EPL 2007/08 Prediction Thread

[ShearMagic9]

The biggest slider will be either Reading or Bolton

 

[MightyIrons]

As others have said, may have to update this before seasons starts due to signings...

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

Relegated: Derby, Wigan, Birmingham

Promoted: Charlton, West Brom, Wolverhampton

Biggest Surprise: Newcastle

Biggest Slider: Reading

Biggest Flop: Torres or Babel (More so Torres as he is a bit older and will be expected to perform straight away, Babel will have more time.)

Best Buy: Tuncay

Upset of the Season: Wigan beat Arsenal @ The Emirates.

Player of the Season: Ronaldo

Young Player: Agbonlahor

Manager of the Season: Moaninho

Golden Boot: Drogba

Clean Sheets: Cech

Storyline of the season: Sir Alex to retire!

First manager sacked: No managers sacked. Now there is a big call.

 

[Boro]

I reserve the right to change this up until the season starts I expect a few clubs will buy some decent players, before it all starts, so it's hard to predict just yet.

1. Liverpool
2. Chelsea
3. Man Utd
4. Arsenal
5. Tottenham
6. Boro
7. Everton
8. Blackburn
9. Man City
10. Reading
11. Sunderland
12. Bolton
13. West Ham
14. Fulham
15. Aston Villa
16. Portsmouth
17. Newcastle
18. Wigan
19. Derby
20. Birmingham

Relegated: Birmingham, Wigan, Derby

Promoted: Charlton, Leicester, Stoke

Biggest Surprise: Boro

Biggest Slider: Pompey

Biggest Flop: Sam Allardyce

Best Buy: Tuncay

Upset of the Season: Derby to beat ManU at Old Trafford

Player of the Season: Ronaldo

Manager of the Season: Benitez

Golden Boot: Drogba

Clean Sheets: Cech

First manager sacked: Harry

Man Utd's giant squad to get the better of Fergie, but I'll tip them to win the Champions League.

 

[apollo_creed]

The biggest slider will be either Reading or Bolton

Note - Funniest bit of humour in the history of the internet to appear below this post.

As I requote this post, prepare yourself, a post for the ages of time is here....

 

[apollo_creed]

The biggest slider will be either Reading or Bolton

No. The biggest slider is and always will be Jerry O'Connell.

(kind of a letdown, extremely stupid, I am aware)

 

[CDFCLad]

They're a small club and always will be.

ridiculous comment, firstly read your history, you just may be surprised about Sunderland's historical stature in English Football.

Also not many clubs take 7,000 away fans to games nor get 40,000 to several home games when not in the top flight, will not defend our on the pitch record in last 10-15 years but when it comes to supporter base, we are right up there.

 

[Arsene Wenger]

My predictions (to be updated with more signings due).

Book it in -

Chelski
Man Utd
Liverpool
Arsenal
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Spurs
West Ham
Newcastle
Everton
Portsmouth
Sunderland
Blackburn
Villa
Reading
Bolton
Man City
Birmingham
Boro
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Wigan
Derby
Fulham

Promoted from Championship - West Brom, Cardiff, Southampton
EPL Golden Boot - Berbatov
Biggest Surprise: Sunderland
Biggest Slider: Fulham
Biggest Flop: Owen Hargreaves
Best Buy: VAR DOO KA
Upset of the Season: Sunderland to beat Man Utd at Old trafford
Clean Sheets: Cech
Storyline of the season: Drogba to leave Chelski in summer - spat with Jose.
First manager sacked: Sanchez

 

[Ray Nolan]

1. Chelsea
2. Manchester United
3. Liverpool
4. Arsenal
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5. Tottenham Hotspur
6. Newcastle United
7. Blackburn Rovers
8. West Ham United
9. Portsmouth
10. Reading
11. Bolton Wanderers
12. Birmingham City
13. Sunderland
14. Manchester City
15. Middlesbrough
16. Everton
17. Fulham
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18. Wigan Athletic
19. Derby County
20. A**** V****

Relegated: Wigan Athletic, Derby County, A**** V****

Promoted: West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Coventry City

Biggest Surprise: Newcastle United

Biggest Slider: Everton - 1 season good, next season bad - again.

Biggest Flop: Marlon Harewood

Best Buy: Mido

Upset of the Season: Birmingham City beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on the first weekend.

Player of the Season: Didier Drogba

Manager of the Season: Jose Mourinho

Golden Boot: Didier Drogba

Clean Sheets: Petr Cech

First manager sacked: Martin O'Neill - to be replaced by Graham Taylor

 

[TorresIsGod]

1. Liverpool
2. Manchester United
3. Chelsea
4. Arsenal
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5. Tottenham Hotspur
6. Newcastle United
7. Blackburn Rovers
8. West Ham United
9. Portsmouth
10. Reading
11. Bolton Wanderers
12. Birmingham City
13. Aston Villa
14. Manchester City
15. Middlesbrough
16. Sunderland
17. Everton
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18. Wigan Athletic
19. Derby County
20. Fulham

Relegated: Wigan Athletic, Derby County, Fulham

Promoted: West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Coventry City

Biggest Surprise: Newcastle United, they'll get things right on the field eventually.

Biggest Slider: Everton

Biggest Flop: Nani and Anderson

Best Buy: Torres

Upset of the Season: Liverpool win the league.

Player of the Season: Steven Gerrard

Manager of the Season: Rafa Benitez

Golden Boot: Fernando Torres

Clean Sheets: Jose Reina

First manager sacked: David Moyes (Everton will be in the relegation zone going into May, they'll appoint Phil Neville as player/manager and he'll keep them up, they'll finish 17th)

 

[macca69]

Will update as the signings come in:

1. Chelsea
2. Man United
3. Liverpool
4. Arsenal
5. Tottenham
6. Newcastle
7. Everton
8. Portsmouth
9. Aston Villa
10. West Ham
11. Blackburn
12. Middlesborough
13. Man City
14. Bolton
15. Reading
16. Sunderland
17. Birmingham
18. Fulham
19. Wigan
20. Derby

 

[lion_gooner]

1st.manure

2nd.liverpool

3rd.chelsea

4th arsenal

5th.everton

6th.newcastle

7th.tottenham

8th.blackburn

9th.portsmouth

10th.middlesbourough

either one of manure or liverpool will defitnetly win it this season for sure

surely liverpool will give the title race a real go with 2 decent wingers in gerrard(not really a winger obviously but rafa wont play him in the middle) and babel if he can adapt to english football which i wouldnt imagine would be any problem and the same for torres


chelsea wont be as good as what they usually are and im not being biased either i do truly believe chelsea wont be as good this season and hopefully then chelsea will sack mourinho and then they will fall apart

the difference between the top 4 will be about 10 points i reckon

so i wouldnt be to pissed off with arsenal if they miss out on top spot by 10 or so points but defitnetly not 30 odd again

 

[lion_gooner]

Relegated: Wigan Athletic, Derby County,sunderland

Promoted: West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Coventry City

Biggest Surprise:how good torres will be

Biggest Slider:chelsea-will be found out and wont be as good as usuall

Biggest Flop: jeremie aliadiere lol

Best Buy: fernando torres

Upset of the Season:arsenal to beat chelsea

Player of the Season:fernando torres

Manager of the Season:rafa the gaffer for finnaly chalenging the premiership

Golden Boot: probably rooney

Clean Sheets: jose reina

 

[Waite_30]

1. Liverpool
2. Manchester United
3. Chelsea
4. Arsenal
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5. Tottenham Hotspur
6. Newcastle United
7. Blackburn Rovers
8. West Ham United
9. Portsmouth
10. Reading
11. Bolton Wanderers
12. Birmingham City
13. Aston Villa
14. Manchester City
15. Middlesbrough
16. Sunderland
17. Everton
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18. Wigan Athletic
19. Derby County
20. Fulham

Relegated: Wigan Athletic, Derby County, Fulham

Promoted: West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Coventry City

Biggest Surprise: Newcastle United, they'll get things right on the field eventually.

Biggest Slider: Everton

Biggest Flop: Nani and Anderson

Best Buy: Torres

Upset of the Season: Liverpool win the league.

Player of the Season: Steven Gerrard

Manager of the Season: Rafa Benitez

Golden Boot: Fernando Torres

Clean Sheets: Jose Reina

You wish buddy.

 

[Crissy_v]

1. Chelsea
2. Manchester United
3. Liverpool
4. Newcastle United
5. Tottenham-Hotspur
6. Arsenal
7. Everton

18. Birmingham City
19. Wigan Athletic
20. Derby County

Clubs in Europe:
Champions League:
Chelsea- well who knows, we are chokers in the Champs League, maybe this year though.

Manchester United- see Chelsea

Liverpool- will give it a real shake(as usual) much to my disgust.

Arsenal- would be surprised if they made the last 16.

UEFA Cup:
Spurs- may go all the way here

Everton- prob make last 16 but not much more

Bolton- I think they're a tad out of their league but that's what we said last year in terms of the EPL, so who knows.




Cups- well you cant predict Cups but I think Spurs will get at least one of them.


Best Player: Essien or Ronaldo

Best young player: Drenthe, if Chelsea can sign (please God let it happen)

 

[Benno_900]

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

Relegated: Fulham, Wigan, Derby

Promoted: Southampton, West Brom, Coventry City

Biggest Surprise: Aston Villa win a game or two instead of drawing

Biggest Slider: Bolton

Biggest Flop: Owen Hargreaves

Best Buy: Florent Malouda

Upset of the Season: Sunderland beat one of the top 4

Player of the Season: Cesc Fabregas

Manager of the Season: Roy Keane

Golden Boot: Dimitar Berbatov

Clean Sheets: Petr Cech

First manager sacked: Mark Hughes (Crap first 3 months)

 

[Embers]

1. Chelsea
2. Man Utd
3. Liverpool
4. Tottenham
5. Arsenal
6. Everton
7. Blackburn
8. West Ham
9. Newcastle
10. Bolton
11. Portsmouth
12. Aston Villa
13. Middlesborough
14. Sunderland
15. Reading
16. Man City
17. Fulham
18. Wigan
19. Birmingham City
20. Derby

Relegated: Birmingham, Wigan, Derby

Promoted: Cardiff, Wolves, Charlton

Biggest Surprise: Man City doing poorly

Biggest Slider: Bolton

Biggest Flop: Owen Hargraves (for the price)

Best Buy: Florent Malouda

Upset of the Season: West Ham do the double over Arsenal again

Player of the Season: Cristiano Ronaldo (again)

Golden Boot: Dimitar Berbatov

Clean Sheets: Petr Cech

First manager sacked: None will be

 

[apollo_creed]

1. Chelsea
2. Manchester United
3. Liverpool
4. Arsenal
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5. Tottenham Hotspur
6. Newcastle United
7. Blackburn Rovers
8. West Ham United
9. Portsmouth
10. Reading
11. Bolton Wanderers
12. Birmingham City
13. Sunderland
14. Manchester City
15. Middlesbrough
16. Everton
17. Fulham
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18. Wigan Athletic
19. Derby County
20. A**** V****

Relegated: Wigan Athletic, Derby County, A**** V****

Promoted: West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Coventry City

Biggest Surprise: Newcastle United

Biggest Slider: Everton - 1 season good, next season bad - again.

Biggest Flop: Marlon Harewood

Best Buy: Mido

Upset of the Season: Birmingham City beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on the first weekend.

Player of the Season: Didier Drogba

Manager of the Season: Jose Mourinho

Golden Boot: Didier Drogba

Clean Sheets: Petr Cech

First manager sacked: Martin O'Neill - to be replaced by Graham Taylor

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&f=88

If you ever do it as a 'bit'. Make sure you climax with the part about beating Chelsea (the team who hasn't lost at home for over 3 years, about to break the record) at Stamford Bridge.

 

[belfast_bomber]

Biggest Flop: Nani

 

[Borgsta]

Derby to not get relegated is my surprise.

Fulham, Wigan and Birmingham to go down.

Spurs to finish 5th again, 4 points behind 4th placed Arsenal.

Man Utd to win EPL, Chelsea players to leave in droves.

M. Owen for top goalscorer

 

[ShearMagic9]

Derby to not get relegated is my surprise.

Fulham, Wigan and Birmingham to go down.

Spurs to finish 5th again, 4 points behind 4th placed Arsenal.

Man Utd to win EPL, Chelsea players to leave in droves.

M. Owen for top goalscorer

Plleeeeeaaaasssse let it happen

 

[Boro]

Plleeeeeaaaasssse let it happen

You know it won't He's already injured isn't he?

 

[TheNextBigThing]

Champions - Chelsea

Relegated: Birmingham, Wigan, Derby

Biggest Surprise: Shevchenko does well

Biggest Slider: Bolton

Biggest Flop: Torres

Best Buy: Florent Malouda

Upset of the Season: Tottenham 3-0 Arsenal

Player of the Season: Cristiano Ronaldo

Golden Boot: Didier Drogba

Clean Sheets: Petr Cech

 

[dogs...]

the top 4 will be the same teams as usual, i guess its a raffle between who finishes where...
could be seeing my gooners come of age and actually convert, if we did last year we would had a lot more points by seasons end.

flops: - wouldnt be surprised if liverpools millions fail once again and they go nowhere in the champions league, u can only go so far relying on aggregate wins... liverpool are without doubt the most over-hyped team in world football.

- spurs to begin an illustrious leeds-esque freefall into the lower rhelms of english football, they've spent way too much money on mediocre players, the only class act they have is berbatov and he will leave after this season. heads will roll at the lane and jenas will finally come out of the closet and admit his undying love for his soulmate Ca$hley C*nt at Chel$$$$$$ki.

big seasons: after an injury ravaged season last year expect rosicky to start banging down some world cup form and dominating, showed plenty of glimpses last year but got injured many times just as he was finding his touch.
couple this with a massive season from my dutch lover van persie who has arguably the worst haircut going around circa 1998.

don't be surprised: -if newcastle have a stellar season, theyre a big club and theyve been down for too long and they should rise this season with fat sam leading the way.

- if portsmouth, bolton and reeading all flop, played out of their skins last season and they will be found out.

relegation: -derby for sure, made no good signings, robbie earnshaw u've gotta be kidding me!
-fulham look doomed, ive never minded them but theyve always been lucky to stay up.
-wigan were F*KN lucky last year and theyve made no big improvements off season and they could still lose baines which for me would be the sealer to seeing them go down.

 

[Bulldog1954]

1. Chelsea
2. Man U

Distance

3. Arsenal
4. Liverpool
5. Everton
6. Spurs
7. Newcastle
8. Boro
9. Pompey
10. Blackburn
11. Aston Villa
12. Bolton
13. Man City
14. West Ham
15. Reading
16. Birmingham
17. Wigan
18. Fulham
19. Sunderland
20. Derby




Biggest Surprise: Everton

Biggest Slider: Reading

Biggest Flop: Torres

Best Buy: Tuncay

Upset of the Season: Sunderland beating any side above 10th

Player of the Season: Frankie

Manager of the Season: David Moyes

Golden Boot: Didier Drogba

Clean Sheets: Petr Cech

 

[ShearMagic9]

You know it won't He's already injured isn't he?

Shush you