Premier Predictions (Week 20)

Week 19 still playing as I post this.

But getting in early for the new year fixtures in week 20, before it's FA Cup 🏆 time again.

These 10 are spread over 4 days with 6 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday, and one each on Monday and Tuesday.

Luton v Chelsea
Aston Villa v Burnley
Crystal Palace v Brentford
Man City v Sheff Utd
Wolves v Everton
Nottm Forest v Man Utd
Fulham v Arsenal
Tottenham v Bournemouth
Liverpool v Newcastle
West Ham v Brighton

 

Good Luck All  😀 

Halfway Full Table

Premier Predictions (Week 18 + 19)

Merry Christmas All  😀

Here we go with a festive double, weeks 18 + 19  (will do the week 20 after Christmas)

🎅 🍻 🎄 🦃 🔔  🍷 🍺 🎈 🤶🎄 🎊 🎅 🍷 🍻 🎄 🍺  🎅 ⚽

First kick off is Thursday night (the shape of things to come with TV companies wanting daily games)
On Saturday the top 2 meet at Anfield, prepare for Arteta to go ballistic 😆 with Villa hoping for a draw, as they meet bottom team Sheffield.
Forest's Cooper becoming the first manager out this season which will give hope to the 3 teams below them.
Man City play on Friday in Saudi, expect Fluminense to give them a harder game than the Japanese did.
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Week 18 - Thursday 21st to Sunday 24th
(One game on Thursday, one on Friday, 6 on Saturday, One on Sunday Christmas Eve?)

Crystal Palace v Brighton
Aston Villa v Sheff Utd
West Ham v Man Utd
Fulham v Burnley
Luton v Newcastle
Man City v Brentford (Postponed)
Nottm Forest v Bournemouth
Tottenham v Everton
Liverpool v Arsenal
Wolves v Chelsea

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Week 19 - Tuesday 26th to Thursday 28th
(5 games on Tuesday, 3 on Wednesday, 2 on Thursday)

Newcastle v Nottm Forest
Bournemouth v Fulham
Sheff Utd v Luton
Burnley v Liverpool
Man Utd v Aston Villa
Brentford v Wolves
Chelsea v Crystal Palace
Everton v Man City
Brighton v Tottenham
Arsenal v West Ham


Good Luck All and Merry Christmas  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 17)

Early start this week with a Friday night game at Forest
5 games on Saturday and 4 on Sunday

Several games stand out
Top team Liverpool take on European losers Man Utd who they beat 7-0 last season when Man U were a better team than they are now, even Nunez might score??
Man City 4th? take on their bogey side Palace.
The Dyche derby, he takes form team Everton to Burnley.


Nottm Forest v Tottenham
*
Bournemouth v Luton
Chelsea v Sheff Utd
Man City v Crystal Palace
Newcastle v Fulham
Burnley v Everton
*
Arsenal v Brighton
Brentford v Aston Villa
West Ham v Wolves
Liverpool v Man Utd


Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 16)

Straight back with another 10 games. 6 games on Saturday, 4 on Sunday

Followed by another week of European games, plus the start of the World Club championship.
So probably a few rested players?


Crystal Palace v Liverpool
Brighton v Burnley
Man Utd v Bournemouth
Sheff Utd v Brentford
Wolves v Nottm Forest
Aston Villa v Arsenal
*
Everton v Chelsea
Fulham v West Ham
Luton v Man City
Tottenham v Newcastle

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 14 + 15)

Going with a double week post this time as they are close together.


Week 14 games are 5 on Saturday, 5 on Sunday

Week 14 (Saturday and Sunday)

Arsenal v Wolves
Brentford v Luton
Burnley v Sheff Utd
Nottm Forest v Everton
Newcastle v Man Utd
Bournemouth v Aston Villa
Chelsea v Brighton
Liverpool v Fulham
West Ham v Crystal Palace
Man City v Tottenham

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Week 15 games are 2 on Tuesday, 6 on Wednesday, 2 on Thursday

Week 15 (Tuesday to Thursday)

Wolves v Burnley
Luton v Arsenal
Brighton v Brentford
Crystal Palace v Bournemouth
Fulham v Nottm Forest
Sheff Utd v Liverpool
Aston Villa v Man City
Man Utd v Chelsea
Everton v Newcastle
Tottenham v West Ham


Good Luck All

Premier Predictions (Week 13)

On a personal note, I'm sad to say I lost my wife on Sunday

She had been ill with Myotonic dystrophy for around 15 years, but the sudden deterioration was unexpected 😢

But doing this is a distraction I really need, so I'll carry on 

So 7 games Saturday, 2 Sunday, 1 Monday

Man City v Liverpool
Burnley v West Ham
Luton v Crystal Palace
Newcastle v Chelsea
Nottm Forest v Brighton
Sheff Utd v Bournemouth
Brentford v Arsenal
Tottenham v Aston Villa
Everton v Man Utd
Fulham v Wolves

Please try to comment if possible

 

Just to add to the problems I am having trouble with the comments

Keeps saying unable to publish as myself, then I try anonymous and it works (sometimes)

then my logged in self is able to publish.

If it says "published" it should make the blog or spam folder and I can find it.

But if you are getting the "failed to publish, try again later" message I'll have no idea if any of you have tried to post? 

Good Luck All

Update

Sorry for not updating things

Wife is very ill in hospital, so other things on my mind at moment

Fingers crossed 

So hopefully predictions etc back before the next games

Whatever next 😒

 

Seems that I can edit this post, but not comment or reply ?????

Premier Predictions (Week 12)

Another International week coming up where England take on the mighty Malta and North Macedonia.
Before that one more round of fixtures.
5 games on Saturday, 5 games on Sunday (first Kick Off Saturday 12:30)

A few games harder to pick due to midweek Europen matches for some.
I guess Stevie Wonder will be VAR official at Wolves again?
Have Chelsea got their act together or will 11 man Man City roll over them?

Wolves v Tottenham
Arsenal v Burnley
Crystal Palace v Everton
Man Utd v Luton
Bournemouth v Newcastle
*
Aston Villa v Fulham
Brighton v Sheff Utd
Liverpool v Brentford
West Ham v Nottm Forest
Chelsea v Man City

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 11)

Week 11
7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 on Sunday
A lot of unpredictable teams at the moment, so possibly a few shocks?
Will Ten Haag survive another loss.


Fulham v Man Utd
Brentford v West Ham
Burnley v Crystal Palace
Everton v Brighton
Man City v Bournemouth
Sheff Utd v Wolves
Newcastle v Arsenal
Nottm Forest v Aston Villa
Luton v Liverpool
Tottenham v Chelsea

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 10)

A quarter of the season gone already.

Friday night kick off this week with Palace hosting current leaders Tottenham.
Followed by 4 games on Saturday, and 5 on Sunday.

West London derby the early game on Saturday, and the Manchester derby is the final game on Sunday.
Hoping West Ham can bounce back after two lacklustre performances?


Crystal Palace v Tottenham
*
Chelsea v Brentford
Arsenal v Sheff Utd
Bournemouth v Burnley
Wolves v Newcastle
*
West Ham v Everton
Aston Villa v Luton
Brighton v Fulham
Liverpool v Nottm Forest
Man Utd v Man City

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 09)

Nearly forgot, International breaks always muck me up.
8 games Saturday, 1 each on Sunday and Monday.

Mersey derby to start, Everton unpredictable recently although this one should be predictable.
Man City should be relieved to have Rodri back as they've lost all 3 games without him.
Arsenal go to Chelsea, anyone's guess how Chelsea will play.

Villa and West Ham must be over the moon that they play Sunday evening, when both have away trips in Europe this week?
The Gary O'Neil derby is one of 4 "relegation 6 pointers"  😁


Liverpool v Everton
Bournemouth v Wolves
Brentford v Burnley
Man City v Brighton
Newcastle v Crystal Palace
Nottm Forest v Luton
Chelsea v Arsenal
Sheff Utd v Man Utd
*
Aston Villa v West Ham
Tottenham v Fulham


Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 08)

6 games on Saturday, 4 on Sunday ahead of another International week.
Saturday lunchtime kick off 12:30

Quite a few "tough to call" fixtures this week.
"Kane-less" Tottenham have the chance to go top for a day, before Sunday's big one.
No Rodri or KDB so Arsenal will fancy their chances.
West Ham v Newcastle is interesting, both with midweek tough Euro games and the records show that the away team usually does better, in the last 4 meetings 2 draws and a win a piece away from home.


Luton v Tottenham
Burnley v Chelsea
Everton v Bournemouth
Fulham v Sheff Utd
Man Utd v Brentford
Crystal Palace v Nottm Forest

Brighton v Liverpool
West Ham v Newcastle
Wolves v Aston Villa
Arsenal v Man City

Good Luck All  😀

Final Thought  🤔
?? If Klopp gets his wish and gets a replay?, 

how are West Ham going to fit in the extra 20+ games they will get for VAR errors ??

 

Premier Predictions (Week 07)

League Cup out of the way till next month, only 10 Premier teams through.
Big European week coming up, so probably a few changed teams.

Bounus game this week with the re-arranged Luton Burnley game.
So 11 matches this week, 8 on Saturday and 1 each on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
Top teams all have difficult games, and I'm hoping Sheffield Utd are still shell shocked 😁


Aston Villa v Brighton
Bournemouth v Arsenal
Everton v Luton
Man Utd v Crystal Palace
Newcastle v Burnley
West Ham v Sheff Utd
Wolves v Man City
Tottenham v Liverpool
*
Nottm Forest v Brentford
Fulham v Chelsea
Luton v Burnley

Good Luck All  😀

A picture to explain how the comments (spam) page works

all posts come here, but some need to be unblocked?

Not sure why this is happening, and now a new problem of posts that do show up at first

now going back to here, meaning some of the old comments threads don't make sense??

Premier Predictions (Week 06)

8 teams played in Europe this week, most teams involved in next weeks League Cup so all this weeks matches are on Saturday and Sunday. 5 games each day.

Saturday Man City home to Forest, Man Utd away at Burnley late Saturday night.
North London derby on Sunday with new improved Tottenham's first big test, and West Ham go to Liverpool which (with one exception) is not a happy place 😒 also same ref and VAR as last season where Thiago's double handball was mysteriously missed? so not expecting much.


Crystal Palace v Fulham
Luton v Wolves
Man City v Nottm Forest
Brentford v Everton
Burnley v Man Utd

Arsenal v Tottenham
Brighton v Bournemouth
Chelsea v Aston Villa
Liverpool v West Ham
Sheff Utd v Newcastle

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 05)

Back after a fairly uninspiring international break with week 5 of the Premier League.
7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and 1 on Monday.
Big test for new improved West Ham, with City this week and Liverpool next week either side of the return of European football.
Saturday 12:30 kick off this week which is good.


Wolves v Liverpool
Aston Villa v Crystal Palace
Fulham v Luton
Man Utd v Brighton
Tottenham v Sheff Utd
West Ham v Man City
Newcastle v Brentford
.
Bournemouth v Chelsea
Everton v Arsenal
.
Nottm Forest v Burnley

Good Luck All  😃

Summer Transfers 2023

Most of the transfer windows shut now, still a few open which doesn't seem right?
Turkey, Greece, and a few others still have up to 2 weeks.
The Saudi one is now closed so Liverpool will be relieved.

Anyway here's where the Premier league cash was splashed this season.
Another monopoly money window with over £2.5 billion spent!!
With the so called "big 6" accounting for £1.5 billion of that.
(Info based on the best sources I could find, includes squad and youth players).

Big spenders by a mile were Chelsea again, with Tottenham, Arsenal and Man City also doing over £200m.
Just 4 teams making a profit this season.


The Chart:

Total Spend - £2,671,600,000

Most Players In - Burnley 18, Nottm Forest 17, Chelsea 16

Most Players Out - Chelsea 50, Man City 41, Wolves 38

Most Money Paid - Chelsea £453.9m, Tottenham £246.3m, Man City £219.22m

Most Money Received - Chelsea £251.7m, Brighton £191.2m, Man City £152.86m

Largest Profit - Brighton £99.3m, Wolves £58.95m, Everton £39.5m

Largest Defecit - Chelsea £202.2m, Arsenal £144.6m, Man Utd £133.13m

Largest Fees Paid (£50m +)

Used to do this list for £10m + but now you can't get an untried kid for that.

Moises Caicedo [Brighton - Chelsea] £115m

Declan Rice [West Ham - Arsenal] £105m

Harry Kane [Tottenham Hotspur - Bayern Munich] £95m **

Josko Gvardiol [RB Leipzig - Man City] £77m

Rasmus Hojlund [Atalanta - Man Utd] £72m

Kai Havertz [Chelsea - Arsenal] £70m

Dominik Szoboszlai [RB Leipzig - Liverpool] £70m

Sandro Tonali [AC Milan - Newcastle] £64m

Christopher Nkunku [RB Leipzig - Chelsea] £60m

Romeo Lavia [Southampton - Chelsea] £58m

Jeremy Doku [Rennes - Man City] £55.4m

Moussa Diaby [Bayer Leverkusen - Aston Villa] £55m

Matheus Nunes [Wolves - Man City] £55m

Mason Mount [Chelsea - Man Utd] £55m

Aleksandar Mitrovic [Fulham - Al Hilal] £52.6m **

Matheus Cunha [Athletico Madrid - Wolves] £50m

First impressions are that Chelsea way overspent on Caicedo and Lavia, but did good business on getting those fees for Havertz and Mount.

Not sure on the Man City signings but Pep is rarely wrong.

RB Leipzig in Germany have done well with bringing in over £200m from English clubs, while taking Carvalho from Liverpool on a free loan?

Would be good for Harry Kane if he actually wins something at last in Germany (or is he a jonah??), must be awkward for him at England time with Kalvin Phillips showing off his large collection of winners medals despite only playing for a couple of hours in 2 seasons 😀

Premier Predictions (Week 04)

Week 4 already, and the last week before another International break.
Transfer window shuts on Friday night, and will be interesting to see how many players Chelsea end up with as they've been linked to nearly everyone.

Friday night start again with Luton's first home game in the Prem against table toppers West Ham 😀
6 games on Saturday and 3 on Sunday.

Luton v West Ham
:
Sheff Utd v Everton
Brentford v Bournemouth
Burnley v Tottenham
Chelsea v Nottm Forest
Man City v Fulham
Brighton v Newcastle
:
Crystal Palace v Wolves
Liverpool v Aston Villa
Arsenal v Man Utd

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 03)

The week is flying along, Thursday already which means the games start again tomorrow.

Another Friday start, with 6 games on Saturday and 3 on Sunday.

Chelsea's billion pound team will hope to beat paupers Luton and get a first win.
The bottom 2 meet at Everton, West Ham go to bogey team Brighton who are top 😟


Chelsea v Luton
:
Bournemouth v Tottenham
Arsenal v Fulham
Brentford v Crystal Palace
Everton v Wolves
Man Utd v Nottm Forest
Brighton v West Ham
:
Burnley v Aston Villa
Sheff Utd v Man City
Newcastle v Liverpool

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 02)

Friday night starts in the first 4 weeks of the season  😠

1 game Friday, 5 on Saturday, 2 games Sunday and 1 on Monday.
(the Luton v Burnley game has been postponed due to Luton having a crap ground)

Big game is on Saturday night as Man City who have just won the Euro Super cup in 30c Greece play in form Newcastle.
West Ham face Chelsea who have spent another £300m this summer so far in an attempt to finish above the Hammers.


Nottm Forest v Sheff Utd
:
Fulham v Brentford
Liverpool v Bournemouth
Luton v Burnley (Postponed)
Wolves v Brighton
Tottenham v Man Utd
Man City v Newcastle
:
Aston Villa v Everton
West Ham v Chelsea
:
Crystal Palace v Arsenal


Good Luck All  😃

The Womens World Cup 2023

Congratulations to the England womens football team on reaching Sunday's final.

Probably their best performance so far in beating Australia 3-1.

 

Hopefully they can play as well against Spain on Sunday

Premier Predictions (Week 01)

(Drum Roll) ....  🥁
Here we go again the Premier League is back, so if anybody is still interested here we go with the 14th NBTF Premier Predictions competition (2023-24 Edition).

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.

It looks like there are going to be lots of Friday night games which muck up this and fantasy football, plus hundreds of re-arranged for TV games over the season. 😠

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

I guess the comments problem is still going on? so if your comment does not post straight away don't worry it should be in my comment moderation box as it assumes every post is spam.
Will publish as soon as I check.

Here we go  👍

Week 1 - Friday 11th August to Monday 14th August
1 game on Friday night, 6 games Saturday, 2 on Sunday and one on Monday

Burnley v Man City
:
Arsenal v Nottm Forest
Bournemouth v West Ham
Brighton v Luton
Everton v Fulham
Sheff Utd v Crystal Palace
Newcastle v Aston Villa
:
Brentford v Tottenham
Chelsea v Liverpool
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Man Utd v Wolves


Good Luck All  😀

Early Season Thoughts

Premier league back next weekend.
Early season thoughts.

Man City should be favourites again but Pep is shedding some of his reliable players with Gundogan and Mahrez gone, So far just Kovacic in.

Arsenal have been on a spending spree with over £200m already spent on Rice, Havertz and Timber, with only Xhaka going out so far. I think Top 4 for them but would be surprised if they go as close this season.

Chelsea have had a massive yard sale with more to come, over £250m received for many first teamers and players like Lukaku just back from loans probably being moved on. Over £130m spent on new players means they still have about 50 potential first teamers on the books.
I like Pochettino and think he can only improve them.

Liverpool have lost a lot of their reliable heads like Henderson, Milner, Firmino, Fabinho with just MacAllister and a £70m Leipzig player coming in.

Man Utd have brought in Mount and a new goalie, at the moment I can't see them doing any better than Europen places.

West Ham losing Rice and with money in the bank, but as usual they are struggling to bring anyone in.

Will interesting to see if Brighton can carry on improving, if they do Top 4 is not out of reach.
If Kane stays at Tottenham they might be in with a shout at European places, without him I doubt it.
Newcastle, Aston Villa and Fulham could all be in with a shout at Top 6.

I think Burnley and Sheff Utd should stay up and do reasonably well, Luton maybe not.

The fact that the Saudi transfer window goes on for 3 weeks after the European one could derail a few teams this season, as older players will find it hard to resist the money on offer.

Predictions???
Champs - Man City
Other Top 4 from - Chelsea, Arsenal, Newcastle, Liverpool, Brighton
Relegated - Luton + any 2 from Bournemouth, Palace, Wolves, Forest and hopefully not West Ham

The Womens World Cup 2023

I've watched way more of this than I expected to.
The skill and quality level has improved massively from previous editions, and there has been many enjoyable games so far.

The biggest problem with the men's game in recent seasons has been the amount of play-acting, diving and time wasting. There has been virtually none of that in this World Cup so far.
The VAR and referees have been as bad as in the men's game, with every decision taking forever to sort out.
Most of the games running over with huge amounts of time added, mainly down to the VAR delays.
Amusing bit has been the referees having to explain the decisions, with a lot of them seeming really embarrassed about public speaking.

At this point a few teams are standing out, Japan have been superb with pinpoint passes all over the pitch.
England winning all 3 games so far, but not quite on top form yet.
Sweden, France and Netherlands all looking potential champions.
Usual top team USA have struggled so far.

Fantasy Premier League

This Years Nothing Better Than Football - Fantasy Premier League

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Fantasy Football

One final table for completion 

The top 10 for this seasons NBTD TFF Telegraph fantasy football.

This used to be the best fantasy football game around, but with less prizes and the overall prize money being reduced, it is close to death.

Won several cash prizes in the past (about £300) and a box load of medals and trophies, but now just play for fun.

Used to be a Super Leagues prize which made it worthwhile recruiting lots of people, most seasons I would make the Top 100 and did win the Euro version a few seasons back.

Now you can't even find out where your league sits as their isn't a table anymore 😒

So this season just 6 players (up to 5 teams per person).

Probably because I ddn't bother promoting it on Socal media (only did so for the FPL one).

At least I won 😀 unlucky for Colin who did an Arsenal by leading for about 30+ weeks but falling away at the end.

FA Cup Final

For the sake of completion, if anyone wants to do the final FA Cup prediction.

 

Man City v Man Utd

 

Should be a reasonably even game, Man City should be favourites but will have one eye on next weeks Champions league final so Pep might rest a few names?

Man Utd will hope to stop City from possibly completing the treble and can go all out as it's their last game of the season.

Other stuff

Almost felt sorry for an English ref last night

Anthony Taylor got the Europa league final between Seville and Roma and it must have been a nightmare for him and his crew with both teams diving, cheating and surrounding him after every decision.

Seville probably deserved the win but as usual it was Mourinho's diva performance that gets the headlines.

Transfer stuff

Obviously don't want Declan Rice to leave but if he does I was glad to hear that Bayern Munich were in for him, almost a guarantee he will win something with them and get regular Champions league football.

Don't think I could bear to see him playing for another English club, and if he wants to win things Man City seem the only ones who could offer him that but would he actually get a game for them?

 

Most obvious transfer seems to be Harry Kane to Man Utd, he needs to be in a team who have a chance of  winning something and Man Utd desperately need a striker.

Season End Facts And Figures

The final predictions league facts and figures

 

Paul was the top scorer overall with 262 points
But with the way this competition runs 5 points has been enough to win for Biopunk, Paul and Gibbo this season, while I have lost with 14 points!!

Most 3 point correct scores - Lee 37
Most 1 point correct results - Paul 163
Most correct results overall - Paul 196
Highest weekly score - Paul 17

The table if everyone was included (regulars, Sutton, guests, Model)

 

The final table for this years Nothing Better Than Football FPL League.

 

A second win in a row for Hishaam, a South African Liverpool fan.
Will take some beating as he's finished in the top 0.1% of players both times.

I finished 7th overall, but can claim to be the top West Ham fan of the 16 in the league.
A bit disappointed after being 3rd only 3 weeks ago but dropping 244,583 places in the last 4 game weeks :😢

Only other regular here Paul S finished 21st.

Premier Predictions (Week 38)

The final week, and the title is still on the line 😀

Not in the Premier league where Man City are champions, and the top 4 confirmed and 6 of the 7 European places are sorted.
Aston Villa, Tottenham and Brentford still in with a chance of making the Conference league.

Main battles on Sunday are the final relegation places.
Everton with the advantage, just need a home win over safe Bournemouth.
Leicester and Leeds need to win and hope, both might expect to as Leeds play Tottenham who might not want Conference league after their humiliation 2 years ago, and Leicester will hope West Ham are thinking about the Euro final in 10 days time.

Big game at Wembley Saturday as two "blast from the past" teams Coventry and Luton play off for the final place in next seasons Premier league.

Anyway, thanks everyone for playing along this season (hope Biopunk is OK) and unless you all say "enough is enough" I'll do it all again next season?  😉

10 games all on Sunday, 4:30pm kick offs

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

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 37)

Week 37 the penultimate week of the season.
Paul just needs me not to win, to be champion  😓

Anyway it's another extended week with 2 extra games
6 games on Saturday, 3 on Sunday and one each on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday (so another late finish).

Man City just need to win on Sunday to be champions, Newcastle need to beat Leicester to guarantee Champions league. Man Utd need 6 points to finish above Liverpool.
At the bottom Southampton are down, Leicester and Leeds look most likely to join them.


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

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 36)

3 Weeks to go
One extra game this week, 6 games Saturday, 3 on Sunday, 1 on Monday
and the bonus game is on Thursday (so a bit of a wait for final scores).

Big European week for 2 teams 😁 🛠

The pundit bit 😜
At the top Man City go to Everton, which until last week looked like an easy game.
Arsenal play Brighton which until last week looked like a hard game.
The battle for top 4 has hotted up with Liverpool on a roll and Man Utd limping over the line.
At the bottom Southampton need to win their last 3 to have even the slightest chance.
Leicester, Leeds, Everton all face top 5 teams, meaning West Ham should be safe? 😉
Forest go to Chelsea, and you never know with them.


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


Good Luck All   😀

Premier Predictions (Week 35)

10 game week spread over 3 days, 5 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and 3 on Monday.
Man City with the chance to extend their lead as Arsenal have to go to 3rd place Newcastle, although with a trip to Real Madrid on Tuesday they might rest a few. But still a tough start for the return of "big Sam".
Tough games for the relegation strugglers, with the last game on Monday a must win for both.
West Ham take on Man Utd at the weird time of 7pm Sunday with both needing the points, West Ham play in Europe Thursday so might be some team juggling.

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

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 34)

A 13 game week coming up spread over 6 days.
3 matches Saturday, 5 on Sunday, 1 Monday, 1 Tuesday, 2 Wednesday, 1 Thursday.

2 games each for Liverpool, Fulham, Man City, West Ham, Brighton and Man Utd.
A couple of big relegtion battles, and 2 games on Sunday for the minor European places.
Frank Lampard going for 6 straight defeats away at Arsenal, although 39 points should be enough to stay up?

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

Liverpool v Fulham
Man City v West Ham
Brighton v Man Utd

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 32 + 33)

Double header this time as the games are so close together.

Week 32 has 8 league games and 2 Cup ties to make up the numbers.
Friday start with Arsenal aiming to restore their 7 point lead with City playing in the Cup. 5 of the relegation candidates play on Saturday.
2 big games on Sunday at both ends.
Week 33 includes the possible title decider? and the Leeds v Leicester relegation decider?

Week 32 (Friday 21st - Sunday 23rd)
1 game Friday, 6 games Saturday, 3 games Sunday
(90 minute rule on the 2 Cup games)

Arsenal v Southampton
Fulham v Leeds
Brentford v Aston Villa
Crystal Palace v Everton
Leicester v Wolves
Liverpool v Nottm Forest
Man City v Sheff Utd (FAC)
Bournemouth v West Ham
Newcastle v Tottenham
Brighton v Man Utd (FAC)

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Week 33 (Tuesday 25th - Thursday 27th)
3 games Tuesday, 4 games Wednesday, 3 games Thursday

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

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Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 31)

Normal 10 game week again, 7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 on Monday.
Four teams in the middle of European quarter finals, so probably a few rotated teams for those, 

although I don't think West Ham would be getting anything even with a full strength rested team 😒

In form Villa and Newcastle looks the pick of the games,
or the Potter derby (without Potter) 😆

Interesting that ref Attwell is on duty as VAR man at the Wolves game? as Wolves have been the 2nd most screwed over team by VAR this season, after Brighton.

All very tight at the top with our league, just 8 weeks left.

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

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 30)

Just the 10 games this week, 8 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday.
Relegation battle hotting up with 2 of the bottom 3 playing each other.
I guess Chelsea fans will be excited about the return of fat Frank?
Title race might warm up if Liverpool do City a favour?
Crazy that you never know what you're getting from Liverpool, Man U and Tottenham this season, could be brilliant or could be awful.


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

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 29)

Bumper week of 16 games this time, 10 regular games plus 6 re-arranged games.
7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 on Monday, 4 on Tuesday, 2 on Wednesday.

Top 2 only play once, while Newcastle, Liverpool, Brighton and Brentford all have the chance to put pressure on Tottenham for 4th place.
Five of the bottom nine relegation candidates play twice, with Palace in 12th only 3 points above the bottom 3.
Ten weeks left and only Fulham, Chelsea and Villa can rely on mid table obscurity.


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

Bournemouth v Brighton
Leeds v Nottm Forest
Leicester v Aston Villa
Chelsea v Liverpool
Man Utd v Brentford
West Ham v Newcastle


Good Luck All  😃

Fantasy Football

Time for some table updates.

So here are the full predictions table (so far)

Plus the top tens in NBTD fantasy leagues, FPL and TFF

10 Weeks left

Premier Predictions (Week 28)

One of those mixed weeks, only 7 premier league games so I've padded it out with the 4 FA Cup quarter finals. 🏆

All games count, with 90 minute score in the Cup games as usual

One game on Friday night
6 games on Saturday, 4 games on Sunday
International week follows so no more till April 1st


Nottm Forest v Newcastle
:
Aston Villa v Bournemouth
Brentford v Leicester
Southampton v Tottenham
Wolves v Leeds
Chelsea v Everton
Man City v Burnley (FAC)
:
Sheff Utd v Blackburn (FAC)
Arsenal v Crystal Palace
Brighton v Grimsby (FAC)
Man Utd v Fulham (FAC)

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 27)

An extended week with 2 extra re-arranged games.
6 games on Saturday, 4 games on Sunday and 2 on Wednesday.

Early game Saturday has Liverpool going to Bournemouth who they beat 9-0 earlier in the season, on the back of a 7-0 win ... so obviously a home win  😜
Man City go to bogey team Palace, Arsenal go to Fulham.
Bottom of the table very tight, 6 teams could be bottom by Sunday night?


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


Good Luck All  😃

 Lineker Explained

 

Premier Predictions (Week 26)

The last straightforward 10 game week for a while, 7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 on Monday.
Potential change at the top this week? could be overtaken by Gibbo or Paul (need to bring my cup form)

Looking at upcoming fixtures I think Arsenal must be confident of holding on at the top?
The 2 arab rich teams play the early game, former big teams Liverpool and Man Utd play Sunday.
West Ham make the annual trip to bogey team Brighton, 11 years ago we beat Brighton 6-0 since then 6 draws 5 defeats.

Man City v Newcastle
Arsenal v Bournemouth
Aston Villa v Crystal Palace
Brighton v West Ham
Chelsea v Leeds
Wolves v Tottenham
Southampton v Leicester

Nottm Forest v Everton
Liverpool v Man Utd
Brentford v Fulham

Good Luck All  😀

On the plus side I didn't have to log in this time 😃
But now had problems posting this, bold letters, post labels, smileys etc weren't working and couldn't publish (seems to be ok now so hope it works this time) 🙄

Premier Predictions (Week 25 + FA Cup Part 3)

Here we go with a mixed week. 🤔
10 Premier league games played over 6 days, plus a League cup final for good measure.
The Premier league games start on Friday night at Fulham, 6 games on Saturday, one on Sunday, and two re-arranged games on Wednesday.
Also the League (Caribou) cup final is on Sunday (90 min score only).
Arsenal, Everton, Liverpool and Wolves all play twice.
Brighton and Brentford don't play at all, while Man U and Newcastle are in the LC Final.

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Fulham v Wolves
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Everton v Aston Villa
Leeds v Southampton
Leicester v Arsenal
West Ham v Nottm Forest
Bournemouth v Man City
Crystal Palace v Liverpool
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Tottenham v Chelsea
Man Utd v Newcastle (LCF)
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Arsenal v Everton
Liverpool v Wolves
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Good Luck All  😃

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... and for those that want to carry on with the FA Cup predictions 🏆

here in a separate competition are the 5th Round games.
4 games on Tuesday, 4 games on Wednesday (full time score only, not Extra time or penalties)

Stoke v Brighton
Leicester v Blackburn
Fulham v Leeds
Bristol C v Man City
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Southampton v Grimsby
Burnley v Fleetwood
Man Utd v West Ham
Sheff Utd v Tottenham

Once again, Good Luck All  😀

(and good luck with the posting, as nearly everything goes straight to spam now?

rest assured if you've posted I will pick it up and publish)

Even I am having troubles 😠

Premier Predictions (Week 24)

A fairly normal week this time, 8 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday.
Can Arsenal stop the slide? 😆

Aston Villa v Arsenal
Brentford v Crystal Palace
Brighton v Fulham
Chelsea v Southampton
Everton v Leeds
Nottm Forest v Man City
Wolves v Bournemouth
Newcastle v Liverpool

Man Utd v Leicester
Tottenham v West Ham

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 23)

Another extended week with 11 games over 5 days.
7 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 Monday and the re-arranged top 2 game on Wednesday.
Weird season with no dead certs anymore, never know what Man City and Liverpool are going to do.
Just need West Ham to beat Chelsea to prove no result is a given 😁


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


Good Luck All  😀

(and good luck with the posting, as nearly everything went straight to spam last week?)

Southend

If there are any Arab billionaires or Hollywood legends reading this, could you come and buy Southend United please.
A club who in the last 30 years came close to the Premier league, used to be able to fill it's ground, so a potential "sleeping giant".

Southend the home of the world famous longest pleasure pier in the world, and a local population of 200k with another 500k within a 30 minute drive (traffic permitting).

For the last 25 years the club has been owned by a businessman who has shown almost governmental level ineptitude in running the club, with frequent winding-up orders, transfer embargo's, late or non payment of taxes, players, staff etc.
As recently as 2006/7 the club were in tier 2 (Championship), now they are in Tier 5 (same league as Wrexham).

For 22 years there has been a promise of a new state of the art ground with a 22k capacity, every year we hear it's "coming soon" but has never happened, and probably never will.

So rich people, if you fancy joining the growing list of people who do something other than hiding their money in offshore accounts, this is the opportunity.

Premier Predictions (Week 22)

Back to Premier league this week.
Early start with a Friday night game to see if £330m of new talent can give Chelsea a win over Fulham?
7 game on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and a re-arranged game on Wednesday.
So 11 games this week.
Sean Dyche's first game will be table toppers Arsenal.
Man City go to Tottenham, who will be without manager Conte, who I do feel sympathy for as I went through the same thing in 2012, and it's bloody painful. 😢


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

Good Luck All  😀

FA Cup Predictions 2023 (4th Round) (Part 2)

FA Cup time again  🏆
1 game Friday, 12 on Saturday, 3 on Sunday and 1 on Monday.
Friday night is the first meeting of the current big 2.
Potential shocks everywhere, and it's going to be edge of seat stuff on Monday!!

All the usual rules, draws possible as replays are still there for this round.

Man City v Arsenal
Accrington v Leeds
Walsall v Leicester
Blackburn v Birmingham
Bristol C v West Brom
Fulham v Sunderland
Ipswich v Burnley
Luton v Grimsby
Sheff Wed v Fleetwood
Southampton v Blackpool
Preston v Tottenham
Man Utd v Reading
Brighton v Liverpool
Stoke v Stevenage
Wrexham v Sheff Utd
Derby v West Ham


Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 21)

Just the 10 games this week, 6 on Saturday, 3 on Sunday, 1 on Monday.
West Ham v Everton might be a last game for one of the managers?

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

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 20)

In this mixed up season we have games nearly every day.
So for week 20 it's going to be 13 games played over 8 days.
3 re-arranged games fitted around the scheduled matches and cup replays.
1 game Thursday, 1 on Friday, 6 on Saturday, 3 on Sunday, 1 next Wednesday, 1 next Thursday. 12/01/23 - 19/01/23.

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

Good Luck All  😀

FA Cup Predictions 2023 (3rd Round) (Part 1)

FA Cup Predictions 2023 (3rd Round - Part 1)      🏆   ⚽   🏆

To carry on with the complete football overload this season.
Here we go with Season no.8 of the NBTF F.A Cup predictions Competition.

Rules - 3 points for a correct score, 1 point for a correct result.
Scores at full time (90+ minutes) only (not including extra time and penalties).
As far as I know replays are back for the 3rd and 4th Rounds?

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 6th Jan to 9th Jan
Part 2 (4th Round) - 16 Matches around the Weekend of 28th January
Part 3 (5th Round) - 8 Matches around the 1st March
Part 4 (Q/F) - 4 Matches around the Weekend of 18th March
Part 5 (S/F) - 2 Matches around the Weekend of 22nd April
Part 6 (Final) -  3rd June

Here are the games (Copy & Paste advised), 1 on Friday, 22 Saturday, 8 Sunday and 1 Monday.


(Fri)
Man Utd v Everton
(Sat)
Crystal Palace v Southampton
Forest Green v Birmingham (Postponed)
Gillingham v Leicester
Preston v Huddersfield
Reading v Watford
Tottenham v Portsmouth
Blackpool v Nottm Forest
Boreham Wood v Accrington Stanley
Bournemouth v Burnley
Chesterfield v West Brom
Fleetwood v QPR
Hull v Fulham
Ipswich v Rotherham
Middlesbrough v Brighton
Millwall v Sheff Utd
Shrewsbury v Sunderland
Brentford v West Ham
Coventry v Wrexham
Grimsby v Burton
Luton v Wigan
Sheff Wed v Newcastle
Liverpool v Wolves
(Sun)
Bristol C v Swansea
Derby v Barnsley
Cardiff v Leeds
Hartlepool v Stoke
Norwich v Blackburn
Stockport v Walsall
Aston Villa v Stevenage
Man City v Chelsea
(Mon)
Oxford v Arsenal

Good Luck All  😀