Category: Football

Despite games in hand for Spurs and ManU the top 4 look to have it sewn up this season. manC look the strongest with Liverpool second and then Chelsea. Will Arsenal keep their top 4 position? At the bottom it looks grim for Norwich and Newcastle (although maybe a half billion might change things?). Burnley re gritty, Watford have moments of inspiration, Leeds seem dogged by bad luck and injuries. Everton and Southampton are probably the fatal’ too good to go down’ whilst I suspect Brentford will take the plunge at the end of the season.

5 more postponements for the weekend. The FA will need to act soon before the disruption to the fixture list becomes unbalanced. Already we have seen no postponements for the top 3, whilst Spurs are already 3 games in arrears, Brentford and Burnley 2. The top clubs may have large enough squads, but with the African Nations Cup coming up there needs to be forward planning. It also needs to be set out clearly in advance to ensure fairness.

Why are women football teams always named women as a suffix? American sports use different suffix for different sports – we should do the same for womens’ sport.

The latest table shows the field bunching up. Harvey and Lola are catching up. With 16 points available for the winner each week the table can change rapidly.

		played		points
adam		14		126
kate		14		125
aaron		14		120
mart		14		117
garaeth		13		111
maz		14		104
jamjam		14		99
andy		14		98
john		14		96
archie		14		94
harvey		9		91
lola		9		78
di		10		67
gas		6		32

Bragging rights. Having wallowed at the bottom of our little league table for a while I am on a roll this week with 6 correct results including 3 correct scores out of the 8 games so far! Week 14 can be viewed here

In some ways next weekend is week 15, so week 14 is this mid week thing. So entry to this weeks mid – week bit is here and week 14 at the weekend will follow.

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So far we have only 2 correct scores Adam and Archie correctly getting 4-0 for Liverpool v Southampton. Most got Arsenal result correct but only a couple correctly forecast Villa win at CP (Will the Gerrard effect continue?). Are draws harder to predict? But 6 of us got Brighton v Leeds but only 3 got Norwich v Wolves. So 40% of games 0-0, of 70 predictions zero said 0-0?

Solskajaer is likely to be sacked any day soon.

He will get a hefty payoff and probably will never actually need to work again so no tears! 7th in the league and 6 points behind West Ham a European Championship place is still possible, but Utd may regret not having acted before the international break like Aston Villa and Norwich. Who would go to Utd? They have tried most types of manager in last 7 years. Their team has potential, but also too many who at present are not looking quite good enough. Rashford and McTominey may look elsewhere to develop their skills, Pogba whilst consistently one of their best players has not shown the leadership qualities of a Gerrard, Lambert or Terry. In fact this is probably their biggest problem – lack of leadership.