{"id":390,"date":"2011-08-08T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2011-08-08T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T14:03:00","slug":"football-predictions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Football predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for my annual speculation, in the form of a table with added notes <\/p>\n<p>1. ManU [1]<br \/>2. Chelsea [2]<br \/>3. Man C<br \/>4. Liverpool [3]<br \/>5. Arsenal<br \/>6. Spurs<br \/>7. Everton [4]<br \/>8. Fulham<br \/>9. Sunderland<br \/>10. Villa<br \/>11. WBA<br \/>12. Newcastle<br \/>13. Bolton<br \/>14. Stoke<br \/>15. Naarwich [5]<br \/>16. Wolves<br \/>17. Wigan<br \/>18. Blackburn [6]<br \/>19. Swansea<br \/>20. QPR<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t do too badly last year &#8211; I thought that Hodgson would be more successful at Liverpool, and I didn&#8217;t expect WHam to be such a disaster, but reasonable. Anyhow:<\/p>\n<p> [1] They are the team to beat &#8211; by some distance. I hope SAF retires soon.<br \/>[2] Blind optimism.<br \/>[3] Highly dependent on Andy Carroll being injury-free.<br \/>[4] Not much to choose, as always, between the next several teams.<br \/>[5] Paul Lambert is obviously an excellent manager, simple as that.<br \/>[6] More blind optimism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for my annual speculation, in the form of a table with added notes 1. ManU [1]2. Chelsea [2]3. Man C4. Liverpool [3]5. Arsenal6. Spurs7. Everton [4]8. Fulham9. Sunderland10. Villa11. WBA12. Newcastle13. Bolton14. Stoke15. Naarwich [5]16. Wolves17. Wigan18. Blackburn [6]19. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=390\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-6i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}