Liverpool were supposed to be champions with Arsenal out of the top four, Fulham getting relegated and Darwin Nunez outscoring Erling Haaland. Silly experts. An early Christmas present for you all: our pre-season predictions revisited.
We start, as is convention, at the beginning. ‘‘ the anonymous MC asked, to which the 10 chosen correspondents offered only two answers. And weirdly enough, neither of those was Arsenal. Matt Stead, Ian Watson, Will Ford, Dave Tickner, Jason Soutar and Lewis Oldham retain their reputations – rest assured that each will leave them in tatters soon enough – while the rest were lured in by Liverpool. Oh Sarah Winterburn, John Nicholson, Ian King and Joe Williams, you silly folk.
. Poor Tickner, though: ‘Balls on the block here, and flop will be too strong a word, but Haaland doesn’t quite feel like a Guardiola player and might be a brilliant minor disruption to a well-oiled machine.’ Ah.and Winty, Johnny, Watson and Soutar get gold stars for tipping Eriksen. Again, a real smorgasbord of random transfers here, from Bernd Leno to Marc Roca , Aaron Hickey and Bissouma . Saving the best until last is Oldham with Nick Pope. Not sure why everyone went really sensible here.
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