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I’ve decided to set up a football blog especially for my football related posts, so that I can keep this blog purely aimed at web development, design and technology. So keep your eyes peeled for that.

Anyway, here are this weeks Premiership predictions.

Saturday’s Fixtures

Middlesbrough 1 v 3 Chelsea

Aston Villa 3 v 0 Crystal Palace

Fulham 2 v 1 Southampton

Liverpool 3 v 1 Norwich

Man City 0 v 3 Arsenal

Newcastle 2 v 0 West Brom

Tottenham 0 v 2 Man Utd

Bolton 3 v 2 Birmingham

Sunday’s Fixtures

Portsmouth 0 v 2 Everton

Monday’s Fixtures

Charlton 1 v 1 Blackburn

Lets see if you can beat me this weekend! :)

Another relatively quiet week on the Premiership football front, with no real transfer news other than Fadiga joining Bolton.

Some tasty fixtures again this week, with Arsenal taking on Bolton, Chelsea taking on local rivals Tottenham and Manchester United taking on Liverpool. After Bolton’s last few fixtures (a win vs Liverpool, draw vs Man United) I’m edging my bets at a draw. However, taking into consideration Arsenal’s run of form this is very unlikely, but you should never bet against your own team. :)

Saturday’s Games

Arsenal 2 v 2 Bolton

Birmingham 2 v 1 Charlton

Blackburn 2 v 1 Portsmouth

Crystal Palace 1 v 2 Man City

Norwich 1 v 3 Aston Villa

West Brom 1 v 2 Fulham

Sunday’s Games

Southampton 1 v 3 Newcastle

Everton 1 v 1 Middlesbrough

Chelsea 3 v 1 Tottenham

Monday’s Games

Man Utd 2 v 1 Liverpool

Think you can do better? Post your predictions in the comments.

Once again Friday is here and that can only mean one thing… Friday Football Fun!

Let’s hope this week I can beat ol’ Lawro who’s predictions are usually 10 times worse than my own.

No big news really this week, other than the Newcastle managers job going to a fool, the England players silence after a poor show by the english press, and of course, the farce that would have been the Sven-Goran Eriksson’s sacking. How stupid would this country (England) have to be to sack one of the most successful managers we’ve ever had? It’s that sort of mentality that actually makes me ashamed to be English sometimes. Wake up people!

Saturday’s Games

Aston Villa 1 v 3 Chelsea

Bolton 1 v 1 Man Utd

Fulham 1 v 3 Arsenal

Liverpool 2 v 0 West Brom

Man City 1 v 1 Everton

Middlesbrough 2 v 1 Birmingham

Newcastle 2 v 1 Blackburn

Portsmouth 2 v 1 Crystal Palace

Sunday’s Games

Tottenham 3 v 1 Norwich

Monday’s Games

Charlton 2 v 2 Southampton

Lets hope this weekends brings another good result for my beloved Bolton, who face none other than Manchester United this week.

I know, I know… it’s Saturday, but I like the name FFF.

Sunday’s Games

Bolton 2 v 1 Liverpool

Monday’s Games

Man Utd 3 v 1 Everton

Portsmouth 1 v 2 Fulham

Apologies for not having time to post my predictions for Saturday’s games, the week ended in a hectic rush and it totally slipped my mind.

With the mid-week fixtures coming in the middle of a busy week for me, I’ve decided to post my predictions today.

Tuesday’s Results

Birmingham 2 v 2 Man City

Crystal Palace 1 v 4 Chelsea

Wednesday’s Results

Arsenal 3 v 1 Blackburn

Fulham 1 v 2 Middlesbrough

Southampton 0 v 2 Bolton

West Brom 1 v 2 Tottenham

Charlton 2 v 2 Aston Villa

Newcastle 3 v 1 Norwich

I got 2 predictions correct at the weekend, leaving me just beating Ian by 1.

If others want to join in and post their predictions, then I’ll collate all the results at the end of the season… and maybe offer a prize. If I get enough time during the week, then I might start running a leaderboard too… we’ll see.

Good Luck.

With Michael Owen now at Real Madrid, Arsenal still winning, Chelsea still buying and Liverpool still struggling, things are becoming a little too predictable aren’t they?

Not if last week’s predictions are anything to go by… so lets try again:

Saturday’s Fixtures

Southampton 2 v 2 Blackburn

Newcastle 3 v 1 Tottenham

Birmingham 2 v 4 Chelsea

Charlton 2 v 1 Portsmouth

Crystal Palace 1 v 2 Everton

Fulham 1 v 2 Bolton

Liverpool 3 v 2 Man City

Man Utd 4 v 1 Norwich

Sunday’s Fixtures

West Brom 1 v 1 Aston Villa

Arsenal 3 v 1 Middlesbrough

Hopefully Bolton can continue their winning ways against Fulham so that we can be in a comfortable position in the table once the really hard fixtures start rolling in.

Yesterday went pretty well as I try to quit smoking. I even managed to sit with the lads in the bar after football without wanting a cigarette — Something I never thought I’d be able to do so soon. Getting back to the football, we (the Leigh British Legion FC) beat The 3 Crowns 7-1 last night, our biggest pre-season victory so far.

I’m already feeling the benefits of quitting such as a clearer (less congested) chest, more energy, more time and money. Unfortunately I’ve been unable to get a good nights sleep for the past 2 days, I don’t exactly know why though.

Its finally here… the start of the new Premiership season!

With big summer signings for Liverpool, Chelsea, Newcastle, Manchester United and Arsenal expect the big boys to do the business again this season. With Michael Owen probably on his way to Real Madrid can Liverpool turn the likes of Milan Baros into a goal scoring machine? Will the big boys at Chelsea play well together and look like a team from the start? Will Manchester United falter yet again without Rio Ferdinand at the start of the season? All these questions are what makes the start of the season better every time!

Anyway, enough rambling from me, lets get onto the football predictions for this week.

Saturdays Predictions

Aston Villa 2 v 2 Southampton

Blackburn 2 v 1 West Brom

Bolton 3 v 2 Charlton

Man City 2 v 1 Fulham

Middlesbrough 3 v 2 Newcastle

Norwich 1 v 0 Crystal Palace

Portsmouth 1 v 2 Birmingham

Tottenham 1 v 3 Liverpool

Sundays Predictions

Chelsea 4 v 2 Manchester United

Everton 1 v 3 Arsenal

Don’t forget to watch all the action on the nations favourite (terrestrial tv) football show, Match of the Day.

I started to write about England’s exit at the Euro 2004 football championships… then I saw this post… I think that sums it up perfectly.

Probably not worksafe and you definitely shouldn’t be showing this to kids. :)

After Sunday’s heart breaking defeat to the French I was left feeling speechless and empty for a good few hours.

I found myself thinking what England fans have thought many, many times before… Why us?

40 minutes into the game, and whole country was ecstatic thanks to Frank Lampard’s brilliant header from a David Beckham cross. 50 minutes later and no-one spoke a word… everyone sat there in a complete shocked silence.

If the game had ended having played 90 minutes, England would have been victorious and all the negative journalism would have been directed at the French team. As it happens, we couldn’t hold on for the final 3 minutes and flicked the self-destruct button yet again to let France score 2 goals and finish the game 2-1 winners. A 1-1 scoreline would have been fair, but to lose the game and come away with nothing was crushing.

Anyway, Sundays game is out of the way and we can be pleased that we managed to hold the supposed European Champions and many of the supposed worlds great players till the final 3 minutes.

Now we face a must win game against Switzerland on Thursday evening and the England fans must once again bite their fingers and hope that our team does us proud.

Come on England!