FlaxenHairedPivot

@The Rising Sun is right. Back in our day Socials was the local CIU where we could get cheap beer before and after the game.

I miss the days when you bought a player to improve your team immediately rather than buying potential and worrying about their resale value.

Absolutely delighted to see us sign a proper striker with PL experience and a few goals in a terrible side.
I think he'll do well with service, though giving him the no. 9 makes me a bit nervous as I grew up during the era when the curse seemed to be at its peak!
Seriously though, very happy to have this boy in. Looks strong and physical and that's what we like in our strikers.

To say we completed Europe to all our adversaries would be pretty f**king cool

Thanks to @axman2526 for making a lot of the threads, because I lost the will to live around January with this team.

First, the minor awards:

Best Overall Prediction - @Mod (15 points on Week 1). And it only went downhill from there.

Most Consistent Predictors - @erskblue @Ukraine Bolt @Valerie @axman2526 38/38 predictions. They have no life.

Worst Predictor (Average) - (Based on average points per week. Minimum 10 predictions.) - @The Don Antonio With an average score of 0.7 points per week.

Best Predictor (Average) - (Based on average points per week. Minimum 10 predictions.) - @Simplymo With an average score of 2.3 points per week.

Most Completely Wrong - (The most 0 scores) - @Ukraine Bolt with 28 blanks (66% of his predictions).




And finally, the one you've all been waiting for..........





The biggest Predicthead of 2024/2025 is....








@erskblue with 68 points.



This is erskblue's 3rd victory in 5 years in the prediction league, and he has defended his trophy from last year. This is beginning to become a bit of a farmer's league now. Clearly he is buying up all the best predictions with dirty oil money and no-one else can compete.

Final Table:
erskblue
68
Salato
62
Jezz
59
Simplymo
59
Munkunku
58
carrickblue
57
Mod
56
Ukraine Bolt
53
Zeta
53
axman2526
52
Valerie
50
FlaxenHairedPivot
45
Blue Exile
44
strider6004
41
Boyne
28
caps_lock_king
27
Llangennech
24
The Don Antonio
18
Scott
10
mojo
7
Scott Harris
7
dermott
6
DidierDrogbalala
6
nonotnowjim
6
hawkster
5
Niall1905
5
bluetrooper
2
Gordon Bennett
2
caitlincfc
1
Remodez
1
Gol15
1
POCH OUT
0
Elliot
0
TheBeard
0
The Boehly Babes
0


The History of the Prediction League (Where are they now?)
2020/2021 - erskblue (70 points)
2021/2022 - Valerie (81 points)
2022/2023 - carrickblue (63 points)
2023/2024 - erskblue (78 points)
2024/2025 - erskblue (68 points)

I've done most of the table. Just 10 games left to go through. Should be done this eveniung.

Forest 3-1 Chels
Brian Clough 31'

Forest 3-1 Chels
Brian Clough 31'

Forest 3-1 Chels
Brian Clough 31'

Chelsea 6 - 0 Manchester
Palmer 27'

Chels 2-1 united
Neto 13'

.........but hang on these commercial geniuses were going to buy players to trade them on for profit. The market must be behaving strangely ? why arent people queuing up for our players ? 
or perhaps our commercial geniuses are total fcukwits. Not to worry keep buying expensive players and sell them for a loss,. Hey we might get lucky and actually need some of these players. Eghbali has been totally mugged off by these two clowns..... spending other peoples money.

We're literally spineless. Used to be Cech, Terry, Lampard, Drogba running through the side and never giving up. Now we have nobody. The club is an embarrassing shambles with office boys running things. We have no chance until somebody who actually understands football is in charge.

We're literally spineless. Used to be Cech, Terry, Lampard, Drogba running through the side and never giving up. Now we have nobody. The club is an embarrassing shambles with office boys running things. We have no chance until somebody who actually understands football is in charge.

Chels 3-1 Fulham
Jackson 35'
 
Merry Christmas all, have a good one 👍

Scallies 1-2 Chels
Sancho 32'

Hahahaha 1-3 Chels
Jackson 21'

If we can win these next two games, it would be a hell of a statement.

Damn Jacko, couldn't he have waited another 3 mins

Damn Jacko, couldn't he have waited another 3 mins

Chels 2-1 Newcastle 
Jackson 21'

Damn Jacko, couldn't he have waited another 3 mins

Sums up how I feel.
I haven’t kept up with off season news like I did in previous seasons I just lost all excitement.

He has hair, that's out of fashion now. Bald is the future!

Now it's done I'll back him. Have nothing against Maresca, just want to see some entertaining football. I love to win, of course, we all do, but i want to watch entertaining, attacking football.  Regardless of the manager i cannot abide this sterile tippy toe tap to each other for no reason. Praying we have creativity, intensity, tempo and threat,