Premier Predictions (Week 38)

Here we go it's the final week, the title decider  🏆

In the big one - Only a win can give Biopunk the title, Paul has an 80% chance of hanging on.

Elsewhere Man City can wrap up the league if they beat Villa, Liverpool hoping their old boys can do them a favour.
At the bottom Leeds need to better Burnley's result to stay up, or win by about 25 goals to guarantee it
Battle for 4th should go to Tottenham unless they blow it against relegated Norwich, although Arsenal winning is not a given.
West Ham hoping Palace do them a favour by beating Man Utd for the final Europa league place, although it has been 10 years since we last beat Brighton, and never done it in 9 Premier league games  😢

Also it is supposed to be the final set of Mark Lawrenson predictions this week as he's giving it up.
So I expect a Liverpool win, a West Ham loss and lots of 2-0's.
Looks like he has beaten all of us again so we will need someone else to test ourselves against if we continue next season.
Not sure if someone else will take over?

Anyway here goes the final 10, all kick off at 4pm on Sunday


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


Good Luck All   😀

Premier Predictions (Week 37)

Another elongated week with a bonus cup game
13 games - 1 Saturday, 7 on Sunday, 1 Monday, 1 Tuesday, 3 Thursday.
🏆  Usual 90 minute score on Cup game.

Man City with the chance to wrap up the league, but 3 points for West Ham might kick Man Utd out of the Europa spot without blowing their title prospects. Dilemma for City 🤣
At the bottom Leeds need to beat form team Brighton, Everton and Burnley have 2 games this week.
Arsenal need to win both their games to hang on to 4th?


Chelsea v Liverpool (FA Cup)
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Tottenham v Burnley
Aston Villa v Crystal Palace
Everton v Brentford
Leeds v Brighton
Watford v Leicester
Wolves v Norwich
West Ham v Man City
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Newcastle v Arsenal
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Southampton v Liverpool
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Everton v Crystal Palace
Aston Villa v Burnley
Chelsea v Leicester

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 36)

Week 36 is the start of 2 mega extended weeks.
16 games this week, 6 on Saturday, 4 on Sunday, 1 on Tuesday, 4 on Wednesday and 1 on Thursday.
Title race hotting up with both teams playing twice.
At the bottom Burnley play first, but then Everton and Leeds play twice.

First game is 3pm on Saturday.

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

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 35)

An almost normal week this time, 10 games.
6 on Saturday, 3 on Sunday, 1 on Monday.
Tricky games for the top 2 and the relegation battlers.
I guess Arsenal and Tottenham will be happy playing teams in the middle of Euro semi finals  😒

Newcastle v Liverpool
Aston Villa v Norwich
Southampton v Crystal Palace
Watford v Burnley
Wolves v Brighton
Leeds v Man City

Everton v Chelsea
Tottenham v Leicester
West Ham v Arsenal
Man Utd v Brentford

Good Luck All  😀

* Comments box has changed for some reason, hope it won't cause problems *

Premier Predictions (Week 34)

Quick turn around this week, bloody Thursday games 😵

Another extended week with 11 games
5 on Saturday, 4 on Sunday, 1 on Monday and 1 on Thursday (again).
Man City play first this week, Arsenal v Man U used to be a big game now a battle for 4th if Eriksen puts one over his old team?
Not sure which Chelsea will turn up on Sunday, but not ideal for West Ham who will have their mind on Thursday.
Scouse Derby with Everton desperate for points but very unlikely.
The Man U v Chelsea game is brought forward from Cup Final weekend.

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

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 33)

Far from a straightforward week this time.
14 games including 2 Cup Semi's (90 min score)
5 games on Saturday, 3 on Sunday, 1 on Tuesday, 4 on Wednesday, 1 on Thursday.
A collection of re-arranged games next week, meaning 11 teams play twice and Leeds, Wolves and Villa don't play at all.

All clear?  😀

Tottenham v Brighton
Man Utd v Norwich
Southampton v Arsenal
Watford v Brentford
Man City v Liverpool (FA Cup)
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Newcastle v Leicester
West Ham v Burnley
Chelsea v Crystal Palace (FA Cup)
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Liverpool v Man Utd
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Chelsea v Arsenal
Everton v Leicester
Newcastle v Crystal Palace
Man City v Brighton
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Burnley v Southampton

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 32)

Another Friday night start  😒
Just the 10 games this week, before another mad one next week.
1 game Friday, 5 on Saturday and 4 on Sunday.
Obviously the big one is Sunday with the top 2 facing off
2 big relegation battles with Watford and Burnley hoping for wins, while Everton face Man Utd.


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

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 31)

Back after that pretty dull international break, with the England games hidden away on Sky I forgot about both of them till the day after, then only saw the 3 minute highlight package.
World Cup draw on Friday (of interest to Biopunk for a change with Canada in the hat).

Premier League (Week 31)
11 games this week, 7 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 on Monday and 1 on Wednesday.
Liverpool have the chance to go top, although Watford really need points with Burnley and Everton playing twice this week.
Big European week for some so possibly some rested players.

Liverpool v Watford
Brighton v Norwich
Burnley v Man City
Chelsea v Brentford
Leeds v Southampton
Wolves v Aston Villa
Man Utd v Leicester

West Ham v Everton
Tottenham v Newcastle

Crystal Palace v Arsenal

Burnley v Everton

Good Luck All   😀

Premier Predictions (Week 30) + FA Cup 6th Round

Re-posting this as nobody has done any predictions yet, and it's less confusing 😀

Due to all the postponed games we only have 4 League games this week, so I'm throwing in the 4 FA Cup games 🏆 as well to make a reasonable week of 8 games (90 min scores in Cup games).
 
Starts on Friday night with 2 more on Saturday and 5 on Sunday.


Week 30 (Fri 18/03/22 - Sun 20/03/22)

Wolves v Leeds
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Aston Villa v Arsenal
Middlesbrough v Chelsea (FA Cup)
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Crystal Palace v Everton (FA Cup)
Leicester v Brentford
Southampton v Man City (FA Cup)
Tottenham v West Ham
Nottm Forest v Liverpool (FA Cup)


Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 29)

Week 29 includes 3 more re-arranged games taking place on Wednesday and Thursday, while week 30 starts on Friday night.

Week 29 has 3 games on Saturday, 6 on Sunday, 1 on Monday, 2 on Wednesday and one on Thursday.
Liverpool have the chance to catch Man City with 2 games, while City have to play their bogey team Palace.
Interesting game is Chelsea v Newcastle, with one now sanctioned due to a dodgy owner being  linked with a country bombing innocent civilians, vs the other owned by a dodgy country who are bombing innocent civilians? ... enough politics for now 😒

Top 4 race is looking set unless Arsenal lose their 2 home games this week, relegation looking like Norwich, Watford and any one from 4 so a big week for Lampard

Week 29    (Sat 12/03/22 - Thur 17/03/22)

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

Good Luck All  😀

See new post above for Week 30

Premier Predictions (Week 28)

Bumper week of fixtures, 14 at the moment (*subject to change).
7 games on Saturday, 2 Sunday, 1 Monday and now 4 on Thursday.

6 games from Week 30 postponed due to FA Cup now to be crammed into the fixture list somewhere, in addition to the 7 games that already needed re-arranging due to Covid postponements.
All these re-arranged games on Thursdays to suit TV companies making it a bit of a nightmare to separate weeks  😕

Anyway here goes with the provisional weeks fixtures.

The Manc derby is the big one, Man U seem to have the hex over City recently which will suit Liverpool although West Ham are due a good performance? (but I'm sure the refs will make sure there are no shocks there) 😜

Week 28    (Sat 05/03/22 - Thur 10/03/22)

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

Good Luck All   😀

F.A Cup Predictions 2022 (5th Round - Part 3)

FA Cup 5th Round  🏆

Games spread over 7 days?
3 Tuesday, 3 Wednesday, 1 Thursday and one Monday (Tues 01/03/22 - Mon 07/03/22)
Toughest tie to predict probably Saints v West Ham, Southampton with an extra 2 days rest which doesn't seem fair :(

(90 minute score)

Peterborough v Man City
Crystal Palace v Stoke
Middlesbrough v Tottenham
Luton v Chelsea
Southampton v West Ham
Liverpool v Norwich
Everton v Boreham Wood
Nottm Forest v Huddersfield

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 26 + 27)

Going for a double bill this time as the weeks merge into one another.

Week 26 includes 4 re-arranged games so 8 games Saturday, 2 Sunday, 3 Wednesday, 1 Thursday.

Week 27 starts on Friday 25th so 1 Friday, 6 Saturday, 2 Sunday (including League Cup Final - 90 minute score), and a re-arranged game on Tuesday 1st March.

FA Cup 5th Round is midweek starting 1st March but will do a seperate post for that.

* For FPL types Burnley have 4 games in this period and Chelsea have 1, shame there aren't any Burnley players worth having.

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Week 26    (Sat 19/02/22 - Thur 24/02/22)

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

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Week 27    (Fri 25/02/22 - Tues 01/03/22)

Southampton v Norwich
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Leeds v Tottenham
Brentford v Newcastle
Brighton v Aston Villa
Crystal Palace v Burnley
Man Utd v Watford
Everton v Man City
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West Ham v Wolves
Chelsea v Liverpool (LCF)
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Burnley v Leicester
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Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 25)

Get this in before Week 24 finishes, can't get used to these Thursday games.
Just 9 games this week as the Chelsea v Arsenal game was postponed with Chelsea playing Palmeiras in Dubai.
5 games on Saturday and 4 on Sunday.
European games start again next week so Liverpool, Man City and Leicester might rest a few players?

Man Utd v Southampton
Brentford v Crystal Palace
Everton v Leeds
Watford v Brighton
Norwich v Man City

Burnley v Liverpool
Newcastle v Aston Villa
Tottenham v Wolves
Leicester v West Ham

** Extra game added on Tuesday **

Man Utd v Brighton

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 24) + F.A Cup Predictions 2022 (4th Round - Part 2)

Double bill this week with Premier league and F.A Cup.

F.A Cup 4th Round  🏆
Starts Friday 4th February through till Monday night.
1 game Friday, 12 on Saturday, 3 on Sunday and one on Monday.


Man Utd v Middlesbrough
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Chelsea v Plymouth
Kidderminster v West Ham
Crystal Palace v Hartlepool
Everton v Brentford
Huddersfield v Barnsley
Man City v Fulham
Peterborough v QPR
Southampton v Coventry
Stoke v Wigan
Wolves v Norwich
Cambridge v Luton
Tottenham v Brighton
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Liverpool v Cardiff
Nottm Forest v Leicester
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Bournemouth v Boreham Wood
 
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Premier League Week 24
Starts early on Saturday, then games onTuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Burnley and Watford play twice, Chelsea and Brighton called off due to Chelsea going on a jolly to Abu Dhabi.


Burnley v Watford
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Brighton v Chelsea (Postponed)
Newcastle v Everton
West Ham v Watford
Burnley v Man Utd
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Man City v Brentford
Norwich v Crystal Palace
Tottenham v Southampton
Aston Villa v Leeds
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Liverpool v Leicester
Wolves v Arsenal

Good Luck All  😀

Winter Transfers 2022

Here's where the Premier league cash was splashed this window.
(Info based on the best sources I could find, includes squad and youth players).
Many Undisclosed figures, but mainly for youth players so the figures shouldn't change much.

Newcastle the biggest spenders unsurprisingly, although I guess the fans were expecting Mbappe and they got Chris Wood.
West Ham needed players but ended up with just one youth player.
A lot of teams buying players and immediately loaning them out?
One odd transfer was Dele Alli who has gone to Everton on a free but they will have to pay up to £40m depending on games played, so if he got injured in the first 20 games Tottenham might not get a penny.

The Chart:

Total Spend - £316,740,000,000
Most Players In - Brighton 8, Everton 6, Watford 6
Most Players Out - Arsenal 15, Brighton 15, Wolves 14
Most Money Paid - Newcastle £91.89m, Liverpool £40.5m, Everton £33.75m
Most Money Received - Man City £49.5m, Burnley £27m, Everton £27m
Largest Profit - Man City £34.2m, Burnley £14.4m, West Ham £0.9m
Largest Defecit - Newcastle £91.89m, Liverpool £40.5m, Aston Villa £27.86m

Largest Fees Paid (£5m +)

Ferran Torres [Man City - Barcelona] £49.5m
Luis Diaz [Porto - Liverpool] £40.5m
Bruno Guimaraes [Lyon - Newcastle] £37.89m
Chris Wood [Burnley - Newcastle] £27m
Lucas Digne [Everton - Aston Villa] £27m
Vitaliy Mykolenko [Dynamo Kiev - Everton] £21.15m
Rodrigo Bentancur [Juventus - Tottenham] £17.1m
Julian Alvarez [River Plate - Man City] £15.3m (Loaned Back)
Hwang Hee chan [RB Leipzig - Wolves] £14m
Dan Burn [Brighton - Newcastle] £13.5m
Kieran Trippier [Atletico Madrid - Newcastle] £13.5m
Wout Weghorst [Wolfsburg - Burnley] £12.6m
Nathan Patterson [Rangers - Everton] £12.6m
Kacper Kozlowski [Pogon Szczecin - Brighton] £9.9m (Loaned Back)
Jean Philippe Mateta [Mainz 05 - Crystal Palace] £9.9m
Dejan Kulusevski [Juventus - Tottenham] £9m (Loan Fee)
Deniz Undav [Union SG - Brighton] £6.3m (Loaned Back)

Predictions Table

Transfer window closing on Monday night, and at the moment not a lot to talk about.

Newcastle, Villa and Watford doing some business but nothing too exciting.

Claudio Ranieri is the latest Watford manager to go, with Roy Hodgson in charge for a few games.

Patrick Vieira must be a bit worried as Palace are next for Norwich, who have accounted for Benitez and Ranieri.

Here's the complete predictions table so far, a bit confusing this time as everyone has missed some games.

Biopunk in prime position at the moment, but Gibbo also having a good season.

Premier Predictions (Week 23)

Friday night start for Week 23.
Then 4 games Saturday, 5 on Sunday.
The plan is that there is 11 days without football (apart from the AFCON), although I'm not sure if they will cram in some of the postponed games?

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

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 22)

Due to re-arranged games I'm going to have to start Week 22 early.
Just learned that more games have been added next week so it's a bumper 17 game week (Covid permitting)

Starting Tuesday 11th till Wednesday 19th

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Southampton v Brentford
Everton v Leicester (Postponed)
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West Ham v Norwich
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Brighton v Crystal Palace
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Man City v Chelsea
Burnley v Leicester (Postponed)
Newcastle v Watford
Norwich v Everton
Wolves v Southampton
Aston Villa v Man Utd
*
Liverpool v Brentford
West Ham v Leeds
Tottenham v Arsenal (Postponed)
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Burnley v Watford (Postponed)
Brighton v Chelsea
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Leicester v Tottenham
Brentford v Man Utd

Good Luck All  😀

F.A Cup Predictions 2022 (3rd Round - Part 1)

F.A Cup Predictions 2022 (3rd Round - Part 1)      🏆   ⚽   🏆

Here we go with Season no.7 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).
No replays this season, if Covid gets the game postponed I will take these predictions whenever the game is played.

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 7th Jan to 10th Jan
Part 2 (4th Round) - 16 Matches around the Weekend of 5th February
Part 3 (5th Round) - 8 Matches around the 2nd March
Part 4 (Q/F) - 4 Matches around the Weekend of 19th March
Part 5 (S/F) - 2 Matches around the Weekend of 16th April
Part 6 (Final) -  14th May

Here are the games (Copy & Paste advised), 1 on Friday, 21 Saturday, 9 Sunday and 1 Monday.

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Swindon v Man City
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Mansfield v Middlesbrough
Bristol C v Fulham
Burnley v Huddersfield
Coventry v Derby
Hartlepool v Blackpool
Millwall v Crystal Palace
Barnsley v Barrow
Boreham Wood v AFC Wimbledon
Kidderminster v Reading
Leicester v Watford
Newcastle v Cambridge
Peterborough v Bristol R
Port Vale v Brentford
QPR v Rotherham
West Brom v Brighton
Wigan v Blackburn
Birmingham v Plymouth
Chelsea v Chesterfield
Hull v Everton
Swansea v Southampton
Yeovil v Bournemouth
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Luton v Harrogate
Cardiff v Preston
Charlton v Norwich
Liverpool v Shrewsbury
Stoke v Leyton Orient
Tottenham v Morecambe
West Ham v Leeds
Wolves v Sheff Utd
Nottm Forest v Arsenal
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Man Utd v Aston Villa

 Good Luck All  😀