Premier Predictions (Week 13 + 14)

2 weeks for the price of one.

Week 13 - 1 game Friday, 6 on Saturday, 3 on Sunday.
Kicks off with Moyes's home debut, odds are on him being booed off at half time I reckon.
Big game on Saturday is Liverpool v Chelsea, and can West Brom cope without Pulis pulling the strings?
Sunday sees Arsenal facing the Dyche machine

West Ham v Leicester

Crystal Palace v Stoke
Man Utd v Brighton
Newcastle v Watford
Swansea v Bournemouth
Tottenham v WBA
Liverpool v Chelsea

Southampton v Everton
Burnley v Arsenal
Huddersfield v Man City
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Week 14 - 4 games on Tuesday, 6 on Wedenesday.

Brighton v Crystal Palace
Leicester v Tottenham
Watford v Man Utd
WBA v Newcastle

Arsenal v Huddersfield
Bournemouth v Burnley
Chelsea v Swansea
Everton v West Ham
Man City v Southampton
Stoke v Liverpool

Good Luck All :)

Premier Predictions (Week 12)

No more International breaks till next March, so we can finally get going with the season .. and who knows I might actually get a win before then? :)

8 Games on Saturday starting with the North London derby, 1 game on Sunday to see if Scary Moyes can frighten West Ham into a performance? and one game on Monday to wrap things up.

Arsenal v Tottenham
Bournemouth v Huddersfield
Burnley v Swansea
Crystal Palace v Everton
Leicester v Man City
Liverpool v Southampton
WBA v Chelsea
Man Utd v Newcastle
Watford v West Ham
Brighton v Stoke

Good Luck All :)

Next week will be a double week with an early Friday game.

World Cup 2018

32 Teams qualified for Russia 2018

AFC (Asia and Australia) - Places 5
Iran, Japan, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Australia
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CAF (Africa) - Places 5
Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia, Morocco
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CONCACAF (North and Central America) - Places 3
Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama
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CONMEBOL (South America) - Places 5
Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru
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OFC (Oceania) - Places in Final 0
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UEFA (Europe) - Places in Final 13 (+ Hosts)
Russia (Hosts), Belgium, England, France, Iceland, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Croatia, Sweden, Denmark
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Top Teams Missing out
Netherlands, Bulgaria, Hungary, N Ireland, Czech Rep, Wales, Austria, Romania, Scotland, Slovakia, Italy, Greece, Ukraine, Turkey, Rep of  Ireland, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Algeria, USA, Chile, Paraguay, Honduras

The World Cup draw date is Friday 1st December

I'm Scared

Thought Halloween was last week

Premier Predictions (Week 11)

Last week before yet another International break.
6 Games on Saturday and 4 on Sunday.

Big games are on Sunday with Mourinho back at Chelsea, and City taking on Arsenal who do have a decent record against them recently.
Daniel Sturridge usually scores against West Ham but let's all hope his scoring drought continues :)

Stoke v Leicester
Huddersfield v WBA
Newcastle v Bournemouth
Southampton v Burnley
Swansea v Brighton
West Ham v Liverpool

Tottenham v Crystal Palace
Man City v Arsenal
Chelsea v Man Utd
Everton v Watford

Good Luck All :)

Fantasy Football Update

Fantasy Premier League: Over 5 Million players worldwide and 6 of them are in the NBTF League.
Unlike our predictions league I am doing pretty well and Paul is having a nightmare :)

Telegraph Fantasy Football
The NBTF League is still near the top of the table (a high of 5th)
Currently 14th out of about 500 leagues, good stuff.

Richard still leading the way, although Terry sneaked in 21 teams before the deadline and is doing pretty well (all in front of my best placed team in 26th).
Although I get the feeling that a lot of the best placed sides have blown a few transfers searching for a manager of the week or month award, my tactic of only replacing injured or non playing players usually means that I have a strong run after Christmas with ¾ of my transfers left?

Premier Predictions (Week 10)

Week 10 already, so over a quarter of the season done (and I still haven't got any points).
Finally updated my fixtures grid so I can start taking the Fantasy football seriously after a duff start. Two changes here - West Brom will now be known as WBA, and C Palace will now be Crystal Palace (Obviously), made it easier to type in the fixtures in my spreadsheet.

On to this week, 7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and one on Monday night.
Man U v Tottenham is the stand out fixture, will Mourinho park the bus at Old Trafford to stop Kane?
West Ham go to Palace having won their last 3 games there, so with that and Palace's form this season it has to be a win (so I'll probably predict a defeat with my record this season!!).
Can West Brom do a Wolves and stop City scoring? probably not.

Man Utd v Tottenham
Arsenal v Swansea
Crystal Palace v West Ham
Liverpool v Huddersfield
Watford v Stoke
WBA v Man City
Bournemouth v Chelsea

Brighton v Southampton
Leicester v Everton
Burnley v Newcastle

Good Luck All :)

Here's the current table with all the info (including my record equalling crap start)

Premier Predictions (Week 09)

Early start this week with a Friday night game between the Hammers and Brighton.
7 games on Saturday and the last 2 on Sunday.
Can the amazing Paulo machine carry on after 6  x 3 pointers in the last 12 predictions? :)
The big game this week appears to be the top 5 clash between Chelsea and Watford? although Tottenham v Liverpool will attract all the pundits.

West Ham v Brighton
Chelsea v Watford
Huddersfield v Man Utd
Man City v Burnley
Newcastle v C Palace
Stoke v Bournemouth
Swansea v Leicester
Southampton v West Brom
Everton v Arsenal
Tottenham v Liverpool

Good Luck All :)

Premier Predictions (Week 08)

Caught out by the International break again .. oops
Here's this weekends fixtures, 7 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and one on Monday.
Most of the games are hard to call, although Man City should be a home banker.

Liverpool v Man Utd
Burnley v West Ham
C Palace v Chelsea
Man City v Stoke
Swansea v Huddersfield
Tottenham v Bournemouth
Watford v Arsenal

Brighton v Everton
Southampton v Newcastle

Leicester v West Brom

Good Luck All :)

Premier Predictions (Week 07)

Last set of games before the next International break.
7 Games on Saturday, 3 on Sunday.
The late Saturday game is the pick of the bunch with Chelsea taking on League leaders Man City.

Huddersfield v Tottenham
Bournemouth v Leicester
Man Utd v C Palace
Stoke v Southampton
West Brom v Watford
West Ham v Swansea
Chelsea v Man City

Arsenal v Brighton
Everton v Burnley
Newcastle v Liverpool

Good Luck All :)

Premier Predictions (Week 06)

8 Games on Saturday and one each on Sunday and Monday.
The big one should be the first game, although we beat them last season I would have been happier if it was at Wembley as Tottenham have a really good away record at the moment.
Fingers crossed we will be able to put a full team out?

West Ham v Tottenham
Burnley v Huddersfield
Everton v Bournemouth
Man City v C Palace
Southampton v Man Utd
Stoke v Chelsea
Swansea v Watford
Leicester v Liverpool
Brighton v Newcastle
Arsenal v West Brom

Good Luck All :)

Fantasy Football Update

Time for a look at all the fancy coloured tables I knock up for my own entertainment :)

Predictions League Week 5 - All the details so far

Fantasy Premier League
Over 5 Million players worldwide and 6 of them are in the NBTF League

Could do better :)

Telegraph Fantasy Football
Thanks mainly to Richard's flying start the NBTF League has been near the top of the table for the first few weeks with a high of 5th,
Currently 12th out of 493 leagues, good stuff.

My own contribution is pretty poor with a best of 16th this week, but I always start slowly so I'm hopeful of improvement.

Premier Predictions (Week 05)

Three days of action this weekend, ** starts on Friday **
7 games on Saturday and 2 more on Sunday. Sunday's games should be interesting.

Bournemouth v Brighton

C Palace v Southampton
Huddersfield v Leicester
Liverpool v Burnley
Newcastle v Stoke
Watford v Man City
West Brom v West Ham
Tottenham v Swansea

Chelsea v Arsenal
Man Utd v Everton

Good Luck All :)

Premier Predictions (Week 04)

Back again after the Internationals,
7 games on Saturday then 2 on Sunday, and a first "home" game for the Hammers on Monday.
A few big clashes on Saturday, which look attractive and hard to pick.

Man City v Liverpool
Arsenal v Bournemouth
Brighton v West Brom
Everton v Tottenham
Leicester v Chelsea
Southampton v Watford
Stoke v Man Utd
Burnley v C Palace
Swansea v Newcastle
West Ham v Huddersfield

Good Luck All :)

Summer 2017 Transfers (Final)

The 2017 Summer Transfer Window.
All the facts and figures from the most reliable sources available.
Premier league clubs have spent £1.42 Billion and received £790 Million, 142 players have joined clubs and 428 have left.

Most Spent - Man City £219.87m, Chelsea £185.4m, Man Utd £147.96m
Most Received - Chelsea £113.97m, Everton £96.64m, Man City £93.15m
Balance Plus - Swansea £23.47m, Arsenal £19.22m, Burnley £13.6m
Balance Minus - Man Utd £139.63m, Man City £126.72m, Chelsea £71.43m
Most Players In - Everton 14, Brighton, Huddersfeild & Watford 13
Most Players Out - Chelsea 47, Man City 36, Everton 28

Transfer Table

The Top Fees Paid (all over £10m)

Romelu Lukaku [Everton - Man Utd] £76.23m
Alvaro Morata [Real Madrid - Chelsea] £58.5m
Benjamin Mendy [Monaco - Man City] £51.75m
Alexandre Lacazette [Lyon - Arsenal] £47.7m
Kyle Walker [Tottenham - Man City] £45.9m
Bernardo Silva  [Monaco - Man City] £45m
Gylfi Sigurdsson [Swansea - Everton] 44.46m
Nemanja Matic [Chelsea - Man Utd] £40.23m
Mohamed Salah [Roma - Liverpool] £37.8m
Davinson Sanchez [Ajax - Tottenham] 36m
Ederson Moraes [Benfica - Man City] £36m
Tiemoue Bakayoko [Monaco - Chelsea] £36m
Alex Oxlade Chamberlain [Arsenal - Liverpool] 34.2m
Danny Drinkwater [Leicester - Chelsea] 34.2m
Antonio Rudiger [Roma - Chelsea] £31.5m
Victor Lindelof [Benfica - Man Utd] £31.5m
Danilo [Real Madrid - Man City] £27m
Mamadou Sakho [Liverpool - Crystal Palace] 26m
Jordan Pickford [Sunderland - Everton] £25.65m
Michael Keane [Burnley - Everton] £25.65m
Davide Zappacosta [Torino - Chelsea] 25.20m
Kelechi Iheanacho [Man City - Leicester] £24.93m
Davy Klaassen [Ajax - Everton] £24.3m
Serge Aurier [PSG - Tottenham] 22.50m
Nathan Ake [Chelsea - Bournemouth] £20.52m
Marko Arnautovic [Stoke - West Ham] £20.07m
Andre Gray [Burnley - Watford] £18.36m
Juan Cuadrado [Chelsea - Juventus] £18m *OUT*
Kevin Wimmer [Tottenham - Stoke] 17.46m
Nabil Bentaleb [Tottenham - Schalke] £17.1m *OUT*
Javier Hernandez[Bayer Leverkusen - West Ham] £16.02m
Mario Lemina [Juventus - Southampton] £15.30m
Chris Wood [Leeds - Burnley] 14.76m
Wesley Hoedt [Lazio - Southampton] 14.76m
Sam Clucas [Hull - Swansea] 14.67m
Oliver Burke [RB Leipzig - West Brom] 13.68m
José Izquierdo [Club Brugge - Brighton] 13.5m
Vincent Iborra [Sevilla - Leicester] £13.5m
Enes Unal [Man City - Villarreal] £12.6m *OUT*
Harry Maguire [Hull - Leicester] £12.33m
Jay Rodriguez [Southampton - West Brom] £12.33m
Davy Propper [PSV Eindhoven - Brighton] £11.7m
Fernando Llorente [Swansea - Tottenham] 11.7m
Steve Mounie [Montpellier - Huddersfield] £11.7m
Wilfried Bony [Man City - Swansea] 11.7m
Roque Mesa {Las Palmas - Swansea] £11.25m
Richarlison [Fluminese - Watford] £11.16m
Wojciech Szczesny [Arsenal - Juventus] £10.98m *OUT*
Douglas Luiz [Vasco De Gama - Man City] £10.8m
Gerard Deulofeu [Everton - Barcelona] £10.8m *OUT*
Asmir Begovic [Chelsea - Bournemouth] £10.35m
Jacob Murphy [Norwich - Newcastle] £10.17m

Verdict
Arsenal - Managed to hang on to Sanchez but have weakened their team even more by letting players like Oxlade Chamberlain, Gibbs, Perez, Gabriel etc go?

Bournemouth - Looked like they have improved their squad with Defoe, Begovic and Ake coming in, but a poor start so far.

Brighton - So many new names have arrived that it might be a slow start while they get to know one another?

Burnley - Have let a few of their better players go like Gray, Boyd, Kean and Barton, but have signed some decent replacements.

Chelsea - Usual mass exodus from Chelsea with 30 players going out on loan, and those brought in appear to be cover for the extra games this year. Someone needs to sort out the Costa situation as they need him.

Crystal Palace - Not a great window for Palace but managed to hang on to their better players and will be happy to have Sakho back.

Everton - Big changes at Everton with some good players coming in, but will be hard to replace Lukaku.

Huddersfield - Look to have made some decent budget signings and could do better than most expected them to.

Leicester - Harry Maguire looks a bargain, but will miss Drinkwater. Keeping Mahrez for now will keep the fans happy.

Liverpool - Seemed to play with a 3-7-0 formation for a lot of last season and Klopp has strengthed the midfield? will be hoping to score more than the opposition as the defence still looks shaky.

Man City - A lot of money spent improving the defence, but a lot still depends on Vincent Kompany being fit.

Man Utd - Lukaku a great signing and stealing Matic from Chelsea seems like a master stroke, if everyone stays fit and Mourinho doesn't upset them all it could be a good year.

Newcastle - I think Rafa would have liked to bring in a few quality players, squad looks average at best.

Southampton - Have managed to keep hold of their better players for a change this season, but I think they might struggle this year.

Stoke - Have let a few decent players go, but also made some shrewd signings. Stoke look hard to beat this season but can't see them scoring many.

Swansea - Losing Sigurdsson and Llorente could be a big problem for Swansea, the misfiring Bony and erratic Sanches might come good? but the squad looks weaker than the one that struggled last season.

Tottenham - Not much transfer business done but some good back up players brought in. Llorente looks a steal and getting nearly £64m for Walker and Wimmer is good selling.

Watford - Some very good signings by Watford and if they all gel together they could do very well.

West Brom - Pulis seems to have made some excellent signings without changing things too much, should get their regular 40 points well before the end of the season.

West Ham - A few decent signings but the defence still looks weak, most of last seasons signings have now gone which makes you wonder? usual hope of Andy Carroll actually being fit.

Premier Predictions (Week 03)

Week 3 already, just 3 teams with 100% win records, and 5 teams without a point (including us .. sigh).
One more chance to change things before the first International break of the season.
6 Games on Saturday and 4 on Sunday.

Bournemouth v Man City
C Palace v Swansea
Huddersfield v Southampton
Newcastle v West Ham
Watford v Brighton
Man Utd v Leicester

Chelsea v Everton
West Brom v Stoke
Liverpool v Arsenal
Tottenham v Burnley

Good Luck All :)

Premier Predictions (Week 02)

Week 2 starts on Saturday with 7 games, 2 games on Sunday and the first Monday night game of the new season.
A couple of big games with last seasons top 2 facing off at Wembley, Chelsea needing a big improvement over last week to avoid a second defeat.
New improved Everton go to City on Monday night with Gylfi Sigurdsson added to the new players on show.

Swansea v Man Utd
Bournemouth v Watford
Burnley v West Brom
Leicester v Brighton
Liverpool v C Palace
Southampton v West Ham
Stoke v Arsenal

Huddersfield v Newcastle
Tottenham v Chelsea

Man City v Everton

Good Luck All :)

Premier Predictions (Week 01)

Here we go again :)
The all new prediction competition for the 2017-2018 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 toal points for the season come into play.
Predictions in the comments please :)
Any spam and abuse will be deleted so don't bother.

Anyway enough of that :) 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. Obviously predictions will only count if they are made before the kick offs.

So here is the first week of the new season, games spread over 3 days with 1 on Friday, 7 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday.

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Arsenal v Leicester

Watford v Liverpool
C Palace v Huddersfield
Chelsea v Burnley
Everton v Stoke
Southampton v Swansea
West Brom v Bournemouth
Brighton v Man City

Newcastle v Tottenham
Man Utd v West Ham
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Lots of new players and the big 7 all playing European football this year mean their might be room for one of the others to make a challenge?
Money talks so you would expect the title to be contested by Chelsea and the 2 Manchester clubs with Tottenham, Arsenal and Liverpool in the mix.
As for the rest it's hard to predict who will struggle the most and none stand out as possible title contenders.
The bookies have Man City as favourites with Chelsea, Man U, Tottenham and Arsenal next best.
Favourites for relegation are Huddersfield followed by Burnley, Watford, Swansea, Palace and Brighton.

Good Luck All, and let's hope it's a great season.

Transfer Update

About 3 weeks till the transfer window shuts, and already a Billion pounds has been spent.

Manchester clubs and Chelsea leading the way, and Tottenham are keeping their purse locked.

Top 20 Biggest deals so far -
Romelu Lukaku [Everton - Man Utd] £76.23m
Alvaro Morata [Real Madrid - Chelsea] £58.5m
Benjamin Mendy [Monaco - Man City] £51.75m
Alexandre Lacazette [Lyon - Arsenal] £47.7m
Kyle Walker [Tottenham - Man City] £45.9m
Bernardo Silva  [Monaco - Man City] £45m
Nemanja Matic [Chelsea - Man Utd] £40.23m
Mohamed Salah [Roma - Liverpool] £37.8m
Ederson Moraes [Benfica - Man City] £36m
Tiemoue Bakayoko [Monaco - Chelsea] £36m
Antonio Rudiger [Roma - Chelsea] £31.5m
Victor Lindelof [Benfica - Man Utd] £31.5m
Danilo [Real Madrid - Man City] £27m
Jordan Pickford [Sunderland - Everton] £25.65m
Michael Keane [Burnley - Everton] £25.65m
Kelechi Iheanacho [Man City - Leicester] £24.93m
Davy Klaassen [Ajax - Everton] £24.3m
Nathan Ake [Chelsea - Bournemouth] £20.52m
Marko Arnautovic [Stoke - West Ham] £20.07m
Andre Gray [Burnley - Watford] £18.36m

Fantasy Football

2 Nothing Better Than Football leagues to join if you fancy some Fantasy Football.

Fantasy Premier League - https://www.premierleague.com/

Telegraph Fantasy Football - https://fantasyfootball.telegraph.co.uk/

All welcome :)