# UK football, season 2008/09, forecasts **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 7, 2008, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150 "2008-08-07T12:09:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 39
**Author:** ![Discordia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Discordia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Discordia)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/761 "2009-03-01T04:51:23Z")
Bendtner is _incredibly_ frustrating. He gets in great positions all the time but his first touch is so dreadful most of it goes to waste. Liverpool are trying to get into the fancy new Europa League, duh! ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/762 "2009-03-01T08:12:32Z")
Unfortunately Liverpool’s inability to beat Middlesboro’ means that the title has been handed to the red bastards of mould trafford ☹ Unless something happens like God intervening and putting a heavy dose of mockers on them. * * * Anyway: I went to see Rochdale play Grimsby yesterday and a very good game it was. Dale were 2 up after 12 mins thanks to goals by Rundle and Le-Fondre, after that Grimsby mounted an 11 man defence and the score stayed the same. The result means that Rochdale are now 2nd in div 2 and on course for automatic promotion. Up the Dale ---
**Author:** ![MJinks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@MJinks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MJinks)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/763 "2009-03-01T10:04:30Z")
Peterborough are determined to make things more difficult than they have to be. Every time it looks like they might get in to the automatic qualification spot; they go and lose to a mid table side. The only consolation is that the teams around them were playing each other so points were dropped. If the teams just below us win their games in hand then we’re only 3 points from leaving the play-off zone. Looks like someone needs to borrow their daddies hair dryer… ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/764 "2009-03-01T18:51:18Z")
Yes, in other news, I’m feeling pretty good, thanks to the last gasp strike by Leicester City away at the 2nd place Dons. Losing that game would have made things much harder on the Foxes, especially since MKD have two in hand still. But now I feel quite certain it’s going to be the Championship for City next year. With any luck, they will be back in the Premiership where they belong soon. In still other news, I see that MON’s teams still don’t know how to seal the deal against bottom-of-the-table clubs. I once did an extensive analysis of his teams at Leicester City that showed that, season in and season out, the difference between them and the top-five was the inability of MON’s teams to take nearly maximum points from the bottom third of the table. They always over-achieve against the top of the table competition, but they never quite seem to get down the concept that you put away the Stoke City’s of the world without letting them steal two points at the death of the game. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/765 "2009-03-01T19:28:28Z")
Has anyone notice how the once mighty have fallen? I refer of course to Hull City. At the start of the season they were sweeping all before them, grown men were whimpering and crying into their pints…not any more they aint. The Tigers are now just 3 pts of the drop, this must have come as an awful shock to Hull fans who at one time were dreaming of European football. Dream on babies, dream on ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/766 "2009-03-01T19:41:36Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > Has anyone notice how the once mighty have fallen? > > I refer of course to Hull City. At the start of the season they were sweeping all before them, grown men were whimpering and crying into their pints…not any more they aint. > > The Tigers are now just 3 pts of the drop, this must have come as an awful shock to Hull fans who at one time were dreaming of European football. > > Dream on babies, dream on surprised theres no comment bout your Hammers result, or your falling beneath the mighty Whites in the table… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/767 "2009-03-02T02:51:19Z")
Oh, and Manchester United are 1 down, three to go! \ ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/768 "2009-03-02T08:38:20Z")
> [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#): > > surprised theres no comment bout your Hammers result, or your falling beneath the mighty Whites > in the table… 🙂 Sod off:p ---
**Author:** ![MJinks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@MJinks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MJinks)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/769 "2009-03-02T13:29:31Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > Oh, and Manchester United are 1 down, three to go! \ Hey now, they have the World Club Cup, the Charity Shield and the Carling/League Cup. In Anfield that’s a treble! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/770 "2009-03-03T12:10:15Z")
Okay, let’s have some fun: Whose going down this year? Sadly, it looks increasingly like the Baggies, the Potters and the Tigers this year. If so, it’ll be an up and back year for all three. But just to add some flavor, and not make my prediction predictable, I’ll say: WBA Stoke Pompey ---
**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/771 "2009-03-03T21:14:22Z")
Relegated: WBA Middlesborough Liverpool\* \*This July, Alastair Darling, on behalf of the beleagured British tax payer, demands an immediate repayment of the £350 million RBS loan Gillette and Hicks took out to purchase the RS. Due to straitened financial circumstances for the two usurers, no repayment will be forthcoming and the club will be re-possessed by the British government. This will result in a 40-point deduction and relegation. The usual penalty is 20 pts but it will be doubled for Liverpool as everyone is just so sick and fucking tired of them and their football (these are facts!) ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/772 "2009-03-04T08:10:09Z")
WBA Middlesboro’ Stoke ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/773 "2009-03-05T07:35:23Z")
> [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#): > > or your falling beneath the mighty Whites > in the table… 🙂 You were saying? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/774 "2009-03-05T08:43:20Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > You were saying? 😉 Great result, especially away from home. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/775 "2009-03-05T09:16:01Z")
> [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#): > > Great result, especially away from home. Of course I now realise you were at home, still a good 3 points, but less surprising. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/776 "2009-03-05T15:01:31Z")
> [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#): > > Of course I now realise you were at home, still a good 3 points, but less surprising. But we were without our superstars in the forms of Bellamy, Robinho and Richards. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/777 "2009-03-05T18:20:06Z")
Which probably explains why you won… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/778 "2009-03-05T18:56:40Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > Which probably explains why you won… 😃 I personally don’t give a shit how we won, we did, and that suits me just fine ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/779 "2009-03-05T18:59:25Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > I personally don’t give a shit how we won, we did, and that suits me just fine As an Arsenal supporter I agree with this sentiment whole-heartedly! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/780 "2009-03-05T19:25:13Z")
Bah. The collapse is on. Good for you, **chowder**. I shall be drinking heavily for the rest of the season. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150.md?page=40)