Premier Predictions (Week 36)

3 Weeks to go
One extra game this week, 6 games Saturday, 3 on Sunday, 1 on Monday
and the bonus game is on Thursday (so a bit of a wait for final scores).

Big European week for 2 teams 😁 🛠

The pundit bit 😜
At the top Man City go to Everton, which until last week looked like an easy game.
Arsenal play Brighton which until last week looked like a hard game.
The battle for top 4 has hotted up with Liverpool on a roll and Man Utd limping over the line.
At the bottom Southampton need to win their last 3 to have even the slightest chance.
Leicester, Leeds, Everton all face top 5 teams, meaning West Ham should be safe? 😉
Forest go to Chelsea, and you never know with them.


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


Good Luck All   😀

Premier Predictions (Week 35)

10 game week spread over 3 days, 5 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and 3 on Monday.
Man City with the chance to extend their lead as Arsenal have to go to 3rd place Newcastle, although with a trip to Real Madrid on Tuesday they might rest a few. But still a tough start for the return of "big Sam".
Tough games for the relegation strugglers, with the last game on Monday a must win for both.
West Ham take on Man Utd at the weird time of 7pm Sunday with both needing the points, West Ham play in Europe Thursday so might be some team juggling.

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

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 34)

A 13 game week coming up spread over 6 days.
3 matches Saturday, 5 on Sunday, 1 Monday, 1 Tuesday, 2 Wednesday, 1 Thursday.

2 games each for Liverpool, Fulham, Man City, West Ham, Brighton and Man Utd.
A couple of big relegtion battles, and 2 games on Sunday for the minor European places.
Frank Lampard going for 6 straight defeats away at Arsenal, although 39 points should be enough to stay up?

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

Liverpool v Fulham
Man City v West Ham
Brighton v Man Utd

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 32 + 33)

Double header this time as the games are so close together.

Week 32 has 8 league games and 2 Cup ties to make up the numbers.
Friday start with Arsenal aiming to restore their 7 point lead with City playing in the Cup. 5 of the relegation candidates play on Saturday.
2 big games on Sunday at both ends.
Week 33 includes the possible title decider? and the Leeds v Leicester relegation decider?

Week 32 (Friday 21st - Sunday 23rd)
1 game Friday, 6 games Saturday, 3 games Sunday
(90 minute rule on the 2 Cup games)

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

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Week 33 (Tuesday 25th - Thursday 27th)
3 games Tuesday, 4 games Wednesday, 3 games Thursday

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

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Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 31)

Normal 10 game week again, 7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 on Monday.
Four teams in the middle of European quarter finals, so probably a few rotated teams for those, 

although I don't think West Ham would be getting anything even with a full strength rested team 😒

In form Villa and Newcastle looks the pick of the games,
or the Potter derby (without Potter) 😆

Interesting that ref Attwell is on duty as VAR man at the Wolves game? as Wolves have been the 2nd most screwed over team by VAR this season, after Brighton.

All very tight at the top with our league, just 8 weeks left.

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

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 30)

Just the 10 games this week, 8 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday.
Relegation battle hotting up with 2 of the bottom 3 playing each other.
I guess Chelsea fans will be excited about the return of fat Frank?
Title race might warm up if Liverpool do City a favour?
Crazy that you never know what you're getting from Liverpool, Man U and Tottenham this season, could be brilliant or could be awful.


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

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 29)

Bumper week of 16 games this time, 10 regular games plus 6 re-arranged games.
7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 on Monday, 4 on Tuesday, 2 on Wednesday.

Top 2 only play once, while Newcastle, Liverpool, Brighton and Brentford all have the chance to put pressure on Tottenham for 4th place.
Five of the bottom nine relegation candidates play twice, with Palace in 12th only 3 points above the bottom 3.
Ten weeks left and only Fulham, Chelsea and Villa can rely on mid table obscurity.


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

Bournemouth v Brighton
Leeds v Nottm Forest
Leicester v Aston Villa
Chelsea v Liverpool
Man Utd v Brentford
West Ham v Newcastle


Good Luck All  😃

Fantasy Football

Time for some table updates.

So here are the full predictions table (so far)

Plus the top tens in NBTD fantasy leagues, FPL and TFF

10 Weeks left

Premier Predictions (Week 28)

One of those mixed weeks, only 7 premier league games so I've padded it out with the 4 FA Cup quarter finals. 🏆

All games count, with 90 minute score in the Cup games as usual

One game on Friday night
6 games on Saturday, 4 games on Sunday
International week follows so no more till April 1st


Nottm Forest v Newcastle
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Aston Villa v Bournemouth
Brentford v Leicester
Southampton v Tottenham
Wolves v Leeds
Chelsea v Everton
Man City v Burnley (FAC)
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Sheff Utd v Blackburn (FAC)
Arsenal v Crystal Palace
Brighton v Grimsby (FAC)
Man Utd v Fulham (FAC)

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 27)

An extended week with 2 extra re-arranged games.
6 games on Saturday, 4 games on Sunday and 2 on Wednesday.

Early game Saturday has Liverpool going to Bournemouth who they beat 9-0 earlier in the season, on the back of a 7-0 win ... so obviously a home win  😜
Man City go to bogey team Palace, Arsenal go to Fulham.
Bottom of the table very tight, 6 teams could be bottom by Sunday night?


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


Good Luck All  😃

 Lineker Explained

 

Premier Predictions (Week 26)

The last straightforward 10 game week for a while, 7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 on Monday.
Potential change at the top this week? could be overtaken by Gibbo or Paul (need to bring my cup form)

Looking at upcoming fixtures I think Arsenal must be confident of holding on at the top?
The 2 arab rich teams play the early game, former big teams Liverpool and Man Utd play Sunday.
West Ham make the annual trip to bogey team Brighton, 11 years ago we beat Brighton 6-0 since then 6 draws 5 defeats.

Man City v Newcastle
Arsenal v Bournemouth
Aston Villa v Crystal Palace
Brighton v West Ham
Chelsea v Leeds
Wolves v Tottenham
Southampton v Leicester

Nottm Forest v Everton
Liverpool v Man Utd
Brentford v Fulham

Good Luck All  😀

On the plus side I didn't have to log in this time 😃
But now had problems posting this, bold letters, post labels, smileys etc weren't working and couldn't publish (seems to be ok now so hope it works this time) 🙄

Premier Predictions (Week 25 + FA Cup Part 3)

Here we go with a mixed week. 🤔
10 Premier league games played over 6 days, plus a League cup final for good measure.
The Premier league games start on Friday night at Fulham, 6 games on Saturday, one on Sunday, and two re-arranged games on Wednesday.
Also the League (Caribou) cup final is on Sunday (90 min score only).
Arsenal, Everton, Liverpool and Wolves all play twice.
Brighton and Brentford don't play at all, while Man U and Newcastle are in the LC Final.

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Fulham v Wolves
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Everton v Aston Villa
Leeds v Southampton
Leicester v Arsenal
West Ham v Nottm Forest
Bournemouth v Man City
Crystal Palace v Liverpool
--
Tottenham v Chelsea
Man Utd v Newcastle (LCF)
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Arsenal v Everton
Liverpool v Wolves
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Good Luck All  😃

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... and for those that want to carry on with the FA Cup predictions 🏆

here in a separate competition are the 5th Round games.
4 games on Tuesday, 4 games on Wednesday (full time score only, not Extra time or penalties)

Stoke v Brighton
Leicester v Blackburn
Fulham v Leeds
Bristol C v Man City
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Southampton v Grimsby
Burnley v Fleetwood
Man Utd v West Ham
Sheff Utd v Tottenham

Once again, Good Luck All  😀

(and good luck with the posting, as nearly everything goes straight to spam now?

rest assured if you've posted I will pick it up and publish)

Even I am having troubles 😠

Premier Predictions (Week 24)

A fairly normal week this time, 8 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday.
Can Arsenal stop the slide? 😆

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

Man Utd v Leicester
Tottenham v West Ham

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 23)

Another extended week with 11 games over 5 days.
7 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 Monday and the re-arranged top 2 game on Wednesday.
Weird season with no dead certs anymore, never know what Man City and Liverpool are going to do.
Just need West Ham to beat Chelsea to prove no result is a given 😁


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


Good Luck All  😀

(and good luck with the posting, as nearly everything went straight to spam last week?)

Southend

If there are any Arab billionaires or Hollywood legends reading this, could you come and buy Southend United please.
A club who in the last 30 years came close to the Premier league, used to be able to fill it's ground, so a potential "sleeping giant".

Southend the home of the world famous longest pleasure pier in the world, and a local population of 200k with another 500k within a 30 minute drive (traffic permitting).

For the last 25 years the club has been owned by a businessman who has shown almost governmental level ineptitude in running the club, with frequent winding-up orders, transfer embargo's, late or non payment of taxes, players, staff etc.
As recently as 2006/7 the club were in tier 2 (Championship), now they are in Tier 5 (same league as Wrexham).

For 22 years there has been a promise of a new state of the art ground with a 22k capacity, every year we hear it's "coming soon" but has never happened, and probably never will.

So rich people, if you fancy joining the growing list of people who do something other than hiding their money in offshore accounts, this is the opportunity.

Premier Predictions (Week 22)

Back to Premier league this week.
Early start with a Friday night game to see if £330m of new talent can give Chelsea a win over Fulham?
7 game on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and a re-arranged game on Wednesday.
So 11 games this week.
Sean Dyche's first game will be table toppers Arsenal.
Man City go to Tottenham, who will be without manager Conte, who I do feel sympathy for as I went through the same thing in 2012, and it's bloody painful. 😢


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

Good Luck All  😀

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
.           
Leeds v Brentford
Man City v Wolves
Arsenal v Man Utd
.   
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  😀