UK football, season 2008/09, forecasts

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!

Unfortunately Liverpool’s inability to beat Middlesboro’ means that the title has been handed to the red bastards of mould trafford :frowning:

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

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…

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.

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… :slight_smile:

Oh, and Manchester United are 1 down, three to go! <lol>

Sod off:p

Hey now, they have the World Club Cup, the Charity Shield and the Carling/League Cup. In Anfield that’s a treble!

:wink:

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

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!)

WBA
Middlesboro’
Stoke

You were saying? :wink:

Great result, especially away from home.

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.

Which probably explains why you won… :smiley:

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! :slight_smile:

Bah. The collapse is on.

Good for you, chowder. I shall be drinking heavily for the rest of the season.