Well I'm back to this freezing miserable land where I was drenched with rain before I'd got into the terminal from the stairs. Like 40 metres. What's the deal with that? Dinosaur typing and no jettys. I also missed the ECI predictions again, so if anyone knows them, it would be great it they had an archive sorted...
Let's chat...
I have no idea what happened in football other than Liverpool have won the league and Arsenal are trash who refuse to pull the trigger on their trash manager. Feel free to fill in whatever blanks you like. Think there was international football of no significance but couldn't tell you anything about it other than England *surprisingly* qualified for a tournament that they may have already qualified for if I understood how the Nations League worked.
***HOLD THE PRESSES*** (Ed: Idiot. You just edit the blog after publishing)
Wowsers. Who saw the Poch news coming? I mean yeah he's been moaning for ages and results and performances haven't been great, and it's felt like a breakup was in the offing but didn't see that coming this week. My initial reaction was one of joy. He's a great coach and created something special that will be tough for anyone else, let alone Mourinho to replicate. That's a quite frankly ludicrous appointment where you've taken an older prototype of the Poch model without the emotional buy-in, with loads of narcissism and paid him double. Plus no doubt transfer backing and if that's the case, why not buy players for Poch in the last 2 years. Unless there's a big sale coming - which could only be Kane or Son - but that's a squad that probably needs 5 or 6 new names so let's see how that pans out.
My more considered reaction is that this is further evidence to my theory that managers have a 10 year era to hit their peak, and then they get overhauled. The exception to this was Ferguson, although 1) different football era and 2) he was a tactical chameleon and refreshed his backroom staff with many other coaches don't do - they come as a coaching unit - his strength was man management more than tactical rigour. Poch has peaked as a coach - his ideas aren't fresh. That's not to say they can't be successful - a better resourced squad might help, but there's an internal fatigue and an external "working out" that occurs and I think that point came at Spurs last year. The CL campaign was a final hurrah as a sticking plaster and he probably should have gone in the summer. Let's see how he does after a break on his estancia to recharge and I'm sure he'll end up somewhere decent. Like N5. #EmeryOut
Okey dokey, let's double stat recap:
Matchday 11:
This week, 26 people played
Most popular predicted result: Man City WIN (26/26)
Most disputed predicted result: Everton vs Spurs (5-7-14 split respectively)
Highest odds: AFM (2691/1)
Lowest odds: Aron Kleiman (311/1)
Average odds: 1118/1
Best predictors: Nick Taylor-Collins, David Brickman & WhoScored.com (7/10)
Worst predictor: Hillel Chemel (3/10)
Average score: 4.27/10
Best predicted result: Man City WIN (26/26)
Worst predicted result: Arsenal vs Wolves DRAW & Newcastle WIN (1/26 - Will O'Doherty & Jeremy Godley respectively with the plaudits)
Matchday 12:
This week, 25 people played
Most popular predicted result: Chelsea WIN (25/25)
Most disputed predicted result: Newcastle vs Bournemouth (8-10-7 split retrospectively)
Highest odds: AFM (5722/1)
Lowest odds: Josh Daniels (1862/1)
Average odds: 3509/1
Best predictor: Ryan Wain (8/10)
Worst predictor: Joe Abbott (3/10)
Average score: 5.72/10
Best predicted result: Chelsea WIN (25/25)
Worst predicted result: Spurs vs Sheff Utd DRAW (3/25)
Everyone's results:
Leaderboard (>2/3 weeks, 9/12)
To this week's predos:
Good luck all!
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