Premier League Predictions

[Scurra]

1) Manchester United
2) Chelsea
3) Arsenal
4) Liverpool
5) Manchester City
6) Tottenham Hotspur
7) Everton
8) Fulham
9) Aston Villa
10) Sunderland
11) Newcastle United
12) Blackburn Rovers
13) Norwich City
14) Bolton Wanderers
15) Stoke City
16) Wigan Athletic
17) West Bromwich Albion
18) Wolverhampton Wanderers
19) Queens Park Rangers
20) Swansea City



p.s. thanks for the good laugh, Matthew.
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[MatthewV]

Oh just you wait. The real laugh will be my perfect score.

[Suspence]

1) Manchester United
2) Manchester City
3) Chelsea
4) Arsenal
5) Liverpool
6) Tottenham Hotspur
7) Aston Villa
8) Everton
9) Bolton Wanderers
10) Stoke City
11) Fulham
12) Sunderland
13) Blackburn Rovers
14) Queens Park Rangers
15) West Bromwich Albion
16) Newcastle United
17) Wolverhampton Wanderers
18) Norwich City
19) Wigan Athletic
20) Swansea City

I'll allow new submissions along with changes to anything already submitted through the final day of August, when the transfer window closes. At that point, a few games will have been played, so we'll see what kind of start we're off to, and if any major player transfers have been completed.

Perhaps I'll also give you the opportunity to swap any two teams/positions after the winter transfer window to make it more interesting. We'll see.
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[Lepton]

Thanks for the reminder!

1) Manchester United
2) Manchester City
3) Arsenal
4) Liverpool
5) Chelsea
6) Tottenham
7) Sunderland
8) Stoke
9) QPR
10) Everton
11) Blackburn
12) Bolton
13) Newcastle
14) Wigan
15) Fulham
16) WBA
17) Wolves
18) Aston Villa
19) Swansea
20) Norwich

Golden Boot: I don't think Rooney will get the minutes, so the leading scorer will be Aguero from ManCity.

FA Cup: ManCity.
Carling Cup: Liverpool.
Champion's League: None of the above.

Confirmed.

[Suspence]

Villa to go down...wow! That's a bold prediction.

Not as bold as MatthewV's Manchester City to go down, but bold nonetheless.
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[Suspence]

I was all excited for the start of Spurs campaign, now their first game is postponed due to the London riots.

At this point, the remaining 9 games are still scheduled to go ahead this weekend.
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[Dragon Phoenix]

Thanks for the alert

1) Manchester City
2) Manchester United
3) Liverpool
4) Tottenham
5) Chelsea
6) Arsenal
7) Everton
8) Fulham
9) Aston Villa
10) Stoke
11) Newcastle
12) Blackburn
13) Wigan
14) Sunderland
15) Bolton
16) WBA
17) Wolves
18) QPR
19) Norwich
20) Swansea

Top scorer: Aguero
Carling cup: Stoke
FA Cup: Man U
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[Courk]

1) Manchester United
2) Manchester City
3) Chelsea
4) Arsenal
5) Liverpool
6) Tottenham Hotspur
7) Everton
8) Fulham
9) Aston Villa
10) Stoke City
11) Sunderland
12) Blackburn Rovers
13) Bolton Wanderers
14) Newcastle United
15) Queens Park Rangers
16) Wigan Athletic
17) West Bromwich Albion
18) Wolverhampton Wanderers
19) Norwich City
20) Swansea City


In my expert opinion, I apparently don't think Chelsea can successfully defend the title?

[Courk]

I ignored MattV's answers when I submitted mine, but for posterirty, if I had included his, this is what my list would have been:
1) Arsenal
2) Aston Villa
3) Chelsea
4) Bolton Wanderers
5) Blackburn Rovers
6) Everton
7) Fulham
8) Newcastle United
9) Manchester United
10) Liverpool
11) Manchester City
12) Queens Park Rangers
13) Sunderland
14) Norwich City
15) Stoke City
16) Wigan Athletic
17) Tottenham Hotspur
18) Swansea City
19) West Bromwich Albion
20) Wolverhampton Wanderers

[Suspence]

Most teams have played 2 games so far and Wolves are in 3rd place with full points, and only ManU and Man City above them. Expect that to change.

I have a feeling there's still plenty of player movement left in the transfer window - Will Modric go to Chelsea, and if so, what do Spurs do with that money? Will Nasri really move to Man City, and will Arsenal buy anyone?

At this point, Arsenal looks pretty weak, so I may be moving them down. Current team standings

Name - Played - Pts
Manchester City - 2 - 6
Man Utd - 2 - 6
Wolves - 2 - 6
Aston Villa - 2 - 4
Liverpool - 2 - 4
Chelsea - 2 - 4
Newcastle - 2 - 4
Bolton - 2 - 3
QPR - 2 - 3
Norwich City - 2 - 2
Stoke City - 2 - 2
Wigan Athletic - 2 - 2
Sunderland - 2 - 1
Arsenal - 2 - 1
Fulham - 2 - 1
Swansea City - 2 - 1
Everton - 1 - 0
WBA - 2 - 0
Blackburn - 2 - 0
Tottenham - 1 - 0
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[Scurra]

[Suspence]

Yep, yesterday was crazy. Man City 5 - Tottenham 1, followed by Man U 8 - Arsenal 2.

16 goals in 2 games, with two of the top six teams in the league getting demolished by what look like the best two teams by far. Not a good day for either side of North London.

I wonder if yesterday's result will finally convince Arsenal they need to buy players?

I'll make the official deadline for any revisions Friday, September 9th. This will be after the transfer window closes, but before any further games are played.
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[Lepton*]

I'm going to change my top scorer prediction from Aguero to Dzeko, given how City have been lining up.

There's a rumor going around that Arsenal's troubles stem from a conflict between Wenger and the board: the former wants to sign one or more big (30M) players and up the wage scale to attract and retain stars, while the board prefers to increase the wage scale only moderately and placate the fans with some mid-range purchases. Arsene is opposed to buying anyone who isn't an improvement. Apparently they lost out on Juan Mata and possibly others simply because Arsene wasn't allowed to match Chelsea's wages.

I'm going to have to make some changes to my lineup. For the record, I'm counting on Harry Redknapp to make a decent last-minute purchase, and on Arsenal to fail to make any huge buys.

1) Manchester United
2) Manchester City
3) Chelsea
4) Liverpool
5) Tottenham
6) Arsenal
7) Sunderland
8) Stoke
9) Wolves
10) QPR
11) Everton
12) Blackburn
13) Bolton
14) Newcastle
15) Aston Villa
16) Wigan
17) Fulham
18) WBA
19) Swansea
20) Norwich

[Suspence]

[Suspence]

Big moves today:

Parker to Spurs
Crouch, Palacios, Cameron Jerome to Stoke
Jenas and Hutton to Villa
Meireles and Bellamy to Liverpool
Benayoun, Arteta, Santos and Mertesacker to Arsenal
Bendtner to Sunderland
Hargreaves to ManCity
Shawn Wright-Phillips to QPR
Kukuta and Ngog to Bolton
Bryan Ruiz to Fulham
Scott Dann and Yakubu to Blackburn

And more...you'll have until September 9th to revise your picks.
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[Scurra]

And I forgot that I needed to do it last Friday.
Will you still let me swap Arsenal and Manchester City in my list? That's the only change I really want to make. But I'll accept it if you don't.
A traditionally surreal first month table this year. And, even though its through gritted teeth, United clearly deserve their results so far. That defeat by Barca really seems to have given Fergie a wake-up call.
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[Courk]

Am I winning yet? Or, perhaps more accurately, still?

[Suspence]

[MatthewV]

Maybe I will be able to get a "most improved" award next year.

[Suspence]

Current Standings:

Suspence -12
Courk -22
Lepton -32
DP -40
Scurra -42
MatthewV -86

We're all currently losing points on Newcastle, Norwich, Swansea, Everton, Wolves, Arsenal, Blackburn and Bolton. 40% of the league and not one of us have any of them within 2 spots of their current position.

Currently, I have 6 of the top 7 exactly right. I'm sure that will change.
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[Scurra]

Holy crap. That was... extraordinary. The really strange part was that United weren't even playing especially badly (not especially well, true, but not badly.)

Mind you, given the QPR - Chelsea result, it's possible that I have slipped into some weird alternate universe that doesn't make sense...
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[Dragon Phoenix]

[Scurra]

Wow. Chelsea's fall (and Liverpool's failure to improve) seems to have caught most of us out badly. Looking forward to seeing the final results of this, although I'm pretty confident I'm going to be relegated this year. I should stuck to boring trivia stuff, clearly.
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[Suspence]

What a final day!!! Honestly one of the best sports days I can ever remember, and all before noon!

I hate Martin Fulop right now, and if Chelsea win the CL, I'll hate him even more.

I'll have the results in a bit...we all might be in the negative.
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[Suspence]

The final results are in. Much like the Prem, there was a tie at the top and it came down to goal difference (or in this case, the number of teams picked exactly correct)

Premier League Winner and Automatic Champions League spot:
Dragon Phoenix, -22 PTS
5 - City, United, Spurs, Everton
3 - Chelsea, Fulham, Sunderland, QPR
1 - Wigan
-5 - 11 others

Runner Up and Champions League Qualifying round:
Scurra, -22 PTS
5 - Arsenal, Everton
3 - United, Fulham, Norwich, Stoke, Wigan
1 - Spurs, QPR, Wolves
-5 - 10 others

Third Place and Europa League spot:
Courk, -26 PTS
5 - Everton
3 - City, United, Arsenal, Fulham, Wigan
1 - Spurs, Sunderland, QPR, Wolves
-5 - 10 others

Fourth Place, Mid-Table. Not qualified for Europe:
Lepton, -46 PTS
5 - Arsenal
3 - City, United, Chelsea, Wigan
1 - Spurs, Villa
-5 - 13 others

Fifth Place, barely escaping Relegation. Not qualified for Europe:
Suspence, -48 PTS
3 - City, United, Arsenal, Everton, Sunderland
1 - Spurs, Fulham
-5 - 13 others

Last place and Relegated:
MatthewV, -86 PTS
3 - City
1 - United
-5 - 18 others
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[Scurra]

Whoah. That wasn't quite what I expected at all.
Still, we should all be nicely positioned to be hired as pundits for next season, given our exemplary track records here.

Well done DP.
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[Dragon Phoenix]

Fitting win on goal difference.
Thanks for running this, Suspence,.
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