How the 2008/2009 Premiership Will Finish

July 5th, 2008

This is how I think will be the table come the end of the new season which starts in just over a month.

  1. Chelsea
  2. Liverpool
  3. Manchester United
  4. Arsenal
  5. Everton
  6. Tottenham
  7. Portsmouth
  8. Middlesbrough
  9. Aston Villa
  10. Newcastle
  11. Manchester City
  12. Blackburn
  13. West Ham
  14. Bolton
  15. Hull
  16. Sunderland
  17. Fulham
  18. Stoke
  19. West Brom
  20. Wigan

Chelsea will become the fighting force that they were 4 years ago. Their new manager will demand and he will get the best work effort from his world class players. Liverpool should also have a good season I think they should finally become more consistant and will be fighting for the top spot. Manchester United will not be the team they were the season just gone, with the soon to be, loss of Ronaldo, they will not create as many chances and will not be scoring as many goals, he will be a big loss to the English game.

Arsenal will continue to get weaker and weaker, they haven’t signed anyone as of yet, there is still over a month before the season starts but things are quiet at the Emrites. Middlesbrough will be going from strength to strength, two new signings already and players who will be used to the league now such as Alves and Tuncay.

Newcastle will be finding better form now that Keegan has had more time with the team and is bringing in the payers who he wants. Not a lot of transfer news for the Toon at the moment, but surely he will be signing a few people.

I think Hull will be the suprise team this year, already signing new players and strengthening their team, they should not end up fighting for survival. Thats why I think they will finish in the middle half of the bottom 10 teams. Fulham, Stoke, West Brom and Wigan will all be fighting for their lives.

Bring on the New Season!!!

New Football Fixtures!!!

June 15th, 2008

Well the football fixtures are released tomorrow for all the leagues. I for one are very excited being a Middlesbrough Fan. I hope we get a home game first and an easy game to ease us back into action.

Premier League, Football League, Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League fixtures for 2008/09 will be announced at 1000 BST.

All those fixtures, arranged by club and by division, will be immediately available on the BBC Sport website http://www.bbc.co.uk/football.

Group B - Croatia v Germany preview

June 12th, 2008

What a game this should be!! The winner going through to the next round. Germany are looking to use the Group B game with Croatia in Klagenfurt to prove that they are serious contenders for their first title since 1996. Germany have mixed memories of playing Croatia in major tournaments so this evenings game should be a good one, I for one will be watching it.

The game kicks off at 5pm BST and hopefully it will be as entertaining as the Swiss v Turks game last night which was by far the best game of the tournament.

Whatever your going enjoy the game.

Prediction: Croatia 2 - Germany 1

Group A: Switzerland, the host nation out

June 12th, 2008

Playing In The RainWhat a game it was yesterday and if there was anyway to go out of the competition it was yesterday. Both teams where playing end to end football, there was incidents, flooded pitch dangerous tackles and a great winning goal at the end of the game.

The match could have been called off due to the torrential rain which poured down during the first half, the ball wasn’t even rolling across the grass and the first goal was just comical, watching the player make sure it was going to go in, moving then stopping, and he nearly missed it.

Anyway Switzerland are now out of the competition, Turkey are still in it but only just, they now have three points behind Portugal who have gone through to the finals and are on level points with the Czech Republic.

The only important game left in this group is:

Turkey v Czech Republic

Whoever wins goes through to the finals. Should be a very exciting game.

Weird Without England in Euro 2008

June 11th, 2008

Its strange knowing that the European Championship is on and the news over hear are acting like nothing is going on. Its good in a way because if England where in the competition then EVERYTHING would be about them, the injuries, tactics, team selection. Read the rest of this entry »