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Premier League predictions 2011/12
Posted by kb on 8 August 2011 - 4:50pm.
Top Six
1
2
3
4
5
6
Bottom Three
18
19
20
And in-between if you want. And FA Cup, Carling Cup, Champions League, Scotland, anything...
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Predictions
Top Six
1 Manchester United
2 Chelsea
3 Manchester City
4 Liverpool
5 Arsenal
6 Everton
Bottom Three
18 Wigan Athletic
19 Newcastle United
20 Swansea City
Is your Newcastle...
... position based on them not being able to keep hold of their star players?
This thread...
...was about the season we are now in. From last August.
Oh my god...
... I'm an idiot!!!
It was
Nolan, Barton, Carroll and Enrique were considered their top players, and all disappeared within a short space of time.
I thought they were doomed but I couldn't have been more wrong! I'm glad to be wrong though 'cause Newcastle are a great club.
Alan Pardew and Graham Carr deserve major praise.
Never mind the Toon
It's nice to see those four lovely lads fulfilling their long-cherished ambitions at their new clubs... er, hang on...
Schadenfreude, moi?
In fairness
Carroll and Enrique have already won more trophies in their stuttering Liverpool careers than Newcastle have since the 60s.
And they're in another cup final in two weeks.
Well.....
Only two teams can win the wretched thing....so one of them will win it.
Tottenham will finish fifth or sixth.
And Arsenal will finish fourth.
No third.
No fourth.
No third.
No fourth.
No third.
No, as you were, fourth.
My only hope is that they prove as much of a basket-case as last season.
They are the true inheritors of Benny Hill's crown.
Of far more interest, I think Barnet and Dagenham will make the play-offs in Division 4.
FWIIW
1 Manchester United
2Chelsea
3Manchester City
4Arsenal
5Liverpool
6Tottenham
18 Newcastle
19 Wigan
20 Swansea
FA cup Arsenal
League Cup Everton
CL Real Madrid
Euro 2012 Spain
Best director Terence Mallick
Here We Go
Top Six
United
City
Chelsea
Arsenal
Liverpool
Spurs
Bottom Three
Norwich City
Blackburn Rovers
Swansea
Champions League
Barcelona
FA Cup
City again I hope
Championship
West Ham despite Sundays result
Carling Cup
Liverpool
League 2...
Southend United for 19th. Yay!
[*Gets car coat*]
FWIW
Assuming Wenger signs a centre back (or two) by the deadline, top six:
1 Manchester United
2 Chelsea
3 Arsenal
4 Manchester City
5 Liverpool
6 Sp*rs
If he doesn't:
1 Manchester United
2 Chelsea
3 Manchester City
4 Liverpool
5 Arsenal
6 Sp*rs
(Even if he does sign someone, I still think we'll have 0 points at the start of Sept.)
Bottom Three:
18 Norwich City
19 Wigan Athletic
20 Swansea City
Championship, top three:
1. West Ham United
2. Leicester City
3. Nottm Forest (who will fail in the play-offs, again)
FA Cup: Chelsea
League Cup: Arsenal
Scotland: Celtic or Rangers (going out on a limb there)
Champions League: Barcelona
Euro 2012: Spain
Alex Carbon-Dioxide
Another signing to give grist to the anti-Wenger mill. We have enough tricky little fast guys with potential don't we?
However, I am pro-Wenger and do feel we are not as bad as people think. We should have Vermaelen all season; a sound keeper (he would be in the England squad pushing Hart hard); Nasri or Cesc (they won't both leave); Ramsey will be the new star alongside last year's star; we have got rid of Clichy who single-handedly lost us 4-6 points per season; Gervinho looks good; RvP looks fit; even Rosicky looks like he might be back to full form...
Nice to see ...
... you Arse boys have got big ambitions this season. The League Cup, get in there lads.
Whatever
Whatever, Johnny.
We had a spectacularly crap season last season and still did better than your lot in every competition, except for the Champions' League in which we lost to the eventual winners by the odd goal in 7, instead of being humiliated 5-0 on average.
You carry on being ambitious. It must keep you warm at night.
Fair play
.. but I enjoyed my trip to the Emirates more than the San Siro. Younes ... get in.
17 years
Yes, it must have been nice to see something as rare as a Spuds win at Arsenal.
Putting all this to one side, if you're a resident of Tottenham, Johnny, I genuinely hope that you and yours haven't been affected by the looting.
Optimistic
1 Swansea
2 Liverpool
3 Fulham
4 West Brom
5 Everton
6 Norwich
18 Arsenal
19 Chelsea
20 Man Utd
I'm forecasting a repeat of 1993:
Norwich 3rd, QPR 5th; City, Arsenal and Chelsea to finish 9th 10th 11th..
(You may scoff, but is that Brett Anderson on the cover of The Word up there^)
The players' player of the year will be a high profile UK international at a top 4 club - Rooney, Gerard, Joe Hart, perhaps
The football writers' player of the year will be a media friendly foreign lad whose periodic flashes of skill in the Autumn sunshine endure in the memory. Strong chance he plays for a London club - Van Persie, Van Der Vaart, (fingers crossed) Adel Taarabt...
Norwich
A top ten finish is guaranteed!
I can't see much
beyond the usual suspects for the top 6.
Probably Man U/Chelsea for 1/2, and the split the rest.
The mighty Canaries will once again flirt with disaster. We'll get tagged as the plucky new kids who are going to go down, but no-one will want to visit Carrow Road. I reckon 4th off bottom, because it looks like Lambert's imbued them with some fighting spirit that previous relegation-bound teams have lacked. Might be goal difference at the end of the day.
Arsenal won't be as bad as everyone thinks
Top Six
1 United
2 Arsenal
3 City
4 Chelsea
5 Liverpool
6 Spurs
7 Fulham
8 Everton
9 Sunderland
10 Bolton
11 Stoke
12 WBA
13 Newcastle
14 Villa
15 Blackburn
16 Norwich
17 Wolves
Bottom Three
18 Swansea
19 QPR
20 Wigan
FA Cup - United
Carling Cup - Arsenal
Champions League - Real Madrid
Promoted - Cardiff, Leicester, West Ham
First manager sacked - Kean from Blackburn
I reckon:
Top spot & runner-up will be either: Man Utd or Chelsea
Arsenal, Liverpool, Man City & Tottenham will contest the next 4 places
(predictable, but likely to be correct)
Bottom 3: Newcastle, Swansea & Norwich (Wolves & West Brom surviving on the last day of the season)
In the Championship - West Ham & Leicester promoted.
Reading to get to the Play Offs again, and hopefully this time return to the money pit of the Premier League
I'll follow the crowd
1. Man U
2. Chelsea
3. Man City
4. Liverpool
5. Arsenal
6. Bolton (ah, why the hell not?)
18. Newcastle
19. Swansea
20. Blackburn
FA Cup: Spurs
League Cup: Stoke
Champions League: Barcelona
Championship: Leicester
League One: Huddersfield
League Two: Crawley
Blackburn...
are going to survive this season?
See dates
These are predictions from August last year
Top Six 1 Man City 2
Top Six
1 Man City
2 Chelsea
3 Man United
4 Arsenal
5 Liverpool
6 Sunderland
Bottom Three
18 Blackburn
19 Norwich
20 Swansea (but I hope they do much better)
FA Cup, Spurs
Champions League, Barcelona or Real Madrid
Scotland, Rangers or Celtic
Carling Cup, Carlsberg or Fosters
I can't be bothered to predict
As much as I love football and live in hope, we all know how it's going to turn out. Same old, same old.
Let's get racy
Arsenal
Man Utd
Liverpool
Man City
Chelsea
Newcastle (just watch...)
Bottom three: who cares?
Champion's League: Man Utd
FA Cup: Man Utd
Mickey Mouse Reserve's Run-out Cup: Whatever.
Winner of the sack race: that Chelsea bloke.
PFA Player: That tall las from Arsenal who's name escapes me.
SPL: Far too unpredictable to call.
Promoted: Leeds, Cardiff, Blues or Boro.
Racy?
Deluded
Now now, petal....
...play nice.
Mine
Top Six
1 Man Utd
2 Chelsea
3 Man City
4 Liverpool
5 Spurs
6 Everton
Bottom Three
18 Blackburn
19 Swansea
20 Norwich
Liverpool for the FA Cup and Reading for the Carling
AND BRISTOL ROVERS FOR LEAGUE 2
Top Six
1 Utd
2 City
3 Tottenham
4 Chelsea
5 Liverpool
6 Fulham
Bottom three
18 Norwich
19 Swansea
20 QPR
FA Cup Chelsea
League Cup Fulham
C/L Barcelona
Europa League Fulham
C'mon you Cottagers!
Fulham for 6th spot, the Milk Cup and the Europa League? Ambitious, Dave, but why not? Gotta pay for that statue somehow.
Championship
Speaking as a Tractor Boy, can we stop the season right here, please?
:-)
We're haven't had a weird year for ages, so...
1. Arsenal
2. Manchester City
3. Chelsea
4. Manchester United
5. Everton
6. Liverpool
Bottom 3: er, dunno - but three who were mid-table last year.
FA Cup: Spurs
Champions League: Borussia Dortmund
Europa League: Athletic Bilbao
Dortmund...
... is certainly a good outside bet. Klopp has worked wonders and he's also managed to secure Goetze on a long-term deal. The CL is going to be his priority next season.
As a Norwich fan...
I can't be as adventurous as The Observer in predicting 12th place, but I think we can stay up. Just. If you offered me a repeat of the 2005 'Survival Sunday' position with everything being in our hands on the last day I'd take it right now. There is no way that what happened at Fulham (0-6) would be repeated at home to Aston Villa. For starters if half his midfield didn't turn up - because they were uncommitted loan players or already having eyes on a move to Wigan - as at Craven Cottage, I wouldn't want to face Paul Lambert in the dressing room at half- and full-time. He signs players he can trust and - unlike 2004/5 - actually uses them in their rightful position.
But if we were to go down, at least we'd be relegated having given it a go, unlike the often timid winless away form of 2004/5. PL's away league record at NCFC is 22 victories from 44 fixtures. I would fully expect us to win at least twice on the road in 2011/2.
Included in those 22 wins are the 5-0 at Colchester in 2010 and the 5-1 at Ipswich this year and given that PL knows his recent Norwich history and importance of key games I think, all things being equal, we will go to Craven Cottage on March 31 and win.
No, I believe Blackburn, QPR, Swansea and Wigan should have more to worry about than us.
I think you lot must be taking drugs
because I don't recognise half these teams. Top 4 in the Premiership:
1. Saracens
2. Northampton
3. Leicester
4. Bath
Relegation spot: Newcastle
Championship champions: Cornish Pirates
Cup: London Irish
European Cup: Toulose
1 Manchester
1 Manchester United
2Chelsea
3Manchester City
4Arsenal
5Liverpool
6Tottenham
18 QPR
19 Wigan
20 Swansea
FA cup Arsenal
League Cup Bolton
Champions League Chelsea
Europa League Paris Saint Germain
Euro 2012 Spain
Championship
Leicester
West Ham
Cardiff (Playoffs)
Scotland
SPL - Celtic
Scottish Cup - Aberdeen (please!!)
League Cup - Rangers
French League - PSG
Spanish League - Barcelona
German League - Bayern Munich
Italian League - Juventus
I can't believe how serious you lot are
1. Liverpool. And The FA Cup, League Cup and Fair Play League
2. Norwich (as likely as the first)
3. Man Utd - ok, reality setting in now
4,5,6, Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea in some order or t'other
Relegation
18. Man City. Come on, its City. There's bound to be drama, so...
19. Newcastle (another case of its bound to be drama)
20. QPR - but some things are predictable
Champion's League - Man City - told you its got to be drama(in this reality Barcelona or Real Madrid)
UEFA - Stoke. Wouldn't you just love it? Or Crvena zvezda. What a name, what a team. Imagine the commentry. Even HMHB couldn't sing songs about them. (sadly better known as Red Star Belgrade). In reality there are so many teams in the competition UEFA realise it has to be held over two overlapping years, so the winners will not be known until 2013. If ever.
Championship - Champions Ipswich, Promoted Leeds and Millwall. Policemen celebrate in the streets with the thought of all that overtime. Portsmouth initially win promotion but are deducted 20 points for having 19 different owners in one season, none of whom pay the leccy bill.
League 1 - Tranmere. And why not?
League 2 - AFC Wimbledon. Just so they can play MK Dons. With Crewe promoted because I like them.
European Championship. Spain. Or Germany. Because they are Spain and Germany. Certainly not England. Because we are England.
Anyone thinking...
... of setting up another Word Magazine fantasy Football League this year? As the glorious victor of last year's contest I feel I could do with another ego boost.
Fantasy Premier League
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/fantasy-premier-league
2011/12 Leagues Created
WORD Massive Classic: 61368-23574
WORD Massive Head to Head: 61368-23587
I know it's not over yet...
...but this already makes interesting reading.
Take a bow Pax Romana.
Yep. Kudos for being the only one to anticipate
the Newcastle surge.
But surely points away for "Bottom Three - Who Cares?"
*edit* A further forecast:
Ireland will go to the Euros, get a win (v Italy) a draw and a defeat and come home as heroes.
England will go to the Euros, get a win a draw and a defeat and return to a reception of rotten tomatoes...
Depressing
Looking back and seeing those "Leicester - promoted" predictions just an hour or so before I head off to Filbert Way for the last rites (well, last home game) against West Ham.
Swansea
Have done a lot better than most predicted!
predictions
I see the League as a battle between City and United. I also have a feeling (I'll put it no stronger than that) that Wolves may be relegated. I'm afraid I regard Liverpool as no more than a cup team this year.
I fear ...
.. AVB may not be the right guy for Chelsea.
Before David Hepworth chips in...
And he will be out before Steve Kean.
Do you have to
bring the man's sexuality into it...?