Results - Game 26 Dec 2010 EPL Prediction League 2010/2011

And a Merry Christmas to one and all and congrats to Cool402 for catching up to Bedokian and be co-leaders at the Christmas turn-around.

Congrats also Arrenn for being the only 6-pointer this weekend to jump right back into the Top 10.

Congrats also to Mr. White for chalking another on the Marksmen Board to share the lead on that board with ihawk98.

Well done guys and a Happy New Year to all in advance.
Housekeeping Notes:

All of this season's tables will be kept in Flickr's photoset. Click Here.




EPL Prediction League "Perfect Score" Hall Of Fame
Perfect Score = 2 correct-score predictions in a single weekend and hence the award of the full 10 points.

1) 8plus1 (28 - 29 Aug 2010)
2) KingMeng (02 - 03 Oct 2010)
3) ihawk98 (02 - 03 Oct 2010)
4) ollopA (16 - 17 Oct 2010)

Marksmen Board (Number of Exact Predictions)
6 Games - ihawk98, Mr. White
5 Games - KingMeng
4 Games - Bedokian, Everton
3 Games - 8plus1, ollopA, Voxeros, redherring
2 Games - cool402, ianrush, edwinsng, weimeng
1 Game - 


Scoring System
3-Points for a correct outcome (Win, Lose or Draw)
1-point each for correct score on each side.

Double Entry
Later submission shall override earlier submission.

Penalty
No points for submission after kick-off. (Disqualification)

Blogspot Blackout
The EPL Prediction League will be played here but if in the event Blogger/Blogspot servers go down, we will automatically carry on the league over to my personal blog at http://www.jaywalkonline.com/. Please bookmark this or at the very least stay in touch with one of us as we will also be helping all stay in the loop via the various channels like MSN, Skype, email as well as SPUG Off-Topic Chat.

Prediction League Past WinnersCopa America 2004 - WeiMeng
EPL 2004/2005 - Friday13
EPL 2005/2006 - ianrush
World Cup 2006 - EdwinSng
EPL 2006/2007 - Voxeros
EPL 2007/2008 - Cool402
Euro 2008 - Voxeros
EPL 2008/2009 - Everton
EPL 2009/2010 - ihawk98
World Cup 2010 - Raynaldo

As usual:

1) If you have spotted a mistake, please let me know where and what so that I can amend them accordingly.

2) Please check your scores for accuracy as soon as possible before I update the table during the next round of scores. Once the table has been updated, the old table will be overwritten.

3) In case you are still seeing the old table even if I have announced a new update, please refresh your browser to reload the table.

Fixture Focus–Spurs (EPL, 26 December 2010)

Aston Villa vs Tottenham Hotspur       

Merry Christmas and hope your holiday weekend has been fun.

Man, do I miss football! After the snowed out weekend last week, I am so excited for Boxing Day football again.  This time, we travel to Villa Park for a tricky away tie.  A hard-fought win over West Bromwich Albion last time out helped alleviate some of the pressure on manager Gerard Houllier but did not offer many signs that Aston Villa can get back to the level they were at last season anytime soon.  One thing Villa can't be accused of this season is sitting back and trying to soak up the pressure when the big teams come to town. The 2-2 draw against Manchester United and the 4-2 defeat to Arsenal are testament to that. In fact Vila have scored more home goals than any other team in the bottom half of the table.

As for Spurs, Gallas is out but we do have Rafael van der Vaart, Jermaine Jenas, Younes Kaboul and Niko Kranjcar available again. Spurs are now unbeaten in their last eight games in all competitions and haven't lost against Villa in the last four meetings making them a daunting prospect for a team struggling at the wrong end of the table.

We must continue our good form and keep up with the leaders.  COYS!!!

Weekend Review - 26 Dec 2010

Manchester United vs Sunderland

2 weeks of no soccer due to bad weather, but we have so much to tell. We got Marseille in the 2nd round for Champions Cup. Rafa Benitez got sack by Inter Milan 6 months into the job after winning the World Club Cup. Russia and Qatar are given the rights to host 2018 and 2022 World Cup respectively, I know, sound abit too late.

Besides Chris Hughton, Sam Allardyce also got sacked by Blackburn Rovers.

Anyway, we are 2 points in front and 2 games in hand with Blackpool and Chelsea. I will take it that the loss in League Cup was a blessing in disguise as the Premier League are facing fixtures congestion due to bad weather.

Today game against Sunderland is our first game in nearly 2 weeks. That is really a winter break for Man Utd and it will definitely help them in the title chase. Same goes for Chelsea, Arsenal and Man City.

Man Utd Team News: Owen Hargreaves, Michael Owen, Antonio Valencia, Paul Scholes and John O'shea are out

Sunderland Team News: Lee Cattermole, John Mensah, Anton Ferdinand, Michael Turner, Titus Bramble, Matthew Kilgallon, Trevor Carson, Andy Ried and Frazier Campbell are out.

Odds and Analysis: Man Utd is giving 1.75 handicap. Take Man Utd for the win and the handicap.

Disclaimer: This review is entirely on my own views and opinion. I didn’t point a gun at you to ask you to follow. If you want to bet on this game, do so at your own risk. Pls bet within limits. Good luck.

EPL Prediction League Match Weekend 25-26 December 2010

Note that Both Matches are on Sunday as fixtures for this weekend is for Boxing Day only.

EPL35: SUN 26/12 Wolves vs Wigan at 10.55pm SIN/HKT

EPL36: SUN 26/12 Newcastle v Man City at 10.55pm SIN/HKT

GAME ON!

Scoring System
3-Points for a correct outcome (Win, Lose or Draw)
1-point each for correct score on each side.

Double Entry
Later submission shall override earlier submission.

Penalty
Submissions after kick-off will not be admissible. (Disqualification)

Blog Blackout
This Prediction League will be played here but if in the event this blog goes down, we will automatically carry on the league over to the personal blog of Voxeros at http://www.JayWalkOnline.com. Please bookmark this or at the very least stay in touch with one of us as we will also be helping all stay in the loop via the various channels like MSN, Skype, email as well as SPUG Off-Topic Chat.

Fixture Focus–Spurs (19 December 2010)

The fixture between Blackpool and Spurs has been called off due to bad weather.  Therefore, we will not preview the fixture this weekend.

EPL Prediction League Match Weekend 18-19 December 2010

EPL33: SAT 18/12 Birmingham vs Newcastle at 10.55pm SIN/HKT

EPL34: SUN 19/12 Chelsea v Man U at 11.55pm SIN/HKT

Both matches are cancelled due to bad weather!!

GAME ON!

Scoring System
3-Points for a correct outcome (Win, Lose or Draw)
1-point each for correct score on each side.

Double Entry
Later submission shall override earlier submission.

Penalty
Submissions after kick-off will not be admissible. (Disqualification)

Blog Blackout
This Prediction League will be played here but if in the event this blog goes down, we will automatically carry on the league over to the personal blog of Voxeros at http://www.JayWalkOnline.com. Please bookmark this or at the very least stay in touch with one of us as we will also be helping all stay in the loop via the various channels like MSN, Skype, email as well as SPUG Off-Topic Chat.

Results - Game 11 - 12 Dec 2010 EPL Prediction League 2010/2011

Not much happening this week as everybody stumbled on the Stoke-Blackpool game.

Personally, if not for the Monday kick-off, I would have picked the ManUtd-Arsenal game for our second game. Still, it was quite the good pick to have the Spurs-Chelsea game which proved just as tricky to predict.

Congrats to cool402, weimeng and Everton for being the only ones to pick up 3 points.

Housekeeping Notes:

All of this season's tables will be kept in Flickr's photoset. Click Here.





EPL Prediction League "Perfect Score" Hall Of Fame
Perfect Score = 2 correct-score predictions in a single weekend and hence the award of the full 10 points.

1) 8plus1 (28 - 29 Aug 2010)
2) KingMeng (02 - 03 Oct 2010)
3) ihawk98 (02 - 03 Oct 2010)
4) ollopA (16 - 17 Oct 2010)

Marksmen Board (Number of Exact Predictions)
6 Games - ihawk98
5 Games - KingMeng, Mr. White
4 Games - Bedokian, Everton
3 Games - 8plus1, ollopA, Voxeros, redherring
2 Games - cool402, ianrush, edwinsng, weimeng
1 Game - 


Scoring System
3-Points for a correct outcome (Win, Lose or Draw)
1-point each for correct score on each side.

Double Entry
Later submission shall override earlier submission.

Penalty
No points for submission after kick-off. (Disqualification)

Blogspot Blackout
The EPL Prediction League will be played here but if in the event Blogger/Blogspot servers go down, we will automatically carry on the league over to my personal blog at http://www.jaywalkonline.com. Please bookmark this or at the very least stay in touch with one of us as we will also be helping all stay in the loop via the various channels like MSN, Skype, email as well as SPUG Off-Topic Chat.

Prediction League Past Winners

Copa America 2004 - WeiMeng
EPL 2004/2005 - Friday13
EPL 2005/2006 - ianrush
World Cup 2006 - EdwinSng
EPL 2006/2007 - Voxeros
EPL 2007/2008 - Cool402
Euro 2008 - Voxeros
EPL 2008/2009 - Everton
EPL 2009/2010 - ihawk98
World Cup 2010 - Raynaldo

As usual:

1) If you have spotted a mistake, please let me know where and what so that I can amend them accordingly.

2) Please check your scores for accuracy as soon as possible before I update the table during the next round of scores. Once the table has been updated, the old table will be overwritten.

3) In case you are still seeing the old table even if I have announced a new update, please refresh your browser to reload the table.

Weekend Review - 13 Dec 2010

Manchester United vs Arsenal

"..we can go forth and claim both London teams in a week."

- Gary, 13 Dec 2010

The draw was what we wanted and we shall know who will be our 2nd round opponents in this coming Friday draw. Inter Milan, AC Milan, Lyon, Roma, Copenhagen and Marseille are the teams that we are more likely to face in 2011.

The coming fixture is good for both teams as they have extra day of rest and with no other fixtures in the week, we can go forth and claim both London teams in a week.

English Football Association are one weird lot of organisation. Not able to host World Cup 2018, they say they got backstab for promises by the committee that they will vote for England. Ouch. Now, Newcastle sack Chris Hughton for no apparent reason and mind you, Newcastle is not West Ham or Portsmouth. They aint at the bottom of the Premier League but bad boardroom management that have no intention of running the club, with the only intention to sell the club with a profit.

Man Utd Team News: Owen Hargreaves, Michael Owen, Antonio Valencia are out.

Arsenal Team News: Kieran Gibbs, Johan Djourou, Cesc Fabregas, Abou Diaby, Thomas Vermaelen are out.

Odds and Analysis: Man Utd give 0.5 ball handicap. Even though Man Utd home form is unbeaten, I doubt they will crave out a win. Avoid this.

Disclaimer: This review is entirely on my own views and opinion. I didn’t point a gun at you to ask you to follow. If you want to bet on this game, do so at your own risk. Pls bet within limits. Good luck.

Fixture Focus - Spurs (12 Dec 2010)

Tottenham Hotspur vs Chelsea FC

Both teams topped their respective groups and had qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League. With no European games until February of next year, it is time to concentrate on the domestic league, for both teams.

For this post, I shall begin with our opponents, rather than ourselves, first.

Chelsea has been so far without a league win since their loss to Sunderland back in early November. Ancelotti is feeling the heat, and so are the other players, as they see their lead on the league table slipped. Key things are Terry is back and ready and had played the Marseille game back in the midweek, and also Lampard may return at least to the bench. Facing our leaky defence would be their usual Drogba-Anelka-Kalou combo, but they had been facing a score drought themselves.

Spurs would be welcoming their west London neighbours without Van der Vaart, Jenas and Krancjar in the reception committee, but Modric would be back after recovering from a bout of flu. Likely starters would be Gomes, Gallas, Bassong, Assou-Ekotto, Hutton, Bale, Lennon, Modric, Palacios, Crouch and Pavlyuchenko/Defoe, with Dawson and Sandro probably at the bench.

Although we are away from the chasing pack from the teams 6th and below, this is a must win in order for us for stay at the momentum, and to catch up with the leading pack in the 1st to 4th positions. However, Chelsea, in the meantime, needed to "break the duck" and would go all out in reminding others that they are last season's EPL champions and still capable of being the one for this.

But one thing's for sure, Chelsea is coming to White Hart Lane, where even the European champions had fell.

Take a guess for the outcome. ;)

COYS!!!!!

EPL Prediction League Match Weekend 11-12 December 2010

EPL31: SAT 11/12 Stoke vs Blackpool at 10.55pm SIN/HKT

EPL32: SUN 12/12 Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea at 11.55pm SIN/HKT

GAME ON!

Scoring System
3-Points for a correct outcome (Win, Lose or Draw)
1-point each for correct score on each side.

Double Entry
Later submission shall override earlier submission.

Penalty
Submissions after kick-off will not be admissible. (Disqualification)

Blog Blackout
This Prediction League will be played here but if in the event this blog goes down, we will automatically carry on the league over to the personal blog of Voxeros at http://www.JayWalkOnline.com. Please bookmark this or at the very least stay in touch with one of us as we will also be helping all stay in the loop via the various channels like MSN, Skype, email as well as SPUG Off-Topic Chat.