Havant a chance?

Unbelievable they scored, twice. So our defending lets us down again. The recruit clearly isn't up to speed but then Vidic took his time and he was in close season two weeks ago. Glad they enjoyed their day, it was never going to our day unless we slaughtered them and that doesn't happen too often; especially when you're already having a rough time of it.

The Messiah?

He's back and I welcome his return after all I still treasure a couple of 4-3 scorelines! Meanwhile can we get back to the football and did you see that UEFA are talking about more officials on the pitch?

Prediction successes for w/e 12/13 Jan

Sat 12 Jan 2008
X Arsenal: 1 Birmingham: 1
RR Villa: 3 Reading: 1
RR Chelsea: 2 Tottenham: 0
CS Derby: 0 Wigan: 1
RR Everton: 1 Man City: 0
RR Man Utd: 6 Newcastle: 0
X M'boro: 1 Liverpool: 1
RR West Ham: 2 Fulham: 1
Sun 13 Jan 2008
X Bolton: 1 Blackburn: 2
X Sunderland: 2 Portsmouth: 0

So 5 right results, 1 correct scoreline and 4 wrong. No brilliant but better than spinning a coin.

FA Cup replays are fun

Unless you lose of course! I am not sure about second and third replays though. Not that they were ever frequent, most big teams prefer to risk losing rather than another game. Ah, well - still 0-0 in tonight's game!

Champs elect again?

So do you believe Footy's prediction?

Pos.	Team	Pts	plus	(from)	Total	[Max]
1st	Manchester United	51	+46	(16)	=97	[99]
2nd	Arsenal	51	+42	(16)	=93	[99]
3rd	Chelsea	47	+46	(16)	=93	[95]
4th	Everton	39	+40	(16)	=79	[87]
5th	Aston Villa	39	+35	(16)	=74	[87]
6th	Liverpool	39	+34	(17)	=73	[90]
7th	Portsmouth	34	+27	(17)	=61	[85]
8th	Manchester City	39	+19	(16)	=58	[87]
9th	Tottenham Hotspur	24	+29	(16)	=53	[72]
10th	West Ham United	32	+20	(17)	=52	[83]
11th	Blackburn Rovers	33	+19	(17)	=52	[84]
12th	Bolton Wanderers	20	+25	(17)	=45	[71]
13th	Reading	22	+18	(16)	=40	[70]
14th	Wigan Athletic	20	+19	(16)	=39	[68]
15th	Newcastle United	26	+9	(16)	=35	[74]
16th	Middlesbrough	21	+14	(16)	=35	[69]
17th	Birmingham City	20	+6	(16)	=26	[68]
18th	Sunderland	17	+5	(17)	=22	[68]
19th	Fulham	15	+5	(16)	=20	[63]
20th	Derby County	7	+0	(16)	=7	[55]

Back to home glories

More predictions from Footy:

Sat 12 Jan 2008
1. 3:00pm Arsenal 3-2 Birmingham (Home win)
2. 3:00pm Villa 4-2 Reading (Home win)
3. 3:00pm Chelsea 3-2 Tottenham (Home win)
4. 3:00pm Derby 0-1 Wigan (Away win)
5. 3:00pm Everton 5-0 Man City (Home win)
6. 5:15pm Man Utd 2-0 Newcastle (Home win)
7. 3:00pm M'boro 0-2 Liverpool (Away win)
8. 3:00pm West Ham 3-1 Fulham (Home win)
Sun 13 Jan 2008
1. 4:00pm Bolton 1-1 Blackburn (Draw)
2. 1:30pm Sunderland 0-2 Portsmouth (Away win)

I have to say where my team is concerned these prediction are not reliable but then that's football for you!

Vale Park

So I made it to Vale Park on Boxing Day. This is a nice little ground but currently the football doesn't do it justice. The Valiants went ahead with a great strike in the first half but Walsall always looked dangerous. Even in the second half when the visitors went down to ten men Vale were playing it cautious, far too caution for a home side one up and with a man extra. I counted nine shots at goal by the home side but a mere two on target; one of those being the goal. the Saddlers duly equalized in the ninetieth minute.