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Week 30 fixtures... Saturday 19th April Brentford v Brighton & Hove Albion Crystal Palace v AFC Bournemouth Everton v Manchester City West Ham United v Southampton Aston Villa v Newcastle United Sunday 20th April Fulham v Chelsea Ipswich Town v Arsenal Manchester United v Wolverhampton Wanderers Leicester City v Liverpool Monday 21st April Tottenham Hotspur v Nottingham Forest Tuesday 22nd April Manchester City v Aston Villa Wednesday 23rd April Arsenal v Crystal Palace

Week 29 points... Week 29 table...

Week 29 fixtures... Saturday 12th April Manchester City v Crystal Palace Brighton & Hove Albion v Leicester City Nottingham Forest v Everton Southampton v Aston Villa Arsenal v Brentford Sunday 13th April Chelsea v Ipswich Town Liverpool v West Ham United Wolverhampton Wanderers v Tottenham Hotspur Newcastle United v Manchester United Monday 14th April AFC Bournemouth v Fulham Wednesday 16th April Newcastle United v Crystal Palace

Thanks, my first high score of the season, with 7 matches to go it's doable (just over +2pts each week) but history is in LadyG's favour, hopefully she's feeling giddy over Arsenal's win last night and that will put her off!...

Week 28 points... Week 28 table...

Week 28 fixtures... Saturday 5th April Everton v Arsenal Crystal Palace v Brighton & Hove Albion Ipswich Town v Wolverhampton Wanderers West Ham United v AFC Bournemouth Aston Villa v Nottingham Forest Sunday 6th April Brentford v Chelsea Fulham v Liverpool Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton Manchester United v Manchester City Monday 7th April Leicester City v Newcastle United

Week 27 points... Week 27 table...

MIDWEEK GAMES ALERT! Week 27 fixtures.. Tuesday 1st April Arsenal v Fulham Wolverhampton Wanderers v West Ham United Nottingham Forest v Manchester United Wednesday 2nd April AFC Bournemouth v Ipswich Town Brighton & Hove Albion v Aston Villa Manchester City v Leicester City Newcastle United v Brentford Southampton v Crystal Palace Liverpool v Everton Thursday 3rd April Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur

Week 26 points... Week 26 table...

Woohoo ! Thanks, yes, I also thought maxxi would win it as the final matches looked like comfortable wins for Ireland, England and France, so any chance of winning would come down to the lottery of closest to the actual points difference. Thank goodness for maxxi and his leftfield predictions 🙃 I once enjoyed a Feb long weekend in Rome with work colleagues, a good time to go as there are less tourists around so minimal queuing to see all the sights. On the Saturday we found out that Roma were playing at home, so we took a bus to see if we could get in, and we could. Half-time refreshments were...mini pizzas !... overpriced and undercooked so felt right at home... 😁

Week 26 fixtures... Saturday 15th March Everton v West Ham United Ipswich Town v Nottingham Forest Manchester City v Brighton & Hove Albion Southampton v Wolverhampton Wanderers AFC Bournemouth v Brentford Sunday 16th March Arsenal v Chelsea Fulham v Tottenham Hotspur Leicester City v Manchester United

Week 25 points... Week 25 table...

Promised Land is such a great track, in a similar and much sampled vein is this other classic...

This is an interesting You Gov poll from Nov '23 about what people think Single Market membership entails... https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/48259-what-do-britons-think-single-market-membership-entails

Yep, the EU would definitely want cast-iron certainties that there was no chance of Brexit 2.0 before allowing the UK to rejoin. Best we can hope for in the short to medium term is the UK rejoins the single market. That would at least make Brexit work *better* than it currently does. But we live in a very volatile world and a lot can happen quickly, who'd thought we be rationally talking about the possibility of a European Army outside the context of Brexit and its associated hysterics...

Latest news from the sunlit uplands, on the same day the UK economy 'unexpectedly' shrank 0.1%... As an aside, the cognitive dissonance shown by large parts of the UK electorate over Brexit is quite a thing to behold. I don't think it's controversial to say that Brexit is now considered by a large % of the population to have failed, with the % who see it as a success in single figures. Yet, initial polling for the upcoming Runcorn by-election shows Reform winning what is a relatively safe Labour seat. Now I get protest votes and all that, but Reform were literally the Brexit Party before the rebrand. If there's such a large consensus that Brexit failed, why would so many even consider voting for a party that actively helped deliver Brexit and all the known economic damage it would cause? And that's before you even get to the fantasy economics it presented at the last General Election. Labour haven't helped themselves either, by pursuing a nonsensical 'We can make Brexit work' approach, they have in effect made themselves impotent when it comes to attacking Reform and what they stand for...

Place your on-screen cursor over the name of the sender, the sender's actual email address should appear, often with scammers it comes up with a very unbusinesslike address. Failing that, you should be able to speak to Virgin and ask if legit, Microsoft on the other hand I wouldn't bother trying to contact...

Can LadyG be caught? Week 25 fixtures... Saturday 8th March Nottingham Forest v Manchester City Brighton & Hove Albion v Fulham Crystal Palace v Ipswich Town Liverpool v Southampton Brentford v Aston Villa Wolverhampton Wanderers v Everton Sunday 9th March Chelsea v Leicester City Tottenham Hotspur v AFC Bournemouth Manchester United v Arsenal Monday 10th March West Ham United v Newcastle United

Week 24 points... Week 24 table...

AI seems to be good at regurgitating stuff ''n the style of'', but I'd be more impressed if it produced a totally new/original music genre...

Brucie Bonus Midweek Bonanza ! Week 24 fixtures... Friday 21st February Leicester City v Brentford Saturday 22nd February Everton v Manchester United AFC Bournemouth v Wolverhampton Wanderers Arsenal v West Ham United Fulham v Crystal Palace Ipswich Town v Tottenham Hotspur Southampton v Brighton & Hove Albion Aston Villa v Chelsea Sunday 23rd February Newcastle United v Nottingham Forest Manchester City v Liverpool Tuesday 25th February Brighton & Hove Albion v AFC Bournemouth Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Wolverhampton Wanderers v Fulham Chelsea v Southampton Wednesday 26th February Brentford v Everton Manchester United v Ipswich Town Nottingham Forest v Arsenal Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City Liverpool v Newcastle United Thursday 27th February West Ham United v Leicester City

Week 23 points... Week 23 table...

As long as its not the CyberTruck, it's illegal for use on UK public roads, which probably means it would be illegal in EU countries too... I think this from US politician Pete Buttigieg‬ sums up the whole DOGE ruse... ''If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.''

Earlier than usual start to the weekly set of fixtures. Week 23 fixtures... Wednesday 12th February Everton v Liverpool Friday 14th February Brighton & Hove Albion v Chelsea Saturday 15th February Leicester City v Arsenal Aston Villa v Ipswich Town Fulham v Nottingham Forest Manchester City v Newcastle United Southampton v AFC Bournemouth West Ham United v Brentford Crystal Palace v Everton Sunday 16th February Liverpool v Wolverhampton Wanderers Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United

Week 22 points... Week 22 table... FA Cup this weekend, Week 23 fixtures begin on Wed 12th, so look out for the reminder in about a weeks time...