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As Hull Surge Onwards…

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Round-Up
 
Fair play to Hull City – what a magnificent start to the season. For a side with few recognisable names to pull off some frankly ridiculous results can only bear testatment to the tactical genius that is their manager Phil Brown. However, his tactical genius will be well and truly tested when he takes on the mighty Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford over the coming fortnight.
 
Speaking of Old Trafford – I was there on saturday to watch the demolition of West Bromwich Albion. The result was perhaps a little harsh on them, as they played very well, but this is what can happen when you take on a side that is better than you and you try to play football against them. I have the utmost respect for them for trying but perhaps it’s not the best place to attempt to play football!
 
Aside from that, it wasn’t the best time for my teams despite Dynamo Kiev’s utter annihlation of Zorya Lugansk on friday night with a scoreline of 5-0. Athletic Bilbao slumped to a 1-0 defeat against rivals Barcelona to exemplify a truly miserable start to the season for Los Leones. Elsewhere, RoPS suffered an embarrasing home defeat against VPS, losing 1-0. It was also a shame to see River Plate lose in arguably one of the most prestigious derbies in the world at home to Boca Juniors, which also finished 1-0.
 
Ratio of Success:
 
Friday games
 
Overall games – 33
Overall correct – 18
Percentage – 54.55%
 
Deffos – 3
Correct – 2
Percentage – 66.67%
 
Should – 23
Correct - 10
Percentage - 43.48%
 
Risky – 14
Correct – 6
Percentage – 42.86%
 
Saturday games
 
Overall games – 193
Overall correct – 95
Percentage – 49.22%
 
Deffos – 17
Correct – 11
Percentage – 64.71%
 
Should – 106
Correct – 59
Percentage – 55.66%

Risky – 70
Correct – 25
Percentage – 35.71%
 
Sunday games
 
Overall games – 132
Overall correct – 61
Percentage – 46.21%
 
Deffos – 11
Correct – 7
Percentage – 63.64%
 
Should – 80
Correct – 38
Percentage – 47.50%
 
Risky - 41
Correct – 16
Percentage – 39.02%
 
My thoughts are that I should be hitting above 50% overall by my own personal standards with Deffos over 70% so I’m a bit disappointed this weekend, but I also know that luck took  a few games out of my hands as ever which didn’t help, but I’ll try and improve it for next weekend.

 
Monday’s Picks:

Bulgarian A PFG:

Chernomorets Burgas vs FC Sliven (5)

Cypriot Division A:

APOEL Nicosia vs Omonia Nicosia (4)

Czech Republic Liga 1:

Slovan Liberec vs Jablonec (3)

Danish Superligaen:

Midtylland vs AGF (6)

English Premier League:

Newcastle United vs Manchester City (3)

English League Two:

Darlington vs Bradford City (4)

French Ligue 2:

Tours vs Lens (4)

Irish Premier Division:

St Pat’s Athletic vs Galway United (7)

Italian Serie B:

Piacenza vs Ascoli (5)

Norwegian Tippaligaen:

Valerenga vs Lillestrom (4)

Romanian Liga 1:
 
Gloria Bistrita vs Unirea (5)

Swedish Allsvenskan:

GIF Sundsvall vs Gefle (4)
Orebro vs Helsingborg (6)
Hammarby vs Djurgardens (5)

 
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Haha! Apparently England are missing a few key players ahead of their match at home to Kazakhstan. Why is this even an issue for the English press to report?! This match should be won with English Championship footballers, let alone Premiership footballers. No disrespect to Kazakhstan – they’re certainly not the walkovers they once were – but they surely don’t have a chance against England?
 
Also, I’m going to rant about Michael Owen. If you’re not English, you may not be aware of how worshipped he is amongst England fans. Why? Well, he scored a cracking goal against Argentina about…10 years ago. What makes fans love him since then? They have two exceptionally common arguments:
 
1. Who would you want on the bench if there’s 15 minutes left and you need a goal?
2. Just look at his goals-to-game ratio – it’s better than any other England player!
 
My responses:
 
1. If my “best player” was on the bench with 15 minutes to go, I’d want to know why! Aside from that, if England need a goal, which presumably means the other side are winning, then the opponents are going to have a lot of men behind the ball. This means we’re sending a midget onto the field who cannot hold up the ball, win the ball in the air, beat a man or anything for that matter. His only ability these days is to put the ball in the net, something each striker in the world can do.
2. Records are in the past, like Liverpool’s title aspirations in the English Premiership – past doesn’t mean the present is all fine and dandy!
 
Anyway, onto the picks.
 
Thursday’s Picks
 
International Friendlies:
 
Japan vs UAE (Should) (7)
 
Youth Internationals:
 
Netherlands U19 vs Lithuania U19 (Should) (7)
Germany U19 vs Luxembourg U19 (Deffo) (9)
 
Enjoy