Predictions Week 3

Last Week: Adebayo Akinfenwa got the honour to be our first footballer to play the game. The Tank achieved an amazing 29! Vishal grabbed 2nd with 21 while Tom managed a poor 16.

Week 3: Just the 2 admins this week. Staying local, all the games are in England. The prem games, the FA Cup Quarter Finals and a couple of Championship games are in this week's lineup.


Vishal Chahwala:
Premier league:
Fulham 3-1 Swansea
Wigan Athletic 1-1 West Brom
Wolves 3-2 Man United
Newcastle 2-0 Norwich
Fa cup:
Everton 1-1 Sunderland
Spurs 3-0 Bolton
Liverpool 1-0 Stoke
Chelsea 2-0 Leicester
Championship:
Leeds 1-2 West Ham
Birmingham 2-0 Middlesborough

Tom Horn:
Premier league:
Fulham 0-0 Swansea
Wigan 2-1 West Brom
Wolves 0-2 Man United
Newcastle 1-0 Nowrich
Fa Cup:
Spurs 1-1 Bolton
Chelsea 3-1 Leicester
Everton 2-2 Sunderland
Liverpool 2-0 Stoke
Championship:
Leeds 1-1 West Ham
Birmingham 3-2 Middlesborough

Actual scores:
Fulham 0-3 Swansea
Wigan 1-1 WBA
Wolves 0-5 Man United
Newcastle 1-0 Norwich
Spurs p-p Bolton
Liverpool 2-1 Stoke
Chelsea 5-2 Leicester
Leeds 1-1 West Ham
Birmingham 3-0 Middlesbourgh

Big match preview Wigan Athletic V West brom

The words 'must win game' have been used to describe this game from a wigan perspective but as for west brom they approch this game in a more confident style as they look to continue a great run of form, can they put the nail in the wigan coffin?

Wigan are about due a home victory there last home win was on the 28th august 2011 so a win is very much needed at home sooner rather than later



Where the game will be lost

As ive said wigan are looking at this as a must win game but most fans around the club belive that shaun maloney who impressed in last weeks 1-1 draw with norwich and key midfielder mohamed diame should start peter odemwinge will not face the latics die to injury that is a big blow for the baggies but if they want to win this game marc antoane fortune will be key also keith andrews in midfield

Prediction
I think wigan will win 2-1 because it means more to wigan this match because they are scrapping for survival however west brom are mid table with nothing really to play for

Monday Madness!

Torres wins chance to train with Drogba!

Chelsea striker Fernando Torres was at the end of a joke at Didier Drogba's Foundation charity ball when the winner of a training session with the Ivorian offered to donate it to the Spanish striker.  

My foot hurts!

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson experienced a night of horrors on and off the pitch - his team were beaten 3-2 by Athletic Bilbao, and an electronic substitutions board fell on his leg.

My head hurts!

It's astonishing when any player scores five goals in one game - but Lionel Messi's record-breaking Champions League haul was made even more impressive after it emerged he was suffering from a headache beforehand. 

Save the frogs!

Manchester United midfielder Park Ji-Sung has been asked to put his weight behind a campaign to protect frogs in South Korea. 

Footballer sues church as life with God costs him chance to be a Devil!

A former Portuguese Division Three player is suing the evangelical church which he claims cost him the chance to play for Manchester United. Arquimedes Nganga, 46, is seeking £10million damages from the Baptist Union as he claims that, had the church not turned him into a ‘fervent evangelist’ he would have been good enough to play for the Red Devils. The 46-year-old, who has accused the leaders of the Baptist Union of causing him ‘psychological harm’, said: ‘I could definitely have had a long career in the Premier League. ‘I see a lot of players today who I am not inferior to and perhaps better than. ‘Most midfielders are either defensive or attacking but I was both. I had something new.’ Manchester United have yet to comment. 

Torres doesn't even want to score!

Goal-shy striker Fernando Torres gave the clearest indication yet that he's severely lacking in confidence after it emerged he turned down the chance to take a penalty in Chelsea's 2-0 FA Cup win over Birmingham. In our first ever Monday Madness we saw Bury's Schumacher and Coke arguing and fighting over a penalty. This was the total opposite.

Vt football announce euro 2012 coverage!

Vt football can today confirm that they will be writing previews and match reports of euro 2012 games througout the tourdement enjoy! Also vt football will be doing weekly round ups of how its going so if you need a catch up during euro 2012 look no further than vt footbal!

Team knowlege test week 3

This week we test your knowlege on manchester united!

Who wears the number 10 for united?
Did they win the league last season?

What was the score when they played man city at home in the league this season?

Who is their current manager

What is the name of their stadium?

Team scouting report week 2

This week we take a look at mark hughes' Qpr who aim to avoid relegation


Best starting line up
Kenny
Onouha
Hill
Ferdinand
Tiwo
Wright phillips
Barton
Diakite
Taarbat
Zamora
Cisse / Macheda

Key players for the vital run in

1. Bobby Zamora
His performances at fulham where top class if he can produce the same performances at rangers he chould keep them up

2. Shaun Wright-Phillips
Swp hasnt really lived up to his expectation since he joined qpr in the summer but if he can peform anywhere near his best he might offer rangers a chance of survival

3. Joey Barton
Joey is another player yet to play to well for rangers but he's showen in sparks this season what he can do

The boss
Mark hughes
The welshman took over in january and made seven january buys he needs to help them gell now. It will be one of the hardest few months of his career.

Can they stay up
Yes! With the players they have and the creativity qpr are probably the favourits to stay up but the team needs to gell but there is so many players in the squad who are never involved in matches such as Bothroyd Cambell
Helguson and more will that prove a factor in the survival push?

Monthly awards : February

Player of the month
Pavel pogrbnyak
Been key to fulhams great month scoring five crucial goals

Manager of the month
David moyes
Everton really shone in februrary and where unbeaten in the month.

Team of the month
Fulham really grew into their stride and players such as clint dempsey where at their best in the month really made a big push for the top half

Weekend review

We have new leaders in the premier league! manchester united are top after they beat west brom 2-0 while man city lost 1-0 at swansea city at the liberty stadium whitch means united go top. In other games Wigan remain bottom after they where held at norwich , liverpools losing streak stretched to three games after they lost 1-0 at martin o neills in form sunderland also aston villa beat fulham 1-0 , bolton beat qpr 2-1 to kickstart their survival bid chelsea beat stoke 1-0 and blackburn won 2-0 at wolves.

Torres where did it all go wrong?

Well as many of you will recall the spaniard moved to chelsea for a jaw dropping 50 million in the january transfer window of the 2010-11 season and boy has it gone wrong!

How come he has played so badly ?
Well when you join a big club like chelsea for that kind of money the pressure should really be on you and thats something in football that if you want to be a succesfull player you must deal with that. Torres' Chelsea debut came in a 1-0 home defeat to his old side ( who he left just a week before) Torres in all honesty had a shocker that day and that really started this rotten era.

Can injuries be to blame?

In the world cup before the 2010/11 season torres was in a winning spanish side but never really showed his potential and later scans showed that the striker whos nickname is el nino was playing with a hamstring injury that may have been to blame for the following season but not this season where he has been completly injury free.

Is there any possible exuses
Well not really but there is a few that may have affected him

1. He has been playing in a low confidenced side since torres has jonied chelsea have gone down hill and two managers have departed Roberto Di Matteo will be torres' 3rd manager in just over 1 year.

2. The formations

Torres usually played in a 4-2-3-1 formation at liverpool but since his move to chelsea he has been playing in a 4-5-1/4-3-3 system whitch he hasnt suited well.


Conclusion.
Torres hasn't performed at all well at Chelsea 5 goals in 51 games isnt good enough it looked like torres maybe finding a little bit of form when he scored against man united and swansea but he hasnt really done anything since , the horrific miss against Man united sums it all up!

Team knowlege test week 3

This week we test your knowlege on newcastle!

Who is their top scorer so far this season?

What was the result when they played man united away in the league this season?

What is the current name of their stadium?

What nationality are strikers Demba Ba
And Demba Cisse

Who scored the winner in their 1-0 home win against wigan this season ?