Prediction Panel table: Spurs shake off Wigan defeat to close gap at top

Football . . .it’s a funny old game. I was expecting some big scores from our pundits this week as there were four seemingly nailed on home wins. However, while Chelsea beat Stoke City, Liverpool disposed of West Brom and Manchester United gave West Ham a hiding, Champions League new boys Tottenham ...

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Liverpool v West Bromwich Albion: Baggies face Reds backlash

Liverpool go into Sunday’s game with West Bromwich Albion still searching their first league win under new manager Roy Hodgson. However, history suggests this should be an easy day at the office for the Anfield giants. The visitors haven’t won on the red half of Merseyside for 43 years and haven’t ...

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Squarefootball’s Premier League quiz: Week Three

Some people think they know everything about football, well let’s see if they do. Here I have 10 questions which will separate the Spurs from the Young Boys. If you think you are clued up on the beautiful game then prove it. 1. Blackburn Rovers v Arsenal: Who was the last player to be transferre...

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Squarefootball’s Premier League Quiz: Week Three – The Answers

Well, how did you get on? We’d love to hear from you. 1. Blackburn Rovers v Arsenal: David Bentley is the last player to have moved between the two sides. 2. Blackpool v Fulham: You could have said: Barry Hayles, Geoff Horsfield, Steve Finnan or Kit Symons. 3. Chelsea v Stoke City: Florent ...

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Prediction Panel Table: Wolves topple the Toffees

Wolverhampton Wanderers attracted a bit of criticism for their performance at Goodison Park on Saturday but their representative in our Prediction Panel, and current champion, has toppled the Toffees following another brilliant week. Chris Cox, the only pundit last week to predict that Chelsea woul...

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West Bromwich Albion v Sunderland: Baggies look to bounce back from mauling

The Baggies were widely expected to leave Stamford Bridge with nothing last weekend, but not many people thought they would lose so heavily. That 6-0 drubbing at the hands of Chelsea means Albion’s home games have become even more important in their quest for survival. They put Sunderland to the s...

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Squarefootball’s Premier League Quiz: Week Two

It’s that time of the week again. Here is the latest batch of questions intended to leave you rooted to the spot like West Ham’s Robert Green! Last week’s questions were intentionally hard. This week we’ve lowered the mark a little but it’s still more taxing than your average GMTV phone-in. All the...

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Squarefootball's Premier League Quiz: Week Two - The Answers

Here are the answers to the second instalment of our quiz. 1. Arsenal v Blackpool: Alan Ball is the World Cup winner with links to both Arsenal and Blackpool. 2. Birmingham City v Blackburn Rovers: Barry Ferguson is the former Rover who scored against Birmingham in 2003. 3. Everton v Wolves: ...

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Prediction Panel Standings: Toffees top the table

Everton may have lost their opening game against Blackburn Rovers but Toffees fan Chris Goodwin has given the blue half of Merseyside something to cheer by topping the Premier League Prediction Panel table. Mr Goodwin correctly predicted five correct results from the first weekend of top flight ac...

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Chelsea v West Bromwich Albion: Baggies hope to avoid the Blues

The champions Chelsea are set to start the new campaign by hosting former fans’ favourite Roberto Di Matteo’s West Bromwich Albion and the majority are expecting the Blues to carry on where they left off against Wigan. Chelsea won the title at the Bridge with a convincing 8-0 thrashing of Roberto ...

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Squarefootball’s Premier League Challenge: Week one

The new Premier League season kicks off this weekend and so does a new feature on squarefootball. Each Friday I’ll be testing your knowledge of the top flight clubs by posing you 10 questions relating to that weekend’s fixtures. There are no prizes on offer, only personal glory – we’re not made of m...

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Premier League Challenge answers: Week one

Here are the answers to the questions in our Premier League Challenge week one. 1. Tottenham v Manchester City: Joey Barton and David Sommeil were the goalscorers in City’s last league win at White Hart Lane. 2. Aston Villa v West Ham United: Marlon Harewood was the last player to have scored a ...

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Predictions: Who will be 2010/11’s main winners and losers?

If everything I predicted 12 months ago came true I would be a very rich and happy man right now. Unfortunately Arsenal let me down in the league, West Ham failed me in the FA Cup and letting my heart rule my head in the SPL by putting £10 on my beloved Aberdeen to win the SPL really was a waste of ...

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Predictions: Who will be 2010/11’s main winners and losers Part 2

Well you’ve heard what our Panel members have had to say for themselves, now it’s time for the “experts” to have their say. We’ll start off with writer Hugh Larkin. He loves the underdog but he thinks Chelsea are just far too strong for anyone to cope with and thinks Arsenal and Spurs are going to...

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West Brom: Baggies braced for tough start

West Brom fans could be forgiven for thinking that the Premier League fixture computer is a Wolves fan for the Baggies couldn’t have asked for a tougher start to the new season if they tried. Roberto Di Matteo’s men travel to the champions Chelsea on the opening day followed by trips to Liverpool an...

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Fantasy football 2010/11 reminder

Do you think you can spend £100 million better than Manchester City’s Roberto Mancini? Do you think you could assemble a better squad than Spurs boss Harry Redknapp? Do you think you can guide your side to glory like Chelsea’s Carlo Ancelotti? If so then we want to hear from you. We at Squarefootba...

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Who Will Be Top Dogs In The Midlands?

Just a few years ago the Midlands representation in the Premiership was decimated leaving Aston Villa as the only real standard bearers for that part of the country. The East is still suffering but in 2010 the West is back with a vengeance. The traditional Big 4 of the West Midlands conurbation are...

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Squarefootball fantasy football invitation 2010/11

I saw more action and excitement this summer down at the mortuary than I did at the World Cup in South Africa. There was also a better atmosphere between me and my ex-girlfriend than there was inside the grounds, thanks to the constant drone of those awful vuvuzelas. And as for entertainment, I th...

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Get on side and sport your colours for Shelter this World Cup

In celebration of this years FIFA World Cup, housing and homelessness charity Shelter are teaming up with Nationwide Building Society, Official England Team sponsor, to launch their fantastic footy fundraiser, Strip4Shelter. Shelter is asking people across the country to replace their regular work ...

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England: Who should Fabio choose as his No 1 for South Africa?

In less than 100 days the greatest show on earth kicks off in South Africa but England manager Fabio Capello still has major issues to resolve before he finalises on his squad who will be given the task of bringing the World Cup home. Who will fill the left-back role if Ashley Cole fails to recover ...

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Is Wayne Bridge right to turn his back on England?

Representing your country in the World Cup is supposed to be every footballer’s dream. Every one bar Wayne Bridge that is. The Manchester City left-back has kicked his international career into row Z due to the fall-out of John Terry’s alleged affair with his ex-girlfriend and mother of his children...

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Is the FA Cup heading back to the Midlands?

I can remember it like it was yesterday. It was 1987 and the sun shone on Wembley as unfancied Coventry City, managed by John Sillett and making their first ever appearance in an FA Cup Final, beat David Pleat’s Tottenham Hotspur in one of the most exciting finals ever. Coventry’s Keith Houchen’s fa...

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The Old Firm: Premier League? You’re having a laugh!

Martin Luther King famously had a dream of racial equality and an end to discrimination. I too have a dream but sadly it isn’t as prophetic as that. I just want to live to see Aberdeen crowned as SPL champions. Now that may sound ridiculous to many of you given the Dons’ recent lack of silverware bu...

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Manchester derby: Was this the greatest Premier League game ever?

Sir Alex Ferguson has described Manchester United’s action-packed 4-3 over their rivals Manchester City as the greatest Manchester derby of all time and it’s hard to refute that claim. From start to finish it was pulsating viewing and had absolutely everything a fan could ask for – goals galore, def...

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Championship 2009-10 Previews - West Bromwich Albion

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Who will win the Championship, League One and League Two?

Forget those Saturday afternoons traipsing around the shops with the other half. Forget about cutting the grass and mending the fence and you can definitely forget about visiting the in-laws because, yes, the Football League is back! Middlesbrough and Sheffield United got the new season under way ...

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West Brom: Will Di Matteo take the Baggies back up?

Boing boing. Boing boing. After one season in the Premier League under Tony Mowbray West Bromwich Albion are back in the Championship and despite a change of manager and personnel the Baggies are the bookies’ second favourites to win the division. For the past decade West Brom have been too good f...

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Squarefootball's fantasy football challenge

Do you see yourself as the next Sir Alex Ferguson or Arsene Wenger? Do you think you can pick a better team than Harry Redknapp or Rafa Benitez? Brilliant, then why don’t you join us in competing for the coveted Squarefootball fantasy league crown? For the past few years we at Squarefootball towers...

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Sir Bobby Robson - A tribute to a true gentleman

The world of football lost one of its most famous sons yesterday. Sir Bobby Robson, the former Ipswich Town, Newcastle United, Barcelona and England manager, passed away aged 76 following a long battle with lung cancer. Fans, players, pundits and managers have been paying their respect to Robson wit...

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West Bromwich Albion: Who will fill Mowbray’s boots at the Hawthorns?

Tony Mowbray has decided to swap Championship football with West Bromwich Albion for Champions League football with Scottish giants Glasgow Celtic so now the search for a new manager at the Hawthorns begins. Despite falling through the Premier League trap door last season the Baggies are one of the ...

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West Bromwich Albion: Who was your player of the season?

The Baggies may have slipped through the Premier League trap door but their brand of football was admired by everyone. Slick, attacking football played to feet was Tony Mowbray’s philosophy and although it may not have dividends this time you can be sure that the former Hibs boss will gain another c...

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West Bromwich Albion: Brunt out, Ferguson in – Would that be good business?

Hoots Mon. The Hawthorns is definitely attracting the attention of Scotland right now. Manager Tony Mowbray is a target for Celtic, Chris Brunt is being linked with a £3 million move to SPL champions Rangers while the Baggies are reportedly looking at signing the former Rangers captain Barry Ferguso...

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Blackburn Rovers vs West Bromwich Albion: Nothing to play for #3

Nothing to play for here as Sam Allardyce has sprung the relegation trap for Rovers and Tony Mowbray has failed to spring a spring surprise for the Baggies. Blackburn start the day six points clear of the drop and this summer will expect Allardyce to make the kind of inspired purchases that he used...

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West Bromwich Albion vs Liverpool: Title’s over, Great Escape’s still on!

Liverpool’s title dream is over but West Brom’s Great Escape (part two) is still alive and kicking. All they need to do is get a result against a Liverpool side that they haven’t even scored past for 26 years! You have to go back to 1981 for the last time the Baggies triumphed over their Merseyside...

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Hull and West Brom must be hoping for a quick Manchester United title

Manchester United now need four points from three games to secure the title and with six straight league wins, coupled with the home and away wins in the Champions' League against Arsenal as a form guide there must be a strong chance that United will win the title by taking those four points in the ...

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West Bromwich Albion vs Wigan Athletic: The drop could be delayed for Baggies

West Brom could go down today if this game and the Hull one goes against them; but must fancy its chances against a Wigan side that is on the slide. West Brom probably needs three wins to survive, even then the 37 points gained offers no guarantees if Sunderland and Hull scrape together another thr...

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West Bromwich Albion: Is the greatest escape of all time on?

Football is a funny old game but surely with just four games left West Bromwich Albion can’t avoid the drop, can they? The Baggies put struggling Sunderland to the sword last weekend and moved to within six points of safety, and with Newcastle United and Middlesbrough failing to string three passes ...

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West Bromwich Albion v Sunderland: Is there any life left in the Baggies?

Djibril Cisse’s winner against Hull City last weekend gave the Black Cats three massive points towards Premiership safety. Another victory this weekend will ultimately seal their status in the top flight for another season. It was all starting to look a bit ropey for Ricky Sbragia at Sunderland but...

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Liverpool v Arsenal: Who’d make the ultimate starting XI?

Liverpool entertain Arsenal on Tuesday night in a match that will go a long way in determining the destination of this season’s Premier League title. Both teams are blessed with world class players, but just who would feature in your ultimate XI from the two clubs? Would you choose Adebayor or Van P...

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Manchester City vs West Bromwich Albion: Hughes needs to win this one

Manchester City plays West Bromwich Albion with both sides season's starting to fade. City probably still need three or four wins to make a concerted push for seventh place and a Europa League slot and despite optimism to the contrary I don't reckon that Mark Hughes job is especially safe. But, pu...

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Portsmouth vs West Bromwich Albion: Crunch time for win or bust Albion

Portsmouth can more or less relegate West Brom today, and in doing so would move almost safe - for West Brom this really is a must-win. Pompey has looked a bit like its old self in recent weeks and although sixteenth is a precarious perch, the four teams below it look in far more desperate form and...

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Prediction Panel; Saturday Wrap

Eight games in the Premier League today, with Liverpool looking to go top by avoinding defeat at Fulham. Chelsea travel to Newcastle in the big game of the day in the aftermath of Alan Shearer's appointment and Arsenal will look to beat its last league conquerers, Man City at the Emirates. West Ha...

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West Bromwich Albion vs Stoke City: Can the Potters beat their away day blues?

Stoke City haven’t won away in the Premier League all season and their barren run on their travels in the top flight actually stretches back to May 1984. But they will not get a better chance of breaking that duck than this weekend when they play the basement boys West Bromwich Albion. Tony Pulis’s...

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West Bromwich Albion vs Bolton Wanderers: Baggies win or bust

West Brom is leaving the great escape a little late this season but will fancy its chances against a Bolton side that is sliding back into trouble. West Brom is now six points away from safety and must look for a minimum of four or five wins from the final nine to survive; to be honest one of those...

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West Ham United vs West Bromwich Albion: Baggies reach win-or-bust time

After a weekend of more hot air being expended than at a Montgolfier Brothers reconstruction we have that straggling Monday game (why can't MoTD run briefly on Monday's?) that could all but seal West Brom's fate. West Ham seem to be clearing up its imminent off field problems with some kind of reso...

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West Bromwich Albion vs Arsenal: Are the Baggies Gunner get a pasting?

West Brom fans must be wondering if this is the best or the worst time to be playing Arsenal? The Gunners have failed to score in their past four Premier League outings and are quickly running out of games in their quest to pip Aston Villa to one of the four Champions League places. However, with th...

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Everton vs West Bromwich Albion: Can Everton overcome its creative vacuum?

Everton is ten points adrift of the fourth Champions' League place after a series of tough matches that has worsened its already crippling injury list; West Brom remains bottom but competitive with seventeenth placed Stoke only three points better off. Probably the most disappointing Everton game o...

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Whatever Happened To? - Enzo Maresca

A couple of weeks ago Colin Illingworth put a piece on Square Football looking back over West Bromwich Albions best players of recent years- and he invited Baggies fans to send in their opinions. Among the usual names one unexpectedone came up regularly- unexpected in that his impact inEnglish foot...

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Fulham vs West Bromwich Albion: Premier League Prediction Panel 2008/9 - preview and predictions

A good home team versus a bad away team seems to suggest that Fulham should find this one easy - but in the Premier League it is rarely that simple. Fulham has won plenty of home games this season - more than enough to suggest that Roy Hodgson's team will avoid the consideration of relegation. In ...

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West Brom: Who would you love to see back at the Hawthorns?

Tottenham Hotpsur spent more than £30 million in the January transfer window bringing back three of their former players to White Hart Lane and it got me thinking, who would West Bromwich Albion fans love to see back at the Hawthorns? Despite propping up the Premier League table, West Bromwich Albi...

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