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It is two days to the opening of the football season in England and Scotland... Just for some fun, let's have some predictions on this weekend's results. The fixtures:
Tottenham v Manchester City
Aston Villa v West Ham
Blackburn Rovers v Everton
Bolton Wanderers v Fulham
Sunderland v Birmingham
Wigan Athletic v Blackpool
Wolverhampton v Stoke City
Chelsea v West Brom
Liverpool v Arsenal (Sunday)
Manchester United v Newcastle (Monday)
and in Scotland:
Inverness Caledonian Thistle v Celtic
Aberdeen v Hamilton Academical
Hearts v St.Johnstone
Rangers v Kilmarnock
St. Mirren v Dundee United
Motherwell v Hibernian (Sunday)
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James on 02:40 PM •
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Away wins for: Man City, Everton, Arsenal, and Celtic. Draws: Aston Villa, Bolton, St. Mirren, and Motherwell.
Wins: Citeh, Villa, Everton, Wigan, Stoke, Chelsea, Arse, Manure
Draw: Bolton, Sunderland
Scotland: No opinion
When I was in grad school in Scotland, the football pools was a competition to pick score draws. You had 55 matches, so you usually had all 46 English professional matches, five Scottish premier league matches, and Scottish lower division matches. You could select ten of these, eight of which had to be score draws…
As a project, I wrote some programs that attempted to analyse the propensity to score, the rate of draws, etc… Best I ever got was six. On those weeks where there was a winner, it was usually someone who’d say, “Oh, I never watched football, I just picked my favourite numbers!” 
Spurs 2-1 Citeh
Villa 1-0 West Ham
Blackburn 1-1 Everton
Bolton 0-1 Fulham
Sunderland 2-0 Birmingham
Wigan 3-1 Blackpool
Wolves 0-0 Stoke
Chelsea 4-0 West Brom
Liverpool 2-3 Arsenal
Man Utd 2-2 Newcastle
No picks on Scotland for me.
Well… So far this morning, I’m 2-5 in the EPL and 4-1 in the SPL.
Andy Axel is 3-4.
Jeff is 2-5…
Man, Blackpool announced their presence in the EPL with some authority.
West Brom, on the other hand, got a rather rough welcome.
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Away wins for: Man City, Everton, Arsenal, and Celtic. Draws: Aston Villa, Bolton, St. Mirren, and Motherwell.