Premier Predictions (Week 19 + 20 + 21)

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 "So here it is Merry Christmas, it's a bumper Christmas special" sung to the Slade tune.

All 3 festive weeks of matches played over 9 days (if any of them happen?).
No idea at the moment if any are to be postponed? (Will Update as I find out)
Myself and Paulo really need to get something here 😳

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Week 19 (Sunday 26th - Monday 27th)

Liverpool v Leeds (Postponed)
Wolves v Watford (Postponed)   
Burnley v Everton (Postponed) 
Man City v Leicester
Norwich v Arsenal
Tottenham v Crystal Palace
West Ham v Southampton
Aston Villa v Chelsea
Brighton v Brentford
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Newcastle v Man Utd

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Week 20 (Tuesday 28th - Thursday 30th)

Arsenal v Wolves (Postponed) 

Crystal Palace v Norwich
Southampton v Tottenham
Watford v West Ham
Leeds v Aston Villa (Postponed) 

Leicester v Liverpool

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Chelsea v Brighton 

Brentford v Man City 

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Everton v Newcastle (Postponed)

Man Utd v Burnley

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Week 21 (Saturday 1st (Jan 2022) - Monday 3rd)

Arsenal v Man City
Leicester v Norwich (Postponed)
Watford v Tottenham
Crystal Palace v West Ham
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Brentford v Aston Villa
Everton v Brighton
Leeds v Burnley
Southampton v Newcastle (Postponed)
Chelsea v Liverpool
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Man Utd v Wolves

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Anyway after all that I'd like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and hopefully a Happy New Year, stay safe, don't get too drunk and enjoy.

Good Luck All  😀

AFCON

For anyone interested? this Christmas period will be the last chance for over a month to see these players, who could be off to the AFCON (African Cup of Nations) from 9th Jan - 6th Feb.
Liverpool, Palace, Watford and Leicester seem hardest hit.

Potential 7 matches missed for those still in the Carabao Cup.

Arsenal: Partey, Aubameyang, Pepe, Elneny
Aston Villa: Traore, Trezeguet, Nakamba
Brentford: Onyeka, Jeanvier, Fosu
Brighton: Bissouma
Burnley: Cornet
Chelsea: Mendy, Ziyech
Crystal Palace: Kouyate, Ayew, Schlupp, Zaha
Everton: Iwobi, Gbamin
Leicester: Iheanacho, Ndidi, Amartey, Mendy
Liverpool: Salah, Mane, Keita
Man City: Mahrez
Man Utd: Bailly, Diallo
Southampton: Djenepo, Salisu
Watford: Etebo, Dennis, Troost-Ekong, Louza, Masina, Sarr
West Ham: Benrahma
Wolves: Boly, Saiss

Leeds, Newcastle, Norwich and Tottenham shouldn't lose anyone, unless they sign someone during the transfer window.

Premier Predictions (Week 18)

Covid chaos ongoing, many games already postponed.
* Edit - 5 games now off *
The plan was 6 games on Saturday and 4 on Sunday.
If any games go ahead the Top 3 are all away on Sunday, I guess Newcastle might want a postponement?

Man Utd v Brighton (Postponed)
Aston Villa v Burnley
Southampton v Brentford (Postponed)
Watford v Crystal Palace (Postponed)
West Ham v Norwich (Postponed)
Leeds v Arsenal

Everton v Leicester (Postponed)
Wolves v Chelsea
Newcastle v Man City
Tottenham v Liverpool

Good Luck and a Merry Christmas to all, stay safe 😀

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Premier Predictions (Week 16 + 17)

Another double week with games over the next week (see below).
Top 3 all have 2 home games, while West Ham get 2 away 😧

Possibility that their might be some Covid postponements? with Tottenham and Leicester having outbreaks. 💉😷 

Highlights probably Gerrard going to Anfield, and Dean Smith taking on Villa. Chelsea v Leeds always throws up a memory of 1970 😄
Could be a bad week for the teams at the bottom?

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Week 16 (Friday 10th - Sunday 12th)
1 game Friday, 5 on Saturday, 4 on Sunday

Brentford v Watford

Man City v Wolves
Arsenal v Southampton
Chelsea v Leeds
Liverpool v Aston Villa
Norwich v Man Utd

Brighton v Tottenham
Burnley v West Ham
Leicester v Newcastle
Crystal Palace v Everton

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Week 17 (Tuesday 14th - Thursday 16th)
3 games on Tuesday, 4 on Wednesday, 3 on Thursday

Brentford v Man Utd
Norwich v Aston Villa
Man City v Leeds

Brighton v Wolves
Burnley v Watford
Crystal Palace v Southampton
Arsenal v West Ham

Leicester v Tottenham
Chelsea v Everton
Liverpool v Newcastle

Good Luck All  😀   🎄 🎅  😷

Premier Predictions (Week 15)

Just a single week this time before the crazy Christmas period, although it's European games for some.
5 games on Saturday, 4 on Sunday and one on Monday night.

Early game is Hammers v Chelsea, Lukaku back fit just in time to get his usual goal against us 😟 a few players need to get some form back as the top 4 place is slipping away.
All the top 3 are away, at the bottom Newcastle have another 6 pointer as they try not to become the richest club in the Skybet (was funnier when it was the fizzy pop league).
Norwich unbeaten in 4 go to Tottenham.

West Ham v Chelsea
Newcastle v Burnley
Southampton v Brighton
Wolves v Liverpool
Watford v Man City

Leeds v Brentford
Man Utd v Crystal Palace
Tottenham v Norwich
Aston Villa v Leicester
Everton v Arsenal

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 13 + 14)

Double header this week.
With 6 full Premier weeks plus European and Caribou cup games to cram in before 🎄 Christmas, it's going to get busy. West Ham, Chelsea, Leicester, Liverpool and Tottenham have 9 games in 30 days.
Not feeling over confident about the Hammers trip to Man City just 3 days after a trip to Lockdown Austria, but will be hoping for the best 👍 Chelsea face Olé free Man U, don't expect much to change.

In week 14 reunion's week it's the Benitez derby, Ranieri v Chelsea and Grealish back at Villa.

Also the first big relegation six pointer.

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Week 13 (Saturday 27th November - Sunday 28th November)

Arsenal v Newcastle
Crystal Palace v Aston Villa
Liverpool v Southampton
Norwich v Wolves
Brighton v Leeds

Brentford v Everton
Burnley v Tottenham
Leicester v Watford
Man City v West Ham
Chelsea v Man Utd

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Week 14 (Tuesday 30th November - Thursday 2nd December)

Newcastle v Norwich
Leeds v Crystal Palace

Southampton v Leicester
Watford v Chelsea
West Ham v Brighton
Wolves v Burnley
Aston Villa v Man City
Everton v Liverpool

Tottenham v Brentford
Man Utd v Arsenal
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Good Luck All  😀

The full predictions table so far

Premier Predictions (Week 12)

Managerial merry go round over for a few weeks, new bosses at Villa, Newcastle, Norwich and Tottenham. Interesting to see if Kane can do it for Tottenham after 7 goals in 2 games for England? (Leeds are a bit better than San Marino).

8 games on Saturday, 2 games on Sunday.

Leicester v Chelsea
Aston Villa v Brighton
Burnley v Crystal Palace
Newcastle v Brentford
Norwich v Southampton
Watford v Man Utd
Wolves v West Ham
Liverpool v Arsenal

Man City v Everton
Tottenham v Leeds


Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 11)

Friday night start this week.

Villa go to Southampton in the Friday game, 5 games on Saturday and 4 on Sunday before another International week 😒

The Manchester derby is the Saturday lunchtime game, should be an away win but you don't know what you'll get from either of these?

Ex Chelsea manager Antonio Conte's 1st league game is away at Everton, so him and his wig should survive a few weeks?

The big game is Sunday with 2 of the big 4 facing off, hopefully better than last year when we had our worst performance of the season 😭

Southampton v Aston Villa

Man Utd v Man City
Brentford v Norwich
Chelsea v Burnley
Crystal Palace v Wolves
Brighton v Newcastle

Arsenal v Watford
Everton v Tottenham
Leeds v Leicester
West Ham v Liverpool

Good Luck All  😀

A highlight of every week (even if we lose) is the West Ham clips game review (hopefully the Prem won't ban me?)  

Warning ** Some offensive language ** 😁

 

Premier Predictions (Week 10)

Better late than never!! The weeks keep flying by without me noticing, 

although still buzzing after Wednesday nights match 😁  ⚒ 

7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and one on Monday this week.

Leicester v Arsenal
Burnley v Brentford
Liverpool v Brighton
Man City v Crystal Palace
Newcastle v Chelsea
Watford v Southampton
Tottenham v Man Utd

Norwich v Leeds
Aston Villa v West Ham
Wolves v Everton

Good Luck All  😀

Happy Halloween  🎃

Premier Predictions (Week 09)

Posting this early this week in case I forget in a football filled week.
It's another of those Friday night starts, with 6 games on Saturday and 3 on Sunday.
6 of the top 7 play each other this week, which is good news for Chelsea as they have Norwich at home.

Arsenal v Aston Villa

Chelsea v Norwich
Crystal Palace v Newcastle
Everton v Watford
Leeds v Wolves
Southampton v Burnley
Brighton v Man City

Brentford v Leicester
West Ham v Tottenham
Man Utd v Liverpool

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 08)

Back to business after another uninspiring International week.
7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and one on Monday night.
Opening game sees Ranieri back as Watford sack another manager, probably worth a bet he won't be there at the end of the season.
Big game of the week is probably the West London derby?

Watford v Liverpool
Aston Villa v Wolves
Leicester v Man Utd
Man City v Burnley
Norwich v Brighton
Southampton v Leeds
Brentford v Chelsea

Everton v West Ham
Newcastle v Tottenham
Arsenal v Crystal Palace

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 07)

All the games on Saturday and Sunday this week, ahead of another International break. 6 games Saturday, 4 games Sunday.
The big one in the title battle is on Sunday, Man City have had 3 away games in a week against top class opposition, great against Chelsea, rubbish against PSG and who knows against Liverpool? although if results go a certain way on Saturday both could be out of the top 4 before they play 😜

Man Utd v Everton
Burnley v Norwich
Chelsea v Southampton
Leeds v Watford
Wolves v Newcastle
Brighton v Arsenal

Crystal Palace v Leicester
Tottenham v Aston Villa
West Ham v Brentford
Liverpool v Man City

Good Luck All  😀

*hope this posts, as my internet speed has died today?*

Premier Predictions (Week 06)

7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and one on Monday night.
The first game should help show who's going to be the title favourites this season, Chelsea looking really good so far, Man City a bit hit and miss so far.

Chelsea v Man City
Everton v Norwich
Leeds v West Ham
Leicester v Burnley
Man Utd v Aston Villa
Watford v Newcastle
Brentford v Liverpool
Southampton v Wolves
Arsenal v Tottenham
Crystal Palace v Brighton

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 05)

Quick turnaround this week with a Friday game.
6 games on Saturday and 3 more on Sunday.
Six of the top nine play on Sunday.


Newcastle v Leeds

Wolves v Brentford
Burnley v Arsenal
Liverpool v Crystal Palace
Man City v Southampton
Norwich v Watford
Aston Villa v Everton

Brighton v Leicester
West Ham v Man Utd
Tottenham v Chelsea

Good Luck All   😀

Premier Predictions (Week 04)

Back to normality after an extra busy international break, a lot of clubs not knowing whether their players will be available due to quarantines and bans for not going?
8 games on Saturday and one each on Sunday and Monday.
Euro games kick off next week so players could be rested making it a nightmare week for fantasy football managers.

Crystal Palace v Tottenham
Arsenal v Norwich
Brentford v Brighton
Leicester v Man City
Man Utd v Newcastle
Southampton v West Ham
Watford v Wolves
Chelsea v Aston Villa
Leeds v Liverpool
Everton v Burnley

Good Luck All  😀

Summer Transfers 2021

Summer 2021 transfer window now shut so here's where the Premier league cash was splashed this season.
(Info based on the best sources I could find, includes squad and youth players).
Overall spending is down from last season but still over a billion.
Many Undisclosed figures, but mainly for youth players so the figures shouldn't change much.

Arsenal the big spenders, but not sure those brought in will turn them into challengers (might keep them up) 😁
Man Utd have added a few decent players but not sure if they are good enough to challenge Man City and Chelsea.
Norwich have bought the most players in, which is a change of strategy from their last Premier league attempt.
Chelsea bringing in Lukaku looks the best signing of the summer.
West Ham have added some squad depth but didn't get a striker, wondering if Vlasic can be used there?
Everton only spent £1.8m but have picked up 3 decent players.

The Chart:

Total Spend - £1,263,439,000,000
Most Players In - Norwich 15, Aston Villa 14, Watford 13
Most Players Out - Watford 52, Chelsea 48, Man City 44
Most Money Paid - Arsenal £149.04m, Man Utd £126m, Man City £112.5m
Most Money Received - Chelsea £144.89m, Aston Villa £114.75m, Southampton £57.74m
Largest Profit - Chelsea £36.89m, Aston Villa £19.71m, Southampton £17.37m
Largest Defecit - Arsenal £121.23m, Man Utd £98.12m, Tottenham £73.28m

Largest Fees Paid (£20m +)

Jack Grealish [Aston Villa - Man City] £105.75m
Romelu Lukaku [Inter Milan - Chelsea] £103.5m
Jadon Sancho [Borussia Dortmund - Man Utd] £76.5m
Ben White [Brighton - Arsenal] £52.65m
Cristian Romero [Atalanta - Tottenham] £42.5m (Reported?)
Ibrahima Konate [RB Leipzig - Liverpool] £36m
Raphael Varane [Real Madrid - Man Utd] £36m
Tammy Abraham [Chelsea - Roma] £36m *
Emiliano Buendia [Norwich - Aston Villa] £34.56m
Danny Ings [Southampton - Aston Villa] £31.68m
Martin Odegaard [Real Madrid - Arsenal] £31.5m
Kurt Zouma [Chelsea - West Ham] £31.5m
Leon Bailey [Bayer Leverkusen - Aston Villa] £28.8m
Nikola Vlasic [CSKA Moscow - West Ham] £27m
Patson Daka [Red Bull Salzburg - Leicester] £27m
Joe Willock [Arsenal - Newcastle] £26.46m
Fikayo Tomori [Chelsea - AC Milan] £26.28m *
Daniel James [Man Utd - Leeds] £26.19m
Aaron Ramsdale [Sheff Utd - Arsenal] £25.20m
Bryan Gil [Sevilla - Tottenham] £22.5m
Emerson Royal [Barcelona - Tottenham] £22.5m
Marc Guehi [Chelsea - Crystal Palace] £21m
Enock Mwepu [RB Salzburg - Brighton] £20.7m

Oddest transfers?

Sima from Slavia Prague was being talked about as a £20m+ striker option for West Ham during the window? ends up signing for Brighton (who are short of strikers) for £9m who then loan him to Stoke for the season?

Former Hull, West Brom, Reading and Hi-De-Hi star Paul McShane signing for Man Utd.

Premier Predictions (Week 03)

This weeks games are on Saturday and Sunday before the first International break of the season.
England play 3 games in 7 days, Hungary (A), Andorra (H), Poland (A) so plenty of chances for injury and Covid.
7 games on Saturday and 3 on Sunday, with Chelsea going to Liverpool which should be interesting. The other 100%'ers all have home games.
"leaders" West Ham at home to relegation candidates Palace, it's hard as a lifelong Hammers fan to be over confident though 😁

Man City v Arsenal
Aston Villa v Brentford
Brighton v Everton
Newcastle v Southampton
Norwich v Leicester
West Ham v Crystal Palace
Liverpool v Chelsea

Burnley v Leeds
Tottenham v Watford
Wolves v Man Utd

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 02)

Week 2 Already
6 games Saturday, 3 games Sunday and one on Monday.
Early days, but Norwich getting a bad opening set of fixtures.


Liverpool v Burnley
Aston Villa v Newcastle
Crystal Palace v Brentford
Leeds v Everton
Man City v Norwich
Brighton v Watford

Southampton v Man Utd
Wolves v Tottenham
Arsenal v Chelsea

West Ham v Leicester


Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 01)

Premier League time again, so here we go with Premier Predictions 2021-22

Hopefully the regular players will be back and anyone reading this blog is welcome to join in at any point, just let me know a name and club supported so I can give you some colours.

T&C's - Usual rules apply

3 Points for a correct score, 1 Point for a correct result.

Predictions League will be decided on weekly wins first, if 2 or more people share a weekly win that will be classed as a draw, if at the end things are still level the total points for the season come into play. 

Predictions in the comments please 😀   

Obviously predictions will only count if they are made before the kick offs, please try and post the whole set at once (but I won't enforce it as these Friday night games catch everyone out including me).

Prizes - Just the admiration of everyone who plays 😎

Week 1 - Friday 13th August to Sunday 15th August 

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Brentford v Arsenal

Man Utd v Leeds
Burnley v Brighton
Chelsea v Crystal Palace
Everton v Southampton
Leicester v Wolves
Watford v Aston Villa
Norwich v Liverpool

Newcastle v West Ham
Tottenham v Man City

Good Luck All  😀

New Season (2021/2022)

These summer breaks get shorter every season.

Mad panic to set up Fantasy Football teams in time for Friday.

League set up for the Premier league game (FPL), so if anyone wants to join in the Auto code is Auto Join Link or manual code is srmc8x

 

Not going to bother setting up a league in the Telegraph game (TFF) as they seem to have taken all the fun out of that part of the game, but will probably enter a few teams of my own.

 

Season kicks off on Friday night, so if anyone is up for it I will be doing the Predictions league again.

Hopefully Biopunk, Paulo, Paul and Gibbo come back for another go, and anyone else who reads this is welcome to join in.

 

Obvious challengers for the title will be the 2 Manchester clubs, Chelsea and Liverpool.

Hopefully West Ham can build on last season and be in with a shout with Leicester, Leeds, Arsenal all in the mix?

I guess the 3 promoted teams might struggle along with Burnley, Palace and maybe even Wolves.

Big transfers seem to be back with Grealish (£105m), Sancho (£76m) leading the way and about 10 other £25m+ transfers already done.

Norwich have decided to spend this time to stay up with over £40m spent already, and 8 other teams already spending over £30m. Chelsea, Newcastle, Everton and West Ham yet to get the cheque book out.

Full transfers break down at the end of the window.

 

Looks like another season of Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday kick offs which is annoying, I miss just having Saturday and Sunday weekends.

 

Anyway hoping that it's a good season of footie 😀

 

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Euro 2021 Predictions (Part 5) The Final

Here we are, the Final
England's first major final for 55 years.
This is the 5th meeting in a major finals and Italy have won the first 4  😟

Final predictions - Gibbo has a 5 point lead.
Thanks Paul and Gibbo for playing along.

Italy v England

Good Luck All  😀

Euro 2021 Predictions (Part 4)

The Semi Finals, Tuesday and Wednesday
Getting exciting now 😁

Italy v Spain
England v Denmark


Good Luck All  😀

Euro 2021 Predictions (Part 3)

Just 7 games left, and 3 games needed to win the Trophy for one of the teams.
Quarter Finals are on Friday and Saturday.

Switzerland v Spain
Belgium v Italy
Czech Republic v Denmark
Ukraine v England

Predictions: Gibbo has a good lead but still 21 points possible.

Good Luck All   😀

Euro 2021 Predictions (Part 2)

Last 16 games start on Saturday 26th through till Tuesday 29th.

Rules Update - 3 points for a correct score, 1 point for a correct result.
Scores after 90 minutes only (not including extra time and penalties)


Wales v Denmark
Italy v Austria
Netherlands v Czech Republic
Belgium v Portugal
Croatia v Spain
France v Switzerland
England v Germany
Sweden v Ukraine

Good Luck All  😀

Euro 2021 Predictions (Part 1)

Well this seems to have sneaked up on me, games start at the end of this week.
As usual I will be hoping for England to do well, but won't be putting any money on them. A few odd decisions in the squad with Henderson being chosen over in form Lingard and Ward Prowse, and off form players like the injured Maguire, Mings and Sterling in ahead of Bamford, Watkins and Godfrey. Hopefully they prove me wrong.

The Euro 2021 Prediction competition.
Anyone welcome to join in on this (just leave a name, no anonymous).

Rules - 3 points for a correct score, 1 point for a correct result (comment before kick off's)
Scores after 90 minutes only (not including extra time and penalties) to avoid complaints.

A total of 51 games
Winner will be whoever scores the most at the end .. simple :)

Group Stages - Here
Round of 16 - Will post 24th June
Quarter Finals - Will post 30th June
Semi Finals - Will post 4th July
Final - Will post 8th July

First Set - Group Stages - (Copy and Paste)

(11/06/21 - 15/06/21)
Italy v Turkey
Wales v Switzerland
Denmark v Finland
Russia v Belgium
England v Croatia
North Macedonia v Austria
Netherlands v Ukraine
Scotland v Czech Republic
Slovakia v Poland
Spain v Sweden
Hungary v Portugal
Germany v France

(16/06/21 - 19/06/21)
Russia v Finland
Turkey v Wales
Italy v Switzerland
North Macedonia v Ukraine
Denmark v Belgium
Netherlands v Austria
Slovakia v Sweden
Croatia v Czech Republic
England v Scotland
Hungary v France
Germany v Portugal
Spain v Poland

(20/06/21 - 23/06/21)
Italy v Wales
Turkey v Switzerland
Netherlands v North Macedonia
Austria v Ukraine
Denmark v Russia
Finland v Belgium
England v Czech Republic
Scotland v Croatia
Spain v Slovakia
Sweden v Poland
Germany v Hungary
Portugal v France


Good Luck All  😀

End Of Season Round Up

All the facts and figures from the 2020/2021 Season

Honours List - 20/21 Season

Premier League
Champions - Man City
Champions League - Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea
Europa League - Leicester, West Ham
Mickey Mouse - Tottenham
Relegated - Fulham, West Brom, Sheff Utd

Championship
Champions - Norwich
Promoted - Watford, Brentford
Relegated - Wycombe, Rotherham, Sheff Wed

League One
Champions - Hull
Promoted - Peterborough, Blackpool
Relegated - Rochdale, Northampton, Swindon, Bristol Rovers

League Two
Champions - Cheltenham
Promoted - Cambridge Utd, Bolton, Morecambe
Relegated - Southend, Grimsby

National League
Champions - Sutton Utd
Promoted - TBD (One from Torquay, Stockport, Hartlepool, Notts Co)
Relegated - ?

F.A Cup - Leicester
League Cup - Man City
EFL Trophy - Sunderland
FA Trophy - Hornchurch
FA Vase - Warrington Rylands

Champions League - Chelsea
Europa League - Villarreal

Congratulations 

Brentford for promotion to the Premier league

Sutton United for making it into the league for the first time

Commiserations

My local team Southend for dropping out of the league  😢

 

 

Predictions League

Final Table (Complete)

 

 

Final Table If All The Guests Were Included In The Competition

 F.A Cup Predictions

A bit self serving, but congratulations to Me for a 2nd successive League and Cup double

seem to have finally got the hang of this after all these years

Fantasy Football

F.A Premier League Competition (FPL)

Congratulations to Mike who wins for the 2nd year on the trot, and led all season.

Personally a bad season, never higher than 3rd (kept leaving my best points scorers on the banch).

Telegraph Fantasy Football (TFF)

 

 

Congratulations to Dave who overtook all season leader Richard in the final week.

Not sure if I'll bother with this next season as they seem to have taken away most of the things that made it fun to play.

Although never really being in the running for the big prizes, they have taken away nearly all of those with just a few small prizes for Top 3, where I had won money for finishing in the top 20 before.

I did enjoy seeing how my little NBTF league did against the big multi leagues (usually getting a Top 50 placing), but the League of Leagues table was taken away this season. 😡

Think that covers everything?

On to the Euros before next season.

Premier Predictions (Week 38)

The final week of this shortened weird season.
Only European spots up for grabs.
Any 2 from Chelsea, Liverpool and Leicester for the Champions league.
West Ham need a point to guarantee Europa league, which would leave Tottenham, Everton, Arsenal and Leeds still in with a chance of the new Euro Mickey Mouse Tournament.
Possibly gets even more complicated if Chelsea finish 5th but win the Champions league???

Arsenal v Brighton
Aston Villa v Chelsea
Fulham v Newcastle
Leeds v West Brom
Leicester v Tottenham
Liverpool v Crystal Palace
Man City v Everton
Sheff Utd v Burnley
West Ham v Southampton
Wolves v Man Utd

Good Luck All  😀

They think it's all over....
Usually do a Euro Championships predictions, which kicks off on 11th June so not all over quite yet

Premier Predictions (Week 37)

Week 37 is 10 midweek games, 4 on Tuesday and 6 on Wednesday.
European spots still up for grabs.

Man Utd v Fulham
Southampton v Leeds
Brighton v Man City
Chelsea v Leicester

Everton v Wolves
Newcastle v Sheff Utd
Tottenham v Aston Villa
Crystal Palace v Arsenal
Burnley v Liverpool
West Brom v West Ham

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 35 + 36)

Another double bill as it's wall to wall games for the last few weeks.
Week 35 starts on Friday again with 5 previously postponed games added to the week.
Week 36 is another Friday start with just 8 league games and the Cup final (90 min score only).
Warning - Week 37 is due to start on Tuesday 18th.
Looks like the title and relegation spots are all tied up, so the main interest is in the European spots which are too close to call.

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Week 35 (15 games - Friday 7th to Thursday 13th)

Leicester v Newcastle

Leeds v Tottenham

Sheff Utd v Crystal Palace

Man City v Chelsea

Liverpool v Southampton

Wolves v Brighton

Aston Villa v Man Utd

West Ham v Everton

Arsenal v West Brom

Fulham v Burnley

 

Man Utd v Leicester
Southampton v Crystal Palace
Chelsea v Arsenal
Aston Villa v Everton

Man Utd v Liverpool

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Week 36 (9 games - Friday 14th to Sunday 16th)

Newcastle v Man City
Burnley v Leeds
Southampton v Fulham
Chelsea v Leicester (FA Cup)
Brighton v West Ham
Crystal Palace v Aston Villa
Tottenham v Wolves
West Brom v Liverpool
Everton v Sheff Utd

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Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 34)

Here we go with this weeks selection 

Four days of games starting on Friday night

4 matches on Saturday, 3 on Sunday and 2 on Monday.

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Southampton v Leicester

Crystal Palace v Man City
Brighton v Leeds
Chelsea v Fulham
Everton v Aston Villa

Newcastle v Arsenal
Man Utd v Liverpool
Tottenham v Sheff Utd

West Brom v Wolves
Burnley v West Ham

Good Luck All  😀

Fantasy Football

A few days without games, so a chance for some tables.

Current state of play in the Nothing Better Than Football fantasy leagues.

 

Premier Predictions (Week 32 + 33)

Getting in early this week.
Going for a double week layout this time due to all the games being on consecutive days.
Also including some cup matches (90 minute scores count)

Still plenty to play for, title will go to one of the Manchester teams, Sheffield Utd could be down after these games.
Biggest battle is for the last 2 Champions league spots.

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Week 32 - 12 games (Friday 16th - Thursday 22nd)
1 game Friday, 3 on Saturday, 3 on Sunday, 1 on Monday, 1 on Tuesday, 2 on Wednesday, 1 on Thursday)

Everton v Tottenham

Newcastle v West Ham
Chelsea v Man City (FAC)
Wolves v Sheff Utd

Arsenal v Fulham
Man Utd v Burnley
Leicester v Southampton (FAC)

Leeds v Liverpool

Chelsea v Brighton

Tottenham v Southampton
Aston Villa v Man City

Leicester v West Brom

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Week 33 - 9 games (Friday 23rd - Monday 26th)
1 game Friday, 3 on Saturday, 4 on Sunday, 1 on Monday

Arsenal v Everton

Liverpool v Newcastle
West Ham v Chelsea
Sheff Utd v Brighton

Wolves v Burnley
Leeds v Man Utd
Man City v Tottenham (League Cup Final)
Aston Villa v West Brom

Leicester v Crystal Palace

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Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 31)

8 weeks to go, 10 games over 4 days.
Friday night start again at Fulham, 3 games on Saturday, 4 on Sunday and 2 more on Monday.
Big game is the top 4 clash 😁 West Ham v Leicester if we've got any players left?

Fulham v Wolves

Man City v Leeds
Liverpool v Aston Villa
Crystal Palace v Chelsea

Burnley v Newcastle
West Ham v Leicester
Tottenham v Man Utd
Sheff Utd v Arsenal

West Brom v Southampton
Brighton v Everton

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 30)

International break over, I did need to catch up on some sleep and have just woken up to find England have won again, so all good 😀

Nine weeks of Premier league to go before the European championship kicks off (including the big Rice vs Soucek game).
This week it's 10 games spread over 3 days with a nice Saturday lunchtime start.
Big game of the week is at Leicester with 3rd vs 1st.

Chelsea v West Brom
Leeds v Sheff Utd
Leicester v Man City
Arsenal v Liverpool

Southampton v Burnley
Newcastle v Tottenham
Aston Villa v Fulham
Man Utd v Brighton

Everton v Crystal Palace
Wolves v West Ham

Good Luck All  😀

Fantasy Football

A rare break in Premier league predictions, so a chance to post the current NBTF Fantasy league tables.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Got my work cut out to catch the leaders this season 😒

Here's the complete picture on the predictions league

Premier Predictions (Week 29)

Sorry it's late forgot, just watching the Spuds losing to Zagreb reminded me 😁
Wonder how much Orsic would cost?

Anyway here's this weeks collection, due to it being FA Cup Quarter final weekend and just 4 premier league games it's a mixed bag with all 8 games counting to make a decent amount.

First game is a Friday night 8pm kick off again, 3 games on Saturday and 4 more on Sunday. International week follows.
*(90 minute scores count for the FA Cup games, so draws possible)*

Fulham v Leeds

Bournemouth v Southampton (FAC)
Everton v Man City (FAC)
Brighton v Newcastle

Chelsea v Sheff Utd (FAC)
West Ham v Arsenal
Leicester v Man Utd (FAC)
Aston Villa v Tottenham

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 28)

Quick turn around again, first game is Friday at 8pm
4 more games Saturday, 4 on Sunday and 1 on Monday.

Newcastle v Aston Villa
Leeds v Chelsea
Crystal Palace v West Brom
Everton v Burnley
Fulham v Man City
Southampton v Brighton
Leicester v Sheff Utd
Arsenal v Tottenham
Man Utd v West Ham
Wolves v Liverpool

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 26 + 27)

Double bill again as the weeks are so close.
Week 26 is a mega week of 17 games due to a pile of re-arranged matches being slipped in, all due to future Cup weeks. 

So a chance for some record scores.

Week 27 has one extra game.

Week 26 (Saturday 27/02/21 to Thursday 04/03/21)

Man City v West Ham
West Brom v Brighton
Leeds v Aston Villa
Newcastle v Wolves
Crystal Palace v Fulham
Leicester v Arsenal
Tottenham v Burnley
Chelsea v Man Utd
Sheff Utd v Liverpool
Everton v Southampton
Man City v Wolves
Burnley v Leicester
Sheff Utd v Aston Villa
Crystal Palace v Man Utd
Fulham v Tottenham
West Brom v Everton
Liverpool v Chelsea
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Week 27 (Saturday 06/03/21 to Wednesday 10/03/21)

Burnley v Arsenal
Sheff Utd v Southampton
Aston Villa v Wolves
Brighton v Leicester
West Brom v Newcastle
Liverpool v Fulham
Man City v Man Utd
Tottenham v Crystal Palace
Chelsea v Everton
West Ham v Leeds
Man City v Southampton
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Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 25)

Straight back with another set of games, unfortunately they've decided to start up Friday night games again 😒
11 games this week due to another re-arranged game.
So 1 on Friday, 4 on Saturday, 4 on Sunday, 1 on Monday and 1 on Tuesday.
Scouse derby on Saturday and West Ham take on Tottenham on Sunday (hopefully we can start playing before the 82nd minute this time).
Man City's record to be tested at Arsenal.


Wolves v Leeds

Southampton v Chelsea
Burnley v West Brom
Liverpool v Everton
Fulham v Sheff Utd

West Ham v Tottenham
Aston Villa v Leicester
Arsenal v Man City
Man Utd v Newcastle

Brighton v Crystal Palace

Leeds v Southampton

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 24)

European football back next week which means no extra round of the Premier league.
Almost a normal week, but 2 extra previously postponed games tagged on.
So 4 games on Saturday, 4 on Sunday, 2 on Monday and 2 on Wednesday.

Leicester v Liverpool
Crystal Palace v Burnley
Man City v Tottenham
Brighton v Aston Villa

Southampton v Wolves
West Brom v Man Utd
Arsenal v Leeds
Everton v Fulham

West Ham v Sheff Utd
Chelsea v Newcastle

Burnley v Fulham
Everton v Man City

Good Luck All  😀

F.A Cup Predictions 2021 (Part 3)

A short break in the Premier league program for the FA Cup 5th round.
2 games Tuesday, 5 on Wednesday and 1 on Thursday.
Just 4 non Premier teams left.

Burnley v Bournemouth
Man Utd v West Ham
Swansea v Man City
Leicester v Brighton
Sheff Utd v Bristol C
Barnsley v Chelsea (moved to Thursday 8pm)
Everton v Tottenham
Wolves v Southampton

Good Luck All  😀

January Transfers

The January transfer window shut on Monday.
Not a lot happening this time due to a combination of Covid, Brexit and Clubs Finances. Only 9 fees paid for permanent transfers into the Premier league.

Total Spend - £79,700,000
Most Players In - West Brom 6, Liverpool 4
Most Players Out - Man City 14, Tottenham 13
Most Money Paid - West Ham £23.76m, Man Utd £18.9m
Most Money Received - West Ham £20.34m, Man Utd £3.06m
Largest Profit - Leicester £1.8m, West Brom £1.51m
Largest Defecit - Man Utd £15.84m, Aston Villa £14.22m

Largest Fees Paid

Said Benrahma [Brentford - West Ham] £20.79m (Loan deal made permanent)
* Sebastien Haller [West Ham - Ajax] £20.25m
Amad Diallo [Atalanta - Man Utd] £18.90m
Morgan Sanson [Marseille - Aston Villa] £14.22m
Filip Stevanovic [Partizan Belgrade - Man City] £7.65m (Loaned back)
Moises Caicedo [Independiente - Brighton] £4.5m
Jean Philippe Mateta [Mainz - Crystal Palace] £3.15m (Loan fee)
Kaide Gordon [Derby - Liverpool] £3.06m
* Demarai Gray [Leicester - Bayer Leverkusen] £1.8m
Martin Odegaard [Real Madrid - Arsenal] £1.8m (Loan fee)
Ben Davies [Preston - Liverpool] £1.67m
Jesse Lingard [Man Utd - West Ham] £1.53m (Loan fee)
* Timothy Fosu Mensah [Man Utd - Bayer Leverkusen] £1.53m
Frederik Alves [Silkeborg - West Ham] £1.44m
Mbaye Diagne [Galatasaray - West Brom] £1.42m (Loan fee)
Ozan Kabak [Schalke - Liverpool] £0.99m (Loan fee)
Robert Snodgrass [West Ham - West Brom] £0.09m

The Chart:

Premier Predictions (Week 22 + 23)

Yet another double bill with the games rolling along without breaks.
Week 22 - Tuesday 4 games, Wednesday 5 games, Thursday 1 game (first kick off 6pm)
Week 23 - Saturday 5 games, Sunday 4 games, Monday 1 game (first kick off 12:30)

Week 22 (Tues 02/02/21 - Thur 04/02/21)

Sheff Utd v West Brom
Wolves v Arsenal
Man Utd v Southampton
Newcastle v Crystal Palace

Burnley v Man City
Fulham v Leicester
Leeds v Everton
Aston Villa v West Ham
Liverpool v Brighton

Tottenham v Chelsea

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Week 23 (Sat 06/02/21 - Mon 08/02/21)

Aston Villa v Arsenal
Burnley v Brighton
Newcastle v Southampton
Fulham v West Ham
Man Utd v Everton

Tottenham v West Brom
Wolves v Leicester
Liverpool v Man City
Sheff Utd v Chelsea

Leeds v Crystal Palace

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Good Luck All   😀

Premier Predictions (Week 20 + 21)

Going to double up again in this crazy season.

Week 20 matches start at 18:00 on Tuesday through to Thursday.

Week 21 matches on Saturday at 12:30 to Sunday evening.

* Hopefully no last minute fixture changes *

(More midweek games coming in the first week of February)

 

Week 20 (Tuesday 26/01 - Thursday 28/01)

 

Crystal Palace v West Ham

Newcastle v Leeds

Southampton v Arsenal

West Brom v Man City

Burnley v Aston Villa

Chelsea v Wolves

Brighton v Fulham

Everton v Leicester

Man Utd v Sheff Utd

Tottenham v Liverpool

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Week 21 (Saturday 30/01 -  Sunday 31/01)

 

Everton v Newcastle

Crystal Palace v Wolves

Man City v Sheff Utd

West Brom v Fulham

Arsenal v Man Utd

Southampton v Aston Villa

Chelsea v Burnley

Leicester v Leeds

West Ham v Liverpool

Brighton v Tottenham

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Good Luck All  😀

 

Halfway stage full table 

 

 

F.A Cup Predictions 2021 (Part 2)

 F.A Cup Predictions 2021 (Part 2 - 4th Round)      🏆  ⚽  🏆

This is probably going to get confusing with Cup and league games overlapping, and last minute fixture changes. But here goes 👍
Part 2 of the FA Cup predictions competition 2021 (usual Cup rules apply).
Games spread over 4 days, 1 on Friday, 9 on Saturday, 5 on Sunday, 1 on Monday (Covid permitting).

Chorley v Wolves
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Southampton v Arsenal
Barnsley v Norwich
Bournemouth v Crawley (Now being played on Tuesday 26th)
Brighton v Blackpool
Millwall v Bristol C
Sheff Utd v Plymouth
Swansea v Nottm Forest
West Ham v Doncaster
Cheltenham v Man City
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Chelsea v Luton
Brentford v Leicester
Fulham v Burnley
Man Utd v Liverpool
Everton v Sheff Wed
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Wycombe v Tottenham

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 18 + 19)

Double bill of Week 18 and Week 19.
Mixed up selection due to re-arranged games.
Decided to break with the FPL week numbers and split it so that it evens up the weeks a bit.

Had to do some last minute changes as games were changed today (Monday)

So Week 18 has 11 games and Week 19 has 10 games *

* Fixtures updated 14/01/21 - 2 games postponed and 1 added *

Week 18 (Tuesday 12th to Saturday 16th)

Sheff Utd v Newcastle

Burnley v Man Utd

Wolves v Everton

Man City v Brighton

Tottenham v Fulham

Arsenal v Crystal Palace

Wolves v West Brom
Leeds v Brighton
West Ham v Burnley

Fulham v Chelsea

Leicester v Southampton

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Week 19 (Sunday 17th to Saturday 23rd) 

Aston Villa v Everton (Postponed)

Sheff Utd v Tottenham

Liverpool v Man Utd

Man City v Crystal Palace

Arsenal v Newcastle

West Ham v West Brom
Leicester v Chelsea
Leeds v Southampton (Postponed)
Fulham v Man Utd
Man City v Aston Villa
Liverpool v Burnley

Aston Villa v Newcastle
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Good Luck All  😀

F.A Cup Predictions 2021 (Part 1)

F.A Cup Predictions 2021 (Part 1 - 3rd Round)      🏆  ⚽  🏆

It's time again for a break from the Premier League for a few days,
Season no.6 of the NBTF F.A Cup predictions Competition. 
Rules - 3 points for a correct score, 1 point for a correct result.
Scores after 90 minutes only (not including extra time and penalties).
No replays this season, if Covid gets the game postponed I will take these predictions whenever the game is played.

Round 3 x 32 games, Round 4 x 16 games etc, So a total of 63 games.
Winner will be whoever scores the most at the end.

Part 1 (3rd Round) - 32 Matches starts Friday through to Monday 8th Jan to 11th Jan
Part 2 (4th Round) - 16 Matches around the Weekend of 23rd Jan
Part 3 (5th Round) - 8 Matches around the 10th February
Part 4 (Q/F) - 4 Matches around the Weekend of 20th March
Part 5 (S/F) - 2 Matches around the Weekend of 17th April
Part 6 (Final) -  15th May

Here are the games (Copy & Paste advised), 2 on Friday, 21 Saturday, 8 Sunday and 1 Monday.

Aston Villa v Liverpool
Wolves v Crystal Palace
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Boreham Wood v Millwall
Everton v Rotherham
Luton v Reading
Norwich v Coventry
Nottm Forest v Cardiff
Chorley v Derby
Blackburn v Doncaster
Blackpool v West Brom
Bristol R v Sheff Utd
Burnley v MK Dons
Exeter v Sheff Wed
Oldham v Bournemouth
QPR v Fulham
Stevenage v Swansea
Stoke v Leicester
Wycombe v Preston
Arsenal v Newcastle
Brentford v Middlesbrough
Huddersfield v Plymouth
Man Utd v Watford
Southampton v Shrewsbury
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Barnsley v Tranmere
Bristol C v Portsmouth
Chelsea v Morecambe
Cheltenham v Mansfield
Crawley v Leeds
Man City v Birmingham
Marine v Tottenham
Newport v Brighton
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Stockport v West Ham

Good Luck All  😀