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

Premier Predictions (Week 17+18+19)

Merry Christmas to all   🎅 🎄 🎅 🎄 🎅

Back to domestic Premier League football with a bang.
3 rounds of games in 11 days.
So it's going to be a triple bill to get us going again as matches are being played in 10 of those 11 days.
Post before kick off when you can.

Week 17
(Monday 26th December to Wednesday 28th December)
7 games Monday, 2 on Tuesday, 1 on Wednesday

Brentford v Tottenham
Crystal Palace v Fulham
Everton v Wolves
Leicester v Newcastle
Southampton v Brighton
Aston Villa v Liverpool
Arsenal v West Ham
Chelsea v Bournemouth
Man Utd v Nottm Forest
Leeds v Man City
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Week 18
(Friday 30th December to Sunday 1st January 2023)
2 games Friday, 6 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday

West Ham v Brentford
Liverpool v Leicester
Wolves v Man Utd
Bournemouth v Crystal Palace
Fulham v Southampton
Man City v Everton
Newcastle v Leeds
Brighton v Arsenal
Tottenham v Aston Villa
Nottm Forest v Chelsea
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Week 19
(Monday 2nd January to Thursday 5th January)
2 games Friday, 6 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday

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

Good Luck All  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 7)

Final piece of the 2022 World Cup

3rd Place Play Off - Saturday 17th

Croatia v Morocco

World Cup Final - Sunday 18th

Argentina v France

Thanks to Paulo, Gibbo and Paul for playing along
+
Good Luck All  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 6)

Always goes a bit flat once England are out but here are The Semi Finals

Tuesday 13th + Wednesday 14th December at 7pm

Croatia v Argentina
Morocco v France


Good Luck All  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 5)

The Quarter Finals

Friday 9th December and Saturday 10th December, 3pm and 7pm kick offs.

Croatia v Brazil
Netherlands v Argentina

Morocco v Portugal
France v England

Good Luck All  😀

Pele

Sad to hear that Pele is now receiving palliative care due to his cancer treatment not working.
So sometime in the near future we will have to say goodbye to possibly the world's greatest footballer. 😢

He was a star before I was born with World Cup wins in 1958 + 1962, but do remember him starring at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.
Memories of Huw Johns commentary "O Rei Pele".
Three of the most memorable moments in those finals were where Pele didn't score, the Banks save, the one where he put the ball one side of the keeper ran round him and shot and narrowly missed, and an effort from inside his own half which missed by inches.

Loads of brilliant goals, but always liked this one  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 4)

The last 16 round
Which are being played between Saturday 3rd December to Tuesday 6th December.
2 games per day with 3pm and 7pm kick offs. 

Reminder - To stop all confusion and arguments the prediction will be the score at the end of normal time (90 minutes + injury time). so draws are possible.
Extra time and Penalties will not count.

Netherlands v USA
Argentina v Australia
France v Poland
England v Senegal
Japan v Croatia
Brazil v South Korea
Morocco v Spain
Portugal v Switzerland

Good Luck All  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 3)

Here are the final round of group games which are being played between Tuesday 29th November to Friday 2nd December.
Games doubled up with 3pm and 7pm kick offs.

Ecuador v Senegal
Netherlands v Qatar
Iran v USA
Wales v England
Australia v Denmark
Tunisia v France
Poland v Argentina
Saudi Arabia v Mexico
Canada v Morocco
Croatia v Belgium
Costa Rica v Germany
Japan v Spain
Ghana v Uruguay
South Korea v Portugal
Cameroon v Brazil
Serbia v Switzerland


Good Luck All  😀

World Cup 2022 Predictions (Part 2)

Here are the next round of games which are being played between Friday 25th November to Monday 28th November.
Kicks off at 10am on Friday.

Wales v Iran
Qatar v Senegal
Netherlands v Ecuador
England v USA
Tunisia v Australia
Poland v Saudi Arabia
France v Denmark
Argentina v Mexico
Japan v Costa Rica
Belgium v Morocco
Croatia v Canada
Spain v Germany
Cameroon v Serbia
South Korea v Ghana
Brazil v Switzerland
Portugal v Uruguay

Good Luck All  😀