Thursday, September 15, 2005
Season's predictions
I posted some season's prediction on my other blog, and as they are football related, I'll add monthly news on how they are doing to this site from now on. A reminder of what they were and how they are doing is shown below -
1. Chelsea will go through the league season unbeaten. Still unbeaten, but with obviously their sternest test of the season this Saturday!
2. Chelsea will concede less goals in a season than anyone has done before (the record is 15 by Chelsea last season) Chelsea still to concede, but Dazza will be trying to break the duck this Saturday (and hopefully will!).
3. Graeme Sounness will become the first Premiership managerial casualty of the season - he might not get sacked, but with a dodgy ticker, he might need bed rest come October! Has signing Owen saved him or not? Just one goal so far this season, and a host of injuries, means this could still be uncannily accurate.
4. El Hadj Diouf will spit at a fan...again! Not yet...but I'm confident this will come true before too long
5. Charlton will win a game featuring Mark Halsey or Graham Poll as ref!!! Mr Halsey at St Andrews, and a win secured (no thanks to said ref apparently!). Mayber we can break our Poll duck too (or is that asking too much)?
6. Arsene Wenger will claim to have seen the reason one of his players got sent off. Clasic case of Arsene seeing it last night (van Persie vs FC Thun) but the ref got it all wrong, apparently. Come on Arsene, admit the ref was right; at least Fergie agreeed that Rooney should have walked!
7. Rio will be boo-ed. Yep!
8. Rooney will swear at a ref and be sent off. Getting closer all the time! Lots of swearing at Becks and Rio during the England games and a handclap for the ref got him sent off last night. Just wait a week or so before a pompous English ref gets a chance to get his picture in the paper, then Wazza will regret missing Premiership AND Champions League games.
9. Several England regulars will get long term injuries just after Xmas and will be forced to miss the World Cup. We have had a few niggles recently (Gerrard, Neville, Terry etc), so long term, I'm still confident this will be true (if we qualify).
10. Rangers and Celtic will once more attempt to join the English league through the back door (Why don't they enter a team in the lower pyramid and work there way through a la AFC Wimbledon, Aldershot etc?). It's been a bit quiet as neither have made a good start to their SPL season, and Rangers won a Champions League game (well done Franny!). Later in the season the issue will re-appear.
1. Chelsea will go through the league season unbeaten. Still unbeaten, but with obviously their sternest test of the season this Saturday!
2. Chelsea will concede less goals in a season than anyone has done before (the record is 15 by Chelsea last season) Chelsea still to concede, but Dazza will be trying to break the duck this Saturday (and hopefully will!).
3. Graeme Sounness will become the first Premiership managerial casualty of the season - he might not get sacked, but with a dodgy ticker, he might need bed rest come October! Has signing Owen saved him or not? Just one goal so far this season, and a host of injuries, means this could still be uncannily accurate.
4. El Hadj Diouf will spit at a fan...again! Not yet...but I'm confident this will come true before too long
5. Charlton will win a game featuring Mark Halsey or Graham Poll as ref!!! Mr Halsey at St Andrews, and a win secured (no thanks to said ref apparently!). Mayber we can break our Poll duck too (or is that asking too much)?
6. Arsene Wenger will claim to have seen the reason one of his players got sent off. Clasic case of Arsene seeing it last night (van Persie vs FC Thun) but the ref got it all wrong, apparently. Come on Arsene, admit the ref was right; at least Fergie agreeed that Rooney should have walked!
7. Rio will be boo-ed. Yep!
8. Rooney will swear at a ref and be sent off. Getting closer all the time! Lots of swearing at Becks and Rio during the England games and a handclap for the ref got him sent off last night. Just wait a week or so before a pompous English ref gets a chance to get his picture in the paper, then Wazza will regret missing Premiership AND Champions League games.
9. Several England regulars will get long term injuries just after Xmas and will be forced to miss the World Cup. We have had a few niggles recently (Gerrard, Neville, Terry etc), so long term, I'm still confident this will be true (if we qualify).
10. Rangers and Celtic will once more attempt to join the English league through the back door (Why don't they enter a team in the lower pyramid and work there way through a la AFC Wimbledon, Aldershot etc?). It's been a bit quiet as neither have made a good start to their SPL season, and Rangers won a Champions League game (well done Franny!). Later in the season the issue will re-appear.
