Matchdays 13 & 14: Some baptism to welcome back Rafa

Big story of the week, even bigger than Mertersacker's Messi-esque dribble, or Mexes' reedonculous overhead kick (seriously...when did centre backs learn to do these things?) is the utterly unsurprising news that Roberto DiMatteo has been sacked by Chelsea for not being Pep Guardiola. That's basically it, isn't it?

Abramovich couldn't not give him the job after he rather inconveniently went one better than Avram Grant (probably 'cos John Terry wasn't able to miss a penalty) but I think the world and his wife/civil partner knew full well that this would be hardly be the longest of relationships. That said....Chelsea are 4 points off top spot - they win on Sunday and that's 1 point, at the end of November! Whilst qualification in the CL is unlikely, it's by no means improbable that Shaktar and Juve will draw, and one would expect Chelsea to win at home against Nordsjaellend. If that's the case, has Abramovich sacked a guy for having a tiny wobble? At least AVB and Scolari got to perform poorly for a few months. He who pays the piper, calls the tune and all that, but you have to feel that this is poor PR for Roman.

What's that? PR is irrelevant when you can literally buy whoever you want? Ah well....to me footy then.

1st draft: NO RESULTS YET. Will be up this afternoon. Still no results from last week as I don't want to do them unless I can do them properly, and hopefully transferring all data across this week.

To my predictions this week:

Sunderland vs WBA - WBA
Everton vs Norwich - DRAW
Man Utd vs QPR - MAN UTD
Stoke vs Fulham - DRAW
Wigan vs Reading - WIGAN
Aston Villa vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Swansea vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL
Southampton vs Newcastle - SOUTHAMPTON
Chelsea vs Man City - DRAW
Spurs vs West Ham - WEST HAM

Total odds: 17,189/1 with PaddyPower

and the second set of predictions:

Sunderland vs QPR - DRAW
Aston Villa vs Reading - DRAW
Chelsea vs Fulham - CHELSEA
Everton vs Arsenal - DRAW
Southampton vs Norwich - NORWICH
Stoke vs Newcastle - DRAW
Swansea vs WBA - SWANSEA
Spurs vs Liverpool - DRAW
Man Utd vs West Ham - MAN UTD
Wigan vs Man City - MAN CITY

Total odds: 5919/1 with PaddyPower

Good luck guys