Thursday, 19 March 2015

Premier Predictions (Week 30)

My one day off this week so better get this published today :)

7 Games on Saturday and 3 on Sunday this week.
The league title is Chelsea's to lose as all the others seem to be handing it to them, so even if Hull pull of a shock win I expect the others to drop even more points.
City, Arsenal, Man U all face tricky games so this weeks predictions might not be straightforward?
Will West Ham finally reach 40 points they won't have a better chance this season against the current worst defenders in the league?
At the bottom weeks are running out for Leicester and they must pick up points this week.

Man City v West Brom
Aston Villa v Swansea
Newcastle v Arsenal
Southampton v Burnley
Stoke v C Palace
Tottenham v Leicester
West Ham v Sunderland
Liverpool v Man Utd
Hull v Chelsea
QPR v Everton

The NBTF prediction league is still really tight but Dave's 4th win gives him a virtual 2 game lead which might be enough? but 9 weeks to go and a lot can happen :)

Fantasy Football Update

Here's all the tables of interest in Fantasy Footie (as of 19/03/15).
FPL - Nothing better than Football league (5 teams)
TFF - NBTF League (41 players)
TFF - Ex Works league (22 players) the final Smoke Generators league :(
TFF - Champions league (5 players)














FPL - Son Gary still leading from Paul and I still haven't got to grips with it this year :(
TFF - Still having a good season myself to lead the blog league and briefly made the top 100 in the country last week, the league itself is in a respectable 39th.
TFF Work league - I'm looking good for yet another win, shame this will be the last time.
TFF Europe - Early days but only trailing Fantasy footie stalwart Rick by a few points, the league is suffering due to only having 5 players, as the position is based on the top 5 scores.
Still in with a small chance of some money in TFF, lying 17th in the Golden boot competition and 23rd in the One league. 10 transfers left in those teams so need to try and make some inspired gambles :)

Thursday, 12 March 2015

Premier Predictions (Week 29)

This weeks games over 3 days with 6 on Saturday, 3 on Sunday and one on Monday.
Liverpool go to Swansea so expect a goal from Jonjo "Voldermort" Shelvey, he usually scores in one of the goals?
Hopefully Arsenal will be thinking about their Euro game or West Ham's "christmas decorations" season will carry on :(
Chelsea v Saints could be good, now I've dropped Pelle from all my fantasy teams he might just net a few goals?
Man City face a banana skin before their big game, so Meerkat Mourinho might still be smiling whatever his team do?

C Palace v QPR
Arsenal v West Ham
Leicester v Hull
Sunderland v Aston Villa
West Brom v Stoke
Burnley v Man City
Chelsea v Southampton
Everton v Newcastle
Man Utd v Tottenham
Swansea v Liverpool

Good luck all, don't worry if your predictions don't show up on Saturday as I'm working all day and probably won't be able to do the "approve" thing till I get home.

Sunday, 8 March 2015

FA Cup 2015

I suppose we should be careful what we wish for?
It's been great having all the giant killings but the danger is you get left with a whole bunch of teams you wouldn't even bother watching on telly for free :(
The draw for the quarter finals hasn't helped as the only game I planned to watch was the United v Arsenal game, although I did catch the second half of Villa v Baggies which wasn't too bad.
It's a shame Liverpool weren't away to one of the lower teams as they should have enough to beat Blackburn at Anfield which draw permitting we will end up with Liverpool v Utd or Arsenal in the final in May ... yawn.

You have to wonder about Villa fans?
Team leading 2-0 cruising into the semi's and they invade the pitch risking an abandonment or possible expulsion from the tournament if something serious had happened.
I know wins and goals have been a rarity at Villa park but surely they should keep it under control a bit?

Friday, 27 February 2015

Premier Predictions (Week 27 + 28)

Another double week for you this time, and not straightforward.
Week 27 is 6 games on Saturday and 2 on Sunday plus a bonus game of the League cup final to make up the numbers (28th February - 1st March).
Week 28 is 3 games on Tuesday, 7 Games on Wednesday and an extra game on the Saturday (so that all the Prem games get cover) (3rd March - 7th March).
Which might be an agonising wait if it's still close :)
Usual rules, post before kick off's however you want to do it? :)

Still with me? here goes ...

Week 27
West Ham v C Palace
Burnley v Swansea
Man Utd v Sunderland
Newcastle v Aston Villa
Stoke v Hull
West Brom v Southampton

Liverpool v Man City
Arsenal v Everton
Chelsea v Tottenham (LCF)
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Week 28
Aston Villa v West Brom
Hull v Sunderland
Southampton v C Palace

Man City v Leicester
Newcastle v Man Utd
QPR v Arsenal
Stoke v Everton
Tottenham v Swansea
West Ham v Chelsea
Liverpool v Burnley

QPR v Tottenham
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Good Luck All :)

Thursday, 19 February 2015

Premier Predictions (Week 26)

Think I need a secretary to cope with all the paperwork I've had to do this week.
I'll be glad to get back working next week for a break :)

Excuses for lateness of this post out of the way, here we go with week 26.
A few good looking games this weekend with Pardew v Wenger and a few six pointers at the bottom on Saturday, the return of Liverpool's ex Southampton's players on Sunday might be lively? and obviously the big london derby where this weeks newspaper target Big Sam gets a chance to shut everyone up with a win at Tottenham ... please :)

Aston Villa v Stoke
Chelsea v Burnley
C Palace v Arsenal
Hull v QPR
Sunderland v West Brom
Swansea v Man Utd
Man City v Newcastle

Totten ham v West Ham
Everton v Leicester
Southampton v Liverpool

Good luck all :)

Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Parking The Bus

Great moment before the Paris SG v Chelsea euro game tonight, the Chelsea bus driver managed to get it stuck in the tunnel leading in to the Paris stadium.
Given that Jose's usual tactics in difficult away games is to 'park the bus' it looked like they were starting early tonight :)

Hope they got insurance.

Sunday, 15 February 2015

Concentrating On The League

Oh well another season over without a trophy :(
Wasn't even close, Fat Sam trotted out the injuries and tiredness excuses forgetting that West Brom had played the same days as us last week and all 11 starters for them had played Wednesday.
Probably the poorest performance of the season and I just hope that we were saving ourselves for next week?

Sad news concerning the accident on the M1 which accounted for the less than full ground at the start, it appears the 3 people that died were Hammers fans on their way to the game, so heartfelt sympathy for the family and friends of those concerned :(


Sunday, 8 February 2015

The Boss?

Was shocked to read that Nigel Pearson had been sacked by Leicester today, but it turns out it was the press making up stories as usual.

I'm no Leicester fan but I think this guy is great, the team seem to have been really unlucky this season and have played well every time I've seen them without getting the result.
Pearson was slagged off recently because he used to sit in the stand instead of being on the touchline, but a couple of recent incidents have showed that is probably a safer place for him to be.


If he does get shown the door by Leicester I think a change of career should be considered, every time he gets interviewed I think he would make a great movie villain, he looks way more menacing than Vinnie Jones ever did and a career in low budget British gangster films beckons now that Danny Dyer has sold his soul to Soapland :)

Thursday, 5 February 2015

Premier Predictions (Week 24 + 25)

Right here we go with a double week, usual rules post before the games kick off. Either all at once for the forgetful people (Longy) or singly.
This weekends games are 7 on Saturday and 3 on Sunday including the North London derby and Merseyside derby.
Next week there are 4 games on Tuesday and 6 on Wednesday.
The following weekend is Cup week again.

Week 24
Tottenham v Arsenal
Aston Villa v Chelsea
Leicester v C Palace
Man City v Hull
QPR v Southampton
Swansea v Sunderland
Everton v Liverpool
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Burnley v West Brom
Newcastle v Stoke
West Ham v Man Utd

Week 25
Arsenal v Leicester
Hull v Aston Villa
Sunderland v QPR
Liverpool v Tottenham
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Chelsea v Everton
Man Utd v Burnley
Southampton v West Ham
Stoke v Man City
C Palace v Newcastle
West Brom v Swansea

Good luck all, chance of a new leader this week unless Dave fights back?
Only 2 wins between everyone which means even Paulo in 8th could be leading this time next week :)

Here's the full table with all the info for those that like that kind of thing :)

Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Transfer Madness

Fingers crossed that those deals that were being talked about have all fallen through?
Carlton to West Brom? Carroll and Sakho injured that just doesn't make sense.
Adebeyor and Kaboul to West Ham, don't the Hammers hierachy ever learn?
Nearly every player we've ever signed from Tottenham has been crap (Etherington and Zamora excluded) Keane and Bentley played like they were being paid to miss as many chances as they could?
Kaboul is probably the worst defender in the Prem and Adebeyor didn't want to come to us a few years ago when he was half decent, now he's well past it he likes the idea?
Was hoping 'arry would be in for Nolan as he loves ex-hammers but it doesn't look likely.

Monday, 2 February 2015

Fantasy Football Update

Fantasy Football update for week ending 2nd February

FPL - Gary extends his lead and I'm still suffering "second season syndrome" can't do anything right?
TFF - Blog league still doing well, only dropped a couple of places despite a bad week for all.
Personally still in with a slight chance in a few of the money prize events, 11th in the goals, 25th in the "one league" and 33rd in the Twitter league so fingers crossed :)


Saturday, 31 January 2015

Liverpool v Hammers

That was a sickener,
I had built my hopes up and thought we had a chance before the game, even though we were missing a load of players through injury, no Tomkins, Sakho, Jenkinson or Kouyate.
Liverpool had left out Gerrard, and Sturridge was only on the bench.
Great to see Liverpool's other star turn Clattenburg wasn't in the middle :)
But come kick off every Hammers fan must have wondered why Noble was on the bench and Downing was stuck out on the wing, just so the anonymous Nolan could be on the pitch (I won't say play because I'm not sure he actually touched the ball).
The game itself was a bore, Coutinho and Sterling were the star turns everyone else was just average.
Sturridge will get the headlines after scoring on his comeback but the rest was a disappointment.
West ham lost another 3 players to injury Collins, Carroll and Reid and had a perfectly good goal disallowed at the end but really didn't deserve anything :(

Thursday, 29 January 2015

Premier Predictions (Week 23)

Back again, here's this weeks fixtures for Saturday and Sunday only this week.
Big game is the top of the table clash on Saturday evening between 2 teams who both crashed out of the cup at home to lower league opposition last week, so maybe the big game is actually West Ham's attempt to break the 53 year hoodoo at Anfield ... COYI :)

Hull v Newcastle
C Palace v Everton
Liverpool v West Ham
Man Utd v Leicester
Stoke v QPR
Sunderland v Burnley
West Brom v Tottenham
Chelsea v Man City
Arsenal v Aston Villa
Southampton v Swansea

Tuesday, 27 January 2015

F.A Cup

Well the FA Cup certainly livened up this weekend :)
Several of the so called big clubs got shown up by the little folk, proving it's only the bank balances that make the difference.
Anyway here's the 5th Round draw now we've finished laughing :)

Arsenal v Middlesbrough
Aston Villa v Leicester
Blackburn v Stoke
Bradford v Sunderland or Fulham
C Palace v Liverpool or Bolton
Derby v Reading
Preston or Sheff U v Cambridge or Man Utd
West Brom v West Ham

Arsenal, Liverpool and Man U still in the draw so it could be the usual dull final, but hopefully someone else will get a chance come May :)

So Steven Gerrard's birthday falls on the same day as the FA Cup final.
What a cracking send off it would be if someone could buy him a ticket :)

Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Fantasy Football Update

Fantasy footie update for week ending 19th Jan.
The FPL blog league is still led by son Gary with Paul 2nd, I totally forgot to change my team despite having 2 free transfers left meaning my African frontline sat on the bench along with 2 of my defenders :(
The TFF blog league is doing well sitting an all time high of 57th overall, luckily my top team is in this one :)

Here is a top 5's picture for relevant leagues, top two are the blog leagues and the other 2 feed my ego haha :)


Hopefully the colours look alright? I can't really tell as my laptop does not display white and turns everything shades of light blue :(

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Premier Predictions (Week 22)

Another set of games over 3 days with 7 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and a trip to Goodison on Monday.
Possible banana skins for a few of the top teams should make it a good week (hopefully).

Aston Villa v Liverpool
Burnley v C Palace
Leicester v Stoke
QPR v Man Utd
Swansea v Chelsea
Tottenham v Sunderland
Newcastle v Southampton
West Ham v Hull
Man City v Arsenal
Everton v West Brom

First games kick off at 3pm for a change.
Another cup week coming up so back on the 31st, good luck all :)

January Transfer Window

The January transfer window (bring and buy panic sale) is just starting to hot up.
A few big fee transfers have just started to trickle through after a slow start, Bony to City, Defoe to Sunderland and Leicester spending £9m on a player I'd never heard of but the stats say he's pretty good?
As always the crazy money will start getting spent on the 31st (actually the 2nd February because the 31st is on a weekend), possibly without 'arry??

Here's the current in's and out's of the Premier league (I will update every few days)
** Updated 3rd February **

Arsenal
In - Krystian Bielik, Gabriel Paulista
Out - Lukas Podolski (Loan), Matt Macey (Loan), Yaya Sanogo (Loan), Benik Afobe, Joel Campbell (Loan)
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Aston Villa
In - Carles Gil, Scott Sinclair (Loan)
Out - Jordan Graham, Darren Bent (Loan), Gary Gardner (Loan), Chris Herd (Loan), Daniel Johnson, Callum Robinson (Loan)
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Burnley
In - Michael Keane
Out - Alex Cisak (Loan)
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C Palace
In - Yaya Sanogo (Loan), Shola Ameobi, Jordon Mutch. Pape Souare, Lee Chung-yong, Wilfried Zaha*, Keshi Anderson, Andreas Breimyr
Out - Alex Wynter, Lewis Price (Loan), Jake Gray (Loan), Zeki Fryers (Loan), Stuart O'Keefe, Jack Hunt (Loan), Barry Bannan (Loan)
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Chelsea
In - Juan Cuadrado
Out - Fernando Torres, John Swift (Loan), Alex Kiwomya (Loan), Tomas Kalas (Loan), Lewis Baker (Loan), Todd Kane (Loan), Mark Schwarzer, Nathaniel Chalobah (Loan), Andre Schurrle, Mohamed Salah (Loan), Ryan Bertrand
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Everton
In - Aaron Lennon (Loan)
Out - Hallam Hope, Mason Springthorpe (Loan), John Lundstram (Loan), Chris Long (Loan), Samuel Eto'o, Matthew Kennedy, Conor McAleny (Loan), Conor Grant (Loan)
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Hull
In - Dame N'Doye
Out - Greg Luer (Loan), Thomas Ince (Loan)
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Leicester
In - Mark Schwarzer, Andrej Kramaric, Robert Huth (Loan)
Out - Adam Smith (Loan), Jack Barmby (Loan), Callum Elder (Loan), Tom Hopper (Loan)
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Liverpool
In -
Out - Lloyd Jones (Loan), Kevin Stewart (Loan), Jack Dunn (Loan), Steven Gerrard (At end of season), Oussama Assaidi, Suso, Connor Randall (Loan), Sheyi Ojo (Loan)
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Man City
In - Wilfried Bony
Out - Matija Nastasic (Loan), Devante Cole (Loan), George Evans (Loan), Scott Sinclair (Loan), Jordy Hiwula (Loan)
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Man Utd
In - Victor Valdes, Sadiq El Fitouri, Andy Kellett (Loan)
Out - Sam Johnstone (Loan), Michael Keane, Ben Pearson (Loan), Will Keane (Loan), Joe Rothwell (Loan), Ben Amos (Loan), Darren Fletcher, Jesse Lingard (Loan), Marnick Vermijl, Saidy Janko (Loan), Wilfried Zaha, Anderson
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Newcastle
In -
Out - Hatem Ben Arfa, Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, Gael Bigirimana (Loan), Shane Ferguson (Loan), Kevin Mbabu (Loan), Remie Streete (Loan), Haris Vuckic (Loan), Davide Santon (Loan)
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QPR
In - Mauro Zarate (Loan)
Out - Jordon Mutch, Bruno Andrade (Loan)
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Southampton
In - Eljero Elia (Loan), Filip Djuricic (Loan), Ryan Bertrand*
Out - Jos Hooiveld (Loan), Jack Cork
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Stoke
In - Philipp Wollscheid (Loan)
Out - Brek Shea, Ryan Shotton, George Waring (Loan), Robert Huth (Loan)
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Sunderland
In - Jermain Defoe
Out - David Ferguson, Connor Oliver, Jozy Altidore, Mikael Mandron (Loan), Charis Mavrias (Loan), Scott Harrison
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Swansea
In - Nelson Oliveira (Loan), Matt Grimes, Kyle Naughton, Jack Cork
Out - Rory Donnelly (Loan), Ryan Hedges (Loan), Wilfried Bony, Liam Shephard (Loan), Jazz Richards (Loan)
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Tottenham
In - Dele Alli
Out - Grant Hall (Loan), Milos Veljkovic (Loan), Kyle Naughton, Dominic Ball (Loan), Kenneth McEvoy (Loan), Aaron Lennon (Loan), Jordan Archer (Loan), Emmanuel Sonupe (Loan), Nathan Oduwa (Loan), Dele Alli (Loan)
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West Brom
In - Callum McManaman, Darren Fletcher
Out - Bradley Garmston (Loan), Luke Daniels
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West Ham
In - Doneil Henry
Out - Mauro Zarate (Loan), Paul McCallum (Loan), Sean Maguire (Loan), Jamie Harney, Blair Turgott
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Tuesday, 13 January 2015

The Fallon D'Floor


Congratulations to Adryan of Leeds for winning the first official Fallon D'floor award :)
The initial foul might have caught him, but the theatrical rolls and flops were just brilliant.
See the winner and the nominated top 6 here - http://fallondfloor.com/?winners :)

Sunday, 11 January 2015

S**t Kits

I was trying to think of the worst kits ever worn and most of them were in the 90's, remember seeing Brighton's pink pyjama look and Chelsea's grey and orange odd mix plus a few horrific goalie kits.
I came across this video which has some nightmares, I have to admit despite coming from Southend I don't remember the carpet style goalie kit from 1995 which is truly horrible :)