Hey everyone!! Merry Christmas (or is it too early). We are in for an exciting or nervous few weeks for football fans with the festive period proving to be more crucial than ever. Apologies in advance if my blog doesn’t get updated frequently, I am going to try and update it regularly though.
Fulham v Bolton: 1-1
I might surprise a couple of people by reviewing this first. It is a must win game for both as they are starting to fall down the table. Fulham, who on Wednesday crashed out of the Europa League, can focus on securing a league place next season, which I am sure they will do. Bolton, on the other hand, need nothing but a win something that they haven’t done in 12 attempts at the Cottage in order to not be at the bottom of the league at Christmas (I’m sure you are aware of the curse, unless you are a West Brom fan that is). Bolton have a decent chance in this game as Fulham have played over 30 games this season and are close to last year’s appearances of 43. I’m going to say a draw though as Fulham will have the home advantage.One to watch: Clint Dempsey – wants to put his penalty miss from last weekend behind him
Blackburn v West Brom: 1-0
Surprisingly, Blackburn have scored more goals this season than Liverpool who sit in sixth place. So how comes they are struggling to win games? Simple really, look at their clean sheets. None. But what has radically changed from last season when they kept 7 clean sheets. Steve Kean, new owners, the players, the defence, the confidence. Who knows? Steve Kean’s first win was against West Brom and he is hoping that it is to happen this season as well. West Brom aren’t safe either as they are three points off the relegation zone. So many questions to ask but I can see Blackburn winning this by just the one goal. One to watch: Chris Samba – can he lead Blackburn’s defence to their first clean sheet this season.
Everton v Norwich: 1-1
One to watch: Grant Holt
Newcastle v Swansea: 3-2
One to watch: Demba Ba
Wolves v Stoke: 1-2
One to watch: Matthew Etherington
Wigan v Chelsea: 0-4
One to watch: Juan Mata
Aston Villa v Liverpool: 1-1
One to watch: Stiliyan Petrov
Manchester City v Arsenal: 3-1
One to watch: Joe Hart
QPR v Manchester United: 1-3
One to watch: Luis Nani
One to watch: Jermaine Defoe
Judd Trump, as I predicted, won the British championship by beating Mark Allen 10-8 in a match that produced the best out of both of them. He gets to take home £100,000, yeah that’s all in prize money. The win finished off a brilliant year for him as he became runner up in the world championship and made a name for himself. His total prize money for the year came to £350,000 or in other words Yaya Toure wage for two weeks!
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