Tables And Fantasy Football

Table Updates

Overdue update of the current positions in the Fantasy footy leagues and the full predictions table.

NBTF Predictions League

Fantasy Premier League 

Liverpool fan Mike doing pretty well but I'm hanging on.

Telegraph Fantasy Football

I'm finally starting to get somwhere in this after a really rough start, Mike was ruling it but Colin has come up on the rails.
The league of leagues is really weird this season with the perennial winners FISO dropping as low as 90th in the table and even now outside the top 10.

Telegraph Fantasy Football European Super League

Doing well in this with the NBTF League sitting 15th and 7 teams in the top 1000, would possibly be higher but as the score is based on the 5 highest scoring players only 4 of us are doing well.
The others seem to have given up :(

Premier Predictions (Week 25)

The extended week is finally over and it's back to a bit of normality for one week at least.
8 games on Saturday and 2 on Sunday.
Title is over so only things left to fight for are 5th place and 6 teams battling relegation.
West ham have their last winnable game before April so need 3 points against Brighton, Villa v Bournemouth is another 6 pointer.
Watford play Everton and 3 points could take them 15th so it's getting tight.

Leicester v Chelsea
Bournemouth v Aston Villa
Crystal Palace v Sheff Utd
Liverpool v Southampton
Newcastle v Norwich
Watford v Everton
West Ham v Brighton
Man Utd v Wolves
Burnley v Arsenal
Tottenham v Man City Good Luck All  😃

F.A Cup Predictions 2020 (Part 2)

Right in the middle of a Premier league week here's part 2 of the F.A Cup competition. 🏆
F.A Cup 4th Round - 16 ties played over 4 days.
2 games on Friday, 10 on Saturday, 3 on Friday and 1 on Monday.

Northampton v Derby
QPR v Sheff Wed
Brentford v Leicester
Burnley v Norwich
Coventry v Birmingham
Millwall v Sheff Utd
Newcastle v Oxford
Portsmouth v Barnsley
Reading v Cardiff
Southampton v Tottenham
West Ham v West Brom
Hull v Chelsea
Man City v Fulham
Tranmere v Man Utd
Shrewsbury v Liverpool
Bournemouth v Arsenal

Scores after 90 minutes only (not including extra time and penalties).
Not including replays only first matches.

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 23 and 24)

Right the plan here is to confuse you all with an extended double week (blame the Premier League) 😕
First up, Week 23 to be played Saturday 18th (8 games) and Sunday 19th (2 games).

Big game here is the Liverpool v Man U return, United the only team to take points off them this season, form says it will be an easy home win but you never know 😆
The bottom 2 face off with Bournemouth dropping like a stone.
West Ham have solved their injured goalkeeper problem by signing an injured goalie?

Watford v Tottenham
Arsenal v Sheff Utd
Brighton v Aston Villa
Man City v Crystal Palace
Norwich v Bournemouth
Southampton v Wolves
West Ham v Everton
Newcastle v Chelsea

Burnley v Leicester
Liverpool v Man Utd
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Next, Week 24 with 11 games - to be played on Tuesday 21st (6 games), Wednesday 22nd (3 games), Thursday 23rd (1 game) and Wednesday 29th (1 game).

The West Ham v Liverpool re-arranged game has been added to the following week, so it was either start Week 25 early or have Week 24 over run which seemed easier. Hopefully 3 defeats on the spin for Liverpool might bring some life back into the title race (2 chances of that - fat and none)  😒.
Man City will have to be at their best to avoid losing their title by the end of March.

Aston Villa v Watford
Bournemouth v Brighton
Crystal Palace v Southampton
Everton v Newcastle
Sheff Utd v Man City
Chelsea v Arsenal

Leicester v West Ham
Tottenham v Norwich
Man Utd v Burnley

Wolves v Liverpool

West Ham v Liverpool
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Just to complicate things even more I will be posting the latest round of F.A Cup games in the middle of second week, even though the Watford v Tranmere replay isn't due to be played until Thursday 23rd.

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 22)

Early start again this week. 🙄
West Ham go to Bramall Lane on Friday night plus 7 Games on Saturday and 2 on Sunday.

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

Good Luck All  😃

F.A Cup Predictions 2020 (Part 1)

 🏆  ⚽  🏆
It's time again for a break from the Premier League for a week,
Season no.5 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).
Not including replays only first matches.

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 - 32 Matches starts Saturday through to Monday 4th Jan to 6th Jan
Part 2 - 16 Matches around the Weekend of 25th Jan
Part 3 - 8 Matches around the Weekend of 7th March
Part 4 - 4 Matches around the Weekend of 21st March
Part 5 - 2 Matches around the Weekend of 18th April
Part 6 - Final on my Birthday 23rd May 😁 🎂

Here are the games (Copy & Paste advised), 20 on Saturday, 11 Sunday and 1 Monday.
Note: all games kick off one minute late so fans can "Take a Minute"

Birmingham v Blackburn
Bristol City v Shrewsbury
Burnley v Peterborough
Millwall v Newport
Rochdale v Newcastle
Rotherham v Hull
Brentford v Stoke
Brighton v Sheff Wed
Cardiff v Carlisle
Fulham v Aston Villa
Oxford v Hartlepool
Preston v Norwich
Reading v Blackpool
Southampton v Huddersfield
Watford v Tranmere
Bournemouth v Luton
Fleetwood v Portsmouth
Leicester v Wigan
Man City v Port Vale
Wolves v Man Utd

Bristol Rovers v Coventry
Burton v Northampton
Charlton v West Brom
Chelsea v Nottingham F
Crewe v Barnsley
Crystal Palace v Derby
Middlesbrough v Tottenham
QPR v Swansea
Sheff Utd v AFC Fylde
Liverpool v Everton
Gillingham v West Ham

Arsenal v Leeds

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 19 + 20 + 21) Xmas Special

🎄 Christmas special offer - Here we go 3 weeks for the price of one. 🎄
Game weeks 19, 20 and 21 all to be played over 8 days.

Highlight probably Leicester v Liverpool on Boxing day, hopefully Leicester will go all out for a win and be knackered on Saturday 😆
With the improvement of Watford, Norwich and Southampton no games look easy to predict, except maybe the Villa games as they look really poor recently and have just lost one of their best players McGinn.

Week 19 (9 games Thursday 26/12/19, 1 game Friday 27/12/19) First kick off 12:30.

Tottenham v Brighton
Aston Villa v Norwich
Bournemouth v Arsenal
Chelsea v Southampton
Crystal Palace v West Ham
Everton v Burnley
Sheff Utd v Watford
Man Utd v Newcastle
Leicester v Liverpool
Wolves v Man City
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Week 20 (7 games Saturday 28/12/19, 3 games Sunday 29/12/19) First kick off 12:30.

Brighton v Bournemouth
Newcastle v Everton
Southampton v Crystal Palace
Watford v Aston Villa
Norwich v Tottenham
West Ham v Leicester
Burnley v Man Utd
Arsenal v Chelsea
Liverpool v Wolves
Man City v Sheff Utd
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Week 21 (9 games Wednesday 01/01/20, 1 game Thursday 02/01/20) First kick off again at 12:30. 

Brighton v Chelsea
Burnley v Aston Villa
Newcastle v Leicester
Southampton v Tottenham
Watford v Wolves
Man City v Everton
Norwich v Crystal Palace
West Ham v Bournemouth
Arsenal v Man Utd
Liverpool v Sheff Utd
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Good Luck and a Merry Christmas again to all  🎅  🎄  🍷 🏂  📺 🎈 🐧  🎁   🎅

Usual rules, post before kick off and do them all if you're having a full on Christmas  🍻  🎉

🏆 ⚽ 🏆 Cup special coming later next week .... He's gone Emoji Mad  ⚒️

R.I.P Martin Peters

Sadly Martin Peters died today aged 76.
One of the 3 Hammers to play in the 1966 World Cup win, scored the 2nd goal which would have been the winner if Germany hadn't equalised in the last minute.
Never actually saw him play for West Ham and was disappointed when he signed for Tottenham in 1970.
Did see him play in the flesh a few times for Tottenham and Norwich.

Premier Predictions (Week 18)

Last round of games before Christmas, 7 games Saturday and 2 on Sunday and one not happening (West Ham v Liverpool has been postponed while Liverpool are off on their Jolly in Qatar).
Good news for Liverpool is their leading challengers play each other, so more points dropped.
Mourinho's Tottenham play Lampard's Chelsea which could be good, and a battle of the temporary managers for Duncan Ferguson and Freddie Ljunberg.

Everton v Arsenal
Aston Villa v Southampton
Bournemouth v Burnley
Brighton v Sheff Utd
Newcastle v Crystal Palace
Norwich v Wolves
West Ham v Liverpool (Postponed)
Man City v Leicester

Watford v Man Utd
Tottenham v Chelsea

Good Luck All, and Merry Christmas 😃

Mega Christmas week post coming soon 🎄 🎅  🍻  🥳 🍺  🎅 🎄

Premier Predictions (Week 17)

Busy week for Liverpool with Saturday's early kick off against bottom team Watford, the Caribou Cup at Villa on Tuesday and off to Qatar to play either Monterrey or Al-Sadd on Wednesday plus another game on Saturday in Qatar.
They duck West Ham next week although I think the kids should play that one as well (to help Liverpool's fixture congestion of course) 🤣
Leicester and Chelsea should win and Man City will probably take their chances against Arsenal (unlike us).
Oh! and there's a relegation 6 pointer at the New Dell  😔
6 games on Saturday, 3 on Sunday and the M23 derby on Monday.

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

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 16)

Fixtures coming thick and fast in December.
Here's this weekends games, 5 on Saturday, 4 on Sunday and the Hammers v Gooners on Monday (hopefully Ljungberg will be as rubbish as a manager at West Ham as he was as a player for us).
Manchester derby on Saturday, Liverpool and Chelsea go to teams having a bad time but Leicester's winning run might come to an end?

Everton v Chelsea
Bournemouth v Liverpool
Tottenham v Burnley
Watford v Crystal Palace
Man City v Man Utd

Aston Villa v Leicester
Newcastle v Southampton
Norwich v Sheff Utd
Brighton v Wolves

West Ham v Arsenal

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 15)

I know this week hasn't ended yet, but we've got midweek games coming up so best to get in early.
2 games on Tuesday, 6 on Wednesday and 2 more on Thursday to keep the people on Amazon Prime happy.

Tuesday Man City go to Burnley who before Saturday looked a tough nut to crack.
On Wednesday Livarpool have a merseyside derby against under performing Everton with Adrian in goal, Leicester play managerless Watford and I'm praying the same West Ham team plays as well as Saturday away to in-form Wolves.
7:30 and 8:15 Kick offs to confuse matters even more 😕

Crystal Palace v Bournemouth
Burnley v Man City

Chelsea v Aston Villa
Leicester v Watford
Man Utd v Tottenham
Southampton v Norwich
Wolves v West Ham
Liverpool v Everton

Sheff Utd v Newcastle
Arsenal v Brighton

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 14)

Lots of fixtures coming up, here's this weekends games (week 14), will post the midweek fixtures (week 15) by Saturday, and the following weekend (week 16) sometime next week.
Does that make sense  😕

Anyway this week 6 games on Saturday and 4 on Sunday.
Man City need to do better than last season away at Newcastle, but no Aguero and a pretty average performance in midweek make you wonder.
Hopefully Abraham is not too badly injured just enough to miss saturday's game 😆, I fear for the Hammers especially if he persists with Roberto?
Liverpool and new improved Tottenham should win.
On Sunday Norwich could finish off Emery? the other games look like home wins but you never know?

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

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 13)

The lengths some teams will go to beat West Ham, sacking a decent manager for a short term fix?
8 Games Saturday and one each on Sunday and Monday.
Next best game of the Week new improved Chelsea away to struggling Man City.

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

Good Luck All 😄

Premier Predictions (Week 12)

Friday start again this week, 6 games on Saturday and 3 on Sunday.
Obvious big game on Sunday with the top 2 meeting for the first time this season with both misfiring a bit recently, Man City's injuries carry on with Ederson looking unlikely to play, which should make Liverpool favourites.
Best of the rest Leicester v Arsenal, looks like a nailed on home win but Arsenal were their bogey team, although they have won 2 of the last 3 after no wins in 20.

Norwich v Watford

Chelsea v Crystal Palace
Burnley v West Ham
Newcastle v Bournemouth
Southampton v Everton
Tottenham v Sheff Utd
Leicester v Arsenal

Man Utd v Brighton
Wolves v Aston Villa
Liverpool v Man City

Good Luck All

Premier Predictions (Week 11)

Usually try to post these by Thursday, but spent last night thinking it was Wednesday? old age is setting in fast  😕
This week has 8 games on Saturday and 2 on Sunday.
A few tricky games this week with the Sunday games hard to call, main story this week will be can Southampton bounce back with a shock win or will Leicester's nine goals be beaten?

Bournemouth v Man Utd
Arsenal v Wolves
Aston Villa v Liverpool
Brighton v Norwich
Man City v Southampton
Sheff Utd v Burnley
West Ham v Newcastle
Watford v Chelsea

Crystal Palace v Leicester
Everton v Tottenham

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 10)

Week 10 a quarter of the season already done!!
Good week for the English in Europe (so far), bad week for my local club Southend, get a new International managerial team of Sol Campbell, Andy Cole and Hermann Hreidarsson an hour before kick off, then have 2 players sent off and lose 7-1 at home!!

Friday start this week with Leicester hoping to go 2nd, 5 games on Saturday with Man City hoping to cut the gap at the top to 3 points.
Grudge match at the Olympic stadium, should invite Tevez over for that 😆
4 games on Sunday, Liverpool should beat "new improved" Tottenham but you never know?

Southampton v Leicester

Man City v Aston Villa
Brighton v Everton
Watford v Bournemouth
West Ham v Sheff Utd
Burnley v Chelsea

Newcastle v Wolves
Arsenal v Crystal Palace
Liverpool v Tottenham
Norwich v Man Utd

Good Luck All 🙂

Premier Predictions (Week 09)

Finally back to the real stuff, at least I catch up on sleep during England games 😁
8 games on Saturday and one each on Sunday and Monday.

Hopefully Everton will keep up their recent form and roll over for the Hammers in the Saturday lunchtime game.
Man City go to bogey side Palace on Saturday evening, surely they can't drop any more points as on Sunday Liverpool look to have their easiest game of the season, I know there is a history in these games but Liverpool should be looking at a record score here?
Will Watford finally get a win? good time to be playing Tottenham.

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

Anyway Good Luck All 😃

Table Updates

International week is underway, so time to show the current positions in the Fantasy footy leagues and the full predictions table.

NBTF Predictions League

Fantasy Premier League 

9 players this season, best ever including 3 people I don't know and a couple from my TFF league.
(I did advertise and say all welcome) 😃

Telegraph Fantasy Football

Different rules this season, all free and 5 teams maximum so it's pretty open.
A decent 91 teams despite a few regulars missing.

Telegraph Fantasy Football European Super League

New competition this season, includes all the games for 20 top Euro teams.
5 teams each but have only got 25 teams so far, but have made a decent start  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 08)

6 games on Saturday, 4 on Sunday in the final week before yet another International break.
England have 2 trips to Eastern Europe away to the Czech republic and Bulgaria.

Big game will be Liverpool v Leicester, Liverpool on a run but Jamie Vardy likes playing them and Salzburg showed the defence can be got at. Both need their injured players back Maddison and Matip.
Tottenham will be glad to be playing Brighton who are unlikely to score 7 goals against anyone 🤣
Man City should win as Wolves are playing in Turkey tonight, hopefully West Ham can keep up their good record against Palace, and the other games all look hard to pick.


Brighton v Tottenham
Burnley v Everton
Liverpool v Leicester
Norwich v Aston Villa
Watford v Sheff Utd
West Ham v Crystal Palace

Arsenal v Bournemouth
Man City v Wolves
Southampton v Chelsea
Newcastle v Man Utd

Good Luck All  🙂