Football

Mystic Jarv predictions Weekend of 28th August

Four correct results and Two fully correct scores last week so not a great week. Anyway on to this week's predictions

Saturday 28^th August

Blackburn Rovers V Arsenal 12:45
No i'll either look like a genius or a fool with this one but I'm predicting a Blackburn win. Blackburn are very tough to beat at home and…

Clubs awaiting Champions League draw

The draw is today (Thursday) at 5pm which is a silly time as I am going to be travelling home and will miss it. For the first time Spurs will be included within the draw and I'm sure they and their fans are eagerly awaiting to see who they get. For most clubs out side of the Third pot I would think Spurs or Schalke will be the 2 teams which the seeds will most like to avoid, that's not to say the other clubs are weak, because they aren't.

…

Mystic Jarv Predictions for the weekend of 21st August

Well we are now a week into the new season and a quick look back tells me I got 6 correct results and 2 fully correct scores out of the 10 games last weekend.

Anyway on to this week's predictions

Saturday 21^st August

Arsenal V Blackpool 15:00

…

Mystic Jarv predictionsWeekend 14 August

…

Premier League preview part 5

Here is the fifth and final part of Mystic Jarv's premier league preview. The Earlier instalments can be found here, Part 1, Part 2, Part…

Premier League preview part 4

Here is part 4 of Mystic Jarv's premier league preview. This one covers Newcastle, Stoke, Sunderland and Spurs. If you have missed the three previous instalments they can be found here, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.
…

Premier League preview part 3

Here is part three of Mystic Jarv's premier league season preview. This one includes Fulham, Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United. You can also read part 1 & part 2 if you haven't already.
…

Premier League Preview part 2

So here is part 2 of Mystic Jarv's premier league preview of the 2010/2011 season. If you haven't read part 1 read it here

Blackpool…

Premier League Preview - Part 1

So the premier league season is only a few days away (Have you joined our Fantasy Football Game yet?) This is a quick view at all 20 teams, split into five parts, and where I think they will end up this season. So anyway here we go.

Arsenal
So……

Jarv retires from international football

Following on from the pointless statement of Emile Heskey retiring from International football when he was never likely to play again anyway. After much consideration i would like to announce my retirement from International football.

It is with regret i must face up to the fact i will never represent England at football. In the tradition of players who were never likely to play for their country again (Andy Cole, Jamie Carragher, Emile Heskey to name but three)…

Join Fantasy Football 2010-2011

The New Hut fantasy football premier league has been launched for 2010/2011. The game is free to play and its an easy game to play. Its the same as usual you have £100 Million to spend on 15 players which you can transfer in and out throughout the seaosn if you wish. You can also auto-complete your team and make as many changes before the first deadline without any penalty points.

…

World cup post mortem

So the world cup is over for another four years, well it is really if you are English. Let me start by saying i don't think England were as bad V Germany as a lot have made out. Germany were a lot more clinical when they attacked but looking at the first half we had a lot more of the ball, around 60% of it, we had the same amount of good chances in the first half as they did, Neuer got lucky by making himself big from a Lampard shot which hit his hand and James got lucky with his foot.
…

Last 16 Predictions - World cup 2010

So the Last 16 are Known and here are Mystic Jarv's predictions for the Last 16 round

England V Germany
here is what i worte on the longer preview of this game

…

England V Germany preview

England we're much better against Slovenia than the previous 2 games but still lacked the ability to get the second goal which would have won us the group and given us a slightly easier passage to the semi finals. Instead of Ghana then either Uruguay or South Korea we have Germany then either Mexico or Argentina, probably Argentina (assuming we beat the Germans).

Still i said before the tournament my dream tournament would involve knocking out Germany and Argentina (France too but they did that to themselves) and now we have a chance to do just that.

England V Slovenia Preview

So, in a few hours we will know if England have made it through to the last 16 or not. Whether a chance for redemption awaits or the ignominy of an early plane home. Group C presented England with an extremely winnable group, by this stage we should have been saying will Germany win their group or finish second and end up playing England?. Will England meet Australia, Serbia or even Ghana?

Now that probably looks Arrogant and may be it is, but England are ranked in the top ten in the world. We qualified easy from a group which included Croatia who are ranked as better than all three world cup opponents and Ukraine who are ranked higher than both Algeria and Slovenia. So what has gone wrong? I've said before that I don't think Gerrard is a good leader for England and I think we are missing Ferdinand as a leader.

My team to face Slovenia would be:…..

England V USA Review

So the first game is over for England and it didn't go exactly as planned, there were some poor performances, notably, most of the first half but there were some good points too. I don't just blame Rob Green for last night, yes it was a howler but I still think he is the best option in goal.
…

World Cup Group Games Predictions from Mystic Jarv

I thought i better do this before the tournament actually kicked off so here are my predictions for the 2010 World cup group stages. I plan to attempt to predict every game in the world cup and see how i get on. I did ok in the premier league last season but the World cup has a lot of unknown quantities to me so this will involve a lot of guesswork.

So here goes……

Seven Miss out - World Cup 2010 South Africa

So the world cup squads have all been finally announced, no reason now not to join The New Hut Fantasy World cup Game. There we're no real surprises in the 7 players left out although that's not to say I agree with them but who am I to argue with Fabio Capello.

Well it would be quite dull if I left it there so here are my take on the 7 left out

England announce a pointless friendly with Hungary

The FA have announced that England will play Hungary in a friendly at Wembley on the 11th of August. I'd like to say this is an appallingly stupid idea. It's four weeks after the World cup finals where the England squad would have spent anything up to 2 months together playing games and training together. It's just three days before the new season kicks off and players are not likely to be fully match fit and/or jaded from the world cup so I don't possibly see what Capello can possibly gain from this game.

…

Uefa sanctions agianst clubs who spends to much

UEFA claim they are not trying to punish clubs and for once I believe them and even stranger I actually agree with what they are proposing. Now this might sound strange coming from a Manchester United fan, who are basically in the largest amount of debt of any club in Europe. I think all football fans can agree on, something else that doesn't happen very often, is that no one wants to see clubs go to the wall. No one wants to see fans suffer in the way Portsmouth have this season either.

The New Hut Fantasy World Cup

Afternoon all The World cup version of Free The New Hut Fantasy Football is up and running, Fantasy Football | Free World Cup Fantasy Football | | Metro.co.uk

come and join the fun! Once you've signed up, just use the League Name and PIN below to join in.
Mini League Name: The New Hut WCFF
Mini League PIN: 8005175

Scoring starts at 3pm on Friday, June 11