The View From Depression Gulch

It is with some trepidation given my team's poor form and mounting injury list that I used BBC's Premiership Predictor to come up with the following possible end of season table, and, to be honest, the way things are going for Everton right now, I'd settle for this result:

1. Man Utd 86 (If Utd win the title, they beat a certain other red team's record of titles achieved, and on that note I predict that Ol' Beetroot Face will retire, and the the new manager will be......Jose Mourinho)
2. Arsenal 81
3. Chelsea 77
4. Man City 70
5. Spurs 68 (Nearly, but not quite)
6. L****poo* 56
7. Birmingham 50
8. Newcastle 47
9. Bolton 47
10. A Villa 46
11. Fulham 45
12. Sunderland 45
13. Everton 44 (Gawd help us next season...)
14. Blackpool 43
15. W Ham 42 (Perhaps my sentimental affection for The Hammers got the better of me!)
16. Stoke 41
17. Wolves 40
18. W Brom 39 R
19. Blackburn 36 R (There's always one team who plummet like a brick in a bucket....better keep quiet on that one!)
20. Wigan 29 R (Somehow only getting 2 more points between now and season end - a total disintegration!)
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After Tuesday's godawful defeat to at home to Reading, I thought listening to England v Ireland while at work the next day could only cheer me up. How wrong can I be? Congrats to the Irish, a quite amazing display, matched only by the bromide-in-the-tea performance of England's "bowlers". By 5pm on Wednesday a black cloud could be seen hovering above the noggin of yours truly.

This weekend Everton take on Newcastle at St James' Park, while the England cricket team entertain Siff Iffrica. May as well throw myself under that bus now then!
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Some good news to finish - the Cobblers seem to have landed a decent manager in Gary Johnson, a man with a wealth of lower league experience who almost got Bristol City into the Premiership. With a very outside chance of still making the play offs, the only way is up fot the Cobblers.....that's kiboshed that then....
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