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Hotspur’s Hunches #7

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Good morning from the Emerald Isle. A moving target’s harder to hit. That’s what I say. And welcome to Game Week 7 of the greatest football league with the word Barclays in it. 

  • Man City vs Sunderland

Bobby Manc hasn’t been happy since …ah even he can’t remember that far back, bless ‘im. The corresponding fixture last year was a 3-3 draw with International hit-man Nickcholas Bendtner scoring, so don’t write this of as a home win.
Oh hang on… Prediction: 2-1

  • Chelsea vs Norwich

I’m struggling to see how the Blue Racists will lose this one. Norwich are fresh from a wound licking exercise at the hands of Liverpool.

Surely the best Delia’s mob can hope for is a draw? A draw would in itself be a coupon buster, wouldn’t it? I mean Grant Holt’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but he can still find the old onion sack, can’t he? Prediction: 5-0.

  • Swansea vs Reading

Swansea seriously need to get their act together, find their mojo, stop looking like chancers. The only glimmer of hope in this task is Reading. Their form is actually worse.

If The Swans want to do some damage here Laudrup will need to keep the ball on the floor and spell out to McDermott how you play football in the Premier League. Prediction: 4-0.

  • West Brom vs QPR

You just knew Mark Hughes was going to make a mess of this the moment he started buying players in an identical manner to the way Roy Keane did at Sunderland.

You don’t build a team that works with a scatter-gun and a frown. Steve Clarke by contrast is doing a good impression of a man who is a decent football manager and I will be shocked if QPR get anything here at all. Prediction 3-0.

  • Wigan vs Everton

Bob Matthews is a con man. Not in a bad way, not in a ‘date your daughter, make a pass at your wife sort of way’; it’s just he’s just nowhere as good as people make him out to be and if he had any decency he’d just come out and say, ‘I’m a nice bloke, but I can’t manage, so don’t be fooled.’

That said there are worse out there. Okay, well Brendan Rodgers is out there. I specifically meant him. Prediction 0-4.

  • Southampton vs Fulham

I like the Saints. I’ve no idea why really. But I instinctively wish them well. Watched them on the telly a few times and they appear to be in favour of playing half good football.

They have dropped 15 points so far and they need to lose that habit really fast. Nigel Adkins did too well getting them here to be binned on a whim, that’s for sure. But they need a draw this week, at least a draw. Prediction: 2-2

  • West Ham vs Arsenal

West Ham are playing some awful football yet sit 7th in the Premier League which ought to send a shudder down the spine of anyone that likes football.

In their last game they picked up 427 yellow cards and Fat Sam bit off one of his own thumbs and spat it at a linesman. Arsene Wenger will just hope none of his porcelain players get broken. Prediction: 0-5

  • Liverpool vs Stoke

This won’t be a thing of beauty. Suarez playing ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ and Peter Crouch as ‘Widow Lanky’. Prediction 1-2.

  • Tottenham vs Villa

Villa are a genuinely pedestrian lot. But after our the indigestible garbage served up in Greece it would be difficult to approach playing Yarmouth Ladies with any degree of confidence.  

But hey, our valliant boys will have a home crowd this time to hurrah and huzzah them on to glorious victory! Oh this could turn nasty really fast. 

I really want to see Spurs scoring, properly walloping someone sometime soon and the Villans look like they fit neatly that profile. Prediction: 4-0

  • Newcastle vs Manchester United

I think Newcastle can win this and more to the point I hope they do. Pardew’s getting plenty of things right and if he can steer his side to January and sort out what is an issue that is really bugging him the player’s agents.

Players or agents who think Ashley will be throwing money around to keep players on inflated salaries for no good reason are either dreaming or think that it’s 2008. Prediction: 3-2.

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52 comments

  • spursgoliath says:

    The only time I don’t mind the despicable Arse taking all three points is against the pathetic Spam, esp under Fat Sam. I have a degree of respect for Arsenal, they play some decent stuff and are worthy adversaries – West Ham are a bunch of classless chancers.

  • Urbane Sturgeon says:

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    Ronnie Wolman your score predictions from earlier are extraordinarily accurate. So far.

    Draws all predicted correctly, if not the exact scores, and all the wins and losses were correct even down to the number of goals won by.

    Amazing, hope you had a punt.

    • Harry Hotspur says:

      Top work Ron!

    • Ronnie Wolman says:

      Thanks a lot guys!!! Its a bit of luck and a bit of shmaltz herring before each match

      • Phil McAvity says:

        Let’s hope that your prediction for our match is correct also!! It’s about time we gave someone a whooping!!

        • Ronnie Wolman says:

          That was the only one i was doubtful about.I was thinking 6 or 7-1….Only joking.
          Look we know that we have been a bit erratic buts that been us for a long time now.I feel we are getting better in defence but we have our moments.We all know this.
          The fact is when we attack we really take over the game.We flow.It happened in the first half against United as its done many many times over the past few years.Bale and Lennon make that happen.But when we try to play the cool game.Steady short passes we get nowhere.Up tempo high speed we do better.Its anti Barca but a fact.
          To play thta short pass game we need more players suited for that style (we sold the only one we had) If we fly down the wing and get a couple in the middle the prssure comes off the defence and we can win by several goals.Its not rockets science just what we do well.
          Our defenders are even better attackers than defenders.

        • Billy Legit says:

          Burn the Witch! :devil:

  • Harry p says:

    WHL….there you go….

  • Mikey says:

    4.0 and 3rd place will do me fine thank you very much.

  • spurskip says:

    MR H.if you r in eire stay in my house if ur in the east,you can explain to my girlfriend…spurs number1 relationship2,,dog 3.might got that one wrong,haha,i am 36(i think?)have been spurs since i was 4,who do i love more,ahem,,,,good r bad,the most bad i love us anyway,is the europa league a screen that we couldn’t win it but the league??

    • Phil McAvity says:

      Sorry mate but that is bang out of order, well and truly you need to sort out your priorities you really do. Who puts their relationship before their dog? :lol:

      • Ronnie Wolman says:

        Dog 1 Relationship 1

        Relationship wins on penalties

        Dog takes off shirt,kisses badge

        Girlfriend take off shirt kisses dog gets ready for the away leg

    • Harry Hotspur says:

      You’re very kind. Roughed it at the Hilton this time round. Literally. Some mentalist went out and left their TV on full blast and I was woken up by some infomercial in the small hours. How did they know I needed an ab-crunch-master? How, just how?

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