Table Toppers

West Ham blew their chance of going top this week, but my local club managed it tonight after beating Shrewsbury 3-0 :)
I post this because I have a feeling they won't be there later in the season although I hope I'm wrong ... well done Southend :)

Premier Predictions (Week 7)

A few derby games this week.

Everton v Liverpool
Aston Villa v Wigan
Blackburn v Man City
Man Utd v Norwich
Sunderland v West Brom
Wolves v Newcastle

Bolton v Chelsea
Fulham v QPR
Swansea v Stoke
Tottenham v Arsenal

Premier Predictions (Week 6)

Wow, Friday morning already and nearly forgot to post this.
Hopefully we will improve on last weeks dismal performance :)

Man City v Everton
Arsenal v Bolton
Chelsea v Swansea
Liverpool v Wolves
Newcastle v Blackburn
West Brom v Fulham
Wigan v Tottenham
Stoke v Man Utd

QPR v Aston Villa

Norwich v Sunderland

Confusing

Just came back to check the latest scores on the BBC website, before I went out it had said Man City were 3-1 up, now I see that it was a 2-2 draw? might have been a disallowed goal I suppose but then checking the report it gets really confusing?? it says that Kompany scored City's 3rd goal on 2 different pages!!

Fantasy Football

As I think I said before I'm playing TFF (Telegraph fantasy football) this year for the first time in 3 years.
During the previous years of playing I was working regular hours (or not at all) so had the time to do those last minute transfers after seeing the team sheets, and had set up a pretty comprehensive Excel document to deal with all the info so I knew exactly what players were in each of the 20 teams I'd picked etc.
A bit of luck involved obviously but that level of attention is needed to get your teams into the top 10% as there are a lot of serious players around.

This year I'm winging it just using the web site as I never seem to have the time to set up the Excel spreadsheet and having to use this crap laptop is a pain :)
This years teams are doing reasonable with the top team in around 2,500th place with no transfers made (there are around 250,000 teams in the competition).
I've gone heavy on Man U and City players so that's worked out well so far although most teams have either Rooney or Agruero I don't think I've got both in any team :(
My worst team has Fernando Torres as the striker?? proving that taking chances doesn't always work :)
I think I might drop a few places this week as I missed the transfer deadline again, there was a chance to dump a few under performers before the big teams played today :(

Best Team so far -
Top points - Rooney, Nani, Young.
Worst - Malouda, Brunt, Kompany



Worst team so far -
Top points - Bent, Collins, Hart, Arshavin.
Worst - Surman, Torres, Riise

Millwall 0 West Ham 0

Tottenham loanee misses absolute sitter .... sounds like last season :(
Surely we should have learned the lesson after Keane and all those other crap players we've borrowed from the Spuds over the years.

Premier Predictions (Week 5)

Been away and just got back finally, so here's this weeks games.

Blackburn v Arsenal
Aston Villa v Newcastle
Bolton v Norwich
Everton v Wigan
Swansea v West Brom
Wolves v QPR

Tottenham v Liverpool
Fulham v Man City
Sunderland v Stoke
Man Utd v Chelsea

Paolo di Canio

Never a dull moment with Paolo :)
If you've sat up for the football league show every Swindon game has been a joy so far just to see Paolo's touchline antics.
The end of match argument with Leon Clarke was classic di Canio and most of their other games have seen a di Canio moment to talk about.
Tuesday should be interesting as Swindon take on rich kids Crawley, Crawley's manager Steve Evans has been critical of di Canio calling Swindon the "di Canio circus", di Canio's reaction was "who is he, I've never heard of him" :)

For no particular reason? I dislike Crawley and loved Saturday's 6-0 win by Morecambe which brought them back down to earth, hopefully Swindon can do a similar job.

Rugby

The Rugby world cup has started.
Loads of posh middle class men watching some fella kick a ball over a bar

Bit like stamford bridge when Torres is playing

England v Wales

Well we won
mainly thanks to this man :)

Premier Predictions (Week 4)

Arsenal v Swansea
Everton v Aston Villa
Man City v Wigan
Stoke v Liverpool
Sunderland v Chelsea
Wolves v Tottenham
Bolton v Man Utd

Norwich v West Brom
Fulham v Blackburn

QPR v Newcastle

Premier Predictions

International week so back on 10th September.

Parker

The Scott Parker saga should be settled in the next 2 days, it seems the Spuds won't pay the £8m asking price and hope to get him on the cheap as they did with Defoe and Carrick, the rumour is they are offering about £4m + a loan player.
Surely Gold and Sullivan should have learnt their lesson on Spuds loan players after Robbie Keane's obvious sabotage last season?
I don't mind Peter Crouch but we'll probably get offered one of the shite players like Modric (£40m!! even Chelsea aren't that stupid are they?).
I'm surprised Arsenal haven't come in for Parker, they can afford him and they really need some experienced players.

A Greater Power?

Thanks to Mr Billy Bragg for posting this story today, I was almost believing it until I saw some of the other posts at http://newsthump.com :)
Funny stuff and after all Wenger has come up with some great excuses over the years :)

Happy Sunday

Match of the day should be worth watching tonight.
Man U 8 Arsenal 2
Spuds 1 Man City 5

I would 8 2 be an Arsenal fan today :)

Arsene says he won't quit - I thought he was French?

At least you can't accuse Arsenal fans of being glory hunters anymore.

Gary Cahill handed in a written transfer request today, it said "anywhere but Arsenal"

No Place Like ...... Away

There's no place like home they say but the Hammers don't seem to think that is Upton Park anymore?

Home
West Ham 0 Cardiff 1
West Ham 2 Leeds 2
West Ham 1 Aldershot 2

Away
Doncaster 0 West Ham 1
Watford 0 West Ham 4
Nottm Forest 1 West Ham 4

Another great win on the road, shame we can't do it at home?
This one achieved without Parker who it seems is selling his soul to the Spuds although I can't understand why we would do any business with them after last weeks events.
Hopefully if he does turn Judas we will pass them at the end of the season after they suffered yet another stuffing by a Manchester club :)

Premier Predictions (Week 3)

Sorry Longy forgot what day it was, I put your predictions in the comments.

Aston Villa v Wolves
Wigan v QPR
Blackburn v Everton
Chelsea v Norwich
Swansea v Sunderland
Liverpool v Bolton

Newcastle v Fulham
Tottenham v Man City
West Brom v Stoke
Man Utd v Arsenal

Still At It

Bloody Tottenham fans can't leave anything alone.

Premier Predictions (Week 2)

This weeks games:

Sunderland v Newcastle
Arsenal v Liverpool
Aston Villa v Blackburn
Everton v QPR
Swansea v Wigan
Chelsea v West Brom

Norwich v Stoke
Wolves v Fulham
Bolton v Man City

Man Utd v Tottenham

Watford 0 West Ham 4

On the face of it this looked like being our hardest game so far but the result shows you really can't predict what's going to happen in this division.
Just one change again with Cole finally getting a start instead of Piquionne, Allardyce can't be accused of being a tinkerman and it seems to be working.
We have 3 more games until the transfer window closes and it remains to be seen if Parker, Green and Cole will still be here? but I get the feeling that we can still do alright even if they go.