Part Three of Four: nPower League One
The Premiership and Championship predictions have seen some high and low points in the team's positioning. Some of the club's rankings put up by myself to some may be shocking and unexpected but that's what predictions are all about.
As you can see from my first part, my predictions are already starting to fall apart. I said that Chelsea's manager was Guus Hiddink, but obviously as we have learned in the last 24 hours, is not the case. Former Porto boss Andre Villas-Boas is new coach for the Blues and despite his appointment, will not make any difference to Chelsea's second place finish, in fact I think it confirms it. Will he stay as manager for more than a year? If he wins no trophies, then he'll get the boot before we know it. Interesting appointment none-the-less.
Now to the third part of this mini-series of predictions. League One is a fascinating division, it's certainly a make-of-break season for anyone. If a team goes down, could lead to disaster but if a team goes up, would lead to an opportunity of a lifetime.
There are teams who go up and never look back such as Cardiff City, Barnsley and Bristol City. They have really established themselves as Championship clubs but looking at sides like Swansea City and QPR going that extra mile, promoting from this division leads to high amount of confidence.
But it seems that whoever relegates from the Championship into third tier, as I said before can lead to further slumps. I've mentioned Grimsby Town before but there are clubs who get stuck at this division.
It has been frustrating but recently, the pattern is starting to change as Nottingham Forest, Leeds United and Southampton have broken the promotion duck and itching to return back to top flight. As my predictions show, the Whites look set to prepare life back at the top. League One is the division to prove yourself.
Here's the prediction for the forthcoming year. I'm saying it again, this is just a bit of fun and they are predictions, it probably won't happen but if it did, I'd regret not betting!
A very intriguing season here as the top six have been shuffled around those positions for the majority of the season. Chesterfield emerging the surprise candidate for the top as they finished the season in a play off place but faltered against Sheffield United in the semi finals.
Danny Wilson has received a lot of stick when he was first appointed as manager of The Blades back in May, and fans are still wary of his position as boss. Losing to Huddersfield in the play-off final wasn't going to make the city of Sheffield look pretty as their bitter rivals are up instead of them.
Wilson loses his job and is replaced by Paul Ince after the final which saw Huddersfield's valiant attempts to the Championship pay off after losing to Peterborough at the same stage last season.
All the focus went on Charlton Athletic who were not considered as promotion hopefuls at Christmas as they were falling behind in 4th with many points behind the top three. Both Sheffield sides and Huddersfield were on the automatic promotion hunt for much of the season but the Addicks' astonishing 19-match unbeaten run secured their promotion back to second tier football. Their last defeat was against Sheffield Wednesday, 2-1.
Preston and Scunthorpe were edged out of any hope returning to the Championship first time asking. PNE came the closest putting pressure on Chesterfield on final day but never looked like beating Bournemouth. Chesterfield beat Brentford which also ensured that MK Dons were not celebrating play-off fever either.
Teams who aren't going to celebrate at all, instead will countdown the days until they start life in League Two are mainly the southern sides. Leyton Orient are the second London team I've so far relegated (Fulham the other) and it all seemed doom and gloom for them as they, and Exeter City are concerned as they were in the relegation zone almost all season.
Jeff Stelling's beloved Hartlepool produced a spirited comeback as they were deep in the bottom four by November but were given time to stay up and they made most of their opportunities. Instead, we see Bury and Stevenage return to the fourth tier after promoting to League One last season. Both sides didn't do themselves any favours on final day as they drew blank against each other.
Three divisions down, another one to go. I'm guessing League Two will be equally as interesting as two clubs could face the most fatal punishment - non-league football. Hope to get the final set of predictions up by early next week for your entertainment. Tune in.
The Premiership and Championship predictions have seen some high and low points in the team's positioning. Some of the club's rankings put up by myself to some may be shocking and unexpected but that's what predictions are all about.
As you can see from my first part, my predictions are already starting to fall apart. I said that Chelsea's manager was Guus Hiddink, but obviously as we have learned in the last 24 hours, is not the case. Former Porto boss Andre Villas-Boas is new coach for the Blues and despite his appointment, will not make any difference to Chelsea's second place finish, in fact I think it confirms it. Will he stay as manager for more than a year? If he wins no trophies, then he'll get the boot before we know it. Interesting appointment none-the-less.
Now to the third part of this mini-series of predictions. League One is a fascinating division, it's certainly a make-of-break season for anyone. If a team goes down, could lead to disaster but if a team goes up, would lead to an opportunity of a lifetime.
There are teams who go up and never look back such as Cardiff City, Barnsley and Bristol City. They have really established themselves as Championship clubs but looking at sides like Swansea City and QPR going that extra mile, promoting from this division leads to high amount of confidence.
But it seems that whoever relegates from the Championship into third tier, as I said before can lead to further slumps. I've mentioned Grimsby Town before but there are clubs who get stuck at this division.
It has been frustrating but recently, the pattern is starting to change as Nottingham Forest, Leeds United and Southampton have broken the promotion duck and itching to return back to top flight. As my predictions show, the Whites look set to prepare life back at the top. League One is the division to prove yourself.
Here's the prediction for the forthcoming year. I'm saying it again, this is just a bit of fun and they are predictions, it probably won't happen but if it did, I'd regret not betting!
A very intriguing season here as the top six have been shuffled around those positions for the majority of the season. Chesterfield emerging the surprise candidate for the top as they finished the season in a play off place but faltered against Sheffield United in the semi finals.Danny Wilson has received a lot of stick when he was first appointed as manager of The Blades back in May, and fans are still wary of his position as boss. Losing to Huddersfield in the play-off final wasn't going to make the city of Sheffield look pretty as their bitter rivals are up instead of them.
Wilson loses his job and is replaced by Paul Ince after the final which saw Huddersfield's valiant attempts to the Championship pay off after losing to Peterborough at the same stage last season.
All the focus went on Charlton Athletic who were not considered as promotion hopefuls at Christmas as they were falling behind in 4th with many points behind the top three. Both Sheffield sides and Huddersfield were on the automatic promotion hunt for much of the season but the Addicks' astonishing 19-match unbeaten run secured their promotion back to second tier football. Their last defeat was against Sheffield Wednesday, 2-1.
Preston and Scunthorpe were edged out of any hope returning to the Championship first time asking. PNE came the closest putting pressure on Chesterfield on final day but never looked like beating Bournemouth. Chesterfield beat Brentford which also ensured that MK Dons were not celebrating play-off fever either.
Teams who aren't going to celebrate at all, instead will countdown the days until they start life in League Two are mainly the southern sides. Leyton Orient are the second London team I've so far relegated (Fulham the other) and it all seemed doom and gloom for them as they, and Exeter City are concerned as they were in the relegation zone almost all season.
Jeff Stelling's beloved Hartlepool produced a spirited comeback as they were deep in the bottom four by November but were given time to stay up and they made most of their opportunities. Instead, we see Bury and Stevenage return to the fourth tier after promoting to League One last season. Both sides didn't do themselves any favours on final day as they drew blank against each other.
Three divisions down, another one to go. I'm guessing League Two will be equally as interesting as two clubs could face the most fatal punishment - non-league football. Hope to get the final set of predictions up by early next week for your entertainment. Tune in.
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