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Everton v Man City
The blue half of Liverpool host the blue half of Manchester in what appears to be an uneven affair. Everton have only a single home win all season and City score for fun so this can only end one way. Lampard, Dzeko and Milner are on top of their game and Everton don't have the man power to hold them back. It can only be a case of how many.

Charlton v Birmingham
Fifth host third and with only 2 points between them this promises to be the game of the week. Both teams are on form and have a lot of variety in the attacking third. RVP, Fellaini and Nani doing the damage for Birmingham while Sturridge, Coutinho and Willian provide a slick passing option for The Addicks. A draw suits neither team as both are still in the title hunt and want to close the gap on leaders City. A thriller in the offing and too close to call.

Plymouth v Man Utd
Ben's Pilgrims have a home tie against LVG and his total football playing United team. United are probably safe and have a soft centre and I expect Plymouth to take full advantage this week. After last week's 5-0 demolition of Liverpool, Aguero, Di Maria and co will be hopeful of a similar score line against United. It's hard to look past a home win as Plymouth keep up the pressure at the top.

Fulham v Liverpool
The biggest game of the season so far for Fulham. Phil has done a great job of getting Fulham organised and moving in the right direction. Suarez is scoring and with the like of Kolarov providing the assists his team are moving closer to safety. A win this week against rock bottom Liverpool should open up a 4 point gap as Everton are hosting leaders City. Liverpool have nothing much to offer. This team has the League's worst attack combined with the worst defence ..... not a winning formula by any means. The Cottage faithful will be feeling a lot more comfortable about their Premier League status after this match. Liverpool need to go back to the drawing board and plan for the Championship.

Spurs v Blackburn
Last week a miracle occurred during Blackburn's miserable 4-1 home capitulation to Fulham. Someone other than Roque Santa Cruz scored and Blackburn were in the lead and aiming for a home win. 88 harsh minutes later with Roque not troubling the scorers a little part of Lancashire started to think about the drop. Anything less than a win at The Lane and they'll have to think about it a lot more on the train journey home. Neither team is inspiring but maybe Santa Cruz might give a glimmer of hope to Blackburn.

Watford v Chelsea
Almost a London derby as the Hornets host Chelsea at Vicarage Road. The Elton John Stand will be rocking as the fans try to encourage their star studded heroes back to winning ways. They have the manager, they have the players and they have a bright yellow kit ....... The Hornets have the lot. Chelsea have stars of their own in Ramires and Oscar but with only 9 goals scored all season I can't see them troubling Watford. Jamie to lead his team back to winning ways and back into the title frame.

Thanks for that Rob, great read as usual, the Charlton Birmingham game is for sure the one to watch, good luck to both managers there.

Things are running a bit slow again this week, just starting the data entry now.

No orders this week from Newcastle, Fulham, Ajax & Inverness.

Posted mine Thursday morning so it should be with you by now, hopefully it will arrive today!

Jamie@Watford wrote:: Posted mine Thursday morning so it should be with you by now, hopefully it will arrive today!

Yes, it just arrived ( 12:20 ) post marked the 20th April, first class, only took 8 days to get here !!! Glad it arrived safely eventually.

Data entry finished ( 14:00 ) just started to run the friendlies, reserves and youth games. At this rate we should be on track to kickoff the league games at 1000 wednesday, as normal.

Transfer rumours...

Man City and Arsenal are currently engaged in discussions about a player swap, thought to be a potentially big deal involving Andy Carroll and the unhappy Theo Walcott, more news as it happens, although Man City are also thought to be considering a bid for Arsenal's Alex Chamberlain, who would certainly suit their style of play.

Barcelona have made an audacious bid to grab Neymar from Schalke in exchange for Alex Pato.

Several clubs are in the hunt to sign Schalke's Thomas Muller and David Alaba.

Gareth Bale is almost certainly on his way to Watford this week as the title chasers have tabled a £40millions bid with their feeder club. Deal is yet to be ratified though.

Reserves & Youths all run, just kicking off the international matches now. ( 1630 ).

World Cup semi-final results

Germany 0 Holland 2

Argentina 0 Brazil 2

Holland are in cracking form atm breezing past a very strong German side, whilst Argentina lost out to auld rivals Brazil, for whom Neymar was outstanding.

World Youth Cup semi-final results

Brazil 1 Spain 0

Italy 0 England 2 aet

This is going to be a great final between the two top youth teams in the world.

Paul Hemmings wrote:: Transfer rumours...

Man City and Arsenal are currently engaged in discussions about a player swap, thought to be a potentially big deal involving Andy Carroll and the unhappy Theo Walcott, more news as it happens, although Man City are also thought to be considering a bid for Arsenal's Alex Chamberlain, who would certainly suit their style of play.

Barcelona have made an audacious bid to grab Neymar from Schalke in exchange for Alex Pato.

Several clubs are in the hunt to sign Schalke's Thomas Muller and David Alaba.

Gareth Bale is almost certainly on his way to Watford this week as the title chasers have tabled a £40millions bid with their feeder club. Deal is yet to be ratified though.

Bugger ......... I was hopeful of some under the radar transfer work this turn.

Good start to the week, best of luck tomorrow everyone.

WILSON ANNOUNCES SEARCH FOR STRIKER.

Plymouth Manager Ben Wilson is rumoured to be on the hunt for a new man upfront after unconfirmed reports that Stevan Jovetic and Lukas Podolski might both be surplus to requirements at the end of the season. Whilst he has his eye of a number of targets, reports suggest, he is willing to discuss any potential deals to increase Plymouth's goal threat. More as we have it...

Transfers sound very interesting this week, think Iain has set the level with the transfer of Ronaldo and we're all playing catch up!

Flamengo have made an agreement with Megaphone company 'The Horn' just incase they manage to pull off a major signing.............

Okay all the pre-league games are run and we're ready for the big kickoff wednesday morning at 1000 hours, good luck to everybody.

Matt@Barcelona wrote:: Transfers sound very interesting this week, think Iain has set the level with the transfer of Ronaldo and we're all playing catch up!

Will be very interesting to see how Messi and Ronaldo play together this week as Iain drafts Ronaldo into his side for this week's game.

Twenty minutes until kickoff, the players are out warming up...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Matt@Barcelona wrote:: Transfers sound very interesting this week, think Iain has set the level with the transfer of Ronaldo and we're all playing catch up!

Will be very interesting to see how Messi and Ronaldo play together this week as Iain drafts Ronaldo into his side for this week's game.

Not sure whoever he is playing will find it interesting!! lol!

Tom@Charlton wrote:

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Matt@Barcelona wrote:: Transfers sound very interesting this week, think Iain has set the level with the transfer of Ronaldo and we're all playing catch up!

Will be very interesting to see how Messi and Ronaldo play together this week as Iain drafts Ronaldo into his side for this week's game.

Not sure whoever he is playing will find it interesting!! lol!