Houdini

Friday 15th December Nottingham Forest 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur (20:00) Saturday 16th December AFC Bournemouth 0-0 Luton Town Chelsea 2-0 Sheffield United Manchester City 3-0 Crystal Palace Newcastle United 2-1 Fulham Burnley 0-1 Everton (17:30) Sunday 17th December Arsenal 1-1 Brighton & Hove Albion (14:00) Brentford 0-2 Aston Villa (14:00) West Ham United 1-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers (14:00) Liverpool 2-0 Manchester United (16:30)

Chris Sutton's comments about the Liverpool Vs Man Utd match in his Premier League predictions on the BBC football website are the exact type of comments that would give me maximum motivation to prove him wrong if I was a professional player. If I was the manager I would frame his article and stick it on the wall in the dressing room for everyone to see. The man's got a hate boner for Man United anyway but even by his standards it's quite outrageous. There's not many bigger satisfactions in football than to shut people up like him who chat shit the way that they do, he'd probably have a coronary if the match goes opposite to how he thinks it will go.

Yep just as I thought, to be further compounded with defeat on Sunday against Liverpool. We didn't deserve to go through to the knockout stage anyway, it's probably the worst Champions League group stage I can remember from us. At least we've avoided the Europa League this time.

Standings at the end of Gameweek 14-16: Main league 1. Dobbo - Mounting a Challenge 954 pts 2. Herbs - Herbilore 866 pts 3. PeteFromLeeds - Not Caspian Terns 852 pts 4. Houdini - Party Tricks FC 818 pts 5. awardinary - Mount Evraest 801 pts 6. Brett-Butler - Veni Vidi Mitrovici 793 pts 7. Mack - Mackington United 753 pts 8. Sarah - MarshoUnited 731 pts Head to head league 1. Herbs - Herbilore 36 pts (12 wins, 0 draws, 4 losses) 2. Dobbo - Mounting a Challenge 33 pts (11 wins, 0 draws, 4 losses) 3. AVERAGE 33 pts (11 wins, 0 draws, 5 losses) 4. PeteFromLeeds - Not Caspian Terns 21 pts (7 wins, 0 draws, 9 losses) 5. Houdini - Party Tricks FC 18 pts (6 wins, 0 draws, 7 losses) 6. awardinary - Mount Evraest 21 pts (7 wins, 0 draws, 9 losses) 7. Mack - Mackington United 18 pts (6 wins, 0 draws, 10 losses) 8. Sarah - MarshoUnited 9 pts (3 wins, 0 draws, 13 losses) Gameweek 14 results: AVERAGE 54-44 MarshoUnited, Not Caspian Terns 69-72 Mounting a Challenge, Party Tricks FC 60-37 Mackington United, Herbilore 51-40 Mount Evraest Gameweek 15 results: Not Caspian Terns 50-31 MarshoUnited, Party Tricks FC 34-35 AVERAGE, Herbilore 33-32 Mounting a Challenge, Mount Evraest 47-37 Mackington United Gameweek 16 results: MarshoUnited 21-75 Mount Evraest, Mackington United 21-44 Herbilore, Mounting a Challenge 57-30 Party Tricks FC, AVERAGE 40-35 Not Caspian Terns Gameweek 17 fixtures: Party Tricks FC Vs MarshoUnited, Herbilore Vs Not Caspian Terns, Mount Evraest Vs AVERAGE, Mackington United Vs Mounting a Challenge

FC Copenhagen 1-1 Galatasaray Man Utd 1-2 Bayern Munich Lens 0-0 Sevilla PSV Eindhoven 2-1 Arsenal Union Berlin 0-3 Real Madrid Napoli 2-0 Sporting Braga RB Salzburg 0-1 Benfica Inter Milan 2-1 Real Sociedad Atl Madrid 3-1 Lazio Celtic 1-0 Feyenoord B Dortmund 2-2 PSG Newcastle 1-1 AC Milan Red Star Belgrade 1-3 Man City RB Leipzig 1-0 Young Boys FC Porto 2-2 Shakhtar Donetsk Royal Antwerp 0-3 Barcelona

This Week's Results: 1st Flatcap 14 pts 2nd Houdini 13 pts 3rd LewisGT 9 pts 4th Rooney, Dobbo, Mack, Steve201 8 pts 8th awardinary, King Rollo 6 pts 10th Sarah, Suedehead2 4 pts Standings: 1st LewisGT 231 pts = 2nd Dobbo, Flatcap 218 pts 4th King Rollo 216 pts 5th Houdini 211 pts 6th Steve201 203 pts 7th Rooney 197 pts 8th Mack 193 pts 9th Suedehead2 190 pts 10th Sarah 184 pts 11th awardinary 181 pts 12th DJHazey 159 pts 13th PeteFromLeeds 92 pts Fixtures (All kick of times are 15:00 GMT unless stated otherwise) Friday 15th December Nottingham Forest Vs Tottenham Hotspur (20:00) Saturday 16th December AFC Bournemouth Vs Luton Town Chelsea Vs Sheffield United Manchester City Vs Crystal Palace Newcastle United Vs Fulham Burnley Vs Everton (17:30) Sunday 17th December Arsenal Vs Brighton & Hove Albion (14:00) Brentford Vs Aston Villa (14:00) West Ham United Vs Wolverhampton Wanderers (14:00) Liverpool Vs Manchester United (16:30) Well done to Flatcap on winning this week. Thank you to everyone who took part this week.

I guess for the next week it's going to be all doom and gloom again.......

This Midweek's Results for 5th-7th December: 1st Houdini 18 pts 2nd Suedehead2 16 pts 3rd LewisGT 14 pts 4th Mack, Sarah, King Rollo 13 pts 7th Steve201 12 pts 8th Dobbo, awardiinary 11 pts 10th Flatcap 9 pts 11th Rooney 8 pts Standings: 1st LewisGT 222 pts = 2nd Dobbo, King Rollo 210 pts 3rd King Rollo 197 pts 4th Flatcap 204 pts 5th Houdini 198 pts 6th Steve201 195 pts 7th Rooney 189 pts 8th Suedehead2 186 pts 9th Mack 185 pts 10th Sarah 180 pts 11th awardinary 175 pts 12th DJHazey 159 pts 13th PeteFromLeeds 92 pts Well done to myself on winning this midweek. Thank you to everyone who took part this midweek.

Saturday 9th December Crystal Palace 0-2 Liverpool (12:30) Brighton & Hove Albion 3-0 Burnley Manchester United 2-0 AFC Bournemouth Sheffield United 0-2 Brentford Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-1 Nottingham Forest Aston Villa 3-1 Arsenal (17:30) Sunday 10th December Everton 2-1 Chelsea (14:00) Fulham 1-1 West Ham United (14:00) Luton Town 1-3 Manchester City (14:00) Tottenham Hotspur 2-2 Newcastle United (16:30)

Fixtures (All kick of times are 15:00 GMT unless stated otherwise) Saturday 9th December Crystal Palace Vs Liverpool (12:30) Brighton & Hove Albion Vs Burnley Manchester United Vs AFC Bournemouth Sheffield United Vs Brentford Wolverhampton Wanderers Vs Nottingham Forest Aston Villa Vs Arsenal (17:30) Sunday 10th December Everton Vs Chelsea (14:00) Fulham Vs West Ham United (14:00) Luton Town Vs Manchester City (14:00) Tottenham Hotspur Vs Newcastle United (16:30)

Sheffield United are lucky that Everton have their points deduction otherwise they would be 8 points adrift of safety now with a much worse goal difference than Nottingham Forest.

We're only 3 points behind Manchester City as well!

Pep Guardiola has guaranteed that Manchester City will win the Premier League this season! I can't think of anytime when a manager has openly said something like this, we'll see if his words come true. Looks like the pressure is getting to him tbh. It also sounds like he's beginning to live off what they did last season which is a characteristic that Sir Alex Ferguson didn't have after doing the same thing in 1999. _ogsjKruFPA

Tuesday 5th December Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 Burnley (19:30) Luton Town 0-2 Arsenal (20:15) Wednesday 6th December Brighton & Hove Albion 3-0 Brentford (19:30) Crystal Palace 2-0 AFC Bournemouth (19:30) Fulham 1-1 Nottingham Forest (19:30) Sheffield United 0-3 Liverpool (19:30) Aston Villa 3-2 Manchester City (20:15) Manchester United 2-1 Chelsea (20:15) Thursday 7th December Everton 1-3 Newcastle United (19:30) Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 West Ham United (20:15)

This Week's Results: 1st Steve201 19 pts 2nd LewisGT, awardinary 16 pts 4th Mack 15 pts 5th King Rollo 12 pts 6th Houdini 11 pts 7th Flatcap, Rooney 10 pts 9th DJHazey, Dobbo, Suedehead2 8 pts 12th Sarah 6 pts Standings: 1st LewisGT 208 pts 2nd Dobbo 199 pts 3rd King Rollo 197 pts 4th Flatcap 195 pts 5th Steve201 183 pts 6th Rooney 181 pts 7th Houdini 180 pts 8th Mack 172 pts 9th Suedehead2 170 pts 10th Sarah 167 pts 11th awardinary 164 pts 12th DJHazey 159 pts 13th PeteFromLeeds 92 pts Well done to Steve201 on winning this week. Thank you to everyone who took part this week.

They should be happy that the Premier League haven't already relegated them to the Vanarama National League after all the Financial Fair Play breaches they've broken!

Angry Man City players at full time. You love to see it!

A deserved defeat for us tonight, Newcastle were dominate for almost the whole game and showed a lot more intensity than us. We can consider ourselves "lucky" if that's the right word that it was only 1-0.

Group B looks like the group of death! Expect Albania to get smoked and exit with 0 points. That's a fairly easy looking group for England, but there problem as always will be how they navigate the knockout stage. I've seen quite a few people saying it's finally going to happen with this tournament but I think they'll fall short again. The most recent major tournaments have had the team in the best form in World or European football going into the tournament coming out of it with the trophy so closer to next summer will be when it will be clearer who is likely to win Euro 2024 I think.

Standings at the end of Gameweek 13: Main league 1. Dobbo - Mounting a Challenge 793 pts 2. Herbs - Herbilore 738 pts 3. PeteFromLeeds - Not Caspian Terns 698 pts 4. Houdini - Party Tricks FC 694 pts 5. Brett-Butler - Veni Vidi Mitrovici 670 pts 6. Mack - Mackington United 663 pts 7. awardinary - Mount Evraest 639 pts 8. Sarah - MarshoUnited 635 pts Head to head league 1. Dobbo - Mounting a Challenge 27 pts (9 wins, 0 draws, 4 losses) 2. Herbs - Herbilore 27 pts (9 wins, 0 draws, 4 losses) 3. AVERAGE 24 pts (8 wins, 0 draws, 5 losses) 4. PeteFromLeeds - Not Caspian Terns 18 pts (6 wins, 0 draws, 7 losses) 5. Houdini - Party Tricks FC 18 pts (6 wins, 0 draws, 7 losses) 6. Mack - Mackington United 18 pts (6 wins, 0 draws, 7 losses) 7. awardinary - Mount Evraest 15 pts (5 wins, 0 draws, 8 losses) 8. Sarah - MarshoUnited 9 pts (3 wins, 0 draws, 10 losses) Gameweek 13 results: MarshoUnited 44-47 Mounting a Challenge, AVERAGE 46-42 Mackington United, Not Caspian Terns 49-42 Mount Evraest, Party Tricks FC 36-38 Herbilore Gameweek 14 fixtures: AVERAGE Vs MarshoUnited, Not Caspian Terns Vs Mounting a Challenge, Party Tricks FC Vs Mackington United, Herbilore Vs Mount Evraest

Saturday 2nd December Arsenal 2-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers Brentford 1-1 Luton Town Burnley 1-0 Sheffield United Nottingham Forest 2-1 Everton (17:30) Newcastle United 1-1 Manchester United (20:00) Sunday 3rd December AFC Bournemouth 0-2 Aston Villa (14:00) Chelsea 1-2 Brighton & Hove Albion (14:00) Liverpool 2-0 Fulham (14:00) West Ham United 1-1 Crystal Palace (14:00) Manchester City 3-1 Tottenham Hotspur (16:30)

Fixtures (All kick of times are 15:00 GMT unless stated otherwise) Tuesday 5th December Wolverhampton Wanderers Vs Burnley (19:30) Luton Town Vs Arsenal (20:15) Wednesday 6th December Brighton & Hove Albion Vs Brentford (19:30) Crystal Palace Vs AFC Bournemouth (19:30) Fulham Vs Nottingham Forest (19:30) Sheffield United Vs Liverpool (19:30) Aston Villa Vs Manchester City (20:15) Manchester United Vs Chelsea (20:15) Thursday 7th December Everton Vs Newcastle United (19:30) Tottenham Hotspur Vs West Ham United (20:15) ^ Some additional fixtures

This Week's Results: 1st DJHazey 23 pts 2nd Dobbo 16 pts 3rd Suedehead2 15 pts 4th Flatcap, PeteFromLeeds 14 pts 6th Sarah 12 pts 7th Steve201, King Rollo, Mack 9 pts 10th Houdini 8 pts 11th Rooney, LewisGT 6 pts 13th awardinary 4 pts Standings: 1st LewisGT 192 pts 2nd Dobbo 191 pts 3rd King Rollo 185 pts 4th Flatcap 185 pts 5th Rooney 171 pts 6th Houdini 169 pts 7th Steve201 164 pts 8th Suedehead2 162 pts 9th Sarah 161 pts 10th Mack 157 pts 11th DJHazey 151 pts 12th awardinary 148 pts 13th PeteFromLeeds 92 pts Well done to DJHazey on winning this week. Thank you to everyone who took part this week.

Congratulations Dobbo on winning Team Battles and thanks Mack for hosting. I'll take 3rd place for myself considering I missed at least a couple of full rounds.

Matchday 5: Lazio 2-0 Celtic Feyenoord 1-3 Atletico Madrid AC Milan 2-0 Borussia Dortmund PSG 3-0 Newcastle Man City 4-1 RB Leipzig Young Stars 1-1 Red Star Belgrade Shakhtar Donetsk 2-1 Royal Antwerp Barcelona 2-0 FC Porto Galatasaray 1-1 Man Utd Bayern Munich 3-0 FC Copenhagen Sevilla 2-1 PSV Eindhoven Arsenal 3-0 Lens Real Madrid 1-0 Napoli Sporting Braga 1-1 Union Berlin Benfica 1-1 Inter Milan Real Sociedad 0-1 RB Salzburg