11 BOLD predictions for the forthcoming season

Ok, I put up a similar thread last year and got one or two predictions spot on including Raheem Sterling winning and England cap despite some people wondering 'who?'.

So here goes again for this season:-

1) Norwich City to finish in the top 10.
2) Jacksonville Jaguar cheerleaders to appear at Craven Cottage in the pouring rain.
3) Liverpool and Tottenham to gatecrash the top four.
4) The three promoted teams to go straight back down.
5) Luke Shaw to get an England call up.
6) Man United to win a 'big 4' clash in 'Moyesy time'.
7) Cristiano Ronaldo to score on his first game back with Man United.
8) Fernando Torres to be Premier League top goalscorer.
9) West Brom to be the last unbeaten team.
10) Goal line technology to be used in the first week of the Premier League season.

And of course...

11) England to win the 2014 World Cup.

1) Unlikely.
2)  
3) Tottenham wouldn't surprise me, but Liverpool? They'd have to go a long way this season.
4) They do have the weakest squads on paper, I suppose. I only think 2 will go down.
5) Only if England's wealth of full-backs all find themselves injured.
6) Would be hilarious!
7) He's not coming back.
8) It'll be RVP or Rooney.
9) Just no.
10) That'll be poetic if it happens.
11) I agree!

1. no
2. possible
3. no chance
4. likely
5. not yet, only when cole officially retires
6. good chance
7. not coming back
8. unlikely
9. no
10. doubtful
11. good luck with that

Mine are these;

Swansea to finish above BOTH Merseyside clubs
Martin Jol to be sacked before the 5th game of the season
Chelsea to finish behind both Manchester clubs
Palace to challenge Derby's all time lowest points record

And I don't think it's that bold to suggest Norwich will finish top 10, considering we've finished 12th and 11th now...just natural progression... 

1) Swansea will finish 5th and play in europe again next season
2) Norwich will finish in the top 10
3) Bale will still be at spurs in may
4) Soldado will be top scorer
5) Chelsea and Man city will finish 1 & 2, and will be the only challengers come april
6) Liverpool will once again fail but finish above everton
7) Gary Hooper will win his first England cap
8) Arsenal will finish 6th and spurs will be top 4
9) David Moyes will win a trophy
10) Arsene Wenger will cry during an interview and quit

Here are mine.

All London teams but Palace will be in the top 10
Cardiff to sweep the season series with Swansea
Jose Mourinho to finish season as the winningest coach in PL history
Liverpool will win a trophy. Man United won't. (Community Shield is about as prestigious as my hairy sack! Only counts if it's YOUR club)
Random fan will throw Americanisation into bold predictions
Petr Cech to break his own record for PL shutouts
One established team will be relegated
Arsenal player commits terrible foul and Wenger sees it
Kevin Phillips to have a heart attack on a Palace counter (dude is old!!!)

Here goes in no particular order:

1) United will win the Premier League.
2) Liverpool will finish outside the top ten.
3) Wenger will be sacked by Christmas after Arsenal don't make it past the CL group stages.
4) John Terry will come out of international retirement.
5) Stoke will be relegated.
6) Chelsea will win the Champions League.
7) A second-tier English club will win the FA Cup.
8) Gary Hooper will make England's world cup squad.
9) Harry Redknapp will end the season managing a PL club.
10) Roy Hodgson will lead England out of the wilderness, and into the promised land of world cup glory.

Eden Hazard will be POTY
United will start slowly, but will finish 3rd and win a trophy
This is Wenger's last season as Arsenal manager
Rooney, Suarez and Bale will all stay where they are until at least January
Jonathon Williams to be Palace's star player
Aguero to be top scorer
Joe Kinnear KO3 Alan Pardew

1. Ryan Giggs will score again, keeping up his legendary record.
2. Gus Poyet will manage a prem club
3. Palace will end on less points than Derby
4. Southampton will end in the top half
5. Benteke will be the top scorer
6. Arsenal won't win a trophy again
7. United will win something
8. Suarez will leave in January
9. Mark Hughes will screw Stoke up
10. Remy will score a lot of goals.

Duty281 wrote:Here goes in no particular order:

1) United will win the Premier League.
2) Liverpool will finish outside the top ten.
3) Wenger will be sacked by Christmas after Arsenal don't make it past the CL group stages.
4) John Terry will come out of international retirement.
5) Stoke will be relegated.
6) Chelsea will win the Champions League.
7) A second-tier English club will win the FA Cup.
8) Gary Hooper will make England's world cup squad.
9) Harry Redknapp will end the season managing a PL club.
10) Roy Hodgson will lead England out of the wilderness, and into the promised land of world cup glory.

He wants to. Said so in the spring. Not sure the FA want him. It's the reason Capello "walked". Terry is the poison fruit of England managers now after the FA's witch-hunt. He's still the best CB we have. Cahill has regressed after a good first 12 months at Chelsea and Jagielka isn't the most solid. Not gonna say anything about Dawson.

JamesLincs wrote:3) Bale will still be at spurs in May

So you are expecting.Bale to be 'injured' all year?

1) All three promoted sides will go down
2) Wayne Rooney will stay at Manchester United
3) Jose Mourinho will have abandoned his new 'maturity' by Christmas
4) All three promoted sides will have different managers by the end of the year
5) Liverpool will finish above Everton
6) Gary Hooper will be the highest scoring Englishman but not make the World Cup squad
7) Newcastle will sack Alan Pardew
8) Manchester United will finish below City, but do the double over them
9) One of the promoted sides will gain wins over two of City, Chelsea or United.
10) Stuart Pearce will return to Premier League management

I'm not sure you can say John Terry is the best centre back England have when he could barely make the Chelsea team last year.

CFCNick wrote:

Duty281 wrote:Here goes in no particular order:

1) United will win the Premier League.
2) Liverpool will finish outside the top ten.
3) Wenger will be sacked by Christmas after Arsenal don't make it past the CL group stages.
4) John Terry will come out of international retirement.
5) Stoke will be relegated.
6) Chelsea will win the Champions League.
7) A second-tier English club will win the FA Cup.
8) Gary Hooper will make England's world cup squad.
9) Harry Redknapp will end the season managing a PL club.
10) Roy Hodgson will lead England out of the wilderness, and into the promised land of world cup glory.

He wants to. Said so in the spring. Not sure the FA want him. It's the reason Capello "walked". Terry is the poison fruit of England managers now after the FA's witch-hunt. He's still the best CB we have. Cahill has regressed after a good first 12 months at Chelsea and Jagielka isn't the most solid. Not gonna say anything about Dawson.

I agree. Sure he's not the quickest, but in terms of aerial dominance, leadership, tackling, and marking, he's by far the best England have at their disposal. He's an absolute die-hard, and an inspiration. He's also a massive threat from set-pieces.

No disrespect to Steven Gerrard, but there is only one England captain, and it's John Terry.

Well, he did miss 2-3 months with a knee injury after Suarez dived onto his leg.

1/ Luis Suarez to commit a minor infraction (blowing his nose) and the Country's tabloid press to go into meltdown.
2/ Ashley Cole still to be rocking the "fro-hican" haircut as Cheryl isn't around to tell him it's not fashionable.
3/ Moyes to blow a gasket when Utd lose to a team in the bottom five and a reporter asks whether or not he's bitten off more than he can chew
4/ Wayne Rooney to score a goal that either takes seven deflections, hits his own ar$e before crossing the line or is one of the worst scuffs ever seem in the EPL and the tabloid press to go into meltdown screaming "Rooney back to brilliant best"
5/ Rooney to be seen eating burger and tabloid press to go into meltdown screaming "He just can't help himself can he?"
6/ Rumours to do the rounds that David Beckham is available for signing in January
7/ Michael Owen to still be whinging on that he never got a fair shake at Utd and that Liverpool ruined his career.
8/ Mark Clattenburg to get rid of that stupid haircut after a small child is seen laughing at him.
9/ One player to have three decent games in a row and the tabloid press go into meltdown scream that he's a shoe-in for POTY
10 / Gareth Bale to leave Spurs but only to fill in at London Zoo when one of the monkeys takes poorly
11/ Liverpool Football Club to delight and frustrate me in equal measure with the only saving grace that my wife's team (Man Utd) produce the square root of sod all so she can't rub it in....again!!!!!!

1. Suarez to not get suspended again (just to stop someone saying he already is) throughout the season 
2. Aspas to noticeably dig holes during games to hide food in for winter.
3. Joe Cole to play over half the season of football.
4. Chris Hughton to be sacked, Paolo Di Canio to stay a whole season at Sunderland.
5. Joe Kinnear to claim he signed Alan Shearer for Newcastle.
6. Steve Harper will cry at some point.
7. Jamie Carragher to be understood by 90% of the viewers.
8. West Ham will win at Anfield.
9. Theo Walcott injured for the World Cup.
10. Punditry on all channels to be biased towards Liverpool (ok thats not bold)
11. Delia to sing the blues to Norwich fans on the last day of the season.

1 Cardiff, Palace, Stoke to go down.
2 Man City to double over Utd.
3 Everton to do double over Liverpool.
4 Villa to double over Baggies.
5 Mourhino first manager to get touchline ban.
6 Wenger to be sacked by xmas.
7 Rooney not to say "erm" in his first interview.
8 Benteke to get 3 hatricks this season.
9 Spurs to have first red card of the season.
10 My mate Tony will actually get laid by may.

1. Crystal Palace will win no more than 5 games
2. Martin Jol will be sacked within 12 matches
3. Chelsea will be at least 6 points clear by Christmas
4. Stuart Downing will score 6+ goals and produce another 6+ assists.
5. Paulo Di Canio will have a mid season breakdown and fall out with half of his squad
6. Lee Cattermole will have a good game
7. They'll be one game containing 10 or more goals
8. Hull City will cruise to safety
9. Everton will finish outside the top 10
10. Kolo Toure will start no more than 15 PL matches
11. Chris the Dolphin's obsession with Liverpool football club will waiver a little and he will say something nice about the club before the end of the season

Man United will buy a midfielder


This is a joke thread right?

Another Liverpudlian victim...

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:Another Liverpudlian victim...

All in jest flower  

Don't really do these but the only one i can really come up with at this point is that Lukaku will firmly establish himself as the no.1 striker at chelsea

Looking forward to our first home win on the 24th.

eh freek:whistle:

FreekShow wrote:

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:Another Liverpudlian victim...

All in jest flower  

Same monsieur, I swear, I only hate the Spuds (Millwall are too lowly to count)

westisbest wrote:Looking forward to our first home win on the 24th.

eh freek:whistle:

Not as much as I'm looking forward to your drunken Saturday night ramblings Westy. You ledge.

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:

FreekShow wrote:

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:Another Liverpudlian victim...

All in jest flower  

Same monsieur, I swear, I only hate the Spuds (Millwall are too lowly to count)

I don't really hate any team anymore. Must be an age thing. Something strange must have happened when I hit 30  

I know a shed load of Spurs fans and they can grind on me when I'm around them for too long.

my prediction
1.  chelsea win prem
2. man united comes 5th or 6th
3. villa win league cup
4.rvp  becomes top scorer .
5.Benteke second
6. a well known football pundit get sacked
7.well known footballer in papers for r***
8.Cardiff to stop up
9. two managers fighting on the pitch
10. some ex liverpool player talks about the seventies

sportform wrote:
9) West Brom to be the last unbeaten team.
.

Well...that didn't last too long did it!

Duty281 wrote:

sportform wrote:
9) West Brom to be the last unbeaten team.
.

Well...that didn't last too long did it!

Yes, thanks for that

Adding a late one.

Villa will never be in the bottom 3.

Palace to finish 17th

Thats it- Nothing else matters

In regards to the ones that don't matter.

Chelsea to win the PL

Arsenal to finish 7th but will win the CL- claiming there CL spot for next year in controversial circumstances.

Man U will end up with nada.

1) All three promoted sides will go down
2) Wayne Rooney will stay at Manchester United
3) Jose Mourinho will have abandoned his new 'maturity' by Christmas
4) All three promoted sides will have different managers by the end of the year
5) Liverpool will finish above Everton
6) Gary Hooper will be the highest scoring Englishman but not make the World Cup squad
7) Newcastle will sack Alan Pardew
8) Manchester United will finish below City, but do the double over them
9) One of the promoted sides will gain wins over two of City, Chelsea or United.
10) Stuart Pearce will return to Premier League management

I can't see Rooney leaving in January to be honest, so I've got that spot on.

Think Mourinho criticising his own player today quite badly could be seen as abandoning his new mature persona.

Cardiff are one win away from doing this.

Arsenal now have ozil so I am backing arsenal for 3rd!!

1) Norwich to finish below 15th
2) Hughton to get sacked before the end of season
3) Gary Hooper to fail in the premier league
4) Giroud to score more than 15 goals this season
5) Arsenal to win a trophy
6) Ashley Young to get a red card for diving at least once in a game
7) Agbonlahor to make the england squad
8) Liverpool to finish 5th
9) Hull to be lowest goalscorers
10) West Ham to sack allardyce
11) Sunderland to be relegated

you cant make predictions 3 weeks into the season haha. half of yours are probably gunna be true

JamesLincs wrote:you cant make predictions 3 weeks into the season haha. half of yours are probably gunna be true

There's only been 4 games though!

Yes that post should be deleted IMO.

why should it be deleted? I didn't see the thread before so I thought I would post my predictions before it was too late

Damn, I missed this, loved going back to it last year, did pretty decent.

I'll just post a late one, it doesn't need to be held up as an equal to the earlier posts

1) Manchester City to finish outside the top 3
2) Luiz Suarez to get Player of the Year
3) Stoke to finish in the top 10
4) Sam Allardyce to be sacked
5) Manchester United to win the league by 10 points
6) Crystal Palace will stay up
7) John Terry will come out of International retirement
8) Joe Kinnear will be the temporary manager of Newcastle
9) Paulo di Canio will attack one of his own players
10) Arsene Wenger will announce he's leaving Arsenal at the end of the season

DAVE667 wrote:1/ Luis Suarez to commit a minor infraction (blowing his nose) and  the Country's tabloid press to go into meltdown.
2/ Ashley Cole still to be rocking the "fro-hican" haircut as Cheryl isn't around to tell him it's not fashionable.3/ Moyes to blow a gasket when Utd lose to a team in the bottom five and a reporter asks whether or not he's bitten off more than he can chew
4/ Wayne Rooney to score a goal that either takes seven deflections, hits his own ar$e before crossing the line or is one of the worst scuffs ever seem in the EPL and the tabloid press to go into meltdown screaming "Rooney back to brilliant best"
5/ Rooney to be seen eating burger and tabloid press to go into meltdown screaming "He just can't help himself can he?"
6/ Rumours to do the rounds that David Beckham is available for signing in January
7/ Michael Owen to still be whinging on that he never got a fair shake at Utd and that Liverpool ruined his career.
8/ Mark Clattenburg to get rid of that stupid haircut after a small child is seen laughing at him.
9/ One player to have three decent games in a row and the tabloid press go into meltdown scream that he's a shoe-in for POTY10 / Gareth Bale to leave Spurs but only to fill in at London Zoo when one of the monkeys takes poorly
11/ Liverpool Football Club to delight and frustrate me in equal measure with the only saving grace that my wife's team (Man Utd) produce the square root of sod all so she can't rub it in....again!!!!!!

Good old Ashley...and good for Daniel Sturridge...long may it continue!