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Week 12 points... Week 12 table...

Seriously, how naïve and juvenile is that petition, talk about sore losers. Whether you think Labour has broken any of its pre-election manifesto pledges/commitments etc is all down to interpretation and more likely how you voted at the last GE. But regardless of that, has there ever been a government that hasn't met all it's pre-election manifesto pledges/commitments etc? There were loads of promises made by previous Tory Govs over the past 14 years that they failed to deliver on, where were all the right-whingers calling for a petition then? Let's start with taxes. Johnson pledged in 2019 not to increase income tax, VAT or National Insurance. By 2023... The current Tory-led parliament will oversee the biggest set of tax increases since the Second World War, the country’s leading economic think tank has said. Tax revenue will amount to 37% of national income by the next election, analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests, up from about 33% four years ago. This is the largest increase since records began in the 1950s. The spike amounts to about £3,500 more per household, though it will not be spread equally. Then there's Brexit and all that promised but failed to deliver, even Johnson's 2019 'oven ready deal' wasn't oven ready and needed to be amended to get round the issues of a border in the Irish Sea (another broken promise). They couldn't even deliver on the promise of controlling our borders, with immigration shooting up post-Brexit. Not forgetting the addition of red tape rather the the reduction that was promised. There's a thesis to be written on this subject alone. Ditto 'levelling-up', remember that? How about 40 new hospitals that later turned out to be mainly refurbs of existing hospitals? 300,000 new homes per year were also promised in 2019, a target that pre-election stood at... The Construction Products Association currently estimates the government will miss its 300,000 homes a year target by 40%. And so on. Whisper it, but Govs also do things that weren't in their manifesto like Sunak scrapping HS2 and subsequently trying to 'salt the earth' so that it couldn't be revived by a future Gov. He had no mandate to be PM let alone do something major like that, again, where was the uproar from the right? You can apply the same double standards to all the confected noise around Labour and the so-called freebies. That, along with this petition is purely political and nothing to do with principals being applied fairly...

Week 12 fixtures... Saturday 23rd November Leicester City v Chelsea AFC Bournemouth v Brighton & Hove Albion Arsenal v Nottingham Forest Aston Villa v Crystal Palace Everton v Brentford Fulham v Wolverhampton Wanderers Manchester City v Tottenham Hotspur Sunday 24th November Southampton v Liverpool Ipswich Town v Manchester United Monday 25th November Newcastle United v West Ham United

Week 11 points... Week 11 table... Almost a third of the way through the season and RC is comfortably holding onto his early lead, and also flying the flag for the EDF with 10th place overall, 11 points behind the leaders. 👏 Another international break, back in just over a weeks time...

Another tricky set of matches. Week 11 fixtures... Saturday 9th November Brentford v AFC Bournemouth Crystal Palace v Fulham West Ham United v Everton Wolverhampton Wanderers v Southampton Brighton & Hove Albion v Manchester City Liverpool v Aston Villa Sunday 10th November Manchester United v Leicester City Nottingham Forest v Newcastle United Tottenham Hotspur v Ipswich Town Chelsea v Arsenal

Who knew coin tossing was the way to go. Week 10 points... Week 10 table...

Indeed, I've hedged my bets and gone for 5 draws, and the other 5 are not confident wins either...

Week 10 fixtures... Saturday 2nd November Newcastle United v Arsenal AFC Bournemouth v Manchester City Ipswich Town v Leicester City Liverpool v Brighton & Hove Albion Nottingham Forest v West Ham United Southampton v Everton Wolverhampton Wanderers v Crystal Palace Sunday 3rd November Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa Manchester United v Chelsea Monday 4th November Fulham v Brentford

Week 9 points... Week 9 table...

Friday night game. Week 9 fixtures... Friday 25th October Leicester City v Nottingham Forest Saturday 26th October Aston Villa v AFC Bournemouth Brentford v Ipswich Town Brighton & Hove Albion v Wolverhampton Wanderers Manchester City v Southampton Everton v Fulham Sunday 27th October Chelsea v Newcastle United Crystal Palace v Tottenham Hotspur West Ham United v Manchester United Arsenal v Liverpool

Week 8 points... Week 8 table...

Week 8 fixtures.. Saturday 19th October Tottenham Hotspur v West Ham United Fulham v Aston Villa Ipswich Town v Everton Manchester United v Brentford Newcastle United v Brighton & Hove Albion Southampton v Leicester City AFC Bournemouth v Arsenal Sunday 20th October Wolverhampton Wanderers v Manchester City Liverpool v Chelsea Monday 21st October Nottingham Forest v Crystal Palace

Mill Wall (no relation to Max) making steady progress after missing a week. Week 7 points... Week 7 table...

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

Great week for the Cowboy. Week 6 points... Week 6 table...

Week 6 fixtures... Saturday 28th September Newcastle United v Manchester City Arsenal v Leicester City Brentford v West Ham United Chelsea v Brighton & Hove Albion Everton v Crystal Palace Nottingham Forest v Fulham Wolverhampton Wanderers v Liverpool Sunday 29th September Ipswich Town Aston Villa Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur Monday 30th September AFC Bournemouth v Southampton

Week 5 points... Week 5 table...

Week 5 fixtures... Saturday 21st September West Ham United v Chelsea Aston Villa v Wolverhampton Wanderers Fulham v Newcastle United Leicester City v Everton Liverpool v AFC Bournemouth Southampton v Ipswich Town Tottenham Hotspur v Brentford Crystal Palace v Manchester United Sunday 22nd September Brighton & Hove Albion v Nottingham Forest Manchester City v Arsenal

Week 4 points... Week 4 table...

Week 4 fixtures... Saturday 14th September Southampton v Manchester United Brighton & Hove Albion v Ipswich Town Crystal Palace v Leicester City Fulham v West Ham United Liverpool v Nottingham Forest Manchester City v Brentford Aston Villa v Everton AFC Bournemouth v Chelsea Sunday 15th September Tottenham Hotspur versus Arsenal Wolverhampton Wanderers v Newcastle United

Stick with it DD, most people at some point forget to do them or have a really bad week score wise. Week 3 points... Week 3 table...

As he's so bloomin' expensive decided to start with a cyborg-free team this season, hoping he hits a blank today!...

Week 3 fixtures... Saturday 31st August Arsenal v Brighton & Hove Albion Brentford v Southampton Everton v AFC Bournemouth Ipswich Town v Fulham Leicester City v Aston Villa Nottingham Forest v Wolverhampton Wanderers West Ham United v Manchester City Sunday 1st September Chelsea v Crystal Palace Newcastle United v Tottenham Hotspur Manchester United v Liverpool

Week 2 points... Week 2 table...

Yep, tricky the first few weeks while teams try and find some form....