Wednesday 10 August 2011

It's here - LIVE, after the break!


Ok, so in hindsight, starting a blog with a primary focus on football in the immediate period after the season finished wasn't the optimum timing...

However, hang all that now - the summer has been and gone, all 3 days of it. We've sat through hundreds of hours of reporters from SSN "understanding" knowledge of deals that are agreed, read thousands of words from "journalists" regurgitating rubbish off blogs and if you've been a Liverpool fan, enjoyed the feeling of a new signing or 5.

For us in the Red half of North London, it's been a particularly stressful break - we have signed 3 young lads to be firmly put in the box marked "Carling Cup/Future" and (an admittedly decent looking) Gervinho. However, the 2 soap operas of Cesc (perennial) and Nasri (hardly surprising) have been the main focus, much of it negative. The failure to bolster the traditional problem area of CB has meant that the tension that has enveloped much of the Emirates over the last few seasons hasn't dissipated with the optimism of a new season, as shown by the boos at a pre-season friendly...

Anyway, the point is, that all of this anticipation is about to be put to rest. In approximately 74 hours time, 3 referees in London and 3 referees in the Northwest will put their shiny new whistles to their lips and start the 2011/2012 Premier League season, and with it, kick off the new Impossibilitee game.

The rules are fairly simple: 1p accumulator bet for all the PL matches (Win/Draw/Lose) that weekend - and we try to see if anyone is any good at these things... (If people need greater insight into the rules, then more info here http://impossibilitee.blogspot.com/2011/05/rules-of-game.html)

My bets (with PaddyPower if anyone cares) are as follows:

Blackburn vs Wolves - DRAW
Fulham vs Villa - FULHAM
Liverpool vs Sunderland - LIVERPOOL
QPR vs Bolton - BOLTON
Spurs vs Everton - DRAW (*Update: Postponed)
Wigan vs Norwich - DRAW
Newcastle vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Stoke vs Chelsea - CHELSEA
WBA vs Man Utd - MAN UTD
Man City vs Swansea -MAN CITY

1p will net £24.34 should that come in - not a princely sum, but a nice little earner!

So basically, get involved! Use comments below to add your bets, and hopefully (if I can work out the techy bit) then in a few weeks, I'll create some kind of table/graph so we can see who the top and bottom predictors/gamblers are...

Please feel free to repost/RT as necessary - let have as many people involved as possible...

Looking forward to it....best of British to everyone!

**UPDATE**
If you have trouble posting in the comments, then post as anonymous and put your name in the post. I've got my best techy people working on it....but as that's me, it might take a while to sort out!

Follow me @ccdaniels65 on Twitter for more...

7 comments:

Naph said...

Here's my lot:

Blackburn vs Wolves - WOLVES
Fulham vs Villa - DRAW
Liverpool vs Sunderland - LIVERPOOL
QPR vs Bolton - QPR
Wigan vs Norwich - DRAW
Newcastle vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Stoke vs Chelsea - CHELSEA
WBA vs Man Utd - MAN UTD
Man City vs Swansea -MAN CITY

Odds a pitiful 905/1.

Sam Ruback said...

Blackburn vs Wolves - WOLVES
Fulham vs Villa - FULHAM
Liverpool vs Sunderland - LIVERPOOL
QPR vs Bolton - DRAW
Spurs vs Everton - n/a
Wigan vs Norwich - WIGAN
Newcastle vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Stoke vs Chelsea - DRAW
WBA vs Man Utd - MAN U
Man City vs Swansea - CITY

MPN87 said...

Blackburn vs Wolves - WOLVES
Fulham vs Villa - VILLA
Liverpool vs Sunderland - LIVERPOOL
QPR vs Bolton - DRAW
Spurs vs Everton - n/a
Wigan vs Norwich - WIGAN
Newcastle vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Stoke vs Chelsea - DRAW
WBA vs Man Utd - MAN U
Man City vs Swansea - CITY

Dan Davis said...

Blackburn vs Wolves - BLACKBURN
Fulham vs Villa - VILLA
Liverpool vs Sunderland - LIVERPOOL
QPR vs Bolton - DRAW
Wigan vs Norwich - WIGAN
Newcastle vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Stoke vs Chelsea - DRAW
WBA vs Man Utd - DRAW
Man City vs Swansea - MAN CITY

Ryan Wain said...

Good blog mate. Here's mine:

Blackburn vs Wolves - BLACKBURN
Fulham vs Villa - Villa
Liverpool vs Sunderland - LIVERPOOL
QPR vs Bolton - QPR
Wigan vs Norwich - WIGAN
Newcastle vs Arsenal - DRAW
Stoke vs Chelsea - CHELSEA
WBA vs Man Utd - DRAW
Man City vs Swansea - MAN CITY

Odds are 1957.92/1

If it wins I'll go mental as I haven't put it on.

Will O'Doherty said...

Blackburn vs Wolves - WOLVES
Fulham vs Villa - DRAW
Liverpool vs Sunderland - LIVERPOOL
QPR vs Bolton - QPR
Wigan vs Norwich - DRAW
Newcastle vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Stoke vs Chelsea - DRAW
WBA vs Man Utd - DRAW
Man City vs Swansea - MAN CITY

Hesham Zakai said...

The trick is to throw a few dodgeballs in, as everyone knows that nothing ever goes to plan.

Blackburn vs Wolves - BLACKBURN
Fulham vs Villa - FULHAM
Liverpool vs Sunderland - LIVERPOOL
QPR vs Bolton - QPR
Spurs vs Everton - SPURS (*Update: Postponed)
Wigan vs Norwich - WIGAN
Newcastle vs Arsenal - NEWCASTLE
Stoke vs Chelsea - DRAW
WBA vs Man Utd - MAN UTD
Man City vs Swansea -MAN CITY