FA Cup Predictions 2023 (4th Round) (Part 2)

FA Cup time again  🏆
1 game Friday, 12 on Saturday, 3 on Sunday and 1 on Monday.
Friday night is the first meeting of the current big 2.
Potential shocks everywhere, and it's going to be edge of seat stuff on Monday!!

All the usual rules, draws possible as replays are still there for this round.

Man City v Arsenal
Accrington v Leeds
Walsall v Leicester
Blackburn v Birmingham
Bristol C v West Brom
Fulham v Sunderland
Ipswich v Burnley
Luton v Grimsby
Sheff Wed v Fleetwood
Southampton v Blackpool
Preston v Tottenham
Man Utd v Reading
Brighton v Liverpool
Stoke v Stevenage
Wrexham v Sheff Utd
Derby v West Ham


Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 21)

Just the 10 games this week, 6 on Saturday, 3 on Sunday, 1 on Monday.
West Ham v Everton might be a last game for one of the managers?

Liverpool v Chelsea
Bournemouth v Nottm Forest
Leicester v Brighton
Southampton v Aston Villa
West Ham v Everton
Crystal Palace v Newcastle
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Leeds v Brentford
Man City v Wolves
Arsenal v Man Utd
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Fulham v Tottenham

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 20)

In this mixed up season we have games nearly every day.
So for week 20 it's going to be 13 games played over 8 days.
3 re-arranged games fitted around the scheduled matches and cup replays.
1 game Thursday, 1 on Friday, 6 on Saturday, 3 on Sunday, 1 next Wednesday, 1 next Thursday. 12/01/23 - 19/01/23.

Fulham v Chelsea
Aston Villa v Leeds
Man Utd v Man City
Brighton v Liverpool
Everton v Southampton
Nottm Forest v Leicester
Wolves v West Ham
Brentford v Bournemouth
Chelsea v Crystal Palace
Newcastle v Fulham
Tottenham v Arsenal
Crystal Palace v Man Utd
Man City v Tottenham

Good Luck All  😀

FA Cup Predictions 2023 (3rd Round) (Part 1)

FA Cup Predictions 2023 (3rd Round - Part 1)      🏆   ⚽   🏆

To carry on with the complete football overload this season.
Here we go with Season no.8 of the NBTF F.A Cup predictions Competition.

Rules - 3 points for a correct score, 1 point for a correct result.
Scores at full time (90+ minutes) only (not including extra time and penalties).
As far as I know replays are back for the 3rd and 4th Rounds?

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 6th Jan to 9th Jan
Part 2 (4th Round) - 16 Matches around the Weekend of 28th January
Part 3 (5th Round) - 8 Matches around the 1st March
Part 4 (Q/F) - 4 Matches around the Weekend of 18th March
Part 5 (S/F) - 2 Matches around the Weekend of 22nd April
Part 6 (Final) -  3rd June

Here are the games (Copy & Paste advised), 1 on Friday, 22 Saturday, 8 Sunday and 1 Monday.


(Fri)
Man Utd v Everton
(Sat)
Crystal Palace v Southampton
Forest Green v Birmingham (Postponed)
Gillingham v Leicester
Preston v Huddersfield
Reading v Watford
Tottenham v Portsmouth
Blackpool v Nottm Forest
Boreham Wood v Accrington Stanley
Bournemouth v Burnley
Chesterfield v West Brom
Fleetwood v QPR
Hull v Fulham
Ipswich v Rotherham
Middlesbrough v Brighton
Millwall v Sheff Utd
Shrewsbury v Sunderland
Brentford v West Ham
Coventry v Wrexham
Grimsby v Burton
Luton v Wigan
Sheff Wed v Newcastle
Liverpool v Wolves
(Sun)
Bristol C v Swansea
Derby v Barnsley
Cardiff v Leeds
Hartlepool v Stoke
Norwich v Blackburn
Stockport v Walsall
Aston Villa v Stevenage
Man City v Chelsea
(Mon)
Oxford v Arsenal

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 17+18+19)

Merry Christmas to all   🎅 🎄 🎅 🎄 🎅

Back to domestic Premier League football with a bang.
3 rounds of games in 11 days.
So it's going to be a triple bill to get us going again as matches are being played in 10 of those 11 days.
Post before kick off when you can.

Week 17
(Monday 26th December to Wednesday 28th December)
7 games Monday, 2 on Tuesday, 1 on Wednesday

Brentford v Tottenham
Crystal Palace v Fulham
Everton v Wolves
Leicester v Newcastle
Southampton v Brighton
Aston Villa v Liverpool
Arsenal v West Ham
Chelsea v Bournemouth
Man Utd v Nottm Forest
Leeds v Man City
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Week 18
(Friday 30th December to Sunday 1st January 2023)
2 games Friday, 6 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday

West Ham v Brentford
Liverpool v Leicester
Wolves v Man Utd
Bournemouth v Crystal Palace
Fulham v Southampton
Man City v Everton
Newcastle v Leeds
Brighton v Arsenal
Tottenham v Aston Villa
Nottm Forest v Chelsea
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Week 19
(Monday 2nd January to Thursday 5th January)
2 games Friday, 6 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday

Brentford v Liverpool
Arsenal v Newcastle
Everton v Brighton
Leicester v Fulham
Man Utd v Bournemouth
Southampton v Nottm Forest
Leeds v West Ham
Aston Villa v Wolves
Crystal Palace v Tottenham
Chelsea v Man City
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Happy New Year  🍷 🍺

Good Luck All  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 7)

Final piece of the 2022 World Cup

3rd Place Play Off - Saturday 17th

Croatia v Morocco

World Cup Final - Sunday 18th

Argentina v France

Thanks to Paulo, Gibbo and Paul for playing along
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Good Luck All  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 6)

Always goes a bit flat once England are out but here are The Semi Finals

Tuesday 13th + Wednesday 14th December at 7pm

Croatia v Argentina
Morocco v France


Good Luck All  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 5)

The Quarter Finals

Friday 9th December and Saturday 10th December, 3pm and 7pm kick offs.

Croatia v Brazil
Netherlands v Argentina

Morocco v Portugal
France v England

Good Luck All  😀

Pele

Sad to hear that Pele is now receiving palliative care due to his cancer treatment not working.
So sometime in the near future we will have to say goodbye to possibly the world's greatest footballer. 😢

He was a star before I was born with World Cup wins in 1958 + 1962, but do remember him starring at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.
Memories of Huw Johns commentary "O Rei Pele".
Three of the most memorable moments in those finals were where Pele didn't score, the Banks save, the one where he put the ball one side of the keeper ran round him and shot and narrowly missed, and an effort from inside his own half which missed by inches.

Loads of brilliant goals, but always liked this one  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 4)

The last 16 round
Which are being played between Saturday 3rd December to Tuesday 6th December.
2 games per day with 3pm and 7pm kick offs. 

Reminder - To stop all confusion and arguments the prediction will be the score at the end of normal time (90 minutes + injury time). so draws are possible.
Extra time and Penalties will not count.

Netherlands v USA
Argentina v Australia
France v Poland
England v Senegal
Japan v Croatia
Brazil v South Korea
Morocco v Spain
Portugal v Switzerland

Good Luck All  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 3)

Here are the final round of group games which are being played between Tuesday 29th November to Friday 2nd December.
Games doubled up with 3pm and 7pm kick offs.

Ecuador v Senegal
Netherlands v Qatar
Iran v USA
Wales v England
Australia v Denmark
Tunisia v France
Poland v Argentina
Saudi Arabia v Mexico
Canada v Morocco
Croatia v Belgium
Costa Rica v Germany
Japan v Spain
Ghana v Uruguay
South Korea v Portugal
Cameroon v Brazil
Serbia v Switzerland


Good Luck All  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 2)

Here are the next round of games which are being played between Friday 25th November to Monday 28th November.
Kicks off at 10am on Friday.

Wales v Iran
Qatar v Senegal
Netherlands v Ecuador
England v USA
Tunisia v Australia
Poland v Saudi Arabia
France v Denmark
Argentina v Mexico
Japan v Costa Rica
Belgium v Morocco
Croatia v Canada
Spain v Germany
Cameroon v Serbia
South Korea v Ghana
Brazil v Switzerland
Portugal v Uruguay

Good Luck All  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 1)

World Cup time again, so here is the World Cup predictions competition.

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Personal feeling I've never looked forward to a World Cup less, stupid time of the year.
In a country with no football tradition, sterile stadiums with only well off "well behaved fans".
England in a poor run of form, so at least we should hear less of every muppet saying "it's coming home"
 

Usual predictions rules - 3 Points for a correct score, 1 Point for a correct result.
Overall winner will be decided on the total points at the end of the competition (64 Games).

Extra rules for the knockout stages:
To stop all confusion and arguments the prediction will be the score at the end of normal time (90 minutes + injury time).
Extra time and Penalties will not count.
So if a game finishes 0-0 and goes into extra time and one team has 3 players sent off and lose 7-0 it will count as a 0-0 draw, Hopefully that makes sense 😁

All welcome to join in, plenty of time to catch up if you miss a few games.

Here's a list of the first round of games in the 2022 tournament.
Will post the rest in stages a few days before they are played.

These first round games are being played between Sunday 20th November to Saturday 26th November
Kicks off at 4pm on Sunday with a game between the 44th and 50th ranked teams in the world .. sigh!!

Qatar v Ecuador
England v Iran
Senegal v Netherlands
USA v Wales
Argentina v Saudi Arabia
Denmark v Tunisia
Mexico v Poland
France v Australia
Morocco v Croatia
Germany v Japan
Spain v Costa Rica
Belgium v Canada
Switzerland v Cameroon
Uruguay v South Korea
Portugal v Ghana
Brazil v Serbia

Good Luck All   😀

World Cup 2022

Random facts
Teams with players away at the World Cup

16 Man City
14 Man Utd
12 Chelsea
11 Tottenham
10 Arsenal
8 Brighton
7 Leicester, Liverpool
6 Brentford, Fulham
5 Newcastle, Nottm Forest, West Ham, Wolves
4 Aston Villa, Everton
3 Leeds, Reading, Swansea
2 Birmingham, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Crystal Palace, Luton, QPR, Sheff Utd, Southampton, Sunderland
1 Bristol C, Burnley, Huddersfield, Middlesborough, MK Dons, Norwich, Stoke, Swindon, Watford, Wimbledon

Teams with English League players

25 England
21 Wales
12 Brazil
10 Portugal, Senegal
8 USA
7 Belgium, Denmark, Ghana
5 Argentina, France, Spain, Switzerland
4 Germany
3 Australia, Ecuador, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Uruguay
2 Cameroon, Croatia, Japan, South Korea
1 Canada, Costa Rica, Iran, Mexico, Serbia, Tunisia
0 Qatar, Saudi Arabia

The toughest to the weakest groups
(Based on current average FIFA World rankings)

15.00 B    England, USA, Wales, Iran
18.25 E    Spain, Germany, Japan, Costa Rica
19.25 F    Belgium, Croatia, Morocco, Canada
20.00 G    Brazil, Switzerland, Serbia, Cameroon
20.50 D    France, Denmark, Tunisia, Australia
23.25 C    Argentina, Mexico, Poland, Saudi Arabia
28.00 H    Portugal, Uruguay, South Korea, Ghana
30.00 A    Netherlands, Senegal, Ecuador, Qatar

Mid Season Tables

Time for some tables

NBTF Predictions League (Full Info)

 

FPL Fantasy League (Top 10)

After a very poor start I'm up to 11th

 

 

TFF Fantasy League (Top 10)

Not a great season so far, but tons of transfers left.

 

Premier Predictions (Week 16)

Final set of games before the WC break.
With Ralph Rabbit-Hutch now gone David Moyes is the new favourite for the push (I want him to stay).
Man City should go top for 7 hours, Potter probably needs a win after some dodgy games.
All World cup bound players will be praying to get through this weekend.

Man City v Brentford
Bournemouth v Everton
Liverpool v Southampton
Nottm Forest v Crystal Palace
Tottenham v Leeds
West Ham v Leicester
Newcastle v Chelsea
Wolves v Arsenal

Brighton v Aston Villa
Fulham v Man Utd

Good Luck All  😀

England

World Cup less than 2 weeks away, Not sure when Southgate has to name his squad as the Premier doesn't finish till Sunday evening.

Have seen about 60 names mentioned so Here's my 26 from that lot, Will probably be totally wrong? 😀

Squad
Jordan Pickford, Nick Pope, Dean Henderson
Kieran Trippier, Reece James (Injured), Ben White, Luke Shaw, Tyrick Mitchell
Conor Coady, John Stones, Trevoh Chalobah, James Tarkowski
Declan Rice, Jude Bellingham, Phil Foden, Bukayo Saka, Mason Mount
Jack Grealish, Harvey Barnes, Kalvin Phillips (Injured), James Maddison, Conor Gallagher
Harry Kane, Ivan Toney, Marcus Rashford, Tammy Abraham

Next best
Aaron Ramsdale
Kyle Walker (Injured), Trent Alexander-Arnold, Marc Guehi, Fikayo Tomori, Dan Burn
James Ward-Prowse, Raheem Sterling, Jadon Sancho, Eberechi Eze
Callum Wilson, Jarrod Bowen, Ollie Watkins

No thanks
Eric Dier, Tyrone Mings, James Justin, Chris Smalling, Lewis Dunk, Rico Henry,
Aaron Cresswell, Adam Webster, Harry Maguire, Joe Gomez, Ryan Sessegnon
Callum Hudson-Odoi, Emile Smith Rowe, Jordan Henderson, Ruben Loftus-Cheek
Dominic Solanke, Danny Welbeck, Dominic Calvert-Lewin

Premier Predictions (Week 15)

Two more weeks of Premier league before the WC break.
Two more weeks for more players to get injured and get an early Christmas break and avoid a trip to the desert.
5 games Saturday, 5 games Sunday.

Leeds v Bournemouth
Man City v Fulham
Nottm Forest v Brentford
Wolves v Brighton
Everton v Leicester

Chelsea v Arsenal
Aston Villa v Man Utd
Southampton v Newcastle
West Ham v Crystal Palace
Tottenham v Liverpool

Good Luck All  😀

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* I've tried to replicate others problems, but mine always post straightaway? *

Premier Predictions (Week 14)

Just 3 more rounds before the World Cup
8 games on Saturday and 2 on Sunday this week.
Stand out is probably Potter going back to Brighton.
Leeds manager needing a win has Liverpool away.

Leicester v Man City
Bournemouth v Tottenham
Brentford v Wolves
Brighton v Chelsea
Crystal Palace v Southampton
Newcastle v Aston Villa
Fulham v Everton
Liverpool v Leeds

Arsenal v Nottm Forest
Man Utd v West Ham

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 13)

Straight onto the next set of games in this overloaded season.
4 games on Saturday, 5 on Sunday, and West Ham play Monday ahead of another European week.
Some good hard to predict games this week with only Liverpool looking guaranteed a win.

Nottm Forest v Liverpool
Everton v Crystal Palace
Man City v Brighton
Chelsea v Man Utd

Aston Villa v Brentford
Leeds v Fulham
Southampton v Arsenal
Wolves v Leicester
Tottenham v Newcastle

West Ham v Bournemouth

Good Luck All  😀