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Best Correct Predictions of the week: 

“Everton beating Liverpool by the correct score of 2-0 & Bolton also winning by the correct score against Stoke 2-1” 

Hello everyone. Last weeks results gave me 4 out of 10 for correct results which was disappointing but I made up for that by getting 2 correct scores. They were Everton beating Liverpool 2-0 & Bolton beating Stoke 2-1. They were my 5th & 6th correct scores of the season so far. My other correct results were Arsenal beating Birmingham & Manchester City beating Blackpool away. If Blackpool hadn’t have scored their late second consolation goal then I would have been on three correct scores but that is the nature of football predicting. 

In midweek I had much better joy with the champions League when I correctly predicted 4 out of 5 correct results which means I have now predicted 10 out of 14 Champions league games correct in terms of results. Like the International predictions this is much better than my Premiership predictions. You figure it out especially as last season I achieved a success rate of 57% for Premiership predictions. 

Let’s hope for an improvement. 

Good luck for this weeks fixtures. 

Match 1: Tottenham – Everton: (Saturday October 23rd: 12.45pm): 

Spurs as I predicted lost away to Inter Milan on Wednesday night. The 4-3 scoreline sounds looks like they ran Inter close but that wasn’t the case as they were 4-0 down at half time & only Inter taking their foot of the peddle allowed Spurs into the game late on when they scored 2 very late goals. The result was never in question. This is not to take anything away from Spurs who battled back well & with ten men for most of the game. I suspect the home game at White Hart lane will be a much closer game. 

Spurs league record has improved of late & that was proved by their 2-1 at Fulham last Saturday after they had come from behind to beat Aston Villa 2-1 in their home game. They now face an Everton side who have won two games on the bounce after a crap start. 

Everton beat their nearest & not so dearest rivals Liverpool 2-0 last Sunday which was after they had won their first game of the season 2-0 away at Birmingham. So both sides are in form & that is why I think this game will end in a draw. 

Should be a good game & if you can afford the price of a ticket & manage to get one I suggest you attend. 

Match prediction: A score draw 
Score Prediction: Spurs 1 Everton 1 
Attendance Prediction: 36,000 

Match 2: Birmingham – Blackpool: (Saturday October 23rd: 3pm): 

Birmingham lost again last weekend, this time (as Predicted) at Arsenal but they were unlucky. Arsenal’s first goal when Birmingham were leading 1-0 was a very dubious penalty which should have not been awarded. This turned the game around & Arsenal scored a second to win the game. Birmingham are now 17th in the table just above the bottom three by the 1 point. They have failed to win in four games with just the one point (a 0-0 draw with Wigan). They have also lost their proud unbeaten home record which stretched back to last September when they lost 2-0 at home to Everton in their last home game. 

Blackpool were very unlucky last Sunday when they lost to Manchester City 3-2. They had a goal disallowed incorrectly when the score was 0-0 & Manchester City’s first goal looked offside as well. To be fair to the ref City’s goal looked ok when first viewed live. This made Andy Gray’s arrogant attitude upon seeing the replay that the ref got it incorrect rather unpleasant. The ref did not have the pleasure of a second viewing Mr Gray. Let’s see you referee a game. 

Blackpool won their last away game against Liverpool 2-1 & they have also managed to win at Wigan & Newcastle as apposed to just the one point at home in three attempts. I think that Blackpool will win this game to leave Birmingham in the bottom three as Birmingham are on a bad run & Blackpool seem to have that never say die spirit which seems to be serving them well so far away from home. 

Match prediction: Blackpool to win 
Score Prediction: Birmingham 1 Blackpool 2 
Attendance Prediction: 22,000 

Match 3: Chelsea – Wolves: (Saturday October 23rd: 3pm): 

Well if I get the prediction incorrect for this game then I might as well take up predicting Conkers. Chelsea should win this game like they have all their other home games so far. They are top of the table despite dropping two points at Aston Villa last Saturday. Chelsea are also doing well in the Champions League as well after winning away in Moscow on Tuesday night to keep them top of their group. They have won all three of their games in Europe. 

The only game Chelsea have lost all season was the 1-0 defeat at Manchester City who are of course second in the table behind them. Wolves are third from bottom in the table above Liverpool & West Ham only on goal difference. They drew at home with West Ham last Saturday 1-1 & that result means that they have not won since the opening day of the season when they beat Stoke 2-1. 

A home win then & let’s hope I am not conker predicting next week. 

Match prediction: Chelsea to win 
Score Prediction: Chelsea 4 Wolves 0 
Attendance Prediction: 41,000 

Match 4: Sunderland – Aston Villa: (Saturday October 23rd: 3pm): 

Sunderland bored me & everyone else to death in their 0-0 draw at Blackburn on Monday. Aside from that it was a good point for Sunderland who are beginning to improve their away form. The Blackburn draw was their forth away point of the season after drawing at Liverpool, WBA & Wigan. At home Sunderland are playing well with victory against Manchester City & draws against Arsenal & Manchester United. However, the 1-0 win against Manchester City is their only win so far in the premiership this season but they have only lost once this season & that was a 1-0 defeat at WBA so their record is good so far but they do need a win to pull them up the table. 

Aston Villa can’t boast as good a record as Sunderland as they have already lost at Newcastle, Stoke & Spurs. At home however they are undefeated. Their only away points so far was the 2-1 win at Wolves. 

Villa got a good point against Chelsea last Saturday but it is away they are dropping points & so for that reason I think they will lose this game but one thing I am sure about is that they won’t get beat 6-0 like they did at Newcastle on their last visit to the North East. 

Match prediction: Sunderland to win 
Score Prediction: Sunderland 2 Aston Villa 1 
Attendance Prediction: 41,000 

Match 5: West Brom – Fulham: (Saturday October 23rd: 3pm): 

West Brom are defying me & everyone else who said that they would go down this season. Their latest result was a great 2-2 draw at Manchester United & that when they were 2-0 down. This result followed hard on the heels of their great 3-2 win at Arsenal.. In between they drew 1-1 at home with if form Bolton. Albion are now upto 6th in the table which by my reckoning is the highest place they have occupied since the early 1980’s. Good luck to them & I am glad they are proving me incorrect. 

Albion have beaten Sunderland & Birmingham at home so far this season & drawn with Bolton. They now face Fulham who lost their unbeaten record at home to Spurs last Saturday. Fulham are still unbeaten away from home with draws at Bolton, Blackpool, Blackburn & West Ham. A good record that is better than last season so far. 

Can’t see Fulham winning this game as they are due to lose away from home & a lot of sides who lose one game tend to lose the next (don’t ask me why). 

A home win then & at this rate Albion will be knocking on the door of European qualification. 

Match prediction: WBA to win 
Score Prediction: WBA 2 Fulham 1 
Attendance Prediction: 22,000 

Match 6: Wigan – Bolton: (Saturday October 23rd: 3pm): 

Wigan will be annoyed that they failed to win on Saturday at Newcastle when they threw away at 2-0 lead to draw 2-2. However, they are improving after a bad start. They are now 15th in the table after wins against Wolves at home & the shock 1-0 at Spurs which kick started their season. They have only lost once in their six games & that was a home defeat to Manchester City. They have managed draws against Sunderland at home & a draw at Birmingham in this run. Will they continue this run against Bolton? 

Bolton beat Stoke at home last Saturday as I predicted for their first home win of the season. They have already won away earlier in the season when they won 3-1 at West ham. They have also managed draws at Aston Villa & WBA. 

Bolton have only lost one game this season & that was at Arsenal 4-1. Can’t see them losing this game & in fact I think they will end Wigan’s little run & beat them for their second away win this season. 

Match prediction: Bolton to win 
Score Prediction: Wigan 1 Bolton 2 
Attendance Prediction: 15,000 

Match 7: West Ham – Newcastle: (Saturday October 23rd: 5.30pm):

West Ham grabbed another point last Saturday when they drew 1-1 at Wolves. They are now still in the bottom three but at least they are not cut adrift as they are just the one point away from safety. 

West Ham drew their last home game with Fulham 1-1. They have won just the one game so far this season & that was a 1-0 win against Spurs. West Ham had a dreadful start to the season & didn’t pick up a point until their 1-1 draw at Stoke in their 5th game. They are now unbeaten in their last four games. They appear to be slowly turning the corner. 

They now face a Newcastle side who they must be targeting as one of the sides they can catch in the table as they are two points above them. Newcastle have won twice this season, at home to Aston Villa & away at Everton. They lost their last away game at Manchester City 2-1 & to be honest I think they will lose this game as they are not playing that well so far. 

A home win then & the question has to be as to which of these sides will go down? 

Match prediction: West Ham to win 
Score Prediction: West ham 2 Newcastle 1 
Attendance Prediction: 36,000 

Match 8: Stoke – Manchester United: (Sunday October 24th: 1.30pm): 

Wayne Rooney’s announcement that he wants to leave the club is good for United’s rivals but obviously not so good for the club. I personally believe that Rooney wants to leave because of the shit written about him in the Press & the TV & Radio’s constant confirmation of their lies as if they are facts. Rooney has already sued papers for two other false claims in the past year & won. He won damages for allegations that he had hit his wife in an argument in a nightclub which was false & also for the papers saying that he had booked his holiday’s for the day after the England Germany game in the World cup before that game. Again this was not True. Add to that the lies about John Terry having an affair with Vanessa Perroncel (she is suing all the papers) & the case of David Beckham where Rebecca loos lied about her affair with him (she kept his ph which her PR agency had lent him & then got the nanny to text her ph as if it was from him) & you have a media that constantly lies about football players in order to make money. 

You won’t have read that all of the above cases have gone to court. The opposite is the case in that they are referenced as if they are fact, yet what is really serious is that the Editors & Staff of these papers not to mention the TV/Radio know that these stories are not true yet they still carry on lying. We have the worst media in the world & it is the main reason I think why he & his wife wants out of the country. His wife was constantly followed by photographers & reporters when her sister was ill. Is this really in the Public interest? No, of course it isn’t but the media judge themselves as there is know body to check them. 

Of course the media will not acknowledge that they are the problem & it will be every other reason (Money, lack of loyalty etc) as to why he wants to leave. The end result is that United who have not won an away game this season in the league will probably not win anything this season as their best player will not be playing for them. The financial restrictions forced upon them by their American owners means that they can’t compete with the top clubs anymore. 

I think that Stoke will win this game because United are in a mini slump which could end up with them following Liverpool. 

A good season for Stoke so far which looks set to continue despite their 2-1 defeat at Bolton last Saturday but United are set for a winter of discontent I fear. 

Match prediction: Stoke to win 
Score Prediction: Stoke City 2 Manchester United 1 
Attendance Prediction: 27,000

Match 9: Liverpool – Blackburn: (Sunday October 24th: 3pm): 

Liverpool are in a relegation fight & they don’t appear to really realise that fact or have the players to get them out of the mess they find themselves in. however, I think they will stay up simply for the reason that I simply can’t believe that they will go down. 

They lost again on Sunday at Arch local Rivals Everton 2-0 as I predicted. That result means that they have only won one game so far this season in the League. They have also been knocked out of the League cup by lowly 4th Division side Northampton Town who lost at home 4-3 to Hereford on Saturday after being 3-0 up. Hmm. I said that Liverpool would beat Blackpool in their last home game but they lost. This time against Blackburn I am again going to predict a Liverpool win because they have to win sooner or later & what better side than Blackburn who are normally travel shy on the road. 

Blackburn like just about everybody else are above Liverpool in the table despite only drawing with Sunderland on Saturday & losing their previous away game at Stoke. They have nine points only three more than Liverpool. 

A home win then for the new owners but it looks like being a crap season for the red side of Merseyside. 

Match Prediction: Liverpool to win 
Score Prediction: Liverpool 2 Blackburn 1 
Attendance prediction: 43,000 

Match 10: Manchester City – Arsenal: (Sunday October 24th: 4pm): 

City are going well & their fans must be laughing at what is going on at Old Trafford. I really can see City finishing above United this season. City won their third game on the trot by winning 3-2 at Blackpool last Sunday. They are now second in the table behind Chelsea by only two points. It’s looking interesting at the top. 

City now face an Arsenal side that got back to winning ways last Saturday by beating Birmingham 2-1. They also won again in Europe on Tuesday. Arsenal seem to be playing better in Europe at present which will be poising questions for their manager. 

Arsenal lost this fixture last season 4-2 & I think they will lose again as they have a recent record of not doing well against the top sides as proved very recently when they lost their last away game at Chelsea 2-0. 

The big question I suspect in Manchester is if City will finish with a trophy this season to end their run of not winning anything of note since the League cup win of 1976. 

Match Prediction: Manchester City to win 
Score Prediction: Manchester City 3 Arsenal 1 
Attendance Prediction: 46,000 

That’s all for this week everybody. 

See you next week for more Premiership action.. 

Douglas Martin

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Champions League Predictions: Tuesday/Wednesday February 15th/16th 2011: 

Match 1: AC Milan – Tottenham: (Last 16 First Leg: Tuesday 15th February: 7.45pm): 

Spurs revisit the San Siro for the second time this season after losing 4-3 to Inter Milan in the group stages earlier in the season. Spurs have done well to qualify for the knockout stages but I suspect that this as far as they are going to go this season but we will see as I would love to be proved incorrect on that prediction. 

AC Milan are doing well in Italy this season and at present are top of Serie “A” by three points from Napoli after winning 4-0 against Parma at the weekend. AC have only lost three times in the league this season & look set to end the recent dominance of their city rivals Inter who have won Serie A for the last 5 seasons. AC qualified from their group with a record of played 6, won two, drawn 2 & lost 2 which was not particularly impressive so there is hope for Spurs. In fact I do feel that the Premiership is a stronger league than it’s Italian counterpart at present so Spurs need to get that idea in their heads. 

Spurs are doing well in the league again this season & at present are 4th in the league three points above Chelsea who of course play on Monday night against Fulham. Spurs beat Sunderland 2-1 away on Saturday to record their 2nd away win on the bounce. 

Spurs came top of their group to qualify to play AC which included a great 3-1 win over Inter at white hart Lane. The second leg could be decisive & I think that Spurs will be hoping to overturn a 1st leg defeat in that game but for now I think they will lose in Italy but we await the second leg with bated breath.

Result Prediction: Spurs to lose 
Score Prediction: AC Milan 2 Tottenham 1 

Match 2: Arsenal – Barcelona: (Last 16: Wednesday 16th February: 7.45pm): 

Arsenal qualified from their group but they made life difficult for themselves with two defeats at the end (both away) to make their fans sweat a bit. Thankfully the 3-1 win against Partizan Belgrade saw them qualify but only as runners up & hence why they play Barcelona in the knockout stages. 

Barcelona of course knocked out Arsenal last season in the Champions league 6-3 over two legs & to be honest with Arsenal’s defence I can see a similar result over two legs this time around as well. Barca won again at the weekend to leave them top of the Spanish League & looking like retaining their Spanish title they won with such style last season. Barca are 7 points ahead of their nearest rivals Real Madrid so it looks like they are going to win the title again. 

Arsenal won on Saturday 2-0 against bottom club Wolves to stay on Manchester United’s coattails by four points still. Arsenal’s home form is not as good as their away form as they have lost 3 times at home in the league compared to just two away. Arsenal have a weak defence as far as I am concerned & don’t keep too many clean sheets which is normally not a problem against most sides in the Premiership but when you are playing Barcelona it could be a massive problem as was shown in the two legs against Barca last season. 

Sorry but the best I can predict for Arsenal is a draw & a second leg defeat like last season in the Nou Camp. 

Result Prediction: A score draw 
Score Prediction: Arsenal 2 Barcelona 2 

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The Liverpool football club season in 2009/10 was not quite the calamity that some think, but for a club with the fantastic history of Liverpool, finishing out the top 4 of the Premier League and therefore missing out on Champions League football next season is very disappointing. Throughout the season we played well on occasion but we were horribly inconsistent. The league results record is Won: 18. Lost: 11. Drew: 9. Win percentage: 47%.. On the basis of those results, Rafa Benitez’s time at Liverpool is rightly finished. The form at Anfield was fairly good (winning 13 out of 19 games), however it was the away form that really mad the season a poor one only five games won away from home. The season started badly at White Hart Lane, as we lost 2-1. Spurs deserved the victory but we were annoyed as it seemed a clear penalty was turned down late on when Vorovin was brought down in the box. A gift for Spurs fans. The rest of August was a fairly mixed one. An easy victory at home to Stoke saw an excellent debut from youngster Daniel Ayala at centre half. This win was then followed by a home loss to Aston Villa. A hard fought away win at Bolton saw Liverpool come from 2-1 behind to take the game thanks to a Stevie Gerrard volley. The month of September offered three easy games against Burnley, West Ham and Hull and Liverpool managed to win all three. But October was much harder, with two away loses at the hands of Chelsea and Sunderland. The second of these loses saw one of the freakiest goals ever. Darren Bent’s first shot deflected of an inflatable beach ball that had been thrown onto the pitch by a Liverpool fan. Those loses accompanied by two in the Champions League did not Liverpool confidence going into the Manchester United match. Fortunately for us we bounced back in style with one of our best league performances of the season. Liverpool battled hard and won 2-0. This was supposedly the result that would finally kick start our season, but the next week we were beaten 3-1 away at Fulham. November was another mixed month which started with an extremely frustrating draw on a Monday night against Birmingham City. Glen Johnson proved once again how useful he can be offensively by being a thorn in the Birmingham defence’s side all night, but it wasn’t enough. Then there was a frustrating draw to Manchester City at home. Then came one of the few highlights this season. The Merseyside Derby at Goodison park which we won 2-0 thanks to a deflected Mascherano shot and a goal from Dirk Kuyt. A mixed start to December saw us draw again at the hands of Blackburn which was followed by a poor defeat against Arsenal at Anfield. We played OK in the first half but the second got off to a bad start with a Glen Johnson own goal followed by an excellent Arshavin goal. Livepool looked totally void of ideas in a very disappointing second half performance. Over Christmas we were comprehensively beaten by bottom of the league Portsmouth in probably our worst performance of the season. But, the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010 were a positive one, bringing about our best unbeaten league run of the season of seven games. The performances were showed a lot of character as we battled hard. 2010 started with a battling performance away at Stoke City after our calamitous FA Cup exploits. A lapse of concentration at the back let in Robert Huth to score a last minute equaliser. We then won the size pointer against Spurs, our fellow top four competitor. A 2-0 win over Bolton at Anfield ended the month of January before the return Merseyside Derby. This game at Anfield was full of hard tackling, however our in-form Greek centre half was sent off for a two footed tackle, though he did win the ball. Our derby specialist Dirk Kuyt did it again by getting his head on the end of a Steven Gerrard corner to set up a well deserved win in what was an excellent battling performance. After losing 1-0 at the Emirates we headed to Manchester City for another crunch game against a fellow top four rival. It wasn’t much of a spectacle but more of a tactical battle with both Managers’s unsurprisingly scared to lose and a draw duly followed. A comfortable 4-1 victory over a poor Portsmouth side came before a trip to the mighty Manchester United. With United still in the hunt for a fourth consecutive title and our ambitions for a top four finish still intact (just), all was to play for. A great start from us saw Torres left the Liverpool fans jubilant for about ten minutes when . United were awarded a controversial penalty which Wayne Rooney converted on the recoil after a fine initial stop from Reina. We never really got going in the second half and after Park Ji-Sung put Manchester in front on the hour we never looked like getting back into the game. With seven games to go we knew we couldn’t afford many more slip ups if we were to finish inside the top four. A 3-0 win over Sunderland inspired by a wonder strike from Torres and an excellent display from Steven Gerrard was unfortunately followed by an poor 1-1 draw against a very resilient Birmingham City team. Our next game was a potential Europa League final preview against Roy Hodgson’s Fulham side. This result for me finally killed our chances of a top four finish. Fulham played for the point and that is exactly what they got due to some good defending, good goalkeeping and a lack of creativity in the final third from a disappointing Liverpool side. Three Liverpool goals against a poor West Ham side was followed by a flattering away win at Turf Moore that relegated a spirited Burnley side. Our hopes of finishing in the top four were over when we lost to future champions Chelsea at our final league game of the season at Anfield. The award for goal of the season definitely went to Fernando Torres’s stunner against Sunderland at Anfield. Special mentions go to Ryan Babel for his strike against Lyon and Javier Mascherano’s against Unirea. The player of the season for me is Fernando Torres, for his goal scoring record. It feels to me like he has barely played this season yet he’s still scored 21 goals. Javier Mascherano also did well this year, here’s hoping he’s still wearing a red shirt next season. Reina has been without a doubt our most consistent player. A world class player who has kept us in games this season with some fantastic saves. A mark of a great goalkeeper is that you make the hard stuff look easy and Pepe Reina certainly does that. A great goalkeeper and a fantastic character. With Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres struggling for form and fitness, Reina has emerged as Liverpool’s leader on and off the pitch. On the pitch we’ve been too predicable and timid at times. Injuries have been a big problem, however the players that we still had useable should be able to perform a lot better. Liverpool’s woes this campaign were summed up in the season’s most farcical moment, losing to a bright red inflatable – and Sunderland, sort of – at the Stadium of Light. Next season lets hope that Benitez’s successor can do better.

In 1882 a group of North London teenagers formed Hotspur FC, named after the combative Henry Percy, “Harry Hotspur” of Shakespeare’s Henry IV (Part I) whose descendents owned land in the locality. The name changed to Tottenham Hotspur in 1884 to avoid confusion with London Hotspur. For a while the lads turned out on Tottenham Marshes and scuffles occasionally broke out with rival teams over the best pitches. In 1884 the club cancelled a fixture to watch the professionals of Blackburn Rovers win the first of three consecutive English Cup finals. So impressed were they that the club adopted Rovers’ blue and white halved shirts. In 1885 Spurs entered the London Association Cup and played their first competitory match against St Albans FC, winning 2-0 wearing their white football shirts

In 1888 Spurs moved to an enclosed ground on Northumberland Road and charged 3d (1p) price of admission. In 1890, playing in red shirts and navy shorts, Spurs were a respected side and five years later, they turned professional. In 1896, Tottenham were elected to the Southern League and adopted a new deep brown and old gold strip. In 1899 they moved into White Hart Lane.

There is some doubt over when they adopted their now celebrated white Tottenham home football shirt, a homage to the mighty Preston North End. Phil Soar in And the Spurs Go Marching On (1985) states the white shirts appeared in 1900 while Spurs. A account? of Tottenham Hotspur, (Julian Holland 1956) and Tottenham Hotspur: An Illustrated History, (Bob Goodwin 1995) suggest September 1899. However, the club’s historian, Andy Porter has provided HFK with a copy of an article published in The Golden Penny dated September 1898 which carries a photograph of the Spurs team wearing white shirts and navy knickers. At the time, no other team in the Southern League wore similar colours.

The white Totenham Hotspur shirt has been one of the most sought after football shirts for all Tottenham Hotspur football supporters.