UK football, season 2008/09, forecasts

The Game Room
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And so it begins, today August 16th 2008.

The start of a full league programme (apart from City who play tomorrow)

Hordes of blue shirted men surging forward relentlessly, contemptously brushing aside the efforts of the opposition who are desperately trying to stem the tide of attacking men in blue.

To no avail

With a determination born of pride in the shirt they wear they pour forward intent on crushing all before them. Urged on by the thousands of supporters they are unstoppable in their advance towards the oppositions goal, the goalkeeper is overawed at this display of attacking football, he groans, the ball flies past him into the net…just one of many yet to come.

Well enough about Everton.

Please, if there is a God, he’ll smile on Manchester City tomorrow and with his guidance we may only lose by a couple of goals.

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well, that went OK. Apparently paddy power are already paying out bets on Stoke to be relegated!

our shiny new 11 million striker is on the sheet firat game, which takes the pressure off, just a shame we conceded one at the death.

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With Keane next to Torres, I have high hopes for Liverpool. But it’s 12 minutes into Sun’land, and they look pretty flat.

And as long as the Bhoys finish on top of the Rangers, I’ll be happy, even if they finish 11th!

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I just opened this thread to say the exact same thing! What on earth is up with Liverpool today? They look like they have flown halfway across the world and spent the night out drinking .

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Bolton top of the Prem?

“I don’t beleeeeive it” (Victor Meldrew voice)

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Well, the Reds nip the winner anyway through Torres. Keane off at the time, and notice that they had to put Xabi on to get anything going. Sometimes, you cannot make a team be what it isn’t. :smiley:

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Aston Villa 4 Manchester City 2

Fuckety fuck :frowning:

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And Bojinov now out a further 6 months injuring himself in the warm-up. It’s so City you just have to laugh.

I was taken aback by the score. I thought 4-0.

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Mind you, having given it some thought it appears the master plan is working…only to bloody well unfortunately

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Yea - we’ll just cruise the Championship next season, or whatever it is the old Division Two will be calling itself by then. The Intergalactic Super Mega League probably.

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I was happy with the Arsenal result - it was a scrappy win, something we need to do more this season. Nasri looks like a quality player.

Also, based on the massive data sample that is the first day of the season I predict that the final table (or at least the parts people care about) will be as follows:

  1. Chelsea
  2. Arsenal
  3. Man Utd
  4. Fernando Torres
  5. Aston Villa
  6. Everton
  7. Portsmouth
  8. Tottenham
  9. Blackburn
  10. West Ham
    (…)
  11. Man City
  12. Hull City
  13. Fulham
  14. Stoke City

That Tottenham performance cheered me right up as well:

“Okay boss lets go through the list! Strikers?”

“Yup! Got some of them!”

“Goalie?”

“Check!”

“Midfielders?”

“Check!”

“Defenders?”

“Who?”

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               "Well we got Richards"

Bolding mine and referring to the Mighty MCFC

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I’ve waited ages to post this and having just returned from holiday this is my chance.

I, for one, welcome our new Arabian Overlords:cool:

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City might grow up to be a real football club, after all. :wink: :smiley:

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I wonder if the sheik will dig up those pagan crystals burined in the pitch.

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Well if he did he’d probably strike oil which would make City even richer:p

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Well despite the presence of our Brazilian stars, one of whom, ROBINHO, scored the first goal, we still managed to get beat 3-1.

No matter, this is merely a minor glitch in our plans to lull the rest of the premiership into a false sense of security.

He said, more in hope than expectation

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Today is truly a beautiful day.

And we should play Babel more often.

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I watched the second half of that game. City were totally outclassed by Chelsea. Unlike the fight that Newcastle finally managed to drag up out of their boots to make a game of their disaster, City never seemed to get it together.

It’s too bad, too, because City had some decent players on the pitch. I have always been a fan of Shaun Wright-Phillips; he plays with energy and it isn’t the stupid wasteful sort that gets displayed by that grinning idiot Diouf, but rather purposeful and helpful and uplifting. I thought Dietmar Hamann was doing decently, and Robinho was obviously a handful for the Chelsea defenders.

But what the hell is up with Ireland? He simply refused to attempt one-time shots, shots from open spaces, shots from outside the box, hell, shots of much of any type. It was so refreshing to see Sturridge shoot the damn ball from the only real chance he had; if Ireland had been there, he would have tried to lay it off to someone else to shoot, giving the Chelsea players ample time to cover the spaces.

Gonna take more than money to right that ship…:smack:

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As Mark Hughes said in the post match interview.

“Chelsea were very good, we’ll learn and we’ll get better”