Tag Archives: English Premier League

Sportsthoughts (160) – Premier League predictions for 2017-18

Posted on August 6, 2017 by

Time for the most fruitless exercise of the year – predicting the outcome of this season’s Premier League! Always fun though. All starts again, absurdly, on a Friday –  11 August. Arsenal v Leicester. Same time as the World Athletic … Continue reading →

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Sportsthoughts (158) – Those Premier League predictions!

Posted on May 22, 2017 by

So, it’s that time of the year to ‘fess up and check my predictions against the outcomes in the Premier League, with the season finishing yesterday. And it’s fair to say that they were even wider of the mark than … Continue reading →

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Sportsthoughts (155) – Deadly December!

Posted on November 28, 2016 by

December, rather than April, is the cruellest month when it comes to the Premier League – for managers. With the transfer window in January looming in January, chairmen start to question whether they want the current manager in post to … Continue reading →

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Sportsthoughts (153) – Time for those Premier League predictions!

Posted on August 12, 2016 by

It’s that that time again, to try to predict the outcome of a Premier League which becomes more unpredictable with every season. Last year was the most extraordinary, with Leicester City, one of the favourites for relegation when the season … Continue reading →

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Sportsthoughts (148) – The Leicester City phenomenon

Posted on May 3, 2016 by

Congratulations to Leicester City, winners of the 2015-16 Premier League. Who’d have thought I’d be writing that when I made my predictions for the season back in August last year? I was expecting them to go down, as were many … Continue reading →

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Sportsthoughts (142) – Premier League at Half Time

Posted on December 31, 2015 by

19 games gone and 2015 almost at an end. A good time to review those predictions and speculate a little about the second half of the season. Well, in August I was finding it hard to see beyond Chelsea for … Continue reading →

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Sportsthoughts (135) – Premier League predictions 2015-16

Posted on August 7, 2015 by

So another Premier League season is upon us and West Ham have already been knocked out of the Europa League! Still, until they do something about those interminable Thursday evening matches, few English sides will give it the priority it … Continue reading →

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