Premier Predictions (Week 16)

Some good games this weekend, and with the exception of the Chelsea game all could go either way :)
3 days worth again, 7 Saturday, 2 Sunday and one Monday.

Burnley v Southampton
Chelsea v Hull
C Palace v Stoke
Leicester v Man City
Sunderland v West Ham
West Brom v Aston Villa
Arsenal v Newcastle
Man Utd v Liverpool
Swansea v Tottenham
Everton v QPR

Good luck all :)

Coming soon :
Week 17 - Games played 20th-22nd December
Week 18 - Games played 26th December
Week 19 - Games played 28th-29th December
Week 20 - Games played 1st January 2015

Premier Predictions (Week 15)

Hot on the heels of the midweek games here are the fixtures for this weekends games.
Games over 3 days with 7 on Saturday, 2 Sunday and Man U's visit to the St Mary's Friends Provident New Dell Stadium on Monday.

Newcastle v Chelsea
Hull v West Brom
Liverpool v Sunderland
QPR v Burnley
Stoke v Arsenal
Tottenham v C Palace
Man City v Everton
West Ham v Swansea
Aston Villa v Leicester
Southampton v Man Utd

Good luck all :)

Full table - Week 14

Premier Predictions (Week 14)

I know week 13 isn't over yet but I thought I should get these in quick.
6 games on Tuesday and another 4 on Wednesday (will post nezt weekends fixtures on Tuesday).
Can Sunderland follow up today's shock with another shut out against City?

Burnley v Newcastle
Leicester v Liverpool
Man Utd v Stoke
Swansea v QPR
C Palace v Aston Villa
West Brom v West Ham

Arsenal v Southampton
Chelsea v Tottenham
Everton v Hull
Sunderland v Man City

Premier Predictions (Week 13)

Week 13 Unlucky for some (probably me).
Just 2 days this week with 8 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday.
Who would of thought the big game on Saturday would be West Ham v Newcastle :)
Sunday's big match sees Man City going to surprise team Southampton.

West Brom v Arsenal
Burnley v Aston Villa
Liverpool v Stoke
Man Utd v Hull
QPR v Leicester
Swansea v C Palace
West Ham v Newcastle
Sunderland v Chelsea

Southampton v Man City
Tottenham v Everton

Fantasy Football

Probably time for an update on the Fantasy Leagues.

TFF - NBTF - 573rd
1 Ryan - Morris Maple Leafs 553
2 Andrew - Tinkerman Fore 541
3 Andrew - Tiki-Taka-Tree 534
4 Ryan - T-Boy NEFI    529
5 Shane - Lewies Lions    528
6 Shane - Lozzies Mozzies 516
7 Allan - Brainpharts    511
8 Ryan - Ryan's Rovers    509
9 Lee - Chip Shop Boys    507
10 Richard - Another Fantasy Team 499


FPL - Nothing Better Than Football
1 Gary - Unreal Madrid 556
2 Paul - Wildcard United 517
3 Lee - Play To Win 457
4 Longy - CFCLongy 437
5 Martin - Baher 401

Still having a pretty rubbish season myself, except for one team which is lying 2nd out of about 300,000 teams overall in the TFF Golden boot league :)

I've been playing the Telegraph weekender competition, but it all went to pot last night when the website wouldn't let me make my changes for last nights game :(
Got this reply today from the Telegraph (they obviously don't read what they write) :)
"As you are aware, there were some issue some technical issues with the Make Transfers page for the Weekender competition yesterday evening. We would like to offer our apologies for this technical issue and hope that it does not drastically affect your overall enjoyment of the game" .... I reckon they have issues :)

Premier Predictions (Week 12)

Oops! Thursday already, caught out by more Internationals.
Hopefully we've now got a few months of uninterrupted league action :)

Games over 3 days with 7 Saturday, 2 Sunday and 1 Monday.
Villa v Southampton is the game on Monday, on form that should be an easy away win but these things don't always happen :) In 11 games Villa have only scored 5 goals, and Southampton have only let in 5.

Chelsea v West Brom
Everton v West Ham
Leicester v Sunderland
Man City v Swansea
Newcastle v QPR
Stoke v Burnley
Arsenal v Man Utd

C Palace v Liverpool
Hull v Tottenham

Aston Villa v Southampton

Good luck all :)

Here's the complete predictions table so far if any of you wants to know exactly how you are doing :)

Premier Predictions (Week 11)

Week 11, last set of games before yet another international break.
Star game is the early kick off on Saturday with Chelsea off to Anfield where Gerrard will probably be checking his studs after last years disaster.
Hopefully the Hammers will continue Villa's bad run :)

6 games Saturday with the rest on Sunday.

Liverpool v Chelsea
Burnley v Hull
Man Utd v C Palace
Southampton v Leicester
West Ham v Aston Villa
QPR v Man City

Sunderland v Everton
Tottenham v Stoke
West Brom v Newcastle
Swansea v Arsenal

Good luck all :)

Premier Predictions (Week 10)

Ten More games for you, 7 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and 1 on Monday.
The Mancs derby is probably the biggest game of the week, but a few other good looking games could go either way.

Newcastle v Liverpool
Arsenal v Burnley
Chelsea v QPR
Everton v Swansea
Hull v Southampton
Leicester v West Brom
Stoke v West Ham

Man City v Man Utd
Aston Villa v Tottenham

C Palace v Sunderland

Good Luck All :)

Quick 2

Another "better post this while it lasts" moment :)

Currently lying 4th out of about 300,000 players in the Telegraph Golden Boot league, and 1st in the Twitter league of 2,918.
I've had a few moments of glory in these competitions in the past, but I usually fade and die before the cash prizes are ready.

Awkward thing with this team is that it's my leading team in the works league (which is number one in the list of priorities) so I don't want to mess about with it too much chasing this prize :(

Other than this I'm having a rubbish season in both TFF and FPL, so I need to concentrate harder :)

Premier Predictions (Week 9)

Week 9 already and another 3 day week, 6 games on Saturday, 3 on Sunday and a trip to Loftus road on Monday for Sky sports viewers and possibly dodgy Harry :)
Pick of the games is Man U v Chelsea, Chelsea might not have any strikers fit but Man U don't defend too well so it should be a good game :)
West Ham will hope City have had a bad trip back from Moscow, but I think the days of being stuck in a snowbound airport for days have long gone :(

West Ham v Man City
Liverpool v Hull
Southampton v Stoke
Sunderland v Arsenal
West Brom v C Palace
Swansea v Leicester
Burnley v Everton
Tottenham v Newcastle
Man Utd v Chelsea
QPR v Aston Villa


Good luck all :)

Getting Shirty

I watched the Stoke v Swansea game on Sunday which featured a couple more debatable penalties, and anyone who has been watching football as long as me knew exactly how both managers would see the incidents.
Gary Monk's version was refreshingly honest, apart from not seeing Rangel's hand on Moses which will no doubt get him into all sorts of trouble, as honesty is not looked on kindly by the FA.
Mark Hughes is becoming the new Neil Warnock (even though we've still got one), his version of the first penalty was that despite Shawcross trying to pull Bony's shirt off then pulling him down, that this happens half a dozen times every game and shouldn't be a foul? but if one of his players gets lightly touched and throws himself to the floor it's a penalty all day long?
Monk will probably get a fine for his comments but Hughes won't even be called up for his interpretation of the laws of the game.
Although if Chico Florist still played for Swansea I would have less sympathy :)

Something I've been thinking about for years would be the introduction of Velcro shirts with detachable sleeves, fronts and backs, so that when the dodgy defender grabs the attackers shirt it comes off in their hand leaving even the blindest referees in no doubt what had been occuring.
Although they would then probably book the players for taking their shirts off? :)

Quick

I will post this picture quickly before it changes, so that I can look back at the end of the season and dream of what might have been :)
Being a West Ham fan you have to take these small moments of excitement when you get them.
Much as I hope that we can stay around the top places, experience brings a sense of reality knowing that the big guns will overwhelm us and a top ten finish is what we should really be aiming for.
After the poor start with 2 defeats in the first 3 games you felt it was going to be another season of struggle, but it seems that this year's new faces have all hit the ground running and improved us beyond recognition.
If Nolan hadn't picked up his injury after the Tottenham defeat would Downing have been moved into the centre? this has turned out to be a revelation and the fact that Fat Sam has actually given game time to his new signings when in previous seasons they usually end up as bench warmers has been a pleasant surprise.
Sakho and Valencia have the pace to trouble any defence and hopefully Andy Carroll will be given longer to get over all his injury problems because at the moment we really don't need him.
Of course we play Man City next week which will be a true test of how far we have improved, a point would be great, a win would see me jumping around a bit :) but I'd just settle for us competing with the likes of City and hopefully making Upton park a place where visiting teams knew they were going to get a game.

Thanks

Thanks everyone, 100,000 Page Views in 4 years and 4 months.
Must have put something worth looking at here :)
I must apologise for a lack of content recently, but at least the predictions competitions keeps me coming back every week, so stay tuned.

Premier Predictions (Week 8)

This International break seems to be going on forever. But it's back to normality for the next 4 weeks.
Games over 3 days again, 7 Saturday, 2 Sunday and 1 Monday.

Man City v Tottenham
Arsenal v Hull
Burnley v West Ham
C Palace v Chelsea
Everton v Aston Villa
Newcastle v Leicester
Southampton v Sunderland
QPR v Liverpool
Stoke v Swansea
West Brom v Man Utd

Good luck all :)

Premier Predictions (Week 7)

Wow!! doesn't time fly, Wednesday already, so slightly late here's the week 7 fixtures, the games are spread over 2 days this weekend 6 on Saturday and 4 on Sunday.
Top game of the week is Sunday's Chelsea v Arsenal, will Chelsea bang 6 past them again? especially as Arsenal have lost most of their midfield even before taking on the Turks tonight, could be more if Costa can manage 2 games in the week.

Hull v C Palace
Leicester v Burnley
Liverpool v West Brom
Sunderland v Stoke
Swansea v Newcastle
Aston Villa v Man City

Man Utd v Everton
Chelsea v Arsenal
Tottenham v Southampton
West Ham v QPR

Good luck all, especially Bio, Gobby and Paul who are all looking for their first win of this season :)

Premier Predictions (Week 6)

Week 6 already, this week the fixtures are back to 3 days,
8 on Saturday and 1 each on Sunday and Monday.

A few biggies this week with West Ham going to the backfiring reds, the North London derby and the Stanley Park North vs South battle, plus Will Villa do a Mourinho and park the bus? :)

Liverpool v Everton
Chelsea v Aston Villa
C Palace v Leicester
Hull v Man City
Man Utd v West Ham
Southampton v QPR
Sunderland v Swansea
Arsenal v Tottenham
West Brom v Burnley
Stoke v Newcastle

Good luck all :)

Happy Days

West Ham 3 Liverpool 1

Always great to see the Hammers win.
But any win over the Scouses is always extra special for me :)
Lots of Liverpool supporting relatives and friends who love to give, but just can't handle receiving :)

Fantasy Footie Etc

An overdue update on the blog leagues :)
Four weeks played so far and the RFC boys are looking good in the Telegraph game.
Paul and Longy have started well in the FPL game.
And I'm having a nightmare in both games :(

TFF - NBTF (40 Teams) - Overall Position - 1424
1 Richard - RR6 193
2 Richard - RR5 187
3 Andrew - Tinkerman Fore 185
4 Ryan - T-boy NEFI 184
5 Richard - Another fantasy Team 183
6 Andrew - Tiki-Taka-Tree 182
7 Lee - Chip Shop Boys 177
8 Rob - Bob's The Daddy 173
9 Shane - lewies lions 173
10 Ryan - Ryan's Rovers 171

FPL - Nothing Better Than Football (5 Teams) - Week 2 Start
1 Paul - Wildcard United 118
2 Longy - CFCLongy 116
2 Gary - Unreal Madrid 116
4 Martin - Baher 108
5 Lee - Play To Win 84

The NBTF Predictions league has started well with a record 8 players, Newcomer Dave leads, and 4 of us have yet to get off the mark (including me) :(
Just checked my position in FISO goals and found I won week 3, but I forgot to post last week so have dropped to 52nd :(
Personally I'm not confident of an improvement this week, the Telegraph site wouldn't let me make changes earlier and I missed the deadline in the FPL game to tweek my team :(

Premier Predictions (Week 5)

Here we go again, 6 games on Saturday, 4 on Sunday.
A few big games this week with City v Chelsea on Sunday, Arsenal going to form team Villa and the Hammers hoping to upset the scouses :)

QPR v Stoke
Aston Villa v Arsenal
Burnley v Sunderland
Newcastle v Hull
Swansea v Southampton
West Ham v Liverpool

Leicester v Man Utd
Tottenham v West Brom
Everton v C Palace
Man City v Chelsea

Premier Predictions (Week 4)

Sorry chaps nearly forgot, Internationals getting in the way :)
Great win for England though :)
8 games on Saturday, with 1 each on Sunday and Monday.

Arsenal v Man City
Chelsea v Swansea
C Palace v Burnley
Southampton v Newcastle
Stoke v Leicester
Sunderland v Tottenham
West Brom v Everton
Liverpool v Aston Villa
Man Utd v QPR
Hull v West Ham

Good luck all :)