Premier Predictions (Week 32)

Last of the international weeks out of the way till the end of the season, the only good thing to come out of Hodgson's dislike of West Ham players is that none got injured playing for him. Stoke must be wishing he hated them as much.
Fixtures reasonably normal this week with 8 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday before all the re-arranged games start kicking in the week after.
Big game this week could be Tottenham going to Liverpool as they need something before Leicester play on Sunday, as they could possibly be 11 points behind before they play again?? :)

Aston Villa v Chelsea
Arsenal v Watford
Bournemouth v Man City
Norwich v Newcastle
Stoke v Swansea
Sunderland v West Brom
West Ham v C Palace
Liverpool v Tottenham

Leicester v Southampton
Man Utd v Everton

Good Luck All :)

Predictions And Fantasy Football Update

Here's the full predictions table up to the end of Week 31
John still leading but Longy and Paulo just one win away.

and here are some selected Fantasy Football Top 5's

FPL - Gary back on top after I chose the wrong captain :( Still close with only 7 weeks to go

TFF - Blog League - Ryan still leads the way.
TFF Euro's - Ray and Richard are top dogs, and I keep picking players who don't play.
My League - 6 Teams in the Top 1000 which is a lot better than I usually do :)
Rick's - I'm hanging on to the lead.
Major TFF Leagues - In the Top 5's of all of them, so hopefully some cash to come in May?

Johan Cruyff R.I.P

Sad to hear that Johann Cruyff died of cancer today :(
Knew he was ill, but still a shock that a real legend of football has gone.
A star in that brilliant Holland team I grew up watching in the 74 and 78 World Cups.

One of that small group of players that I will always think of first when someone says who was the greatest footballer of all time.

Premier Predictions (Week 31)

Games on Saturday and Sunday this week before another International break.
Saturday's early game sees Arsenal taking on Lukaku and co, followed by West Ham with a chance to go 3rd when they thrash Chelsea :)
Leicester can go 8 points clear if they beat Palace?

Sunday starts with the big North East relegation battle, Big Fat Sam vs the Spanish waiter.
Plus the Manc derby which might be the battle for 5th place this season?

Everton v Arsenal
Chelsea v West Ham
C Palace v Leicester
Watford v Stoke
West Brom v Norwich
Swansea v Aston Villa

Newcastle v Sunderland
Southampton v Liverpool
Man City v Man Utd
Tottenham v Bournemouth

Good Luck All :)

Hmmm ...

Much as I love West Ham, some of the products they have been selling have been "tacky" to say the least :)
Latest one is a pair of foam hands in the shape of Upton Park???

This rates alongside the Sullivan and Gold garden gnomes and the hammers gravestones available.

F.A Cup Semi Finals

I was having a look for somewhere to put a bet on the semi final draw, as I knew we would get Everton but couldn't find one :(

Saturday 23rd April - Crystal Palace v Watford
Sunday 24th April - Everton v West Ham or Man Utd

6th Round replay to be fixed after Thursday's Europa league game, if Man Utd get knocked out it will be the first week in April, if by some chance they get through it will have to be in the week before the Semi?

McClaren Gone

Maybe if Steve McClaren had got himself one of those dead animal wigs like Trump maybe he would have been more popular?
(Managed to crowbar in a political point there) :)

He seems like a nice guy (McClaren) but he's not a good manager, I was having nightmares at the end of last season when his name was being mentioned as a possible West Ham manager.
Despite bringing in players for £75 million this season they look worse this season than last? Shelvey and Townsend seem reasonable buys but the rest of the team look like they can't wait to get out of the door.

Not sure bringing in Benitez is going to help much as most of his successes have been achieved at clubs that were doing alright before his arrival, don't think Ashley will be too happy spending multi millions replacing all the Frenchmen with Spaniards, especially if they get relegated.

If it comes down to a relegation battle of Allardyce v Benitez I know who I would fancy to stay up.

Premier Predictions (Week 30)

Here we go with the most confusing prediction competition I've ever done :)
Total of 9 games over 4 days. 5 Premier league and 4 FA Cup games.
All games count towards the weekly Premier league competition, and the 4 Cup games will also count in the Cup competition (does that make sense). So simply please all do the 9 games.

First game is on Friday night? plus 4 on Saturday.
Arsenal have to play Sunday afternoon before travelling to Spain to play Barcelona on Tuesday (if it wasn't already hard enough?).
The big game is Sunday at 4pm with West Ham trying to reach the Semi's for the first time in 10 years.
The other big game is Monday night with Leicester trying to get one game closer to the title against Newcastle who might not have a manager?
Phew ... Good Luck All :)
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Reading v C Palace (FAC)

Norwich v Man City
Bournemouth v Swansea
Stoke v Southampton
Everton v Chelsea (FAC)

Arsenal v Watford (FAC)
Aston Villa v Tottenham
Man Utd v West Ham (FAC)

Leicester v Newcastle

Sad

Something that annoys me, don't know why?

I've always known that West Ham's ground was actually called the Boleyn ground and is located in the London borough of Upton Park.
But throughout my life which includes many hundreds of visits I've always called it Upton Park, as does every person I've ever talked football with.
Suddenly it seems trendy in the media to call it the Boleyn? the Boleyn is the pub at the end of the road.

It was nice to hear David Gold correct the BT guy at the weekend when asked about leaving the Boleyn, he replied "we've always called it Upton Park".

Premier Predictions (Week 29)

The games coming thick and fast now, this weeks are 8 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday.
The big game is the early kick off with 3rd place Arsenal against 2nd place Tottenham, Leicester will be hoping Arsenal win although that doesn't look likely after another non performance this week.
Man City should get 3 points, Leicester have a tricky away game, and West Ham go to their bogey team and Lukaku always scores against us :(

Tottenham v Arsenal
Chelsea v Stoke
Everton v West Ham
Man City v Aston Villa
Newcastle v Bournemouth
Southampton v Sunderland
Swansea v Norwich
Watford v Leicester

C Palace v Liverpool
West Brom v Man Utd

Good Luck All :)