We’ve already half stuck our neck out and predicted Arsenal will be there or thereabouts this season. After their opening day performance – and indeed that of their rivals – its tempting to go balls out on them. Of course it’s far too early to draw conclusions, but 6/1 won’t be around much longer…
Here is the second part of our Premier League Preview (leaving you all of 24 hours to read it) along with our predicted final table… Part one is below. Read it now before the season starts and all our forecasts are immediately proved wrong.
Two Londoners have flown 8,000 miles to the tiny pacific island of Pohnpei to coach their national site. Rated the worst in the world, they recently lost 16-0 to Guam. They are playing in Yeovil’s kit from last season and, brilliantly, have adopted and adapted Portsmouth’s chant – ‘Play up Pohnpei’.
An excellent article by Guardian Sport/Football Weekly hero Barry Glendenning looks at the way Fantasy Football corrupts your mind. Don’t let this article corrupt yours in any way about the best game to play though – that is, and always will be, by a street, the Official Fantasy Premier League game. Get your team in now!
We’ve been promising it for a while… but now all stories are indexed with the subject club, and you can access all of those about your team – or indeed any (Premier League only currently) team, by clicking here.
The Twitter bandwagon is in full flow – some would say slowing down, almost – and there is a steady trickle of footballers and football related Twitterers appearing in the micro-blogging sphere. It really hit the back (and front) pages with Darren Bent’s Twitter ‘rant’ at Daniel Levy a few weeks back – but did you know that Hull’s new striker, signed on the back of Daryl Murphy and Bobby Zamora turning them down, was also there? Read on for a small but growing directory of footballers on Twitter…
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With only days to go until the start of the Premier League, we take a whirlwind look through the division (no-one likes long, lengthy previews) – count yourself lucky if your side gets more than a couple of lines… We also have our final table prediction, which will no doubt come back to haunt us. Read on for Part One…
Man United eventually succumbed to Chelsea after a penalty shootout – but not before both teams showed they cared about the trophy. Nani was surprisingly effective for United, and they will be cursing his dislocated shoulder. He can be added to Vidic, Neville, Rafael, Brown, Van Der Sar, and Foster on the treatment table. Almost [...]
Over the past few seasons the Championship has become one of the most competitive leagues in the world, with 24 teams all of relatively similar standard fighting it out in attritional game after attritional game. Managers and signings that turn out to be good, injuries, luck… all can have a strong influence. So you really can’t rule anyone out, although it is perhaps slightly fanciful to think Barnsley or Scunthorpe will win it.
