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And so to the third week of the season...


Arsenal v Man City
Bolton v Reading
Derby v Birmingham
Sunderland v Liverpool
Barnsley v Plymouth


All selections to be in by 12:45 on Saturday, 25th August.

Giving us 48 hours and 34 minutes to make our predcitions. Plenty of time.

Arsenal 0-1 Man City (Elano)
Bolton 0-3 Reading (Hunt)
Derby 1-1 Birmingham (Earnshaw)
Sunderland 3-2 Liverpool (Chopra)
Barnsley 0-1 Plymouth (Chadwick)

Mine will however, be there on time. I'll be on the coach to Dumfries by 12:30.

Arsenal 0-2 Man City (Geovanni)
Bolton 1-2 Reading (Doyle)
Derby 0-1 Birmingham (O'Connor)
Sunderland 1-3 Liverpool (Torres)
Barnsley 0-0 Plymouth

Hmm...I won't forget this week.

I'm going all away-wins, foolhardishly.

Arsenal 1-2 Man City (Elano)
Bolton 0-3 Reading (Doyle)
Derby 0-1 Birmingham (Forssell)
Sunderland 0-2 Liverpool (Voronin)
Barnsley 0-1 Plymouth (Buzsaky)

B

Arsenal 1 Man City 1 Geovanni
Bolton 0 Reading 1 Kevin Doyle
Derby 1 Birmingham 0 Matt Oakley
Sunderland 0 Liverpool 2 Torres
Barnsley 0 Plymouth 2 Sylvan Ebanks-Blake

Arsenal 0-0 Man City
Bolton 0-1 Reading (Hunt)
Derby 2-3 Birmingham (Earnshaw)
Sunderland 1-3 Liverpool (Torres)
Barnsley 0-1 Plymouth (Ebanks-Blake)

Arsenal 1-1 Man City ( Robin Van Persie )
Bolton 0-2 Reading ( Kevin Doyle )
Derby 0-0 Birmingham
Sunderland 1-2 Liverpool (Fenando Torres)
Barnsley 0-3 Plymouth ( Sylvan Ebanks-Blake)

Arsenal 2-1 Man City (Van Persie)
Bolton 1-1 Reading (Anelka)
Derby 0-0 Birmingham
Sunderland 0-2 Liverpool (Torres)
Barnsley 0-2 Plymouth (Ebanks-Blake)

i'll have you know that we arrived at these predictions completely independently. in fact i thought the lad was waiting for dad to come home to give him a hand!

btw, why does everyone think nico will be sold, benched or demotivated for the reading match?

It was more the cast-iron certainty that Bolton will be a bit shit for the Reading match, I think.

B

Arsenal v Man City 1-0 (Alexander Hleb)

Bolton v Reading 1-1 (Leroy Lita)

Derby v Birmingham 0-0

Sunderland v Liverpool 0-2 (Fernando Torres)

Barnsley v Plymouth 2-1 (Brian Howard)

I hate the start of the season.

Arsenal 2 v 0 Man City ~ Rosicky
Bolton 1 v 1 Reading ~ Diouf
Derby 2 v 2 Birmingham ~ McSheffreu
Sunderland 1 v 0 Liverpool ~ Cole
Barnsley 1 v 2 Plymouth ~ Ebanks-Blake

Arsenal 2-1 Man City Rosicky
Bolton 0-0 Reading
Derby 2-2 BirminghamBarnes
Sunderland 1-2 Liverpool Torres
Barnsley 0-1 Plymouth Chadwick.

I think I actually prefer the begining of the season, all the hopes and aspirations of the newly crafted teams are shared by us and them as they (and us) crash and burn

It's more difficult which makes it more of a mix-up I think as there's not so much form to dull all the predictions into very similar lists.

Arsenal 0 - 2 Man City (Bianchi)
Bolton 1 - 2 Reading (Doyle)
Derby 1 - 1 Birmingham (Earnshaw)
Sunderland 1 - 2 Liverpool (Torres)
Barnsley 0 - 2 Plymouth (Ebanks-Blake)

Thus concludes the votes from the Marple jury...

Arsenal 1-1 Manchester City (Robin van Persie)
Bolton 0-1 Reading (Kevin Doyle)
Derby 0-0 Birmingham
Sunderland 1-2 Liverpool (Dirk Kuyt)
Barnsley 0-1 Plymouth (Barry Hayles)

*subscribes to the main page, finally...*

Arsenal 1-1 Man City (Alexsandr Hleb)
Bolton 0-2 Reading (Kevin Doyle)
Derby 1-1 Birmingham (Mikael Forssell)
Sunderland 0-4 Liverpool (Dirk Kuyt)
Barnsley 0-2 Plymouth (Barry Hayles)

Arsenal 2 v 1 Man City (E.Da Silva)
Bolton 1 v 1 Reading (N.Anelka)
Derby 2 v 3 Birmingham (M.Forssell)
Sunderland 1 v 3 Liverpool (F.Torres)
Barnsley 0 v 0 Plymouth