Harry and Lloyd’s Predictions GW1

Harry and Lloyd’s Predictions GW1

Welcome to Harry and Lloyd’s Predictions GW1

With the new season upon us, it’s time to emerge from hibernation, dust off our completely unfounded confidence in our football knowledge, and kick off the return of our usual weekly predictions competition.

There may be fewer of us around these days — attrition, retirement, loss of interest, repeated humiliation… who knows — but while there’s still an appetite for predicting the unpredictable, we will soldier on.

As ever, expect questionable logic, forgotten predictions, wildly optimistic scorelines, accusations of copying, and at least one person somehow doing remarkably well despite appearing to know absolutely nothing about football.

The rules remain exactly the same, mainly because none of us can be bothered to learn any new ones.

So, without any further unnecessary waffle — despite the considerable amount of waffle you’ve just read — get those predictions in.

Good luck to everyone… although, based on previous seasons, luck is probably doing most of the heavy lifting anyway.

THIS WEEK’S COMPETITION… scoring couldn’t be much simpler:

• Correct Score —> 3 points;
• Correct Result —> 1 point; and
• Correct First Goalscorer of the Gameweek —> 5 points.

To clarify, this is who you think will score the first goal of the entire Gameweek, not just in any given match that you choose to pick yourself!

Points above are awarded on an ‘either / or’ basis, so you’ll either score 3 points for a Correct Score or just 1 point for a Correct Result, and these are never added together for a 4-point score.

Tie-Breaker: in the event of 2+ entrants being tied as winners for the Gameweek, the overall winner of the weekly prize will be decided by a tie-breaker. In order to do this, we ask that you also post your prediction for the time at which the first goal of the Gameweek will be scored. Nearest the pin wins!

The Rules… 1 entry per person and all entries must be submitted prior to the first match of the Gameweek. Once all the matches have been played, we’ll calculate the scores, and the winner(s) will be announced in the following Gameweek’s competition article: each winner will walk away with an FF247-branded prize..

So, to recap, all that you need to do to play is:

• copy & paste the fixtures from below and pop your score prediction on each;
• tell us who you think will be the First Goalscorer of the Gameweek; and
• follow it with your guess for the time of this first goal (to give yourself a fighting chance in a tie-breaker situation).

Here are the fixtures; best of luck to you all!

GWX1 Deadline: Friday at 8pm

Arsenal v Coventry
Hull v Mn Utd
Everton v Palace
Ipswich v Sunderland
Forest v Leeds
Brentford v Spurs
Brighton v Villa
Man City v Bournemouth
Newcastle v Liverpool
Fulham v Chelsea

PLEASE also provide your FGS guess (and the minute of this first goal straight after the player’s name).

Thanks for reading Harry and Lloyd’s Predictions GW1

This article was written by Harry and Lloyd… a.k.a. Matt and Rosco. And James!

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