S7M8: and it was all orange

Seasons haven't really been a thing this year. The summer was pretty meh, and so far September and October have continued the meh. Dry meh, which is good, but wet meh isn't really meh. It's a whole other sound.

However, I've noticed that the leaves are changing now, and the evenings are shorter and this means I might have to break out a coat soon. This is all very interesting to everyone I'm sure, but the thing is that I haven't watched a minute of international football and couldn't really tell you what's happened over the last week. Obviously some teams have qualified for the World Cup in Russia next summer (which will probably be colder) but I'm basically ignoring that tournament as much as possible, along with the Qatar effort 5 years hence. It's all I can do as a fan to register my disgust at how the whole episode has been conducted.

This is a crying shame as one of my earliest football memories is the USA World Cup in 1994, with a Gary Lineker wall chart - I've mentioned this before elsewhere. Now the Impossibilibaby is here, he needs brainwashing in all things football. Courtesy of his aunt, he's got his first kit (loves the Iwobes) and there's no doubt he'll be immersed in the Gooner world should the world continue to exist (both Gooner and literal Planet Earth), but the World Cup in 2022 would be perfect for a nearly 5 year old to start getting stuck in via the modern iteration of a Gary Lineker wall chart. And because of the sheer arseholery of FIFA, and in fairness, the world in general in putting mammon ahead of all else, I've been robbed of that, and whilst he doesn't know it yet, so has he.

As John Betjeman might now write, "Come friendly bombs, fall on Qatar..."

Come for the predictions, stay for the depressing blog...

Not going to recap the results from the last PL weekend.

Let's get statty:

24 people played
Most popular predicted results: Man Utd & Arsenal WINS (24/24)
Most disputed result: WBA vs Watford & Chelsea vs Man City (5-9-10 & 10-9-5 split respectively)

Highest odds: AFM 15,300/1
Lowest odds: Doron Salomon 1165/1
Average odds: 5185/1

Best predictors: Matt Abbott, AFM & Ben Knight (7/10)
Worst predictors: Loads, (4/10)
Average score: 5.38/10

Best predicted results: Man Utd & Arsenal WINS (24/24)
Worst predicted result: Burnley WIN (1/24 - AFM gets the gold star)

Everyone's results:

Leaderboard (>2/3 weeks; 5/7)

To this week's predictions:

Liverpool vs Man Utd - MAN UTD
Burnley vs West Ham - BURNLEY
Crystal Palace vs Cheslea - CHELSEA
Man City vs Stoke - MAN CITY
Swansea vs Huddersfield - DRAW
Spurs vs Bournemouth - SPURS
Watford vs Arsenal - ARSENAL
Brighton vs Everton - BRIGHTON
Southampton vs Newcastle - NEWCASTLE
Leicester vs WBA - LEICESTER

Total odds: 1831/1

Good luck guys