Premier Predictions (Week 10)

Better late than never!! The weeks keep flying by without me noticing, 

although still buzzing after Wednesday nights match 😁  ⚒ 

7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and one on Monday this week.

Leicester v Arsenal
Burnley v Brentford
Liverpool v Brighton
Man City v Crystal Palace
Newcastle v Chelsea
Watford v Southampton
Tottenham v Man Utd

Norwich v Leeds
Aston Villa v West Ham
Wolves v Everton

Good Luck All  😀

Happy Halloween  🎃

Premier Predictions (Week 09)

Posting this early this week in case I forget in a football filled week.
It's another of those Friday night starts, with 6 games on Saturday and 3 on Sunday.
6 of the top 7 play each other this week, which is good news for Chelsea as they have Norwich at home.

Arsenal v Aston Villa

Chelsea v Norwich
Crystal Palace v Newcastle
Everton v Watford
Leeds v Wolves
Southampton v Burnley
Brighton v Man City

Brentford v Leicester
West Ham v Tottenham
Man Utd v Liverpool

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 08)

Back to business after another uninspiring International week.
7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and one on Monday night.
Opening game sees Ranieri back as Watford sack another manager, probably worth a bet he won't be there at the end of the season.
Big game of the week is probably the West London derby?

Watford v Liverpool
Aston Villa v Wolves
Leicester v Man Utd
Man City v Burnley
Norwich v Brighton
Southampton v Leeds
Brentford v Chelsea

Everton v West Ham
Newcastle v Tottenham
Arsenal v Crystal Palace

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 07)

All the games on Saturday and Sunday this week, ahead of another International break. 6 games Saturday, 4 games Sunday.
The big one in the title battle is on Sunday, Man City have had 3 away games in a week against top class opposition, great against Chelsea, rubbish against PSG and who knows against Liverpool? although if results go a certain way on Saturday both could be out of the top 4 before they play 😜

Man Utd v Everton
Burnley v Norwich
Chelsea v Southampton
Leeds v Watford
Wolves v Newcastle
Brighton v Arsenal

Crystal Palace v Leicester
Tottenham v Aston Villa
West Ham v Brentford
Liverpool v Man City

Good Luck All  😀

*hope this posts, as my internet speed has died today?*

Premier Predictions (Week 06)

7 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and one on Monday night.
The first game should help show who's going to be the title favourites this season, Chelsea looking really good so far, Man City a bit hit and miss so far.

Chelsea v Man City
Everton v Norwich
Leeds v West Ham
Leicester v Burnley
Man Utd v Aston Villa
Watford v Newcastle
Brentford v Liverpool
Southampton v Wolves
Arsenal v Tottenham
Crystal Palace v Brighton

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 05)

Quick turnaround this week with a Friday game.
6 games on Saturday and 3 more on Sunday.
Six of the top nine play on Sunday.


Newcastle v Leeds

Wolves v Brentford
Burnley v Arsenal
Liverpool v Crystal Palace
Man City v Southampton
Norwich v Watford
Aston Villa v Everton

Brighton v Leicester
West Ham v Man Utd
Tottenham v Chelsea

Good Luck All   😀

Premier Predictions (Week 04)

Back to normality after an extra busy international break, a lot of clubs not knowing whether their players will be available due to quarantines and bans for not going?
8 games on Saturday and one each on Sunday and Monday.
Euro games kick off next week so players could be rested making it a nightmare week for fantasy football managers.

Crystal Palace v Tottenham
Arsenal v Norwich
Brentford v Brighton
Leicester v Man City
Man Utd v Newcastle
Southampton v West Ham
Watford v Wolves
Chelsea v Aston Villa
Leeds v Liverpool
Everton v Burnley

Good Luck All  😀

Summer Transfers 2021

Summer 2021 transfer window now shut so here's where the Premier league cash was splashed this season.
(Info based on the best sources I could find, includes squad and youth players).
Overall spending is down from last season but still over a billion.
Many Undisclosed figures, but mainly for youth players so the figures shouldn't change much.

Arsenal the big spenders, but not sure those brought in will turn them into challengers (might keep them up) 😁
Man Utd have added a few decent players but not sure if they are good enough to challenge Man City and Chelsea.
Norwich have bought the most players in, which is a change of strategy from their last Premier league attempt.
Chelsea bringing in Lukaku looks the best signing of the summer.
West Ham have added some squad depth but didn't get a striker, wondering if Vlasic can be used there?
Everton only spent £1.8m but have picked up 3 decent players.

The Chart:

Total Spend - £1,263,439,000,000
Most Players In - Norwich 15, Aston Villa 14, Watford 13
Most Players Out - Watford 52, Chelsea 48, Man City 44
Most Money Paid - Arsenal £149.04m, Man Utd £126m, Man City £112.5m
Most Money Received - Chelsea £144.89m, Aston Villa £114.75m, Southampton £57.74m
Largest Profit - Chelsea £36.89m, Aston Villa £19.71m, Southampton £17.37m
Largest Defecit - Arsenal £121.23m, Man Utd £98.12m, Tottenham £73.28m

Largest Fees Paid (£20m +)

Jack Grealish [Aston Villa - Man City] £105.75m
Romelu Lukaku [Inter Milan - Chelsea] £103.5m
Jadon Sancho [Borussia Dortmund - Man Utd] £76.5m
Ben White [Brighton - Arsenal] £52.65m
Cristian Romero [Atalanta - Tottenham] £42.5m (Reported?)
Ibrahima Konate [RB Leipzig - Liverpool] £36m
Raphael Varane [Real Madrid - Man Utd] £36m
Tammy Abraham [Chelsea - Roma] £36m *
Emiliano Buendia [Norwich - Aston Villa] £34.56m
Danny Ings [Southampton - Aston Villa] £31.68m
Martin Odegaard [Real Madrid - Arsenal] £31.5m
Kurt Zouma [Chelsea - West Ham] £31.5m
Leon Bailey [Bayer Leverkusen - Aston Villa] £28.8m
Nikola Vlasic [CSKA Moscow - West Ham] £27m
Patson Daka [Red Bull Salzburg - Leicester] £27m
Joe Willock [Arsenal - Newcastle] £26.46m
Fikayo Tomori [Chelsea - AC Milan] £26.28m *
Daniel James [Man Utd - Leeds] £26.19m
Aaron Ramsdale [Sheff Utd - Arsenal] £25.20m
Bryan Gil [Sevilla - Tottenham] £22.5m
Emerson Royal [Barcelona - Tottenham] £22.5m
Marc Guehi [Chelsea - Crystal Palace] £21m
Enock Mwepu [RB Salzburg - Brighton] £20.7m

Oddest transfers?

Sima from Slavia Prague was being talked about as a £20m+ striker option for West Ham during the window? ends up signing for Brighton (who are short of strikers) for £9m who then loan him to Stoke for the season?

Former Hull, West Brom, Reading and Hi-De-Hi star Paul McShane signing for Man Utd.

Premier Predictions (Week 03)

This weeks games are on Saturday and Sunday before the first International break of the season.
England play 3 games in 7 days, Hungary (A), Andorra (H), Poland (A) so plenty of chances for injury and Covid.
7 games on Saturday and 3 on Sunday, with Chelsea going to Liverpool which should be interesting. The other 100%'ers all have home games.
"leaders" West Ham at home to relegation candidates Palace, it's hard as a lifelong Hammers fan to be over confident though 😁

Man City v Arsenal
Aston Villa v Brentford
Brighton v Everton
Newcastle v Southampton
Norwich v Leicester
West Ham v Crystal Palace
Liverpool v Chelsea

Burnley v Leeds
Tottenham v Watford
Wolves v Man Utd

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 02)

Week 2 Already
6 games Saturday, 3 games Sunday and one on Monday.
Early days, but Norwich getting a bad opening set of fixtures.


Liverpool v Burnley
Aston Villa v Newcastle
Crystal Palace v Brentford
Leeds v Everton
Man City v Norwich
Brighton v Watford

Southampton v Man Utd
Wolves v Tottenham
Arsenal v Chelsea

West Ham v Leicester


Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 01)

Premier League time again, so here we go with Premier Predictions 2021-22

Hopefully the regular players will be back and anyone reading this blog is welcome to join in at any point, just let me know a name and club supported so I can give you some colours.

T&C's - Usual rules apply

3 Points for a correct score, 1 Point for a correct result.

Predictions League will be decided on weekly wins first, if 2 or more people share a weekly win that will be classed as a draw, if at the end things are still level the total points for the season come into play. 

Predictions in the comments please 😀   

Obviously predictions will only count if they are made before the kick offs, please try and post the whole set at once (but I won't enforce it as these Friday night games catch everyone out including me).

Prizes - Just the admiration of everyone who plays 😎

Week 1 - Friday 13th August to Sunday 15th August 

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Brentford v Arsenal

Man Utd v Leeds
Burnley v Brighton
Chelsea v Crystal Palace
Everton v Southampton
Leicester v Wolves
Watford v Aston Villa
Norwich v Liverpool

Newcastle v West Ham
Tottenham v Man City

Good Luck All  😀

New Season (2021/2022)

These summer breaks get shorter every season.

Mad panic to set up Fantasy Football teams in time for Friday.

League set up for the Premier league game (FPL), so if anyone wants to join in the Auto code is Auto Join Link or manual code is srmc8x

 

Not going to bother setting up a league in the Telegraph game (TFF) as they seem to have taken all the fun out of that part of the game, but will probably enter a few teams of my own.

 

Season kicks off on Friday night, so if anyone is up for it I will be doing the Predictions league again.

Hopefully Biopunk, Paulo, Paul and Gibbo come back for another go, and anyone else who reads this is welcome to join in.

 

Obvious challengers for the title will be the 2 Manchester clubs, Chelsea and Liverpool.

Hopefully West Ham can build on last season and be in with a shout with Leicester, Leeds, Arsenal all in the mix?

I guess the 3 promoted teams might struggle along with Burnley, Palace and maybe even Wolves.

Big transfers seem to be back with Grealish (£105m), Sancho (£76m) leading the way and about 10 other £25m+ transfers already done.

Norwich have decided to spend this time to stay up with over £40m spent already, and 8 other teams already spending over £30m. Chelsea, Newcastle, Everton and West Ham yet to get the cheque book out.

Full transfers break down at the end of the window.

 

Looks like another season of Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday kick offs which is annoying, I miss just having Saturday and Sunday weekends.

 

Anyway hoping that it's a good season of footie 😀

 

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Euro 2021 Predictions (Part 5) The Final

Here we are, the Final
England's first major final for 55 years.
This is the 5th meeting in a major finals and Italy have won the first 4  😟

Final predictions - Gibbo has a 5 point lead.
Thanks Paul and Gibbo for playing along.

Italy v England

Good Luck All  😀

Euro 2021 Predictions (Part 4)

The Semi Finals, Tuesday and Wednesday
Getting exciting now 😁

Italy v Spain
England v Denmark


Good Luck All  😀

Euro 2021 Predictions (Part 3)

Just 7 games left, and 3 games needed to win the Trophy for one of the teams.
Quarter Finals are on Friday and Saturday.

Switzerland v Spain
Belgium v Italy
Czech Republic v Denmark
Ukraine v England

Predictions: Gibbo has a good lead but still 21 points possible.

Good Luck All   😀

Euro 2021 Predictions (Part 2)

Last 16 games start on Saturday 26th through till Tuesday 29th.

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


Wales v Denmark
Italy v Austria
Netherlands v Czech Republic
Belgium v Portugal
Croatia v Spain
France v Switzerland
England v Germany
Sweden v Ukraine

Good Luck All  😀

Euro 2021 Predictions (Part 1)

Well this seems to have sneaked up on me, games start at the end of this week.
As usual I will be hoping for England to do well, but won't be putting any money on them. A few odd decisions in the squad with Henderson being chosen over in form Lingard and Ward Prowse, and off form players like the injured Maguire, Mings and Sterling in ahead of Bamford, Watkins and Godfrey. Hopefully they prove me wrong.

The Euro 2021 Prediction competition.
Anyone welcome to join in on this (just leave a name, no anonymous).

Rules - 3 points for a correct score, 1 point for a correct result (comment before kick off's)
Scores after 90 minutes only (not including extra time and penalties) to avoid complaints.

A total of 51 games
Winner will be whoever scores the most at the end .. simple :)

Group Stages - Here
Round of 16 - Will post 24th June
Quarter Finals - Will post 30th June
Semi Finals - Will post 4th July
Final - Will post 8th July

First Set - Group Stages - (Copy and Paste)

(11/06/21 - 15/06/21)
Italy v Turkey
Wales v Switzerland
Denmark v Finland
Russia v Belgium
England v Croatia
North Macedonia v Austria
Netherlands v Ukraine
Scotland v Czech Republic
Slovakia v Poland
Spain v Sweden
Hungary v Portugal
Germany v France

(16/06/21 - 19/06/21)
Russia v Finland
Turkey v Wales
Italy v Switzerland
North Macedonia v Ukraine
Denmark v Belgium
Netherlands v Austria
Slovakia v Sweden
Croatia v Czech Republic
England v Scotland
Hungary v France
Germany v Portugal
Spain v Poland

(20/06/21 - 23/06/21)
Italy v Wales
Turkey v Switzerland
Netherlands v North Macedonia
Austria v Ukraine
Denmark v Russia
Finland v Belgium
England v Czech Republic
Scotland v Croatia
Spain v Slovakia
Sweden v Poland
Germany v Hungary
Portugal v France


Good Luck All  😀

End Of Season Round Up

All the facts and figures from the 2020/2021 Season

Honours List - 20/21 Season

Premier League
Champions - Man City
Champions League - Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea
Europa League - Leicester, West Ham
Mickey Mouse - Tottenham
Relegated - Fulham, West Brom, Sheff Utd

Championship
Champions - Norwich
Promoted - Watford, Brentford
Relegated - Wycombe, Rotherham, Sheff Wed

League One
Champions - Hull
Promoted - Peterborough, Blackpool
Relegated - Rochdale, Northampton, Swindon, Bristol Rovers

League Two
Champions - Cheltenham
Promoted - Cambridge Utd, Bolton, Morecambe
Relegated - Southend, Grimsby

National League
Champions - Sutton Utd
Promoted - TBD (One from Torquay, Stockport, Hartlepool, Notts Co)
Relegated - ?

F.A Cup - Leicester
League Cup - Man City
EFL Trophy - Sunderland
FA Trophy - Hornchurch
FA Vase - Warrington Rylands

Champions League - Chelsea
Europa League - Villarreal

Congratulations 

Brentford for promotion to the Premier league

Sutton United for making it into the league for the first time

Commiserations

My local team Southend for dropping out of the league  😢

 

 

Predictions League

Final Table (Complete)

 

 

Final Table If All The Guests Were Included In The Competition

 F.A Cup Predictions

A bit self serving, but congratulations to Me for a 2nd successive League and Cup double

seem to have finally got the hang of this after all these years

Fantasy Football

F.A Premier League Competition (FPL)

Congratulations to Mike who wins for the 2nd year on the trot, and led all season.

Personally a bad season, never higher than 3rd (kept leaving my best points scorers on the banch).

Telegraph Fantasy Football (TFF)

 

 

Congratulations to Dave who overtook all season leader Richard in the final week.

Not sure if I'll bother with this next season as they seem to have taken away most of the things that made it fun to play.

Although never really being in the running for the big prizes, they have taken away nearly all of those with just a few small prizes for Top 3, where I had won money for finishing in the top 20 before.

I did enjoy seeing how my little NBTF league did against the big multi leagues (usually getting a Top 50 placing), but the League of Leagues table was taken away this season. 😡

Think that covers everything?

On to the Euros before next season.

Premier Predictions (Week 38)

The final week of this shortened weird season.
Only European spots up for grabs.
Any 2 from Chelsea, Liverpool and Leicester for the Champions league.
West Ham need a point to guarantee Europa league, which would leave Tottenham, Everton, Arsenal and Leeds still in with a chance of the new Euro Mickey Mouse Tournament.
Possibly gets even more complicated if Chelsea finish 5th but win the Champions league???

Arsenal v Brighton
Aston Villa v Chelsea
Fulham v Newcastle
Leeds v West Brom
Leicester v Tottenham
Liverpool v Crystal Palace
Man City v Everton
Sheff Utd v Burnley
West Ham v Southampton
Wolves v Man Utd

Good Luck All  😀

They think it's all over....
Usually do a Euro Championships predictions, which kicks off on 11th June so not all over quite yet

Premier Predictions (Week 37)

Week 37 is 10 midweek games, 4 on Tuesday and 6 on Wednesday.
European spots still up for grabs.

Man Utd v Fulham
Southampton v Leeds
Brighton v Man City
Chelsea v Leicester

Everton v Wolves
Newcastle v Sheff Utd
Tottenham v Aston Villa
Crystal Palace v Arsenal
Burnley v Liverpool
West Brom v West Ham

Good Luck All  😀