A supercomputer, provided by Football Web Pages, has suggested West Ham will finish in ninth place on 59 points this season.
The table has Manchester City winning the league by 8 points with Manchester United in second and Liverpool third and Aston Villa fourth!
In the prediction West Brom, Fulham and Sheffield United are relegated.
A GiveMeSport final table prediction put the Hammers one place better in eighth place without the aid of a Supercomputer
On West Ham, they said, “All the credit in the world to David Moyes because he’s doing a fantastic job at West Ham and trust us when we say that the Hammers, despite losing Sebastian Haller, should still take our prediction of eighth as a massive compliment.”
Another website called FiveThirtyEight also makes West Ham 8th place in the top flight table on 58 points.
The Hammers finished 16th last season under David Moyes finishing 13th the season before that under Manuel Pellegrini.
A top-ten finish perhaps as high 7th would be a welcome finish to this season.
By that calculation only 22 points needs to stay up, everyone is already safe.
Hmmm. I think Moyes just showed the league how to manage Grealish.
The computer may need to recalculate…
Well that is done and dusted then. Nothing to look forward to. What about next season. Do we kick-on for Europe or does every other team kick-on too? Does that leave us only 9th? 9th two seasons in a row equals failure or success?
Back to my crosswords. No VAR – no ‘interpretations’ of intent or fairness. David Luiz deserves to be banned for life following his red-carded assault on the Wolves player. No defence to the charge – the rule says (on the 49th paragraph of that particular expanded rule) ‘we’ve checked it on the TV many times and according to the letter of the Law – you are off.’ Does David Luiz get any recourse for damages to reputation, loss of earnings present and future? Are Arsenal allowed to go to Court of Arbitration in Sport and claim for unfair dismissal? No and no are the answers. Make the rules very simple. Handball is a foul whether deliberate or accidental. Red/yellow cards for deliberate. Free kicks for all. Do away with offside – liven the game up. Centre of the ball over the centre of the spot for penalties. All of the ball over all the line used to mean the bit of the ball on the ground over the white line on the ground. Not the computer generated lines in mid-air. Linesmen have flags to inform the referee. The referee stops the game by blowing the whistle (play to the whistle). I’m going to miss it all now that I know where we finish the season. At least I can stop shouting at the telly now and not have to listen to the rubbish passed off as commentary.
Right – now back to the crossword. Or maybe after the Villa game.
COYI
In my guestimate I had us 8th I think that is where we are this season, I would put Villa ahead of us also but not in the top 4, its a funny old season though so anything is possible, if we can create some momentum again who knows, we definitely need an extra edge in the final third hopefully Benrahma and Lingard can provide it, Benrahma seems to be improving each match, would also controversially like to see Dawson dropped for Diop or Balbuena, he is so ponderous on the ball and poor in distribution that teams can easilly get back into their shape by the time we have transitioned from defence to attack, Fabianski could also release the ball faster from time to time instead of playing it safe and waiting for more players to get in position.