RandoEFC

I'm in Portugal and can't access any odds on bet365 so I'll be giving this weekend a miss. What I will see is that I'm devastated that I didn't bet on a Leicester +0.5 or +1.0 Asian Handicap after seeing Dan and Stan's bets this weekend. Absolutely nailed on that Leicester would do just well enough to ruin your bets without actually delivering 3 points .

Burnley 5-0 Real Madrid twats.

Saturday 24th August, 2024 Bristol City 0-1 Coventry, 12.30 Hibernian 2-1 Dundee Lyon 2-2 Monaco, 16.00 Udinese 1-1 Lazio, 17.30 Espanyol 0-1 Real Sociedad, 20.30 Sunday 25th August, 2024 CF Montreal 3-1 New England, 00.30 LA Galaxy 2-1 Atlanta Utd, 03.30 Magdeburg 1-3 Schalke, 12.30 Sparta Rotterdam 0-3 Feyenoord, 13.30 Swansea 1-1 Cardiff

I just feel sorry for that manager Brighton have in on work experience. He's going to have a rude shock in the remaining 37 games when he realises the Premier League isn't actually the piece of piss we made it look today.

0-3. There's an element of "shit happens" to the way this game went up until the second goal. After that we've totally capitulated. Lack of discipline and poor body language. At least if you're going to lose the opening game, lose in a manner that hopefully encourages everyone at the club to realise they need to get their shit together.

Young sent off now .

0-2 game over. Mistake from Gueye punished by Welbeck. Don't think Keane took up a great position. Time to get Ndiaye and Lindstrom on to get used to their team mates.

Calvert-Lewin with a humongous dive to win a penalty and VAR overrules it even though there was contact. I agree with the decision. I have absolutely no faith that we'll see that replicated throughout the season.

Just seen Schar's red on Twitter and don't see why everyone's losing their minds over it. I agree that players shouldn't be sent off for that and if anything the player that pretends to be injured should be booked, but like, this isn't new. The rule has been "touch someone with your forehead and you're getting sent off" for about 20 years.

We started well but when you have fast players against slow players you can literally just run past them and score and Brighton did just that. Too bad we hate signing fast players.

Don't know what to expect from us today. I'm sure we'll be gritty and everything but starting the season with Young and Keane in our back four is kinda unacceptable. I think we've recruited well enough but we need a couple more.

Typical how to deal with going to a newly promoted side on day one. Weather the storm and pick them off. Hard to make any major conclusions about Ipswich or Liverpool based on that.

Predictions - Dutch Grand Prix Just to warn you guys, I'm going away tomorrow which is why I'm getting these up early. I don't get back until the Friday of the Italian Grand Prix so I will be able to get predictions up for Monza, but I won't be able to type up results for Zandvoort until after Italy, so there'll be another double update after I get back. @RandoEFC @Stan @MUFC @Tommy @nudge @Whiskey @The Palace Fan @Coma @DeadLinesman @OrangeKhrush Note that the predictions are no longer *without Verstappen*. We're going back to normal as I explained at the start of the summer break. Pole Position - Which driver will post the fastest lap in Q3? [INSERT DRIVER] Podium - Which drivers will finish the Grand Prix in the top three positions? 1. [INSERT DRIVER] 2. [INSERT DRIVER] 3. [INSERT DRIVER] Random Driver - Predict the finishing position of this week's random driver, Valtteri Bottas. [INSERT POSITION] Bonus Question - The end of the summer break gives many drivers the chance of a fresh start. Name one driver whose finishing position in the race will be higher than their current standing in the Drivers' Championship. 5 points will go to any correct answer. [INSERT DRIVER]

Burnley + Real Madrid. £10 > £21

I just watched season one of Gen V after finishing S4 of The Boys. I do find it funny after how much they've taken the piss out of Disney and Marvel that they've made their own spin off series which has seen characters imported into their main series forcing you to watch the spin off to fully understand who they are. Not sure if it's hypocrisy or just taking the Marvel meme to the next level .

Can we put any stake on each week?

Just to let everyone know, after 6 years I've decided not to carry on running this. Life is getting busier and I was quite patchy last season. I don't feel like I can commit to getting an update done every Monday/Tuesday in good time between each set of games and also tag people to remind them on Thursday or Friday (alongside running the F1 predictions as well). It's been fun! If anyone else wants to take charge and carry it on they absolutely have my blessing to do so.

Saturday 17th August, 2024 Derby 1-1 Middlesbrough, 12.30 Osnabruck 1-3 Freiburg, 14.30 Parma 0-1 Fiorentina, 17.30 Rangers 3-0 St Johnstone, 17.45 Bayer Leverkusen 2-0 Stuttgart, 19.30 Valencia 0-2 Barcelona, 20.30 Sunday 18th August, 2024 Rennes 2-2 Lyon, 19.45 Palmeiras 1-0 Sao Paulo, 20.00 Boavista 1-2 Sporting Braga, 20.30 Mallorca 0-3 Real Madrid, 20.30

A winner to start! Based on last season I should leave it at that for the season and guarantee a top 2-3 finish .

£10 > £18.90

I can only assume at this point that Chelsea are getting around PSR by paying for this one with £20m in Bitcoin and then 2 hotels delivered in installments over a period of 18 years.

Yeah I am massively like "you guys wanted Brexit and insisted it would solve all our problems, it's only made things worse, and you still expect to be listened to?". Dickheads.

That's democracy unfortunately. The disgrace here is the media, especially the BBC, and to some extent the two major parties who are all in some way culpable for allowing the debate on cultural issues and immigration to move further and further to the right. Farage's views used to be so extreme that they weren't allowed as part of the mainstream conversation. Nowadays the viewpoint that "immigration really isn't that much of a problem" is the one deemed an extremist and unrealistic view.

Priceless scenes when the far right's 100 riots fizzle out into a couple of England flags on a Blackpool roundabout and half a dozen EDL having to be escorted into a police van for their own safety . The racists in the UK and their apologists in the media always claim to be part of a "silent majority". Like most of what they say, the total opposite is true. They're a vanishingly small and very noisy minority.

They clearly have a problem with spending too much time with their three main characters because of the actors - Rhaenyra, Daemon and Alicent. Daemon could have been left out of a couple of episodes completely. Some of Alicent's scenes were filler and the two scenes where Rhaenyra and Alicent met each other which I believe are entirely an invention of the show-writers felt contrived. Alicent should have been allowed to take a back seat. The story was ready to move on to Aegon, Heleana, Aemond, Jace, Baela, Rhaena, whose eventual claiming of Sheepstealer is going to feel random and unearned. Has anyone outside of the Vale mentioned Sheepstealer or a dragon outside of Dragonstone/King's Landing at all? They started setting that one up well back in season one but now people are going to say they just spawned a dragon there for her to tick a box. It's difficult to adapt a story when main characters become less important and the story moves on to new characters, when your medium is television and your best/most reputable cast need screen time to justify the outlay on them. We saw this with Jaime going to Dorne in Game of Thrones for example. It's happening again in this season of HotD.