Premier Predictions (Week 29)

Back so soon!!
7 games on Saturday and 3 on Sunday.
3 big derbies if you count Fulham Chelsea :)

Tottenham v Arsenal
Bournemouth v Man City
Brighton v Huddersfield
Burnley v Crystal Palace
Man Utd v Southampton
Wolves v Cardiff
West Ham v Newcastle

Watford v Leicester
Fulham v Chelsea
Everton v Liverpool

Good Luck All :)

Premier Predictions (Week 27 + Week 28)

Time for another double bill of Premier League action.

Week 27
Kicks off on Friday night for some reason? 2 games Friday, 4 Games on Saturday and 2 on Sunday plus a bonus game of the League Cup Final between City and Chelsea (wonder if Chelsea can keep it below 6?).
2 games have been postponed because of this so Everton and Brighton fans have a weekend off.
The big one is at Old Trafford on Sunday, Liverpool needing a point to stay clear of City.

Cardiff v Watford
West Ham v Fulham

Burnley v Tottenham
Bournemouth v Wolves
Newcastle v Huddersfield
Leicester v Crystal Palace

Arsenal v Southampton
Man Utd v Liverpool
Chelsea v Man City (LCF) (90 Minute Score)

Week 28
4 Games on Tuesday, 6 on Wednesday.
Can West Ham do Liverpool a favour? unlikely 😢
Chelsea face Tottenham with Harry Kane probably back?, if Sarri can grab 3 wins in the next week I reckon his job is safe 🤣

Cardiff v Everton
Huddersfield v Wolves
Leicester v Brighton
Newcastle v Burnley

Arsenal v Bournemouth
Southampton v Fulham
Chelsea v Tottenham
Crystal Palace v Man Utd
Liverpool v Watford
Man City v West Ham

Good Luck All  😃

F.A Cup Predictions 2019 (Part 3)

F.A Cup time again, 8 games played over 4 days.
Friday is the QPR game, and the big one is Monday night with Chelsea hoping to get something from their Manchester treble.
Just 7 Prem teams left and at least one less after Monday.
No replays anymore in the 5th Round, so it has to be decided on the day.

Predictions at 90 minutes only (so you can go for a draw), extra time and penalties do not count.

QPR v Watford
Brighton v Derby
Wimbledon v Millwall
Newport v Man City
Bristol C v Wolves
Doncaster v Crystal Palace
Swansea v Brentford
Chelsea v Man Utd

Good Luck All :)

Current Scores (48 Games)
Lee 31, Paul 28, Paulo 24, Biopunk 20, Gibbo 10
(Lawro 25, Lawro's Guest 10, Lawro's Exra Guest 9, Model -)

Gordon Banks

Really sad news that one of the true legends of Football died today 😢
Gordon Banks was 81 years old.

England's keeper in the 1966 win, and but for a mystery stomach bug before the Quarter final against West Germany in 1970  might have been a two time winner?
He had a long career with Leicester and then Stoke. I think I saw him in the flesh at least once but can't remember what the result was?


Everyone is going on about that save from Pele in the 1970 World Cup, but the one that I remember most is the save from Geoff Hurst's penalty in 1972 League Cup Semi Final which stopped us making the Final that season 😭

Premier Predictions (Week 26)

7 Games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and one on Monday.
The top 3 are all at home to teams that have been totally unpredictable recently, so shocks may be on the cards again this week?
West Ham go to Palace where they had 3 straight wins until last years draw when Palace scored in the 7th minute of the 5 minutes injury time :(

Fulham v Man Utd
Crystal Palace v West Ham
Huddersfield v Arsenal
Liverpool v Bournemouth
Southampton v Cardiff
Watford v Everton
Brighton v Burnley
Tottenham v Leicester
Man City v Chelsea
Wolves v Newcastle

Good Luck All :)

Transfers January 2019

Here is the list of all the Premier League movers for this transfer window.
Most of the usual big spenders just shipped out players on Loans and Frees, with only Chelsea, Bournemouth and Newcastle spending big.
Wolves, Brighton and Chelsea trimmed down their massive squads to give some of them game time, and spending overall was well down, just £191m spent compared to the £470m last January and £1.3bn in the summer.
Best transfer? gotta be Peter Crouch on a free :)

Top 10 Transfers In
Christian Pulisic [Borussia Dortmund - Chelsea] £57.6m (Loaned Back)
Miguel Almiron [Atlanta - Newcastle] £21.6m
Dominic Solanke [Liverpool - Bournemouth] £19.08m
Jonny Castro Otto [Atletico Madrid - Wolves] £18.45m
Emiliano Sala [Nantes - Cardiff] £15.3m (Missing)
Chris Mepham [Brentford - Bournemouth] £12.24m
Gonzalo Higuain [Juventus - Chelsea] Loan Fee £8.1m
Alexis MacAllister [Argentinos - Brighton] £7.2m (Loaned Back)
Jordan Ayew [Swansea - Crystal Palace] £7.2m
Ante Palaversa [Hadjuk Split - Man City] £4.32m (Loaned Back)

Top 10 Transfers Out
Brahim Diaz [Man City - Real Madrid] £15.3m
Benik Afobe [Wolves - Stoke] £12.15m
Mousa Dembele [Tottenham - Guangzhou] £11.21m
Manolo Gabbiadini [Southampton - Sampdoria] £10.8m
Marouane Fellaini [Man Utd - SD Luneng] £10.8m
Rabbi Matondo [Man City - Schalke] £9.6m
Vicente Iborra [Leicester - Villarreal] £9m
Sam Vokes [Burnley - Stoke] £7.2m
Danny Batth [Wolves - Stoke] £3.11m
Oliver Norwood [Brighton - Sheff Utd] £1.98m

Premier Predictions (Week 25)

11 games this week.
7 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 Monday and a bonus re-arranged game on Wednesday.

Could be a big week at the top, Man City have a tough game against Arsenal, but really need a win.
West Ham surely can't collapse for a 3rd game on the trot? playing Liverpool not ideal but a win in this one will give us a reason to forget the last week.
On Wednesday Man City play Everton which is pulled forward from League Cup Final weekend.

Tottenham v Newcastle
Brighton v Watford
Burnley v Southampton
Chelsea v Huddersfield
Crystal Palace v Fulham
Everton v Wolves
Cardiff v Bournemouth

Leicester v Man Utd
Man City v Arsenal

West Ham v Liverpool

Everton v Man City

Good Luck All :)

Premier Predictions (Week 24)

Midweek games this week, 6 on Tuesday 4 on Wednesday.
A few teams hoping to bounce back after crap Cup performances (mention no names).

Arsenal v Cardiff
Fulham v Brighton
Huddersfield v Everton
Wolves v West Ham
Man Utd v Burnley
Newcastle v Man City

Bournemouth v Chelsea
Southampton v Crystal Palace
Liverpool v Leicester
Tottenham v Watford

Good Luck All :)

F.A Cup Predictions 2019 (Part 2)

Second part of the Cup competition, the F.A Cup 4th Round.
Games spread over 4 days, 2 on Friday including Arsenal v Man Utd, 11 games on Saturday starting at 12:30 and West Ham away at Wimbledon at 7:45 in the evening, 2 games on Sunday, and the last non league side Barnet play on Monday.

Bristol City v Bolton
Arsenal v Man Utd
Accrington Stanley v Derby
Brighton v WBA
Doncaster v Oldham
Man City v Burnley
Middlesbrough v Newport
Newcastle v Watford
Portsmouth v QPR
Shrewsbury v Wolves
Swansea v Gillingham
Millwall v Everton
AFC Wimbledon v West Ham
Crystal Palace v Tottenham
Chelsea v Sheff Wed
Barnet v Brentford

Premier League games on Tuesday and Wednesday, will post again over the weekend.

Good Luck All  😃

Premier Predictions (Week 23)

8 Games on Saturday and 2 on Sunday.
Kane and Son will be gutted at missing the trip to Fulham where they should have grabbed a lot of goals? (Arnautovic to Tottenham for £100m? or he could go to China and win nothing there either).
City go to managerless Huddersfield and should win easily.
Liverpool take on bogey side Palace who currently look unlikely to repeat past heroics at Anfield.
West Ham v Bournemouth usually has a few goals, mostly offside ones from Bournemouth.

Wolves v Leicester
Bournemouth v West Ham
Liverpool v Crystal Palace
Man Utd v Brighton
Newcastle v Cardiff
Southampton v Everton
Watford v Burnley
Arsenal v Chelsea

Huddersfield v Man City
Fulham v Tottenham

Good Luck All 😁

Premier Predictions (Week 22)

Back to the League this week, 7 Games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and one on Monday.

Praying for a miracle in the first game with us having only won twice in the last 30 games against Arsenal and both of those were away from home 😨
The big 3 all have interesting games? Brighton capable of an upset, Man U now playing with confidence, Wolves totally unpredictable.

West Ham v Arsenal
Brighton v Liverpool
Burnley v Fulham
Cardiff v Huddersfield
Crystal Palace v Watford
Leicester v Southampton
Chelsea v Newcastle

Everton v Bournemouth
Tottenham v Man Utd
Man City v Wolves

Good Luck All  🙂

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F.A Cup Predictions 2019

It's that time again time for a break from the Premier League for a week, it's Season no.4 of the NBTF F.A Cup predictions Competition.  🏆 🏆 🏆
Totally separate from the Premier League competition, All welcome to join in 😃

Rules - 3 points for a correct score, 1 point for a correct result.
Scores after 90 minutes only (not including extra time and penalties).
Not including replays only first matches.

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 .. simple 😎
Part 1 - 32 Matches starting Friday, through to Monday 4th Jan to 7th Jan
Part 2 - 16 Matches around the Weekend of 26th Jan
Part 3 - 8 Matches around the Weekend of 16th Feb
Parts 4 -6 are all on Premier League weekends, so will decide at the time.

Enough of that, here are the games (Copy & Paste advised)

Tranmere v Tottenham
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Bournemouth v Brighton
Burnley v Barnsley
Man Utd v Reading
Sheff Wed v Luton
Shrewsbury v Stoke
WBA v Wigan
West Ham v Birmingham
Accrington Stanley v Ipswich
Aston Villa v Swansea
Bolton v Walsall
Brentford v Oxford Utd
Chelsea v Nottm Forest
Derby v Southampton
Everton v Lincoln
Fleetwood v AFC Wimbledon
Gillingham v Cardiff
Middlesboro v Peterboro
Blackpool v Arsenal
Bristol City v Huddersfield
Crystal Palace v Grimsby
Newcastle v Blackburn
Norwich v Portsmouth
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Fulham v Oldham
Man City v Rotherham
Millwall v Hull
Preston v Doncaster
QPR v Leeds
Sheff Utd v Barnet
Woking v Watford
Newport v Leicester
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Wolves v Liverpool

Good Luck All 😃

Premier Predictions (Week 18-19-20-21)

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Here we go with the Mega Christmas and New Year post, 4 game weeks in one post to help anyone out that might not be clear minded enough to post after the Christmas dinner :)
Post (comment) whenever you like before the kick off's.
If by chance games get snowed off (unlikely in this country) they won't be carried over, just reposted when they actually get played.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all 😃

Anyway here we go :)
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Week 18 (Friday 21st December to Sunday 23rd December)

Starts Friday, tricky away game for Liverpool.
Solskjaer's first game in charge following the sacking of "the Miserable one" is a trip to Cardiff where he was less than successful in his first try at managing in the Premier league.

Wolves v Liverpool

Arsenal v Burnley
Bournemouth v Brighton
Chelsea v Leicester
Huddersfield v Southampton
Man City v Crystal Palace
Newcastle v Fulham
West Ham v Watford
Cardiff v Man Utd

Everton v Tottenham
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Week 19 (Wednesday 26th December to Thursday 27th December)

Fulham v Wolves
Burnley v Everton
Crystal Palace v Cardiff
Leicester v Man City
Liverpool v Newcastle
Man Utd v Huddersfield
Tottenham v Bournemouth
Brighton v Arsenal
Watford v Chelsea

Southampton v West Ham
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Week 20 (Saturday 29th December to Sunday 30th December)

Brighton v Everton
Fulham v Huddersfield
Leicester v Cardiff
Tottenham v Wolves
Watford v Newcastle
Liverpool v Arsenal

Crystal Palace v Chelsea
Burnley v West Ham
Southampton v Man City
Man Utd v Bournemouth
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Week 21 (Tuesday 1st January 2019 to Thursday 3rd January)

Final game is the big one assuming both teams keep up their current form over Christmas.

Everton v Leicester
Arsenal v Fulham
Cardiff v Tottenham

Bournemouth v Watford
Chelsea v Southampton
Huddersfield v Burnley
West Ham v Brighton
Wolves v Crystal Palace
Newcastle v Man Utd

Man City v Liverpool
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A special NBTF F.A Cup Edition will appear sometime in the first week of January)

Good Luck All, and once again Merry Christmas ⚽ ⚽

Premier Predictions (Week 17)

Week 17 - 7 Games on Saturday and 3 on Sunday before the Christmas mayhem starts 🎅 🎄

Man City will be hoping their neighbours United do them a favour, as Liverpool have only managed one win in the last 10 meetings between the two?

Man City v Everton
Crystal Palace v Leicester
Huddersfield v Newcastle
Tottenham v Burnley
Watford v Cardiff
Wolves v Bournemouth
Fulham v West Ham

Brighton v Chelsea
Southampton v Arsenal
Liverpool v Man Utd

Good Luck All 🙂

Premier Predictions (Week 16)

No time for a break with 7 sets of fixtures this month.
8 Games on Saturday and one each on Sunday and Monday.
Chelsea v Man City could be a great game?

Bournemouth v Liverpool
Arsenal v Huddersfield
Burnley v Brighton
Cardiff v Southampton
Man Utd v Fulham
West Ham v Crystal Palace
Chelsea v Man City
Leicester v Tottenham
Newcastle v Wolves
Everton v Watford

Good Luck All :)

Premier Predictions (Week 14 + 15)

The first double week of the season.

Week 14 starts on Friday night, with 6 games on Saturday and 3 local derbies on Sunday.

Cardiff v Wolves
Crystal Palace v Burnley
Huddersfield v Brighton
Leicester v Watford
Man City v Bournemouth
Newcastle v West Ham
Southampton v Man Utd

Chelsea v Fulham
Arsenal v Tottenham
Liverpool v Everton

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Week 15 has 4 games on Tuesday and 6 on Wednesday.

Bournemouth v Huddersfield
Brighton v Crystal Palace
West Ham v Cardiff
Watford v Man City

Burnley v Liverpool
Everton v Newcastle
Fulham v Leicester
Wolves v Chelsea
Man Utd v Arsenal
Tottenham v Southampton

Predictions before kick off's and Good Luck To All 😁

Premier Predictions (Week 13)

Back again 😎
7 Games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and one on Monday.
The 3 unbeaten teams all have tricky away games, although I'm probably dreaming if I think we will get anything from Man City, but Tottenham could give Chelsea problems.
Fulham v Southampton is the big relegation game and welcome back to the Tinkerman 😀

Brighton v Leicester
Everton v Cardiff
Fulham v Southampton
Man Utd v Crystal Palace
Watford v Liverpool
West Ham v Man City
Tottenham v Chelsea
Bournemouth v Arsenal
Wolves v Huddersfield
Burnley v Newcastle


Good Luck All :)

England

England into the Nations Cup Semi Final's 😃
Brilliant result but didn't look likely until a great double substitution near the end bringing on Lingard and Sancho.
Bright start but we couldn't take the chances, and almost inevitable that Croatia would snatch the lead.
Dier and Walker still looking like liabilities and not really sure how Delph gets in the team?
Lingard didn't do much, just scored and cleared one off the line 😉
Sancho doesn't seem phased with anything at the moment and stepped right in and caused Croatia more problems at a time we were struggling.
Nice goal and a assist from Kane who didn't have the best of games but came alive at the vital moments.
At the end it's the result that matters and I'll take this 😀

Not So Pointless

Well I was wrong 😀
After a dodgy start in the Nations League, we suddenly have a chance of winning the group and going to a Semi Final against Portugal and France/Holland and Belgium/Switzerland in Portugal next year.
Thanks to Croatia's last minute winner against Spain we now have the chance to either win, stay or get relegated from the top league in Europe.
Hopefully we can avenge the World Cup defeat and grab a bit of glory?

Watched the USA friendly and thought we looked really good, even if it was against pretty poor opposition.
I think Rooney did very well when he came on and think it's a shame he wasted the last 2 years under Mourinho and Allardyce as he could of still have been a viable candidate for a place.
From what I've seen he's been playing really well for DC in the States.

So fingers crossed for this afternoon, it doesn't look like it's on the box but should be available on the net somewhere.