Houdini

Another nice draw for Man City. This time getting Salford/Swindon, Macclesfield will fancy their chances against Brentford.

Only 40 games for United this season! ☹️

Wow what a shock! No retention of the cup for Crystal Palace although they were very unlikely to win it again anyway.

This Midweek's Results: 1st Sarah, Suedehead2 15 pts 3rd LewisGT 9 pts 4th DJHazey 8 pts 5th Rooney, Houdini, Viper* 7 pts 8th Flatcap, LiamSime, Steve201 6 pts 11th Dobbo, King Rollo 4 pts 13th Mack 0 pts Standings: 1st Rooney 283 pts 2nd Houdini 273 pts 3rd King Rollo 272 pts 4th Sarah 260 pts 5th Dobbo 256 pts 6th LiamSime 252 pts 7th Flatcap 247 pts 8th Steve201 242 pts 9th Suedehead2 231 pts 10th Mack 224 pts 11th LewisGT 215 pts 12th DJHazey 214 pts 13th Viper* 188 pts 14th awardinary 115 pts 15th Liam Sota 33 pts Fixtures (All kick of times are 15:00 GMT unless stated otherwise) Saturday 17th January Manchester United Vs Manchester City (12:30) Chelsea Vs Brentford Leeds United Vs Fulham Liverpool Vs Burnley Sunderland Vs Crystal Palace Tottenham Hotspur Vs West Ham United Nottingham Forest Vs Arsenal (17:30) Sunday 18th January Wolverhampton Wanderers Vs Newcastle United (14:00) Aston Villa Vs Everton (16:30) Monday 19th January Brighton & Hove Albion Vs AFC Bournemouth (20:00) Well done to Sarah & Suedehead2 on winning this midweek. Thank you to everyone who took part this midweek.

It looks like the relegation places are pretty much sorted now after Forest beat West Ham tonight. West Ham are 7 points away from safety and Burnley are 9 points away and both of them have a much worse goal difference than Nottingham Forest. It would be mad if Nuno got sacked from West Ham, I can't think of a manager who got sacked from two different teams in the same season.

Tuesday 6th January West Ham United 1-2 Nottingham Forest (20:00) Wednesday 7th January AFC Bournemouth 2-0 Tottenham Hotspur (19:30) Brentford 1-1 Sunderland (19:30) Crystal Palace 1-2 Aston Villa (19:30) Everton 2-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers (19:30) Fulham 1-1 Chelsea (19:30) Manchester City 2-1 Brighton & Hove Albion (19:30) Burnley 0-1 Manchester United (20:15) Newcastle United 2-2 Leeds United (20:15) Thursday 8th January Arsenal 3-1 Liverpool (20:00)

Good riddance to Amorim! Easily one of the worst managers in the history of Man United. Only an idiot would carry on doing something that everyone can see is clearly not working, loss after loss but still sticking with the three at the back formation and his defeatist way of talking about the club and the players didn't help matters.

I've only been able to watch a few games so far but really impressed with Nigeria's progress in this, we've got a good chance of winning but the opponents will step up a level from here on in. The African teams that have qualified for the World Cup have generally had a poor showing so far which doesn't bode well for next summer for those teams.

This Week's Results: 1st LiamSime 19 pts 2nd Dobbo, Steve201, Flatcap 18 pts 5th Sarah 16 pts 6th Houdini 15 pts 7th Rooney, King Rollo 13 pts 9th LewisGT 12 pts 10th Suedehead2 11 pts 11th Mack 9 pts 12th DJHazey 6 pts Standings: 1st Rooney 276 pts 2nd King Rollo 268 pts 3rd Houdini 266 pts 4th Dobbo 252 pts 5th Sarah 249 pts 6th LiamSime 246 pts 7th Flatcap 241 pts 8th Steve201 236 pts 9th Mack 224 pts 10th Suedehead2 220 pts = 11th DJHazey, LewisGT 206 pts 13th Viper* 181 pts 14th awardinary 115 pts 15th Liam Sota 33 pts Well done to LiamSime on winning this week. Thank you to everyone who took part this week.

What a goal from Harrison Reed for Fulham!

Saturday 3rd January Aston Villa 2-0 Nottingham Forest (12:30) Brighton & Hove Albion 1-0 Burnley Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-1 West Ham United AFC Bournemouth 0-2 Arsenal (17:30) Sunday 4th January Leeds United 1-1 Manchester United (12:30) Everton 2-1 Brentford Fulham 1-1 Liverpool Newcastle United 1-0 Crystal Palace Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 Sunderland Manchester City 3-1 Chelsea (17:30)

My thoughts exactly! It must be exhausting for the players, wonder if this a World Cup related thing? it genuinely feels like there are Premier League matches every day during this festive period. I don't remember it being as intense as this before.

Standings at the end of Gameweek 19: Main league 1. Liam Sota - 23 (Twenty Three) 1,098 pts 2. Brett Buttler - A Cunha Matatta 1,087 pts 3. Houdini - New Dog. New Tricks 1,039 pts 4. Mack - Mackington United 1,022 pts 5. Dobbo - Cunha Believe It? 1,014 pts 6. Viper* - Pain In Diaz 994 pts 7. Sarah - MarshoFC 990 pts 8. awardinary - Ha'Cunha Mateta 942 pts 9. Herbs - Herbilore 811 pts Head to head league 1. Liam Sota - 23 (Twenty Three) 42 pts (14 wins, 0 draws, 5 losses) 2. Sarah - MarshoFC 36 pts (12 wins, 0 draws, 7 losses) 3. Dobbo - Cunha Believe It? 31 pts (10 wins, 1 draw, 8 losses) 4. Houdini - New Dog. New Tricks 30 pts (10 wins, 0 draws, 9 losses) 5. Mack - Mackington United FC 30 pts (10 wins, 0 draws, 9 losses) 6. awardinary - Ha'Cunha Mateta 30 pts (10 wins, 0 draws, 9 losses) 7. AVERAGE 19 pts (6 wins 1 draw, 12 losses) 8. Herbs - Herbilore 9 pts (3 wins, 0 draws, 16 losses) Gameweek 19 results: Herbilore 42-38 (Twenty Three), MarshoFC 31-53 Cunha Believe It?, Mackington United 26-53 New Dog. New Tricks, Ha'Cunha Mateta 31-40 AVERAGE Gameweek 20 fixtures: (Twenty Three) Vs Ha'Cunha Mateta, AVERAGE Vs Mackington United, New Dog. New Tricks Vs MarshoFC Cunha Believe It? Vs Herbilore

This Midweek's Results: 1st Rooney 14 pts 2nd King Rollo 13 pts 3rd Houdini 12 pts 4th Steve201 11 pts 5th DJHazey 9 pts 6th Sarah, Viper* 7 pts 8th Dobbo, Mack 6 pts 10th Flatcap, Suedehead2 4 pts 12th LewisGT, LiamSime 2 pts Standings: 1st Rooney 263 pts 2nd King Rollo 255 pts 3rd Houdini 251 pts 4th Dobbo 234 pts 5th Sarah 233 pts 6th LiamSime 227 pts 7th Flatcap 223 pts 8th Steve201 218 pts 9th Mack 215 pts 10th Suedehead2 209 pts 11th DJHazey 200 pts 12th LewisGT 194 pts 13th Viper* 181 pts 14th awardinary 115 pts 15th Liam Sota 33 pts Well done to Rooney on winning this midweek. Thank you to everyone who took part this midweek.

I feel sorry for Enzo Maresca, he did a good job overall at Chelsea getting them into the top 4 and winning the Conference League & Club World Cup. It looks like Chelsea's board is just as bad as Man Utd's board and there has been a constant pattern of the people upstairs falling out with managers. Maresca will do well with whatever he does next I'm sure.