Matchweek 16 - Results 

The morning for 'getting sacked in...' finally arrived this week and no surprises, it was 'good enough for The Championship', crap head coach duo Russell Martin and finally........Gary O'Neill, of bottom dwelling teams Southampton and Wolverhampton Wanderers who received their marching orders.  Admittedly, Russell made his exit far more impressively, courtesy of a 5-0 first half drubbing by unpredictable Spurs, but as much as a last minute winner from the Tractor Boys could be deemed unlucky for Gaz, it was a bloody corner and it's still bloody Ipswich, ironically only their second win, the first to the aforementioned, unpredictable Hotspurs of Tottingham.  Bye Gaz.....thanks for the memories...........NOT !!

Moving swiftly on, yet another unpredictable weekend of results was dealt out to us, other than Spurs and it could be argued Chelsea's 2-1 win over high flying Brentford and let's throw in Newcastle's 4-0 win over The Foxes, although you'd struggle to pick who was the most unpredictable between Spurs and The Toon right now.  Outside of those, it was all over the bloody place.

Alex was the only one to nail Arsenal's 0-0 draw with The Toffee's, courtesy of a Sean Dyche defensive masterclass, it ain't pretty, but he grinds those points out, so hats off to him I say and to Alex, great pick mate!

Only Connor and George bagged Palace's win over The Seagulls and at 3-1, it was a none too shabby result for The Eagles, taking them up to 15th place, 4 points clear of the bottom 3.

Nuno's Notts Forest marched into 5th place in the table (one point ahead of Man City) after a superb, 'drop the mic' 2-1 comeback win against Villa, who only went into the lead themselves in the 63rd minute, however unperturbed, Nuno's men dug deep and after a disallowed goal by our Chris Wood, equalised in the 87th minute and got the winner in the 93rd.........we miss you Nuno (insert crying Wolves fan emoji here).  A result that see's Villa in 7th, sandwiched between The Cherries and The bloody Cottagers........what has the world come to.

Speaking of The Cottagers, to be fair, I put them as my most impressive team of the season so far as, in my humble opinion, they've been playing some beautiful footy and their position in the table reflects that.  This week was no different and although The Red Men were down to 10 men early doors courtesy of dirty jock Andrew Robertson seeing red in the 17th minute, they were unlucky not to take the 3 points, instead sharing one a piece with the current leaders at Anfield.

The Cherries took a well deserved point against The Hammers this morning, it was never a penalty, he dived for all money, unfortunately the soft cock VAR team thought otherwise, 1-1 the final score and last, but by no means least, the Manchester derby ended with yet another loss for Pep's boys and not too unlike Forest, they left it very, very, very late indeed, equalising in the 88th minute and smashing it in the back of the onion bag for the winner only a couple of minutes earlier.  As a gentleman of a certain age, who had to endure Manchester United and their fans 'back in the day', I never thought I'd say it, but well done Man U.........it's time for a change and I would say that puts the nail in the coffin of change, the only question is, do Liverpool have the bottle, or will see Forest 'do a Leicester'.......we will find out !!

That leads us to our comp and surprise, surprise.......no full house, but our Liam's (of the Ennis variety) disdain for Wolves and common sense to be honest (leading him to pick Ipswich for the win), not to mention x2 superb draw predictions (Liverpool and Bournemouth), gave him the edge over everyone else with a superb 6 pointer, so hats off to you my friend, you are this weeks winner and as it's Christmas, in the words of the late, great Rick Mayall.......Gold, Frankenstein and Grrrr..........if you've no idea what I'm speaking about, ask Uncle Google, classic British, festive comedy !!

This weekend's games (matchweek 17) are already up on the website and the plan is to put the Christmas fixtures up prior as well, as I know some of you will be heading out 'off grid', so watch this space, or actually, it might be a better idea to watch the website.

Kick off is Sunday morning, so picks in by Saturday evening thank you please.

TTFN

What team has impressed you the most this season coming into Christmas?