Some heroically bold season predictions from a Daily Star man catch Mediawatch’s eye today, while elsewhere there’s a thrilling escape involving Jack Grealish and underground tunnels.
Three colours red
Anyone who has ever written or indeed read any significant amount of online Premier League football content will already know which three clubs generate pretty much all the clicks and hits and traffic and, ultimately, coin.
But it’s always fun to be reminded of that fact and the three clubs involved with unapologetic headlines like this one from the Mirror…
Premier League rule change that affects Man Utd, Arsenal and Liverpool this weekend
The rule change in question is pretty simple. Premier League clubs now have to announce their teams 75 minutes before kick-off instead of 60 minutes before kick-off. That’s all Premier League clubs.
Unless we’ve missed the line about this rule only applying to teams in red, this new rule will also ‘affect’ Aston Villa, Bournemouth, Brentford, Brighton, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Everton, Fulham, Ipswich, Leicester, Man City, Newcastle, Nottingham Forest, Southampton, Tottenham, West Ham and Wolves.
But really, who cares about those silly little teams?
Predictive text
Mediawatch has nothing but respect for Daily Star man Adam Cailler for his, let’s say, bold set of predictions for the 2024/25 season.
Of course, every publication has asked its writers to make their predictions for the upcoming season as is traditional. You can check out Football365’s very own wrong-headed embarrassments here, if you like, although Mediawatch’s advice would be to wait a few months so you can really revel in the humiliating inaccuracy of it all.
But among all the usual stuff across every football website in town, with writers wearily predicting City to win the title, or worse pretending that “Erik Ten Hag will be gone by Christmas!” or “West Ham are my dark horses – they could push for Europe!” represent interesting and/or original thought, a hero comes along.
A hero who tips Liverpool to win the Premier League and is only getting started there. Fourth place? Leicester City.
Leicester come into the season without any expectations, and have a very talented squad. Don’t be shocked if they finish fourth.
We will be shocked, Adam.
Relegated? Southampton, Everton – who will be bottom ‘by a long, long way’ and, er, Aston Villa. Unai Emery first manager sacked as well, which we suppose does at least follow on logically from their relegation form.
