A salivating prospect of all that is best in 21st century football. Players angling for a move elsewhere, a manager under pressure, fans that might boo their own team and transfer speculation. What more could you possibly ask for? Well call me old fashioned - but what about some stuff that happens on the pitch. Are we ready to rumble - frankly no but let me consult my predicting Badger (Reginald) and see what he can come up with: Prediction No. 1 There will not be 8 goals. Prediction No. 2 The game will end 1-2 to Arsenal. Newcastle to score in the first half - Arsenal to score from a header on 62 minutes and the winner from Arshavin in time added on. Prediction No. 3 Fabregas will watch the match while wearing a cerise chiffon frock. Now I'll be honest I think Reginald may be wrong on number three and that number one is merely a subset of number two and not worthy of being called a prediction - but that badger did once predict we would sign Mikael Silvestre so Im not going to second guess him. Match trivia: - If Rosicky makes a superb sliding tackle it will be the 1,512th time he has brought out his best tackle - not counting that night in Prague. - Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has an uncle called Neville Chamberlain but he wasnt the famous one. - If you reorganise the letters in Wojciech Tomasz Szczęsny you can spell "Peter Cech is rubbizzzh" - Every time someone says "Miyachi" Eboue says "God bless you" and then spends the next ten minutes crying laughing at his own joke.
Thanks le Beatski I read that prediction after writing - surely mathematically even Lawro will have to get the occassional result right?
True. Are the planets in total alignment now? If not; Lawro is about as useful and accurate as a chocolate sundial.
Sadly for you he got a couple right last season so i wouldn't expect it to happen again untill at least 2015
- If you reorganise the letters in Wojciech Tomasz Szczęsny you can spell "Peter Cech is rubbizzzh" - Every time someone says "Miyachi" Eboue says "God bless you" and then spends the next ten minutes crying laughing at his own joke. These two lines made this thread worth reading.
As I recall I was one of only a few who corectly predicted the 4-4 result last season although, to be fair, I did have us being 4-1 down at half-time, so this time I can see no further than a 2-0 victory for the mighty Toon!
Fair enough Ulverstoon but in your heart, deep deep down, you know that the prediction which i have channelled through a mythical badger is much more likely to be correct...
I tend to find a mythical badger to be a more reliable source of information than Cheryl Cole, so i'll be going with SureRosicky rather than Ulverstoon.
If memory serves me well, the last time we played Arsenal at home in August it was 1969 and I got the bus down from Seahouses whilst on holiday with the folks. It was a fantastic game finishing 3-1 to the lads, therefore as I can confirm to OT that the planets are aligned and as we all know Lawro couldn't pick his nose, I'm going for 3-1 this time round.
Well cheryl is certainly worth it in terms of advertising - but Reginald the Badger (named after Reggie Perrin) can smell 700-800 times more accurately than humans can. Im not sure how Cheryl smells...
with Arsenal's dodgy defence and their two best players left out I think it will be a close game all round. 2-1 to one of us is my best guess....
