Premier Predictions (Week 14)

I know week 13's games haven't started yet
but here are the fixtures for next weeks midweek games :)

Tuesday
Sunderland v QPR
Aston Villa v Reading

Wednesday
Chelsea v Fulham
Everton v Arsenal
Southampton v Norwich
Stoke v Newcastle
Swansea v West Brom
Tottenham v Liverpool
Man Utd v West Ham
Wigan v Man City

Soap Opera

Crazy

I know the wages are good, and no matter how crap you are at the job you'll usually walk into another high paid job after you get sacked but you have to feel some sympathy for football managers.

Roberto Di Matteo becomes the latest "hero to zero" despite in only eight months winning the Champions league, the FA Cup and steering Chelsea into 5th place after their poor start last year.
They sit 3rd in the Premiership despite losing Drogba and having Terry, Cole and Lampard missing for a lot of the season.

Ancelotti got lumbered with over £70 million worth of misfiring striker and an erratic centre half because Abramovich wanted them, and AVB and Di Matteo have carried the same burden, but of course it's their fault.


I don't really like Nigel Adkins but can't believe they are talking of dumping him after 2 straight promotions, and Brian McDermott is another who has performed miracles to get Reading to the Premier league and is also being tipped to go soon?
I can't really sympathise with Mark Hughes who must take some of the blame for bringing in so many average and past it players to disrupt any team spirit that QPR had.

Premier Predictions (Week 13)

Here are the games for Saturday and Sunday (week 13),
I will do another post for next weeks midweek games (week 14) later in the week.

Sunderland v West Brom
Everton v Norwich
Man Utd v QPR
Stoke v Fulham
Wigan v Reading
Aston Villa v Arsenal

Swansea v Liverpool
Southampton v Newcastle
Chelsea v Man City
Tottenham v West Ham

Premier Predictions (Week 12)

Here's next weeks games - 8 on Saturday, 1 Sunday and the big game on Monday :)
Quite a few tricky ones to predict (they are all tricky for me).
Pressure is on Paulo :)

Arsenal v Tottenham
Liverpool v Wigan
Man City v Aston Villa
Newcastle v Swansea
QPR v Southampton
Reading v Everton
West Brom v Chelsea
Norwich v Man United

Fulham v Sunderland

West Ham v Stoke

Premier Predictions (Week 11)

All to play for again with this weeks collection, First 7 on Saturday with the rest on Sunday.
European games again this week with Arsenal and Man U on the plane and Chelsea and City facing tough home games.
Europa league on Thursday with Tottenham at home, Newcastle going to Belgium and Liverpool having to travel to Russia (shame Newcastle aren't going there) :)

Arsenal v Fulham
Everton v Sunderland
Reading v Norwich
Southampton v Swansea
Stoke v QPR
Wigan v West Brom
Aston Villa v Man Utd

Man City v Tottenham
Newcastle v West Ham
Chelsea v Liverpool

Old Spice

Sorry to Jamie Gleeson but he looks like an impression of David Beckham in about ten years time, who's been wiped out by Pointy spice and has been living on the street selling the big issue.

Premier Predictions (Week 10)

Here we go with the week 10's
Will someone get their 3rd win or will I actually start playing?
3 Days of competition this week.

Man Utd v Arsenal
Fulham v Everton
Norwich v Stoke
Sunderland v Aston Villa
Swansea v Chelsea
Tottenham v Wigan
West Ham v Man City

QPR v Reading
Liverpool v Newcastle

West Brom v Southampton

The Scouse Derby

Brenda Rogers says Liverpool haven't had any luck with referees this season "We haven't got anything this year, I have got to be honest that is incredible".
David Moyes cleverly reacted by saying "Divers will turn fans away" :)

Speaking as a footy fan for over 40 years I would say Liverpool have had more dodgy decisions go their way than any team I can think of, and Everton seem to have been shafted by officials more than most.
Hopefully the ref won't be swayed by the comments and will ref fairly, but I have my doubts.

Gooner Logic

A few of my friends are Gooners and post a lot of crap on Facebook, it's always fun to watch the up's and downs of being an Arsenal fan.
These are comments from the last few months.

The Team
Worldbeaters, Crap, Best team in the world, A pile of Shite

The Manager
Best manager in the world, He don't know what he is doing, The Greatest, No F***ing idea

The Board
Best in the game, Sack them all, Fully support our team, Get rid of them and bring Dein back.

The Players
Total class, We need players, The best crop yet, No F***ing ideas.

Ex Players
The Greatest, Loyal will never leave, The Best Striker in the world, F***ing Judas, You were always Shite, Better off without you.

:D

Premier Predictions (Week 9)

Here are this weeks games on Saturday and Sunday

Aston Villa v Norwich
Arsenal v QPR
Reading v Fulham
Stoke v Sunderland
Wigan v West Ham
Man City v Swansea

Everton v Liverpool
Newcastle v West Brom
Southampton v Tottenham
Chelsea v Man Utd

Here is the complete table so far with all the useless facts :)

Best Names In Football

My Favourites
Andre Muff, Argelico Fucks, Ars Bandeet, Banana Yaya, Bongo Christ, Brian Pinas, Cerezo Fung A Wing, Cha Bum Kun, Chiqui Arce, Danger Fourpence, Danny Diver, Dean Windass, Dieter Stinka, Dominique Dropsy, Have-a-Look Dube, Hulk, Johan de Kock, Johnny Moustache, Lopez Ufarte, Mario Turdo, Mark De Man, Milan Fukal, Norman Conquest, Quim, Ralf Minge, Stefan Kuntz, Tunji Banjo, Waldo Ponce, Wayne Wanklyn.


The Best Of The Rest
Adigun Salami, Andrei Arshavin, Bernt Haas, Carlos Costly, Charlie Faultless, Clever Muzuva, Creedence Clearwater Couto, Daniel Killer, Danny Invincible, Danny Shittu, David Goodwillie, Dean Brill, Dean Gerken, Devin Del Do, Einar Aas, Emmanuel Panther, Fanny Schamp, Forbes Phillipson-Masters, Fritz Fuchs, Gareth Jelleyman, George Welcome, Gernot Sick, Givemore Manuella, Harry Daft, Jacques Elong Elong, Jean-Jacques Misse-Misse, John Nutter, Joseph Desire Job, Kick van der Vall, Laszlo Kiss, Laughter Chilembe, Limited Chicafa, Mansour Boutabout, Mario Eggimann, Mario Killer, Mario Licka, Marvel Samaneka, Michael Gash, Milko Millman, Modest M'Bami, Pasquale Sensibile, Paul Dickov, Pedro Power, Peter Shirtliff, Peter Trembling, Prince Polley, Rafael Scheidt, Raymond Undi, Razvan Rat, Regi Blinker, Ricardo Virtuoso, Ricky van Wolfswinkel, Roberto Dinamite, Robin Friday, Rod Fanni, Ruben de la Red, Ruud Boffin, Segar Bastard, Steve Death, Surprise Moriri, Two-Boys Gladstone Gamede, Uwe Fuchs, Wolfgang Wolf, Zoltan Kiss.

Wet Wet Wet

So you've got a state of the art stadium with retractable roof, the weather forecast says heavy rain expected, all the games during Euro 2012 that were played here in the summer were played under a closed roof, so what do you do .... Yeah that's right leave it open until the pitch is waterlogged!! "We expected heavy rain but not a downpour" said the Polish official .. classic :)

Premier Predictions (Week 8)

The International break is nearly over so here are this weekends games.

Tottenham v Chelsea
Fulham v Aston Villa
Liverpool v Reading
Man Utd v Stoke
Swansea v Wigan
West Brom v Man City
West Ham v Southampton
Norwich v Arsenal

Sunderland v Newcastle
QPR v Everton

Diver Of The Week

Every week I think I should give a "diver of the week" award.
In recent weeks we've had some quality dives from Wellbeck, Oscar, Suarez, Terry, Bramble, Ivanovic and many others and Ashley Young hasn't even played.

I've just watched MOTD2 and 3 outstanding candidates popped up, Luis Suarez is probably the king of the divers in recent years but I have almost felt sorry for him recently after he should have had 2 penalties recently but his reputation for falling over meant the ref assumed he'd dived.
Today he was back to his old self narrowly winning the most pathetic dive of the week.

1st Luis Suarez, 2nd Gareth Bale, 3rd Mark Schwarzer

Some Pics

Here's a couple of pics a Gooner friend just sent to me :)

Premier Predictions (Week 7)

Just 4 days to pick this weeks predictions.
Will my upturn in fortune take me into a top 4 spot, or will you lot beat me into submission like normal?
Next week is another international week, so 2 weeks bragging rights are at stake.

Man City v Sunderland
Chelsea v Norwich
Swansea v Reading
West Brom v QPR
Wigan v Everton
West Ham v Arsenal

Southampton v Fulham
Liverpool v Stoke
Tottenham v Aston Villa
Newcastle v Man Utd

Champions League

The glamour of the Champions league continues tonight.
Those well known names CFR Cluj-Napoca and FC Nordsjaelland take centre stage :)

Fergie Time

. As requested :)

QPR 1 West Ham 2

Cracking game despite Twattenburg trying to ruin it, 11 bookings (8 to West Ham) and a sending off? even though their were only 3 bad fouls in the game and one of those M'bia's forearm smash on Noble he didn't even give a foul??
Early goal from Jarvis and Vaz Te made it 2 as we dominated the first half.
Taarabt came on and scored a superb goal and Rangers looked like they might get something but Jussi was on top form.
Carroll came on after Cole missed a sitter and finally we saw him teamed up with Jarvis which if they both stay fit could be a dream pairing.