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SPEAKER_02 0:10

Football predictions from game week 34. Do you want to just bang out the Crystal Palace one now? Yeah, so we've got a game in hand, which is the Crystal Palace Man City one. So just whatever you think the score line's gonna be on that, it might as well. I have 3-0. We've gone 3-0 Man City. Nice. Yeah, I think Man City, I don't think they'll probably fucking even lose a game. Nah. Coming towards the end of the season. So yeah, so from starting from now, game week 34. 35. 35 even, yeah. Um if you wanna list what scores as well, but I'll have them put up here.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

For context.

SPEAKER_02 0:45

For people watching.

SPEAKER_01 0:47

You sent me this thing to do at like half three. Half four. So I blasted through it. And then I've just and then I forgot to Prince like save this one, so I've just literally done this one again now. But so when they're all wrong, that's why. So I've got Leeds to beat Burnley 2-0. Yeah. Brentford West Ham 1-1. Newcastle to lose 2-0 to Brighton.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Yeah, Newcastle is a shit, Brighton are doing well. Uh Wolves to lose 3-1 to Sunderland. Yeah. Arsenal to win 2-1 against Fulham. Bournemouth to win 2-1 against Crystal Palace. Yeah. I've got Man United, Liverpool 2-2.

SPEAKER_02 1:26

You think that you don't think Man United have beat them? No, 2-2. Beat him earlier on in the season against uh at Anfield, didn't they?

SPEAKER_01 1:32

I know, but it's I know, but Man United are sort of dipping a little bit, aren't they?

SPEAKER_02 1:36

Yeah, I mean I think they've only lost Liverpool, aren't they, since with Carrick? I think they're top of the league since he joined as well.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

No, I think West Dammer, aren't they?

SPEAKER_02 1:43

Nah, since Carrick joined.

SPEAKER_01 1:45

I know you've got to I think they have dropped a few points, haven't they? And they've not scraped against Brent.

SPEAKER_02 1:50

That Leeds that Leeds resort was a bit of a fucking Brentford, Brentford.

SPEAKER_01 1:53

The Brentford game where he's had it comfortable.

SPEAKER_02 1:55

No, but Brentford had make it a bit more.

SPEAKER_01 1:56

I mean he's grinded, but yeah, and I think Liverpool Liverpool have got a couple of results recently.

SPEAKER_02 2:01

Yeah, they've they've picked they are picking up a bit of a big thing. Picking up Isaac's back. Yeah, Salah went off injured then the other day.

SPEAKER_01 2:06

Yeah, but he's had no impact anyway, has he? Nah, nah. But yeah, so Man United Liverpool 2-2.

SPEAKER_02 2:12

Uh this is this is just me clutching the straws here, but you've gone for a Tottenham win.

SPEAKER_01 2:18

No, I've gone Tottenham 1-1. Oh okay. In my head, I'm hoping I'm hoping in my head that because of because because Aston Villa are near enough guaranteed Champions League football, they will field a bit of a a bit of a weaker score.

SPEAKER_02 2:31

You think they'll take the gas off a bit on the Premier League and go all out for Europa League?

SPEAKER_01 2:34

Yeah, yeah. I'm thinking with us, it's us. Do you know what I mean? With shit. That's what I'm hoping. Yeah, I guess it's purely what I'm hoping.

SPEAKER_02 2:41

When you're in that position, I don't think you can take many chances. So it's a tough one, but it depends if you're on here, he's so confident. I mean, he's won plenty of fucking missed the Europa League, isn't it? Europa League, so he knows what he's doing.

SPEAKER_01 2:53

Yeah, so then Chelsea Forrest, I've got one one.

SPEAKER_02 2:57

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:58

I just think mate, I I think the problem with Chelsea was purely Rossini. I don't think sorry, Rossini, yeah. So I don't feel uh they haven't got a bad squad. No, I they were doing well under Moresca. Yeah, do you know what I mean? And then obviously what's happened happened. Um they'd be a lot higher in the league, I think, if he was still in charge. Yeah, so uh I feel like he's the problem. Under 121 managers got an idea of what he's doing, I suppose he knows the club. So um, and then again Nottingham Forest, maybe there'd be the Reds in the UN. Again with the villa situation, yeah. So I'm thinking, yeah, but obviously Chelsea Chelsea's form so shit, and with Nottingham Forest doing so well at the minute, just sort of. And then um Everton to lose 3-0 to Manchester City.

SPEAKER_02 3:42

Yeah, it's pretty certain. Pretty certain. Do you want me to go for mine or do you want to carry on?

SPEAKER_01 3:48

No, you go through yours.

SPEAKER_02 3:49

Yeah, all right. So I've gone with a 2-0 leads win as well. Obviously, with Scott Scott Parker going, I don't think I think they're on the beach right now, them players. They ain't gonna give a fuck, are they about the Premier League?

SPEAKER_01 4:00

Well, I don't know, because are they gonna try and play for like you slow we had the conversation earlier about something else? You you're still playing, you still want people to look at your interview.

SPEAKER_02 4:08

Yeah, you still want to uh showcase what you've got in you as a player to try and stand in the Premier League. I get that, but I think with the manager going as well, you they haven't got anyone in, and it's tomorrow. We're recording this on Thursday. I don't think they're gonna have anyone come in at that time. I think that Michael Jackson's taking over him. I saw him seen all the memes already. Fucking brilliant. Um so yeah, leads to the case. So they want Craig Bellamy, I've just read as well. That'd be a good sign in, you know, for him. I think Craig Bellamy was.

SPEAKER_00 4:34

Apparently he was coaching that under uh company with him. What a Burnley? Yeah, when company was A he was coached popular.

SPEAKER_02 4:40

So yeah, two nil leads. Uh I've had a board uh not boring, but a 2-2 draw with Brentford West Ham. Uh I've had Barbon 1-1, so yeah. I've had Brighton 3-1. I think you had 2-0. Yeah. Yeah. I had Wolverhampton 1, Sunderland 1. Okay. Just because Sunderland ain't the best at away. Um, but what you've said about and watching Wolves against Tottenham the other day, they have got a little bit of fight in them. Not really. Just a little bit. Not really. I thought I mean if it weren't for that fucking save at the end that free kick, it could have been 1-1. Do you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 5:11

Paper Mache and fucking Vicario would have let that in. Paper Mache. Yeah, Paper Mache and Love it. Uh Arsenal, I ain't I'm taking that expression, I said that.

SPEAKER_02 5:21

Arsenal 2-0 against Fulham. Yeah. Bournemouth 3-1 against Palace. I've had Manu 2-1 Liverpool. I've went with Villa 2-1 against Tottenham. Couldn't. I had Forest 2-1 against Chelsea. What did you have that one again? 1-1. And then I had 3-1 Man City Everton. Not minimum off with two. They ain't far. There's we've pretty much got two goals in most of them games, the the difference.

SPEAKER_01 5:42

Um just roll straight into the next one. Yeah, we'll we'll go straight into that one, yeah. So the next game week is 36. So I've gone uh Liverpool to beat Chelsea 2-0. Same. Yeah. And then I've got Sunderland to lose 3-1 to Man United. Oh nice. Foot Broughton to beat Wolves 3-0, 2-2 Fulham, Bournemouth, 4-1 Chelsea uh Man City Brentford, yeah, 1-1 Palace Everton, 2-0 after Villa Burnley. So Villa to beat Burnley 2-0. Yeah, 1-1 Newcastle uh Noggle Forest. Uh West Ham will lose 2-1 2-0 to Arsenal, and then I've had Uz Tottenham to beat Leeds 2-1.

SPEAKER_02 6:26

Ooh, that's nice. So we'll see. Do you know what again? Uh our predictions are quite similar. There are only like one or two goals off, if not. So I've had 2-0 Liverpool. Yeah. Sunderland to lose 2-1 against the United. I've had uh brought into absolutely a Brit or eight Wolves 4-1. Okay. Uh I've had a 1-1 draw with Fulham and Bournemouth. Man City 3-2. Okay. Brentford seem to be a bit of a dark horse team when they play Man City as well. I remember was it last season not last season, the season before they've done the double over on when Northern Tony was a yeah. So I feel like they've that it's a bit of a bogey team for them. Uh I've had Everton 2-1 against Palace. I've had 3-0 Villa Burnley, Nottingham Forest to beat Newcastle 2-1. Um, I remember the game last time they played at um last season, was it, when they won like 4-1? And it was like the first half for Wood got a hat trick to remember. I just feel like Wood's back as well. Oh no, but it's against Newcastle.

SPEAKER_01 7:22

Oh, I feel like what we've we've said earlier at work. Um, it was chair and I was stitching my head. Um yeah, we said earlier Newcastle, I know everyone's no one's put them in it, but Newcastle are there only eight points, they're not out of this relegation scrap. No, no. So if they don't pick up a few points, so I feel like I feel like they will need to go out there and will need to get a couple of results.

SPEAKER_02 7:44

Yeah, and I think I don't know, I've just got a feeling Forrest picking up forward. And Victor Pereira, if you remember correctly, when he took over Wolves last season, they were the most informed team in the Premier League, like they were top of the table when he took over, absolutely smashing it, and he's doing kind of a similar thing with Forest now.

SPEAKER_01 7:58

I think in the relegation scrap, I think it's hard, it's easy to have a bit of momentum, but then it's easy to snowball so hard.

SPEAKER_02 8:05

I mean, one one bad result you can fucking stumble.

SPEAKER_01 8:08

But Knott's with Knott's again. I said this to you earlier. If they lose to Villa and in the first leg, or they crash out with the Europa League and they lose, let's say, who have they got? Who have they got?

SPEAKER_02 8:20

Who this week. Villa. No, not so they've got um we've literally seen Chelsea, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:28

So yeah, Chelsea with that new manager bounce. No, he's not a new manager. Oh, if they have that, they beat them, they go out of the you know I mean it's snowball, you can easily fall into a bit of a trap.

SPEAKER_02 8:36

Exactly. Um I had 2-1 Arsenal to beat West Ham, and then I went with a 1-1 Leeds Tottenham draw. Okay. Only because of the home form. But like you say, you you've you've picked up a win against Wolves, that might be the thing you need. I just think that Javi Simmons and Solanke is a little bit of a loss as well. I don't I don't know. He's so he was starting to look very creative as well with the deserved.

SPEAKER_01 8:59

Simmons is Simmons's. Have you seen this um you seen the videos of him? He's already back in the gym. What Simmons?

unknown 9:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:07

Any bents with lots of things? Ruptured his ACL and he's already back in the gym. Fucking hell. So he's like his all knee bandaged up. I have I've only seen pictures, just on Snapchat, and I'm far too old for that. But his knees all bandaged up and he looks like he's he's doing work in the gym, yeah. That's a bit of a work. I don't think he's I think I don't I think he's keeping active. I don't think he's doing that he's on that knee.

SPEAKER_02 9:27

Yeah, he's just trying to keep himself in some sort of good shape. Right then, game week 37, so this is the second last one. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 9:35

Right, so I've gone uh Villa Liverpool 2-2. Okay. Uh I'll go I went Man United to beat Nottingham Forest 3-1. I went Brentford to beat Crystal Palace 2-0, Everton to beat Sundon 1-0, Leeds to lose to Brighton 2-1, Wolves to lose to Fulham 3-1, a boring 0-0 for Newcastle and West Ham. 3-0 Arsenal, Burnley, Man City will beat Bournemouth 4-1, and a boring 1-1 for Chelsea, Tottenham.

SPEAKER_02 10:07

Not bad.

SPEAKER_01 10:08

Is that because yours is similar again?

SPEAKER_02 10:10

Not that far off. I mean I think there's one we pretty much have the wins in the draw, though. I think in this one though, there's only like one or two different ones. Uh with I've gone with a Villa win against Liverpool 2-1. And this is from a fucking Birmingham fan. I think I've had Villa to win all their games so far, I don't know. Uh I've had Manu 3-2 against Forest. I went with a 2-0 home win at Brentford for uh Brentford to beat uh Padis over.

SPEAKER_01 10:32

What did you have? Man United, not sorry.

SPEAKER_02 10:34

3-2 uh I had Everton to beat Sundown 3-0. Uh Leeds, Brighton was 1-1, Wolves uh to lose to Fulham 2-1. I had West Ham to beat Newcastle 2-1 as well.

SPEAKER_00 10:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:49

Looking on that now, I I am thinking more of a 2-2. I was I did put 2-2 in originally, but then I just changed it. I just think West Ham are just they are really quite good on form at the moment. Uh Arsenal 4-0 Burnley, Man City 3-2 Bournemouth. That could be a potential banana skin as well. I did have that as 3-3, but I changed it to 3-2 and then 1-1 Chelsea Tottenham. Yeah. I think if out of all these so far with Man City, sorry, I think that Bournemouth game could potentially be the one that fucks them up, you know. Uh away from home, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:31

Game week 38.

SPEAKER_02 11:33

Yeah, that's the last game week. Last game of the season.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

Right, so I've gone Sunderland to beat Chelsea 2-1.

SPEAKER_02 11:39

Yeah, same.

SPEAKER_01 11:41

Brighton and Man United 2-2. Ooh, okay. Arsenal to beat Crystal Palace 2-1. Yeah. Burnley Wolves have gone for a 3-3.

SPEAKER_02 11:51

Ooh, tasty.

SPEAKER_01 11:53

Um Fulham to beat Newcastle 2-0. Liverpool to beat Brentford 3-0. Man City to beat Aston Villa 2-1. Nottingham Forest, Bournemouth 1-1. I went for a 2-0 Tottenham win against Everton. Okay. And then West Ham Leeds 1-1.

SPEAKER_02 12:15

Okay, again, very similar score lines. So I I I like you said, like you said, I got Sunderland to beat Chelsea 2-1. I've had Broughton to beat Manu 2-0. I think Danny Wellbeck double. Yeah. One of them ones. Uh, I think a banana skin there with Palace and Arsenal. I think it's gonna be 1-1. I think pressure's gonna get to them. And Palace have an act of uh fucking people's seasons up, what they did with Liverpool back in the day, Chris Dan Ball. Um, when they were 3-0 up and Suarez got, I think, Brace and then Dwight Gao come on and got two goals. Yeah, and they ended up fucking that it was I think that was the week before the after the Denver bar slip. But yeah, anyway, uh Wolves 1-0 Burnley, Fulham 1-0 Newcastle, Liverpool 4-2 against Brentford, I've had a 3-2 uh win for Man City against Villa. That they didn't that before when they won the league, they were 2-0 down against Fulham came back 3-2. I've had a 2-2 Forest draw, I've had a 0-0 Tottenham draw, and I've had a West Ham Leeds draw 1-1. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:14

Did you want to speed out the table? Drop me three mine out there.

SPEAKER_02 13:17

So you you go with yours and I'll I'll do mine after, yeah. Um so who's top of the league on yours?

SPEAKER_01 13:23

So because we but we both had Man City and Arsenal winning all games, didn't we? Pretty much. So we've both got I don't know. But so ours would both be Man City Arsenal, won't we?

SPEAKER_02 13:36

No, because I had Crystal Palace one-one with Arsenal, that's guaranteed. Oh, did ya?

SPEAKER_01 13:40

Okay, sorry. Well we might so it'll still be Man City Arsenal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So mine is right. So this is how it was, because I did that first them first features I had to redo. So this is my table before that, but I don't think they're that different. So from top to bottom, we've got Man City, Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool, Aston Villa, Brighton, Fulham, Brentford, Bournemouth, Everton, Chelsea, Sunderland, Crystal Palace, Leeds, Newcastle, Nottingham Forest, Tottenham, Hotspur, West Ham, Burnley, Wolverhampton Wanderers.

SPEAKER_02 14:16

Well Wolves and Burnley. Oh no, you've had Burnley to be above Wolves. No, I said Burnley and Wolves, didn't I? Yeah. So you've had Burnley to finish 19th? Yeah, two points. I've had Bur well mine's is a bit different, I think. Um so I've had you got mild confused, I don't think. So your top four was Man City Arsenal Man United Liverpool. Yeah, so mine's um Manchester City, Arsenal, Man United, Villa. Uh Liverpool fifth, Brighton sixth, Fulham seventh, so they're the same. I've had Everton eighth, just missing out what a point um for a Europa place actually.

SPEAKER_01 14:54

Um Bournemouth, ninth, Brentford 10th, so so you so so hold on, just so you know, so you've you had Everton, Bournemouth, Brentford, yeah, and mine is Brentford, Bournemouth, Everton.

SPEAKER_02 15:06

Yeah, just them two right round, and then my bottom half is Sunderland 11th, Chelsea 12th.

SPEAKER_01 15:12

Mine are the other way around.

SPEAKER_02 15:13

I think that's mental thinking about it, but it's so realistic because they've just been fucking shit, man. Should uh 13th Forest, 14th Leeds, 15th Palace. I think they're gonna go down a little bit. Newcastle as well, 16th, uh West Ham 17th, Tottenham 18th, Wolves 19th, and Burnley bottom of the league 20th. But it's I'm looking at this now, it's completely different to how I actually really do imagine it because I do think Newcastle will I don't think Newcastle are out of it at all. I think they might they might if Tottenham and West Ham keep playing the well not Tottenham, but West Ham keep playing the way they're going. Tottenham can pick up a few results. I can honestly I can see Newcastle in it, man. They're just dropping and dropping. They're just I don't know what's wrong. I mean, Eddie Al, if he was to leave, every club would be happy to have him as a manager pretty much, I reckon. I just don't know what's going wrong. I know they've been hit with a few injuries, but ain't we all? Ain't we all and they they went quite far in the Champions League. They got players or Gordon who's turned up as well in the in the Champions League, and he weren't doing it in the Premier League.

SPEAKER_01 16:21

Why was he? I think this thing saying he scored like four goals against Kwarabag.

SPEAKER_02 16:26

He got he's gone ten goals in the Champions League, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

Yeah, but it's six of them were like against that Quarabagh weren't they?

SPEAKER_02 16:31

Yeah, I know he's stat padding. I get that, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 16:36

I think like you say, I think I think I think a lot of the teams in and around that relegation scrap have got a player in Newcastle. Yeah. So it's either a case of they drop into it because they lose to all them teams that are in form, or they do I can't see a bullion baller draws, or Eddie Al pulls their finger out and they end up beating them all.

SPEAKER_02 16:58

I can't see it. I really can't see it looking like that now. I mean they've got who they got this weekend? They've got so they've got a play Broughton away from home, which I can't really see them winning that, obviously. I'll just put that down. Er Forestaway West Ham who were fighting, and then Fulham who are potentially looking to get into the state.

SPEAKER_01 17:25

Yeah, to be fair, before this there were forms all over that. So before they lost, because they their losing streak started with a 7-2 defeat to Barcelona. Yeah, that's when it all went down, but before that they beat Chelsea, before that they drew with Barsa, then they before they we that they lost in Man City, then they beat Man United, carried first lost. And then they lost 3-2 to Everton, 2-1 to Man City.

SPEAKER_02 17:52

They've had a they've had a lot of unlucky games. I remember I remember the first time it started this started spoiling for him is when uh Engamo scored that last minute goal when they had a man. Liverpool were man uh Newcastle were a man down as well and they ended up bringing it back. Engamore scored in the last minute, they know. But they've been having games like that all season where they've lost to a sloppy goal or something stupid's happened. I know the Barcelona game they got absolutely dicked, but there's been a lot of games this season where they haven't carried it through into the last 10-15 minutes. Like that Sunderland game as well, uh Bradley Bru Bra Bradley, Brad, what's his name?

SPEAKER_00 18:30

Who?

SPEAKER_02 18:31

The Sunderland goal who scored. Uh Brab oh fucking hell.

SPEAKER_01 18:34

What are you on about? I weren't listening, I was looking at the league.

SPEAKER_02 18:37

I'm just talking about like Newcastle. I was listening, but then yeah. And how they've been letting in sloppy goals. Like that game against Sunderland where they fucking let that shitty goal in. I can't think of that fucking lad's name now.

SPEAKER_01 18:48

Hey, some teams when you look at the form table, some teams are not doing that great, you know. Chelsea's is terrible.

SPEAKER_02 18:55

Are you going off the last 10 games?

SPEAKER_01 18:56

The last five games, this is last five games. Brentford haven't won in five games either. They drew four and then they've lost the last game.

SPEAKER_02 19:03

Yeah, Brentford are draw kings, they're lost.

SPEAKER_01 19:06

Newcastle have won one and lost the last four.

SPEAKER_02 19:10

Yeah, if you look on the last ten games though, that's the that's where I feel like you you get a good take on it because in the last ten games, bottom of the league will be Tottenham with five points, with Burnley just above, just on goal difference, with five points. Then 18th is Chelsea in the last 10 games, they've got eight points in ten games, they've let 18 goals in and scored 11 goals. Wolves and then Newcastle are just above with one point.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

When you know it's against you, and this isn't me feeling sorry for myself, but do you know what I mean? Like, we've I think five points in a relegation scrap ain't that bad, but then West Ham in the last five games have got six, eight. Look at the last ten. I'm not going, I'm gonna have four, I don't want to depress myself. Um and then not a good forest for three, six, nine, ten, six, nine, so nine, ten, forest and brought another thing. Nine, ten, and eight. Do you know what I mean? We've got five, so luckily we got them two draws of a win. Yeah. If we didn't beat Wolves, then we would relegate.

SPEAKER_02 20:08

If you can carry on this this foot, I mean you a loss at the at this point of the season. If you lose, you know for a fact, if you lose any game from now to the end of season, that's it, your hopes are gone. You have to unless West Ham lose, then you can take it on the team and be like, okay, well, we've just got to match their score or better it. But if you was to lose a game and West Ham even draw, I mean, that's a bit of a because I feel like you've got goal difference over them, though. If we lose the villa and they draw, they're only three points ahead. They've got your goal differences a lot superior.

SPEAKER_01 20:36

But they've like I say, they've got but then we've got you know what I mean. Who they've got then they've got Arsenal. Do you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 20:41

So that's the only thing is they're at home, aren't they? And it's a London club, it's a it's you're over it at the end of the day, and it's yeah, but Arsenal are gonna want to oh 100%. I just don't think oh Teth they crumble, he crumbles under pressure most of the time, man. He's a bottle job, he's an absolute bottle job. I think he's if he I've said this a thousand times, if they finish second this season and don't win the Champions League, because that's the only cup they're in really, they've fucked everything else up, hadn't they? They'd we'll get rid of him. Yeah, we've got uh or he's got a walk. Mate, it was only this time last month he was on for a quadruple, and he's come out, he's lost to Southampton in the FA Cup, but gotta give him their flowers, they had a fucking amazing game. Oh well, mate, they're and they're nearly too. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 21:25

I text my mate saying to be fair, I text him that I was like texting down in Southampton with a mind blown emoji, and then as I clicked send, I went back to check on it, and man city were winning. But yeah, listen, I I think that he he walks, he got he's got to walk himself.