S6M2: Starting Again in 3,2...

Last weekend, I sat down with a nice bottle of beer looking at the sun setting over the Mediterranean Sea and contemplated the start of the new season. The blog was prewritten and autopublished (Pogba technically completed the day after it went live) and my overriding emotion was one of utter apathy - speaking with my Gooner hat on, it's been a summer to forget, which followed a season to forget with followed another summer to forget. It's hard not to feel that Bill Murray's gonna show up some day at the Emirates.

Fortunately, the vagaries of foreign TV meant I saw bugger all last weekend, other than highlights of Arsenal vs Liverpool and the 2nd half of Chelsea vs West Ham. I did see Gary Lineker in his shorts, which was a disappointing cop out. If Tom Daley can be on primetime TV in his budgie-smugglers, I think Lineker should have done the same. So relying on the written word of others, it sounds like Leicester - Ngolo Kante = porous, Guardiola has arguably his toughest challenge ahead in rebuilding a heavyweight side out to seed, Man Utd are really going to challenge this year and Costa is still a filthy animal who should have seen red for a reckless tackle on Adrian when already booked.

The bloke next to me in the pub enquired as to the accuracy of my spectacle prescription when I made a comment to the above effect, but he was a Chelsea fan (you could tell because he was racist and used the disabled toilets inappropriately) so his opinion is worthless on this matter. The let off was made even worse when some generous defending gave Filthy Animal all the space in the world to score a winner.

Ba. Let's go with childhood rules and say that the first round is just a practice and doesn't count...

For the first time this season, let's get statty:

Matchday 1:

This week, 27 people played
Most popular predicted result: Man City WIN (27/27)
Most disputed result: Burnley vs Swansea (10-9-8 split)

Highest odds: Feneley 14994/1
Lowest odds: Josh Daniels 1132/1
Average odds: 6624/1

Best predictor: Matt Abbott on debut - 7/10 - Well done Matt & welcome!
Worst predictor: Joe Miller making his return after 4 years! 2/10 - Welcome back
Average score: 3.89/10 - a good pathetic start to the season!

Best predicted result: Man City WIN (27/27)
Worst predicted result: Hull WIN (1/27)

Everyone's results:

No leaderboard until after Matchday 3 #oldskl

To this week's predictions:

Man Utd vs Southampton - MAN UTD

Stoke vs Man City - MAN CITY

Swansea vs Hull - SWANSEA

Spurs vs Crystal Palace - SPURS

Watford vs Chelsea - CHELSEA

WBA vs Everton - EVERTON

Burnley vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL

Leicester vs Arsenal - DRAW

Sunderland vs Middlesborough - MIDDLESBOROUGH

West Ham vs Bournemouth - WEST HAM

Total odds: 832/1

Good luck guys, hopefully next week I'll have something to talk about! I'll also look to get the blog out on Wednesdays in future when there's a Friday game!