{"id":4096,"date":"2005-08-12T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=4096"},"modified":"2005-08-12T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-12T18:40:00","slug":"footie-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=4096","title":{"rendered":"Footie predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m brooding on some very heavy things to say &#8211; my mind is full of <Islam and the Christian imperative to non-violence - so this is a bit of light relief (for me). Apologies to those with absolutely no interest in English football (soccer).\n\nPredictions for the coming season (it will be interesting to see how these pan out in the light of events).\n\nChampions: Chelsea. Only question is whether they go unbeaten or not.\n\nOrder of Top 4: Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, ManU.<br \/>I think it quite possible that ManU might drop out of the top four if they have a season like last one. I also think Liverpool might come second (and be the main challengers to Chelsea in the coming seasons).<\/p>\n<p>Dark Horse (ie might get into the top 4): Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>Europe: Tottenham, &#8216;Boro. <\/p>\n<p>Good seasons for Man City, Birmingham, Blackburn and Pompey.<br \/>Bad seasons for Newcastle (unless they get Owen), Charlton and Fulham.<br \/>Nothing happening at Aston Villa. Disappointment at Everton (reflecting the rise in expectations.)<\/p>\n<p>Relegation: Wigan, WHM (shame) and WBA. Which means I pick Sunderland to survive out of those four. Those having bad seasons might have terrible seasons allowing one of those to escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m brooding on some very heavy things to say &#8211; my mind is full of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4096","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-144","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096","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=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}