Premier Predictions (Week 17+18+19)

Merry Christmas to all   🎅 🎄 🎅 🎄 🎅

Back to domestic Premier League football with a bang.
3 rounds of games in 11 days.
So it's going to be a triple bill to get us going again as matches are being played in 10 of those 11 days.
Post before kick off when you can.

Week 17
(Monday 26th December to Wednesday 28th December)
7 games Monday, 2 on Tuesday, 1 on Wednesday

Brentford v Tottenham
Crystal Palace v Fulham
Everton v Wolves
Leicester v Newcastle
Southampton v Brighton
Aston Villa v Liverpool
Arsenal v West Ham
Chelsea v Bournemouth
Man Utd v Nottm Forest
Leeds v Man City
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Week 18
(Friday 30th December to Sunday 1st January 2023)
2 games Friday, 6 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday

West Ham v Brentford
Liverpool v Leicester
Wolves v Man Utd
Bournemouth v Crystal Palace
Fulham v Southampton
Man City v Everton
Newcastle v Leeds
Brighton v Arsenal
Tottenham v Aston Villa
Nottm Forest v Chelsea
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Week 19
(Monday 2nd January to Thursday 5th January)
2 games Friday, 6 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday

Brentford v Liverpool
Arsenal v Newcastle
Everton v Brighton
Leicester v Fulham
Man Utd v Bournemouth
Southampton v Nottm Forest
Leeds v West Ham
Aston Villa v Wolves
Crystal Palace v Tottenham
Chelsea v Man City
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Happy New Year  🍷 🍺

Good Luck All  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 7)

Final piece of the 2022 World Cup

3rd Place Play Off - Saturday 17th

Croatia v Morocco

World Cup Final - Sunday 18th

Argentina v France

Thanks to Paulo, Gibbo and Paul for playing along
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Good Luck All  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 6)

Always goes a bit flat once England are out but here are The Semi Finals

Tuesday 13th + Wednesday 14th December at 7pm

Croatia v Argentina
Morocco v France


Good Luck All  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 5)

The Quarter Finals

Friday 9th December and Saturday 10th December, 3pm and 7pm kick offs.

Croatia v Brazil
Netherlands v Argentina

Morocco v Portugal
France v England

Good Luck All  😀

Pele

Sad to hear that Pele is now receiving palliative care due to his cancer treatment not working.
So sometime in the near future we will have to say goodbye to possibly the world's greatest footballer. 😢

He was a star before I was born with World Cup wins in 1958 + 1962, but do remember him starring at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.
Memories of Huw Johns commentary "O Rei Pele".
Three of the most memorable moments in those finals were where Pele didn't score, the Banks save, the one where he put the ball one side of the keeper ran round him and shot and narrowly missed, and an effort from inside his own half which missed by inches.

Loads of brilliant goals, but always liked this one  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 4)

The last 16 round
Which are being played between Saturday 3rd December to Tuesday 6th December.
2 games per day with 3pm and 7pm kick offs. 

Reminder - To stop all confusion and arguments the prediction will be the score at the end of normal time (90 minutes + injury time). so draws are possible.
Extra time and Penalties will not count.

Netherlands v USA
Argentina v Australia
France v Poland
England v Senegal
Japan v Croatia
Brazil v South Korea
Morocco v Spain
Portugal v Switzerland

Good Luck All  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 3)

Here are the final round of group games which are being played between Tuesday 29th November to Friday 2nd December.
Games doubled up with 3pm and 7pm kick offs.

Ecuador v Senegal
Netherlands v Qatar
Iran v USA
Wales v England
Australia v Denmark
Tunisia v France
Poland v Argentina
Saudi Arabia v Mexico
Canada v Morocco
Croatia v Belgium
Costa Rica v Germany
Japan v Spain
Ghana v Uruguay
South Korea v Portugal
Cameroon v Brazil
Serbia v Switzerland


Good Luck All  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 2)

Here are the next round of games which are being played between Friday 25th November to Monday 28th November.
Kicks off at 10am on Friday.

Wales v Iran
Qatar v Senegal
Netherlands v Ecuador
England v USA
Tunisia v Australia
Poland v Saudi Arabia
France v Denmark
Argentina v Mexico
Japan v Costa Rica
Belgium v Morocco
Croatia v Canada
Spain v Germany
Cameroon v Serbia
South Korea v Ghana
Brazil v Switzerland
Portugal v Uruguay

Good Luck All  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 1)

World Cup time again, so here is the World Cup predictions competition.

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Personal feeling I've never looked forward to a World Cup less, stupid time of the year.
In a country with no football tradition, sterile stadiums with only well off "well behaved fans".
England in a poor run of form, so at least we should hear less of every muppet saying "it's coming home"
 

Usual predictions rules - 3 Points for a correct score, 1 Point for a correct result.
Overall winner will be decided on the total points at the end of the competition (64 Games).

Extra rules for the knockout stages:
To stop all confusion and arguments the prediction will be the score at the end of normal time (90 minutes + injury time).
Extra time and Penalties will not count.
So if a game finishes 0-0 and goes into extra time and one team has 3 players sent off and lose 7-0 it will count as a 0-0 draw, Hopefully that makes sense 😁

All welcome to join in, plenty of time to catch up if you miss a few games.

Here's a list of the first round of games in the 2022 tournament.
Will post the rest in stages a few days before they are played.

These first round games are being played between Sunday 20th November to Saturday 26th November
Kicks off at 4pm on Sunday with a game between the 44th and 50th ranked teams in the world .. sigh!!

Qatar v Ecuador
England v Iran
Senegal v Netherlands
USA v Wales
Argentina v Saudi Arabia
Denmark v Tunisia
Mexico v Poland
France v Australia
Morocco v Croatia
Germany v Japan
Spain v Costa Rica
Belgium v Canada
Switzerland v Cameroon
Uruguay v South Korea
Portugal v Ghana
Brazil v Serbia

Good Luck All   😀

World Cup 2022

Random facts
Teams with players away at the World Cup

16 Man City
14 Man Utd
12 Chelsea
11 Tottenham
10 Arsenal
8 Brighton
7 Leicester, Liverpool
6 Brentford, Fulham
5 Newcastle, Nottm Forest, West Ham, Wolves
4 Aston Villa, Everton
3 Leeds, Reading, Swansea
2 Birmingham, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Crystal Palace, Luton, QPR, Sheff Utd, Southampton, Sunderland
1 Bristol C, Burnley, Huddersfield, Middlesborough, MK Dons, Norwich, Stoke, Swindon, Watford, Wimbledon

Teams with English League players

25 England
21 Wales
12 Brazil
10 Portugal, Senegal
8 USA
7 Belgium, Denmark, Ghana
5 Argentina, France, Spain, Switzerland
4 Germany
3 Australia, Ecuador, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Uruguay
2 Cameroon, Croatia, Japan, South Korea
1 Canada, Costa Rica, Iran, Mexico, Serbia, Tunisia
0 Qatar, Saudi Arabia

The toughest to the weakest groups
(Based on current average FIFA World rankings)

15.00 B    England, USA, Wales, Iran
18.25 E    Spain, Germany, Japan, Costa Rica
19.25 F    Belgium, Croatia, Morocco, Canada
20.00 G    Brazil, Switzerland, Serbia, Cameroon
20.50 D    France, Denmark, Tunisia, Australia
23.25 C    Argentina, Mexico, Poland, Saudi Arabia
28.00 H    Portugal, Uruguay, South Korea, Ghana
30.00 A    Netherlands, Senegal, Ecuador, Qatar

Mid Season Tables

Time for some tables

NBTF Predictions League (Full Info)

 

FPL Fantasy League (Top 10)

After a very poor start I'm up to 11th

 

 

TFF Fantasy League (Top 10)

Not a great season so far, but tons of transfers left.

 

Premier Predictions (Week 16)

Final set of games before the WC break.
With Ralph Rabbit-Hutch now gone David Moyes is the new favourite for the push (I want him to stay).
Man City should go top for 7 hours, Potter probably needs a win after some dodgy games.
All World cup bound players will be praying to get through this weekend.

Man City v Brentford
Bournemouth v Everton
Liverpool v Southampton
Nottm Forest v Crystal Palace
Tottenham v Leeds
West Ham v Leicester
Newcastle v Chelsea
Wolves v Arsenal

Brighton v Aston Villa
Fulham v Man Utd

Good Luck All  😀

England

World Cup less than 2 weeks away, Not sure when Southgate has to name his squad as the Premier doesn't finish till Sunday evening.

Have seen about 60 names mentioned so Here's my 26 from that lot, Will probably be totally wrong? 😀

Squad
Jordan Pickford, Nick Pope, Dean Henderson
Kieran Trippier, Reece James (Injured), Ben White, Luke Shaw, Tyrick Mitchell
Conor Coady, John Stones, Trevoh Chalobah, James Tarkowski
Declan Rice, Jude Bellingham, Phil Foden, Bukayo Saka, Mason Mount
Jack Grealish, Harvey Barnes, Kalvin Phillips (Injured), James Maddison, Conor Gallagher
Harry Kane, Ivan Toney, Marcus Rashford, Tammy Abraham

Next best
Aaron Ramsdale
Kyle Walker (Injured), Trent Alexander-Arnold, Marc Guehi, Fikayo Tomori, Dan Burn
James Ward-Prowse, Raheem Sterling, Jadon Sancho, Eberechi Eze
Callum Wilson, Jarrod Bowen, Ollie Watkins

No thanks
Eric Dier, Tyrone Mings, James Justin, Chris Smalling, Lewis Dunk, Rico Henry,
Aaron Cresswell, Adam Webster, Harry Maguire, Joe Gomez, Ryan Sessegnon
Callum Hudson-Odoi, Emile Smith Rowe, Jordan Henderson, Ruben Loftus-Cheek
Dominic Solanke, Danny Welbeck, Dominic Calvert-Lewin

Premier Predictions (Week 15)

Two more weeks of Premier league before the WC break.
Two more weeks for more players to get injured and get an early Christmas break and avoid a trip to the desert.
5 games Saturday, 5 games Sunday.

Leeds v Bournemouth
Man City v Fulham
Nottm Forest v Brentford
Wolves v Brighton
Everton v Leicester

Chelsea v Arsenal
Aston Villa v Man Utd
Southampton v Newcastle
West Ham v Crystal Palace
Tottenham v Liverpool

Good Luck All  😀

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Premier Predictions (Week 14)

Just 3 more rounds before the World Cup
8 games on Saturday and 2 on Sunday this week.
Stand out is probably Potter going back to Brighton.
Leeds manager needing a win has Liverpool away.

Leicester v Man City
Bournemouth v Tottenham
Brentford v Wolves
Brighton v Chelsea
Crystal Palace v Southampton
Newcastle v Aston Villa
Fulham v Everton
Liverpool v Leeds

Arsenal v Nottm Forest
Man Utd v West Ham

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 13)

Straight onto the next set of games in this overloaded season.
4 games on Saturday, 5 on Sunday, and West Ham play Monday ahead of another European week.
Some good hard to predict games this week with only Liverpool looking guaranteed a win.

Nottm Forest v Liverpool
Everton v Crystal Palace
Man City v Brighton
Chelsea v Man Utd

Aston Villa v Brentford
Leeds v Fulham
Southampton v Arsenal
Wolves v Leicester
Tottenham v Newcastle

West Ham v Bournemouth

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 11 + 12)

Double game week with a Friday night start.

Week 11

1 game Friday, 4 games Saturday, 5 games Sunday.

A few interesting games 5th v 6th, 7th v 8th, a midlands relegation battle, 

and what would normally be the big game with Man City going to Liverpool.

Brentford v Brighton

Leicester v Crystal Palace
Fulham v Bournemouth
Wolves v Nottm Forest
Tottenham v Everton

Aston Villa v Chelsea
Leeds v Arsenal
Man Utd v Newcastle
Southampton v West Ham
Liverpool v Man City

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Week 12
2 games on Tuesday, 5 on Wednesday, 2 on Thursday
The top two match has been postponed due to Arsenal playing Europa league.

Brighton v Nottm Forest
Crystal Palace v Wolves

Arsenal v Man City - Postponed
Bournemouth v Southampton
Brentford v Chelsea
Liverpool v West Ham
Newcastle v Everton
Man Utd v Tottenham

Fulham v Aston Villa
Leicester v Leeds
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Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 10)

Prem time again in the middle of Euro fixtures, so probably a few rested players?
5 games Saturday, 4 games Sunday and Forest get another Midlands derby on Monday.

Bournemouth v Leicester
Chelsea v Wolves
Man City v Southampton
Newcastle v Brentford
Brighton v Tottenham
 
Crystal Palace v Leeds
West Ham v Fulham
Arsenal v Liverpool
Everton v Man Utd

Nottm Forest v Aston Villa

Good Luck All  😀

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Premier Predictions (Week 09)

Back from another International break (yawn) with what should be a complete set this week?
7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 on Monday.
Derby week for London, Manchester and the Midlands.

Arsenal v Tottenham
Bournemouth v Brentford
Crystal Palace v Chelsea
Fulham v Newcastle
Liverpool v Brighton
Southampton v Everton
West Ham v Wolves

Man City v Man Utd
Leeds v Aston Villa
Leicester v Nottm Forest

Good Luck All  😀

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Premier Predictions (Week 08)

Will probably need to update this?
Week 7 was a write off, Week 8 not looking good so far.

If the games happen?
2 on Friday night, 4 on Saturday and 4 on Sunday.

The Brighton v Palace game was already due to be postponed due to the rail strike, which is not now happening?
The games at Chelsea and Man Utd seem to have been called off as well.


Aston Villa v Southampton
Nottm Forest v Fulham

Wolves v Man City
Brighton v Crystal Palace (Postponed)
Newcastle v Bournemouth
Tottenham v Leicester

Brentford v Arsenal
Everton v West Ham
Man Utd v Leeds (Postponed)
Chelsea v Liverpool (Postponed)

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 07)

* All Games Postponed *

Back to domestic football with some really interesting games.
6 games Saturday, 3 on Sunday, 1 on Monday.
Chelsea as expected dump Tuchel after losing to Zagreb (obviously Euro VAR crew not as corrupt as the English version), Fulham must fancy their chances.
South coast derby Bournemouth v Brighton, with Chelsea trying to steal Brighton's manager obviously money talks but think he should stay where he is if he wants to be in a job next year.
Midlands derby with the two most under pressure managers.
Shell shocked Liverpool should be able to beat Wolves?
Man City v Tottenham should be good, don't think Pep will rest Haaland this week.
West Ham v Newcastle might be a problem for the VAR crew as they hate both teams.
Also 3 other games (but this intro is too long already). 😁

Fulham v Chelsea
Bournemouth v Brighton
Leicester v Aston Villa
Liverpool v Wolves
Southampton v Brentford
Man City v Tottenham

Arsenal v Everton
West Ham v Newcastle
Crystal Palace v Man Utd

Leeds v Nottm Forest


Good Luck All  😀

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Although I seem to have been targeted by a Thai slot betting spammer, who added over 40 spam posts on Monday (all gone now).

Summer Transfers 2022

So continuing with my six monthly pet project here's the summer transfer update. 😀

Summer 2022 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).
Pretty sure this must be a record spend for the Premier League with over £2 billion spent (what cost of living crisis?).
Last year there were the two big £100 million transfers (Grealish and Lukaku), but only two more exceeding £50m, this year although the highest was £85m Antony at Man Utd there were Ten £50m + transfers.

Big spenders were Chelsea and Man Utd with West Ham joining the club this season.
Three teams are showing a large profit, with Man City bringing in £190m.
Nottingham Forest have brought in a massive 23 players, the worry for them is that Fulham and Norwich did similar in the last two years and both were relegated.
Leicester making a profit thanks to the Fofana deal but only brought in one first teamer and two kids.
I've added a loaned out column this season, Arsenal, Chelsea and Man CIty are usually top of this but have noticed Brighton do a lot of it as well.

The Chart:

Total Spend - £2,053,910,000,000
Most Players In - Nottm Forest 23, Bournemouth 12, Chelsea 12, Fulham 12
Most Players Out - Man City 46, Chelsea 43, Arsenal 38
Most Money Paid - Chelsea £267.29m, Man Utd £216.3m, West Ham £164.26m
Most Money Received - Man City £190.63m, Brighton £103.41m, Leeds £97.83m
Largest Profit - Man City £65.08m, Brighton £60.39m, Leicester £57.96m
Largest Defecit - Chelsea £208.52m, Man Utd £193.12m, West Ham £147.44m

Largest Fees Paid (£32m +)

Antony [Ajax - Man Utd] £85.5m
Wesley Fofana [Leicester - Chelsea] £74.25m
Darwin Nunez [Benfica - Liverpool] £67.5m
Casemiro [Real Madrid - Man Utd] £63.59m
Alexander Isak [Real Sociedad - Newcastle] £63m
Marc Cucurella [Brighton - Chelsea] £58.77m
Erling Haaland [Dortmund - Man City] £54m
Raphinha [Leeds - Barcelona] £52.2m **
Richarlison [Everton - Tottenham] £52.2m
Lisandro Martínez [Ajax - Man Utd] £51.63m
Raheem Sterling [Man City - Chelsea] £50.58m
Gabriel Jesus [Man City - Arsenal] £46.98m
Cristian Romero [Atalanta - Tottenham] £45m
Kalvin Phillips [Leeds - Man City] £44.1m
Matheus Nunes [Sporting Lisbon - Wolves] £40.5m
Lucas Paquetá [Lyon - West Ham] £38.66m
Kalidou Koulibaly [Napoli - Chelsea] £34.2m
Sven Botman [Lille - Newcastle] £33.3m
Gianluca Scamacca [Sassuolo - West Ham] £32.4m
Amadou Onana [Lille - Everton] £32.4m

Oddest transfers?
A few surprised me this year.
Loans - Dan James to Fulham, Conor Coady to Everton.
Man City getting rid of so many top players.
Chelsea signing left back Cucurella when they had 2 quality left backs.
Tom Huddlestone to Man Utd, Jay Spearing to Liverpool

Early signs are Haaland and Jesus have been good buys, and several others have started well.

Well that's that till January  😉

Premier Predictions (Week 06)

(Edit)
This week there are 8 games on Saturday and 2 on Sunday
Some moved due to Euro games next week.
Mersey derby to start, couple of London derbies to follow.
Forest play Bournemouth I'm wondering if ground is big enough for the Forest squad?
Rodgers, Gerrard and Tuchel all praying for a good result.


Everton v Liverpool
Brentford v Leeds
Chelsea v West Ham
Newcastle v Crystal Palace
Nottm Forest v Bournemouth
Tottenham v Fulham
Wolves v Southampton
Aston Villa v Man City

Brighton v Leicester
Man Utd v Arsenal


Good Luck All  😀

Right, hunting through the settings I seem to have found the missing posts but only visble in the blog settings?

But still no idea why some posts appear on the main page and some don't?

Some classed as spam for unknown reasons so didn't post? but also found that assorted Spambots had posted about 50 comments this week on older blog entries (e.g week 22/23 of last season, just working my through deleting those).

Hopefully I'll find a reason? if not at least I now know where to look for your non posted comments

 

 Keep posting, looks like I might see it even if you don't straight away

Premier Predictions (Week 04 + 05)

First of several double weeks this season
Post when you like, hopefully everyone's will come through this week?

Week 4 - 7 games Saturday, 3 on Sunday
Week 5 - 4 games Tuesday, 5 Wednesday, 1 Thursday).

Arsenal and West Ham have the only 100% records after 3 games  😭


Week 4 (Sat 27/08 - Sun 28/08)  12:30pm Start

Southampton v Man Utd
Brentford v Everton
Brighton v Leeds
Chelsea v Leicester
Liverpool v Bournemouth
Man City v Crystal Palace
Arsenal v Fulham

Aston Villa v West Ham
Wolves v Newcastle
Nottm Forest v Tottenham

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Week 5 (Tue 30/08 - Thur 01/09)

Crystal Palace v Brentford
Fulham v Brighton
Southampton v Chelsea
Leeds v Everton

Arsenal v Aston Villa
Bournemouth v Wolves
Man City v Nottm Forest
West Ham v Tottenham
Liverpool v Newcastle

Leicester v Man Utd

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Good Luck All  😀

Will post the week 6 Saturday games around Thursday.

Premier Predictions (Week 03)

Week 3 already, a busy season ahead.
6 games Saturday, 3 on Sunday and the big relegation battle on Monday 😜
When you think of top flight London derbies not many think Fulham v Brentford? Only two 100% records left and Arsenal go to Bournemouth.
Sunday has the Two mega rich Arab run clubs facing off, and West Ham play bogey team Brighton right in the middle of the Euro games.

Tottenham v Wolves
Crystal Palace v Aston Villa
Everton v Nottm Forest
Fulham v Brentford
Leicester v Southampton
Bournemouth v Arsenal

Leeds v Chelsea
West Ham v Brighton
Newcastle v Man City

Man Utd v Liverpool

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 02)

Late again, will take me a while to get used to the weekly football again.
7 games Saturday, 2 on SUnday and One on Monday.


Aston Villa v Everton
Arsenal v Leicester
Brighton v Newcastle
Man City v Bournemouth
Southampton v Leeds
Wolves v Fulham
Brentford v Man Utd

Nottm Forest v West Ham
Chelsea v Tottenham
Liverpool v Crystal Palace

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 01)

Premier League time again, so here we go with this seasons Premier Predictions 2022-23

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 😎

1 game on Friday night, 6 games Saturday and 3 on Sunday.
Looking forward to Dawson v Haaland

Week 1 - Friday 5th August to Sunday 7th August 

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Crystal Palace v Arsenal

Fulham v Liverpool
Bournemouth v Aston Villa
Leeds v Wolves
Newcastle v Nottm Forest
Tottenham v Southampton
Everton v Chelsea

Leicester v Brentford
Man Utd v Brighton
West Ham v Man City

Good Luck All  😀

Here We Go Again

The 2022/23 season starts in a weeks time, an odd season as we have the World Cup in the middle of it.
The title will probably be between the big two, who will both be playing in tomorrows Community shield opener (probably starting with reserve teams for both).
Challenging for the minor placings will be Chelsea, Man U, Arsenal, Tottenham, West Ham.
Avoiding relegation will be the main priority for the 3 promoted teams along with Everton, Southampton and a few others.

Early season transfers have seen Arseanal, Leeds, Man City, Tottenham, Chelsea, West Ham, Liverpool and Nottm Forest as big spenders (although Man City have raked in £173m on outgoing players so are £75m up).
Bournemouth and Leicester yet to spend a penny.

Anyway here are those tables from last season for the final predictions and Fantasy Leagues.

Full Predictions League

Table if guests were included (No Lawro next season)

FPL - Nothing Better Than Football League

FPL League for this season is open - Code - 258qnt

2022-2023

Better get warmed up as it's only 3 weeks till the new season kicks off.

Only 2 weeks till the first Liverpool v Man City game of the season in the Charity Shield.

First things first, if anyone wants to join this seasons Fantasy Premier League

The code is - 258qnt

 

More stuff coming   😀

Premier Predictions (Week 38)

Here we go it's the final week, the title decider  🏆

In the big one - Only a win can give Biopunk the title, Paul has an 80% chance of hanging on.

Elsewhere Man City can wrap up the league if they beat Villa, Liverpool hoping their old boys can do them a favour.
At the bottom Leeds need to better Burnley's result to stay up, or win by about 25 goals to guarantee it
Battle for 4th should go to Tottenham unless they blow it against relegated Norwich, although Arsenal winning is not a given.
West Ham hoping Palace do them a favour by beating Man Utd for the final Europa league place, although it has been 10 years since we last beat Brighton, and never done it in 9 Premier league games  😢

Also it is supposed to be the final set of Mark Lawrenson predictions this week as he's giving it up.
So I expect a Liverpool win, a West Ham loss and lots of 2-0's.
Looks like he has beaten all of us again so we will need someone else to test ourselves against if we continue next season.
Not sure if someone else will take over?

Anyway here goes the final 10, all kick off at 4pm on Sunday


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


Good Luck All   😀

Premier Predictions (Week 37)

Another elongated week with a bonus cup game
13 games - 1 Saturday, 7 on Sunday, 1 Monday, 1 Tuesday, 3 Thursday.
🏆  Usual 90 minute score on Cup game.

Man City with the chance to wrap up the league, but 3 points for West Ham might kick Man Utd out of the Europa spot without blowing their title prospects. Dilemma for City 🤣
At the bottom Leeds need to beat form team Brighton, Everton and Burnley have 2 games this week.
Arsenal need to win both their games to hang on to 4th?


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

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 36)

Week 36 is the start of 2 mega extended weeks.
16 games this week, 6 on Saturday, 4 on Sunday, 1 on Tuesday, 4 on Wednesday and 1 on Thursday.
Title race hotting up with both teams playing twice.
At the bottom Burnley play first, but then Everton and Leeds play twice.

First game is 3pm on Saturday.

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

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 35)

An almost normal week this time, 10 games.
6 on Saturday, 3 on Sunday, 1 on Monday.
Tricky games for the top 2 and the relegation battlers.
I guess Arsenal and Tottenham will be happy playing teams in the middle of Euro semi finals  😒

Newcastle v Liverpool
Aston Villa v Norwich
Southampton v Crystal Palace
Watford v Burnley
Wolves v Brighton
Leeds v Man City

Everton v Chelsea
Tottenham v Leicester
West Ham v Arsenal
Man Utd v Brentford

Good Luck All  😀

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Premier Predictions (Week 34)

Quick turn around this week, bloody Thursday games 😵

Another extended week with 11 games
5 on Saturday, 4 on Sunday, 1 on Monday and 1 on Thursday (again).
Man City play first this week, Arsenal v Man U used to be a big game now a battle for 4th if Eriksen puts one over his old team?
Not sure which Chelsea will turn up on Sunday, but not ideal for West Ham who will have their mind on Thursday.
Scouse Derby with Everton desperate for points but very unlikely.
The Man U v Chelsea game is brought forward from Cup Final weekend.

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

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 33)

Far from a straightforward week this time.
14 games including 2 Cup Semi's (90 min score)
5 games on Saturday, 3 on Sunday, 1 on Tuesday, 4 on Wednesday, 1 on Thursday.
A collection of re-arranged games next week, meaning 11 teams play twice and Leeds, Wolves and Villa don't play at all.

All clear?  😀

Tottenham v Brighton
Man Utd v Norwich
Southampton v Arsenal
Watford v Brentford
Man City v Liverpool (FA Cup)
*
Newcastle v Leicester
West Ham v Burnley
Chelsea v Crystal Palace (FA Cup)
*
Liverpool v Man Utd
*
Chelsea v Arsenal
Everton v Leicester
Newcastle v Crystal Palace
Man City v Brighton
*
Burnley v Southampton

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 32)

Another Friday night start  😒
Just the 10 games this week, before another mad one next week.
1 game Friday, 5 on Saturday and 4 on Sunday.
Obviously the big one is Sunday with the top 2 facing off
2 big relegation battles with Watford and Burnley hoping for wins, while Everton face Man Utd.


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

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 31)

Back after that pretty dull international break, with the England games hidden away on Sky I forgot about both of them till the day after, then only saw the 3 minute highlight package.
World Cup draw on Friday (of interest to Biopunk for a change with Canada in the hat).

Premier League (Week 31)
11 games this week, 7 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 on Monday and 1 on Wednesday.
Liverpool have the chance to go top, although Watford really need points with Burnley and Everton playing twice this week.
Big European week for some so possibly some rested players.

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

West Ham v Everton
Tottenham v Newcastle

Crystal Palace v Arsenal

Burnley v Everton

Good Luck All   😀

Premier Predictions (Week 30) + FA Cup 6th Round

Re-posting this as nobody has done any predictions yet, and it's less confusing 😀

Due to all the postponed games we only have 4 League games this week, so I'm throwing in the 4 FA Cup games 🏆 as well to make a reasonable week of 8 games (90 min scores in Cup games).
 
Starts on Friday night with 2 more on Saturday and 5 on Sunday.


Week 30 (Fri 18/03/22 - Sun 20/03/22)

Wolves v Leeds
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Aston Villa v Arsenal
Middlesbrough v Chelsea (FA Cup)
*
Crystal Palace v Everton (FA Cup)
Leicester v Brentford
Southampton v Man City (FA Cup)
Tottenham v West Ham
Nottm Forest v Liverpool (FA Cup)


Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 29)

Week 29 includes 3 more re-arranged games taking place on Wednesday and Thursday, while week 30 starts on Friday night.

Week 29 has 3 games on Saturday, 6 on Sunday, 1 on Monday, 2 on Wednesday and one on Thursday.
Liverpool have the chance to catch Man City with 2 games, while City have to play their bogey team Palace.
Interesting game is Chelsea v Newcastle, with one now sanctioned due to a dodgy owner being  linked with a country bombing innocent civilians, vs the other owned by a dodgy country who are bombing innocent civilians? ... enough politics for now 😒

Top 4 race is looking set unless Arsenal lose their 2 home games this week, relegation looking like Norwich, Watford and any one from 4 so a big week for Lampard

Week 29    (Sat 12/03/22 - Thur 17/03/22)

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

Good Luck All  😀

See new post above for Week 30

Premier Predictions (Week 28)

Bumper week of fixtures, 14 at the moment (*subject to change).
7 games on Saturday, 2 Sunday, 1 Monday and now 4 on Thursday.

6 games from Week 30 postponed due to FA Cup now to be crammed into the fixture list somewhere, in addition to the 7 games that already needed re-arranging due to Covid postponements.
All these re-arranged games on Thursdays to suit TV companies making it a bit of a nightmare to separate weeks  😕

Anyway here goes with the provisional weeks fixtures.

The Manc derby is the big one, Man U seem to have the hex over City recently which will suit Liverpool although West Ham are due a good performance? (but I'm sure the refs will make sure there are no shocks there) 😜

Week 28    (Sat 05/03/22 - Thur 10/03/22)

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

Good Luck All   😀

F.A Cup Predictions 2022 (5th Round - Part 3)

FA Cup 5th Round  🏆

Games spread over 7 days?
3 Tuesday, 3 Wednesday, 1 Thursday and one Monday (Tues 01/03/22 - Mon 07/03/22)
Toughest tie to predict probably Saints v West Ham, Southampton with an extra 2 days rest which doesn't seem fair :(

(90 minute score)

Peterborough v Man City
Crystal Palace v Stoke
Middlesbrough v Tottenham
Luton v Chelsea
Southampton v West Ham
Liverpool v Norwich
Everton v Boreham Wood
Nottm Forest v Huddersfield

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 26 + 27)

Going for a double bill this time as the weeks merge into one another.

Week 26 includes 4 re-arranged games so 8 games Saturday, 2 Sunday, 3 Wednesday, 1 Thursday.

Week 27 starts on Friday 25th so 1 Friday, 6 Saturday, 2 Sunday (including League Cup Final - 90 minute score), and a re-arranged game on Tuesday 1st March.

FA Cup 5th Round is midweek starting 1st March but will do a seperate post for that.

* For FPL types Burnley have 4 games in this period and Chelsea have 1, shame there aren't any Burnley players worth having.

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Week 26    (Sat 19/02/22 - Thur 24/02/22)

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

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Week 27    (Fri 25/02/22 - Tues 01/03/22)

Southampton v Norwich
*
Leeds v Tottenham
Brentford v Newcastle
Brighton v Aston Villa
Crystal Palace v Burnley
Man Utd v Watford
Everton v Man City
*
West Ham v Wolves
Chelsea v Liverpool (LCF)
*
Burnley v Leicester
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Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 25)

Get this in before Week 24 finishes, can't get used to these Thursday games.
Just 9 games this week as the Chelsea v Arsenal game was postponed with Chelsea playing Palmeiras in Dubai.
5 games on Saturday and 4 on Sunday.
European games start again next week so Liverpool, Man City and Leicester might rest a few players?

Man Utd v Southampton
Brentford v Crystal Palace
Everton v Leeds
Watford v Brighton
Norwich v Man City

Burnley v Liverpool
Newcastle v Aston Villa
Tottenham v Wolves
Leicester v West Ham

** Extra game added on Tuesday **

Man Utd v Brighton

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 24) + F.A Cup Predictions 2022 (4th Round - Part 2)

Double bill this week with Premier league and F.A Cup.

F.A Cup 4th Round  🏆
Starts Friday 4th February through till Monday night.
1 game Friday, 12 on Saturday, 3 on Sunday and one on Monday.


Man Utd v Middlesbrough
*
Chelsea v Plymouth
Kidderminster v West Ham
Crystal Palace v Hartlepool
Everton v Brentford
Huddersfield v Barnsley
Man City v Fulham
Peterborough v QPR
Southampton v Coventry
Stoke v Wigan
Wolves v Norwich
Cambridge v Luton
Tottenham v Brighton
*
Liverpool v Cardiff
Nottm Forest v Leicester
*
Bournemouth v Boreham Wood
 
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Premier League Week 24
Starts early on Saturday, then games onTuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Burnley and Watford play twice, Chelsea and Brighton called off due to Chelsea going on a jolly to Abu Dhabi.


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

Good Luck All  😀

Winter Transfers 2022

Here's where the Premier league cash was splashed this window.
(Info based on the best sources I could find, includes squad and youth players).
Many Undisclosed figures, but mainly for youth players so the figures shouldn't change much.

Newcastle the biggest spenders unsurprisingly, although I guess the fans were expecting Mbappe and they got Chris Wood.
West Ham needed players but ended up with just one youth player.
A lot of teams buying players and immediately loaning them out?
One odd transfer was Dele Alli who has gone to Everton on a free but they will have to pay up to £40m depending on games played, so if he got injured in the first 20 games Tottenham might not get a penny.

The Chart:

Total Spend - £316,740,000,000
Most Players In - Brighton 8, Everton 6, Watford 6
Most Players Out - Arsenal 15, Brighton 15, Wolves 14
Most Money Paid - Newcastle £91.89m, Liverpool £40.5m, Everton £33.75m
Most Money Received - Man City £49.5m, Burnley £27m, Everton £27m
Largest Profit - Man City £34.2m, Burnley £14.4m, West Ham £0.9m
Largest Defecit - Newcastle £91.89m, Liverpool £40.5m, Aston Villa £27.86m

Largest Fees Paid (£5m +)

Ferran Torres [Man City - Barcelona] £49.5m
Luis Diaz [Porto - Liverpool] £40.5m
Bruno Guimaraes [Lyon - Newcastle] £37.89m
Chris Wood [Burnley - Newcastle] £27m
Lucas Digne [Everton - Aston Villa] £27m
Vitaliy Mykolenko [Dynamo Kiev - Everton] £21.15m
Rodrigo Bentancur [Juventus - Tottenham] £17.1m
Julian Alvarez [River Plate - Man City] £15.3m (Loaned Back)
Hwang Hee chan [RB Leipzig - Wolves] £14m
Dan Burn [Brighton - Newcastle] £13.5m
Kieran Trippier [Atletico Madrid - Newcastle] £13.5m
Wout Weghorst [Wolfsburg - Burnley] £12.6m
Nathan Patterson [Rangers - Everton] £12.6m
Kacper Kozlowski [Pogon Szczecin - Brighton] £9.9m (Loaned Back)
Jean Philippe Mateta [Mainz 05 - Crystal Palace] £9.9m
Dejan Kulusevski [Juventus - Tottenham] £9m (Loan Fee)
Deniz Undav [Union SG - Brighton] £6.3m (Loaned Back)

Predictions Table

Transfer window closing on Monday night, and at the moment not a lot to talk about.

Newcastle, Villa and Watford doing some business but nothing too exciting.

Claudio Ranieri is the latest Watford manager to go, with Roy Hodgson in charge for a few games.

Patrick Vieira must be a bit worried as Palace are next for Norwich, who have accounted for Benitez and Ranieri.

Here's the complete predictions table so far, a bit confusing this time as everyone has missed some games.

Biopunk in prime position at the moment, but Gibbo also having a good season.

Premier Predictions (Week 23)

Friday night start for Week 23.
Then 4 games Saturday, 5 on Sunday.
The plan is that there is 11 days without football (apart from the AFCON), although I'm not sure if they will cram in some of the postponed games?

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

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 22)

Due to re-arranged games I'm going to have to start Week 22 early.
Just learned that more games have been added next week so it's a bumper 17 game week (Covid permitting)

Starting Tuesday 11th till Wednesday 19th

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

Good Luck All  😀

F.A Cup Predictions 2022 (3rd Round - Part 1)

F.A Cup Predictions 2022 (3rd Round - Part 1)      🏆   ⚽   🏆

Here we go with Season no.7 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 7th Jan to 10th Jan
Part 2 (4th Round) - 16 Matches around the Weekend of 5th February
Part 3 (5th Round) - 8 Matches around the 2nd March
Part 4 (Q/F) - 4 Matches around the Weekend of 19th March
Part 5 (S/F) - 2 Matches around the Weekend of 16th April
Part 6 (Final) -  14th May

Here are the games (Copy & Paste advised), 1 on Friday, 21 Saturday, 9 Sunday and 1 Monday.

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Swindon v Man City
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Mansfield v Middlesbrough
Bristol C v Fulham
Burnley v Huddersfield
Coventry v Derby
Hartlepool v Blackpool
Millwall v Crystal Palace
Barnsley v Barrow
Boreham Wood v AFC Wimbledon
Kidderminster v Reading
Leicester v Watford
Newcastle v Cambridge
Peterborough v Bristol R
Port Vale v Brentford
QPR v Rotherham
West Brom v Brighton
Wigan v Blackburn
Birmingham v Plymouth
Chelsea v Chesterfield
Hull v Everton
Swansea v Southampton
Yeovil v Bournemouth
*
Luton v Harrogate
Cardiff v Preston
Charlton v Norwich
Liverpool v Shrewsbury
Stoke v Leyton Orient
Tottenham v Morecambe
West Ham v Leeds
Wolves v Sheff Utd
Nottm Forest v Arsenal
*
Man Utd v Aston Villa

 Good Luck All  😀