…never wide of the mark…
This week we welcomed back LS and depending on whether you are a glass half-full or a glass half-empty he presented us with the perfect opportunity to take a laugh at his score or prevented us from having another laugh at LJ’s expense!
Prognosticator of the Week
AB wins this week because he has the fortune of the letter A coming before J in a UK/US alphabetical sorting order.
Here are the picks without LJ and AA (who is “On it”)
Let’s try another joke:
I met a fairy today who granted me one wish. “I want to live forever,” I said.
“Sorry,” said the fairy, “I’m not allowed to grant wishes like that.”
“Fine,” I said, “I want to die when Watford win the premier league.”
Not funny. Works better with Spurs anyway.
Comments
LS: “Let’s give this a go. Hello. Hello. Hello. Wolves wolves wolves”
Welcome back. Let’s see how the Wolves do…
KMFE: ” 1-0 experiment mostly back 🙂 “
Good luck! And it will be luck 😉
ME: “Spurs on a must win mission… probably the same for the Gunners. “
Spurs are a solid top 4 and by that I mean definitely not in the top 2. On the bright side the stadium is nearly complete and should have test event in a couple of weeks.
ME: “Please be better than last set of predictions..sigh!”
You didn’t do that bad. Chin up.
The Picks
Good luck and hopefully something more interesting to read next time.
This mad rush of games combined with a hectic work schedule make keeping this site up to date more difficult than normal. It also means that I’m probably not as humourous as I would like to be. Here’s a tester joke to see how that theory goes:
Wouldn’t it be funny if Antonio Valencia had played for Valencia, David Villa had played for Aston Villa, and Danny Shittu had played for Spurs?
In real life there’s actually the guy who is his team (almost)
And the results:
Congrats to JE but given how much he claims to know about football (a lot) he should be finishing lower like LJ 🙂 Of course he claims he’s just guessing every week but I know for a fact that you all pore over the stats and make proper educated and calculated projections.
Special Note for LJ:
I know I said I would pick Hornets 3-0 over the mighty reds but I’m no fool!
This is one of those annoying Rounds of football that seems to stretch on-and-on. The Cityzens defeated the Toffeemen 2-0 over 2 weeks ago and the Chelsea game is still outstanding. Nonetheless I wanted to update the weekly picks and standing.
Weekly Comments
JE: ” Away this weekend so fingers crossed that we all win again in the family (apart from Tottenham and arsenal). So just me and you then really!! I hope we don’t lose to Liverpool. Would hate that…..”
Klopp may rather have been at “Thriller” than watching this “thriller”
KMFE: “Mark this day down in the annals of history: I AM ACTIVELY GOING FOR MANCHESTER UNITED. “
Marked!
BE: ” As I had Man City, Arsenal, Watford and Spurs all down for a win, I thought I had better do the same for Man Utd and hope de Gea is in form”
Seems that DDG didn’t need to be in form.
ME: “Need spurs to win!”
Tough to keep winning. I am slowly not hating the new offside rule but I hate the new offside rule. How you can stand in the six-yard box by the goalie and not interfere with play is beyond me. I think it’s time someone employed the Inzaghi style of play and just always stands offside preventing that high-line defense. I’m sure Poch is working on it.
That lad must have been born offside.
Sir Alex Ferguson
ME: “Chelsea may or may not turn up… “
I’m guessing not!
Weekly Summary
Watford had a good week with Deulofeu scoring the team’s first ever hat-trick in the Premier League. To put into perspective how good that it is, that’s 9% of Aguero’s total!
This weeks Watford survival gauge looks considerably better!
Coca-Cola, Rumbelows, Littlewoods, Milk Carabao Cup Final
Today’s big game was the EFL final between Chelsea and Man Citeh. We expected goals. we got none. We expected Sterling to choke, he didn’t. But nothing was as strange as the ending of an otherwise boring game.
On my last post (2 weeks ago) I forgot to post the picks… and since then my effort in posting updates has been almost Chelski-like.
Sarri:
“Well this group of Chelsea players are lazy. They are not going about their work in the right way. “
To solve that problem, Sarri has brought in another former player of his (is this a lazy strategy?). Higuain. A player he looked directly in the eyes at Napoli and said:
“You’re too lazy. If you don’t change your attitude, you won’t become the best centre forward in the world.”
Seems like a perfect fit!
I’m just going to try and do a bit better because I don’t have the money to splash around on a new humorist/writer/blogger/score maintainer!
Results for Last Week
Things are beginning to tighten up at the top as BE is beginning to render the ME/AM rivalry as a fight for distant 3rd and 4th!
So there was one game played this week that was a bit early. Good result for the Citizens away from home and 3 points that established them back at the top of the table. With Liverpool faltering and struggling to get a consistent defensive line it keeps things interesting. I admit that I wonder why Harry Enfield doesn’t play more and wonder even more what happens once The Ox comes back.
This week most of the picks are in – still waiting for a few. We did lose LS as a player this week but we’ll survive because he wasn’t very good at picking anyway! In all seriousness, I hope he just found a better way to spend his Friday’s than doing pick analysis.
Anyway, there are people that are late!
I can’t tell what time it is on that watch but it’s late.
Weekly Comments
JE: ” Watford will probably win but I thought Everton have been crap and they may have a result in them (by luck I reckon).”
I’m hoping for a win because us Watford fans don’t have much love for Everton:
And of course,more recently:
Of course this is a key game for Mr Sila. Seems the Evertonians have expectation that are above their station (perhaps aspiring to be Newcastle?). Another loss and it’s 5 in 6
AM: ” Funny how what I want to happen vs what I think may happen, can be so far apart! GGMU 🙂 “
Thought Wales would lose then, eh? 🙂 It hasn’t been so untrue recently. I think you pick the team in red to win every week don’t you? That’s not been bad in the league recently.
BE:” Nothing to do with predictions, but for our competitors in the USA, the prize jigsaw is of Warwick, UK the home town of BE . “
In the my last post I included a completed 2000 puzzle. That puzzle is Lord Leycester hospital. If you want your own copy there’s one on ebay.
ME: “Man Pretty will scrape home by 1 goal but it will be an easy victory.”
Yes, I’m sure that it will be a 1-0 thrashing?
ME: “Spurs will hammer Leicester…..hopefully:)”
1-0?
ME: “Watford to win again especially as Everton dislike their manager.”
I think you got this backwards – see earlier comment!
I was going to write up some predictions or do a post on Premier League financials but I will save that for another day.
Good Luck All.
Last week’s results.
Some bonkers results in there this week.
This Week’s Picks
I know I haven’t made much of an effort on my posts recently but you can blame that on my day job that has had me busy.
Changes can still be made up to the first kick-off.
Apparently there are games Wednesday too so I will get that form up so people can pick.
Not everyone picked yet but here is the current round. I’m travelling/working at the moment making it hard to make this a very exciting post.
This weeks picks are mostly in:
Watford are now just a few points from safety as this random chart shows.
Results
Looks like this was a good week for some. Three exacts for BE moved her well to the top of the table…..however, some people like JE seemed to lose his way but he doesn’t care because Man U keep winning!
Here are the results…. better late than never…..
It was looking like a solid win for BB until a Citeh 3-0 win jumped me up to tie for 1st! A better showing for KMFE and ME losing some overall points to AM.
Right now I’m hanging in like Watford and haven’t started the second half descent yet.
It didn’t help but I did love AA’s contribution..
