton v Stoke
Leicester v Tottenham
Man Utd v Newcastle
Sunderland v Hull
Swansea v Aston Villa
West Brom v Man City
Arsenal v QPR
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Week 19 - Games played 28th-29th December

Tottenham v Man Utd
Southampton v Chelsea
Aston Villa v Sunderland
Hull v Leicester
Man City v Burnley
QPR v C Palace
Stoke v West Brom
West Ham v Arsenal
Newcastle v Everton
Liverpool v Swansea
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Week 20 - Games played 1st January 2015

Stoke v Man Utd
Aston Villa v C Palace
Hull v Everton
Liverpool v Leicester
Man City v Sunderland
Newcastle v Burnley
QPR v Swansea
Southampton v Arsenal
West Ham v West Brom
Tottenham v Chelsea
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The week 21 games are not till 10th January, after the elongated FA Cup weekend. So the next post will be then.

Good Luck All, and have a great Christmas :)

Headlines

I've been clearing out my e-mails from work due to my imminent redundancy :(
I get the feed from BBC Football, and these are the only ones I have bothered saving because I liked the headlines :)

Well Mourinho is always good for a quote :)

Blind Men

I thought Arsene Wenger had trademarked the "I did not see it" line.
A bad weekend so far for players after the fallon D'floor award and Ashley Young hasn't played yet!!
Chelsea led the way with at least 3 less than impressive dives resulting in 2 bookings and Chris Foy not seeing Gary Cahill's effort which should have given him at least a second yellow, especially after his red card tackle earlier had been dealt with leniantly?
Jose Mourinho says "my players did not dive" while wearing a blindfold :)

Classiest dive of the day was West Brom's Pocognoli which was a Suarez / Hazard style full legs in the air dramatic fall, trouble was he was yards away from the supposed tackler :)
Best result for the divers was Adam Johnson's "I've been shot" style fall to gain Sunderland a penalty :(
Let's see if today's games will bring some more Oscar winners?

Premier Predictions (Week 16)

Some good games this weekend, and with the exception of the Chelsea game all could go either way :)
3 days worth again, 7 Saturday, 2 Sunday and one Monday.

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

Good luck all :)

Coming soon :
Week 17 - Games played 20th-22nd December
Week 18 - Games played 26th December
Week 19 - Games played 28th-29th December
Week 20 - Games played 1st January 2015

Premier Predictions (Week 15)

Hot on the heels of the midweek games here are the fixtures for this weekends games.
Games over 3 days with 7 on Saturday, 2 Sunday and Man U's visit to the St Mary's Friends Provident New Dell Stadium on Monday.

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

Good luck all :)

Full table - Week 14