Wednesday, 28 September 2016

S6M7: Gaiety

One of the problems with writing a blog post 30-something weeks of the year for 5 years is that I can't really remember everything I've written. I'm pretty sure I've talked before about my pity for those who don't get "sports" and the wonderful spectrum of emotions that can only be unleashed by proper psychological investment in the contest.

Well, this week was one of those weeks. I can't pretend like I got any joy from watching Man Utd finally drop Rooney 3 years too late and start picking up some form. I absolutely took immense pleasure in the Benteke injury time winner condemning Sunderland to (yet another) defeat, thus sparking a Moyesian meltdown in the post-match interview & also edging closer to my suspicion that Sunderland will finish the season with a single point. They really are awful. I watched gleefully as a very poor Chelsea side were dismantled by a rampant Arsenal team that really wouldn't have been flattered by a couple more goals added onto their side of the scoreline. And then West Ham (see last week's blog) losing at home was also a smile from the universe. 

What else? Stoke giving up 2 points late on was amusing, and good on Bournemouth for finally getting a good result this year. Difficult second album and all that. Liverpool & City look ominous in an attacking sense, but City have the advantage in that they also believe in the part of the game revolving around defending. 10/10 for Guardiola so far. Spurs have also got off to their best start to a league campaign since the 1950s which is very nice for them. In the Monday fixture, Dyche got his revenge over Watford, with a 2-0 victory at Turf Moor.

And in breaking news as I write this...Allardici has had his wonderful karmic come-uppance and been sacked (jumped before pushed wtvr) from his dream job as England manager for frankly, being venal and corrupt. The fawning over him from the pundits on the Champions League coverage is nauseating. He's tried to earn a quick buck in a dodgy fashion and had his hand well and truly caught in the cookie jar. Couldn't have happened to a nicer walrus. God knows who the PFM media will now trumpet as the next heir annointed. For my money, we should give Keegan another bash. He was good at Euro 2000. According to Facebook, I'm also only 1 degree of separation from one of the Telegraph journos who did this whole thing - so if they're reading this, well done them and if you ever play Impossibilitee you get a special prize...

'Nuff of that. Let's get statty:

This week, 26 people played
Most popular predicted results: Man City & Liverpool WINS (26/26)
Most disputed result: West Ham vs Southampton (10-8-8 split)

Highest odds: Josh Daniels 7725/1
Lowest odds: Steven Daniels 2130/1
Average odds: 4148.1

Best predictors: Loads of ya (7/10)
Worst predictor: Aron Kleiman & Yo Abbott (3/10)
Average score: 5.62/10

Best predicted results:  Man City & Liverpool WINS (26/26)
Worst predicted result: Bournemouth WIN (2/26)

Everyone's results:


To the leaderboard (>2/3; 5/6)



This week's predictions:

Everton vs Crystal Palace - CRYSTAL PALACE
Swansea vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL
Hull vs Chelsea - CHELSEA
Sunderland vs WBA - WBA
Watford vs Bournemouth - DRAW
West Ham vs M'Boro - DRAW
Man Utd vs Stoke - MAN UTD
Leicester vs Southampton - LEICESTER
Spurs vs Man City - DRAW
Burnley vs Arsenal - ARSENAL

Total odds: 4626/1

Good luck guys

17 comments:

David Sil said...

Everton vs Crystal Palace - EVERTON
Swansea vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL
Hull vs Chelsea - CHELSEA
Sunderland vs WBA - WBA
Watford vs Bournemouth - WATFORD
West Ham vs M'Boro - DRAW
Man Utd vs Stoke - MAN UTD
Leicester vs Southampton - LEICESTER
Spurs vs Man City - DRAW
Burnley vs Arsenal - ARSENAL

Steven said...

Everton vs Crystal Palace - EVERTON
Swansea vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL
Hull vs Chelsea - DRAW
Sunderland vs WBA - WBA
Watford vs Bournemouth - WATFORD
West Ham vs M'Boro - DRAW
Man Utd vs Stoke - MAN UTD
Leicester vs Southampton - SOUTHAMPTON
Spurs vs Man City - DRAW
Burnley vs Arsenal - ARSENAL

Total odds: 5312/1
Min 496/1
Max 13,557321/1

RDM

Everton vs Crystal Palace - DRAW
Swansea vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL
Hull vs Chelsea - CHELSEA
Sunderland vs WBA - WBA
Watford vs Bournemouth - WATFORD
West Ham vs M'Boro - WEST HAM
Man Utd vs Stoke - MAN UTD
Leicester vs Southampton - LEICESTER
Spurs vs Man City - SPURS
Burnley vs Arsenal - ARSENAL

Total odds: 1349/1

Joe Abbott said...

Everton vs Crystal Palace - Everton
Swansea vs Liverpool - Liverpool
Hull vs Chelsea - Chelsea
Sunderland vs WBA - Draw
Watford vs Bournemouth - Watford
West Ham vs M'Boro - West Ham
Man Utd vs Stoke - Man Utd
Leicester vs Southampton - Draw
Spurs vs Man City - Man City
Burnley vs Arsenal - Arsenal

David B said...

Everton vs Crystal Palace - EVERTON
Swansea vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL
Hull vs Chelsea - CHELSEA
Sunderland vs WBA - DRAW
Watford vs Bournemouth - WATFORD
West Ham vs M'Boro - DRAW
Man Utd vs Stoke - MAN UTD
Leicester vs Southampton - LEICESTER
Spurs vs Man City - MAN CITY
Burnley vs Arsenal - ARSENAL

Sam Ruback said...

Everton vs Crystal Palace - EVERTON
Swansea vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL
Hull vs Chelsea - CHELSEA
Sunderland vs WBA - SUNDERLAND
Watford vs Bournemouth - WATFORD
West Ham vs M'Boro - WEST HAM
Man Utd vs Stoke - MAN UTD
Leicester vs Southampton - LEICESTER
Spurs vs Man City - MAN CITY
Burnley vs Arsenal - ARSENAL

Unknown said...

Everton vs Crystal Palace - EVERTON
Swansea vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL
Hull vs Chelsea - CHELSEA
Sunderland vs WBA - WBA
Watford vs Bournemouth - WATFORD
West Ham vs M'Boro - DRAW
Man Utd vs Stoke - MAN UTD
Leicester vs Southampton - LEICESTER
Spurs vs Man City - SPURS
Burnley vs Arsenal - ARSENAL

Doron said...

Everton vs Crystal Palace - EVERTON
Swansea vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL
Hull vs Chelsea - CHELSEA
Sunderland vs WBA - DRAW
Watford vs Bournemouth - WATFORD
West Ham vs M'Boro - WEST HAM
Man Utd vs Stoke - MAN UTD
Leicester vs Southampton - DRAW
Spurs vs Man City - DRAW
Burnley vs Arsenal - ARSENAL

1127/1

Matt Abbott said...

Everton vs Crystal Palace - EVERTON
Swansea vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL
Hull vs Chelsea - CHELSEA
Sunderland vs WBA - WBA
Watford vs Bournemouth - BOURNEMOUTH
West Ham vs M'Boro - WEST HAM
Man Utd vs Stoke - MAN UTD
Leicester vs Southampton - DRAW
Spurs vs Man City - MAN CITY
Burnley vs Arsenal - ARSENAL

Menachem said...

Everton vs Crystal Palace - Everton
Swansea vs Liverpool - Liverpool
Hull vs Chelsea - Chelsea
Sunderland vs WBA - Draw
Watford vs Bournemouth - Draw
West Ham vs M'Boro - West Ham
Man Utd vs Stoke - Man Utd
Leicester vs Southampton - Draw
Spurs vs Man City - Man City
Burnley vs Arsenal - Arsenal

David dinkin said...

Everton vs Crystal Palace - Everton
Swansea vs Liverpool - Liverpool
Hull vs Chelsea - Chelsea
Sunderland vs WBA - Draw
Watford vs Bournemouth - Watford
West Ham vs M'Boro - Draw
Man Utd vs Stoke - Man Utd
Leicester vs Southampton - Leicester
Spurs vs Man City - Draw
Burnley vs Arsenal - Arsenal

Dagmar said...

Everton vs Crystal Palace - Everton
Swansea vs Liverpool - Liverpool
Hull vs Chelsea - Chelsea
Sunderland vs WBA - West Brom
Watford vs Bournemouth - Watford
West Ham vs M'Boro - West Ham
Man Utd vs Stoke - Man U
Leicester vs Southampton - Draw
Spurs vs Man City - Draw
Burnley vs Arsenal - Arsenal

Jonny A said...

Everton vs Crystal Palace - Everton
Swansea vs Liverpool - Liverpool
Hull vs Chelsea - Chelsea
Sunderland vs WBA - Draw
Watford vs Bournemouth - Draw
West Ham vs M'Boro - Draw
Man Utd vs Stoke - Man U
Leicester vs Southampton - Leicester
Spurs vs Man City - Draw
Burnley vs Arsenal - Arsenal

Tarek said...

Everton vs Crystal Palace - EVERTON
Swansea vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL
Hull vs Chelsea - CHELSEA
Sunderland vs WBA - WBA
Watford vs Bournemouth - DRAW
West Ham vs M'Boro - DRAW
Man Utd vs Stoke - MAN UTD
Leicester vs Southampton - LEICESTER
Spurs vs Man City - DRAW
Burnley vs Arsenal - ARSENAL

Joshua Daniels said...


Everton vs Crystal Palace - Draw
Swansea vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL
Hull vs Chelsea - Hull
Sunderland vs WBA - WBA
Watford vs Bournemouth - Watford
West Ham vs M'Boro - Boro
Man Utd vs Stoke - MAN UTD
Leicester vs Southampton - Southampton
Spurs vs Man City - City
Burnley vs Arsenal - ARSENAL

14623/1

Nick jones said...

Everton vs Crystal Palace - Everton
Swansea vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL
Hull vs Chelsea - Chelsea
Sunderland vs WBA - Draw
Watford vs Bournemouth - Draw
West Ham vs M'Boro - west ham
Man Utd vs Stoke - MAN UTD
Leicester vs Southampton - Southampton
Spurs vs Man City - City
Burnley vs Arsenal - ARSENAL

Feneley said...

AF

Today one of the awfulpaedic surgeons was wearing Spurs lanyard. I thought they didn't like having dirty things in theatre?

Everton vs Crystal Palace - EVERTON
Swansea vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL
Hull vs Chelsea - CHELSEA
Sunderland vs WBA - DRAW
Watford vs Bournemouth - WATFORD
West Ham vs M'Boro - WEST HAM
Man Utd vs Stoke - MAN UTD
Leicester vs Southampton - LEICESTER
Spurs vs Man City - MAN CITY
Burnley vs Arsenal - ARSENAL

432/1

AFM

Everton vs Crystal Palace - EVERTON
Swansea vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL
Hull vs Chelsea - HULL
Sunderland vs WBA - SUNDERLAND
Watford vs Bournemouth - WATFORD
West Ham vs M'Boro - DRAW
Man Utd vs Stoke - DRAW
Leicester vs Southampton - LEICESTER
Spurs vs Man City - SPURS
Burnley vs Arsenal - ARSENAL

11958/1

Feneley said...

Richard, I'm on call this weekend so need to get the predictions in for w/e beginning 15th Oct early.

AF

Chelsea vs Leicester - CHELSEA
Arsenal vs Swansea - ARSENAL
Bournemouth vs Hull - DRAW
Man City vs Everton - MAN CITY
Stoke vs Sunderland - STOKE
West Brom vs Spurs - SPURS
Crystal Palace vs West Ham - WEST HAM
Middlesborough vs Watford - WATFORD
Southampton vs Burnley - SOUTHAMPTON
Liverpool vs Man Utd - MAN UTD

1727/1

AFM

Chelsea vs Leicester - LEICESTER
Arsenal vs Swansea - ARSENAL
Bournemouth vs Hull - BOURNEMOUTH
Man City vs Everton - MAN CITY
Stoke vs Sunderland - DRAW
West Brom vs Spurs - SPURS
Crystal Palace vs West Ham - CRYSTAL PALACE
Middlesborough vs Watford - WATFORD
Southampton vs Burnley - SOUTHAMPTON
Liverpool vs Man Utd - LIVERPOOL

1923/1