The Lawro League

Xavi6

People may be familiar with ex-Irish international and renowned pundit Mark Lawrenson's weekly Premiership predictions on bbc.co.uk. One fan has taken the liberty of documenting these results and making a league table. See how your team fairs in the Gospel according to Lawro -

http://prem.leaguerepublic.com/

LEAGUE TABLE
POS P W D L F A DIFF PTS
1 Chelsea 9 7 2 0 15 2 13 23
2 United 9 7 2 0 16 5 11 23
3 Liverpool 8 6 2 0 15 4 11 20
4 Arsenal 8 6 1 1 15 4 11 19
5 Newcastle Utd 8 4 3 1 12 7 5 15
6 West Ham 8 4 2 2 11 7 4 14
7 Everton 9 3 5 1 12 9 3 14
8 Spurs 9 3 4 2 12 10 2 13
9 Aston Villa 8 3 3 2 13 11 2 12
10 Blackburn Rovers 8 3 2 3 10 9 1 11
11 Portsmouth 9 3 2 4 9 11 -2 11
12 Fulham 9 3 1 5 8 12 -4 10
13 Reading 9 2 3 4 8 13 -5 9
14 Bolton Wanderers 9 2 3 4 6 11 -5 9
15 Wigan 9 3 0 6 6 14 -8 9
16 CITY 9 2 2 5 8 12 -4 8
17 Middlesbrough 9 2 1 6 9 15 -6 7
18 Birmingham City 9 1 2 6 7 15 -8 5
19 Sunderland 9 1 2 6 7 15 -8 5
20 Derby County 9 1 0 8 5 18 -13 3

City finally make it out of the bottom three this week with a 2-0 win over Boro. No sign of any fence sitting with the top four either.... :rolleyes:

Note: I was careful to edit the name of the team in second place. The guy who does the table is a City fan!

GuanYin

Lawro has, for a long time, been a bit of a BBC puppet more than pundit. He makes himself out to be a very insightful analyst, much like Alan Hansen was before he got bored with it all and stopped trying to give honest opinions. In effect he basically serves to preach the most obvious suspected result and doesn't seem to offer any insight other than a big team should beat a small team.

Personally, I piss myself laughing at his predictions every week. Last week he has Arsenal to lose to West Ham (2-0 if memory serves), which is basing his opinon on history rather than current team form, which to be honest, is what counts.

~Rebel~

He's terrible on BBC TV, but i find him ok on BBC 5live and sometimes on The Last Word on Today FM. At least he actually gives his opinions on radio rather then being a bland face telling "jokes" on MoTD.

His predictions are nearly always rubbish though.

mike65

He's got Liverpool pretty much right, if we win tomorrow its 8 played 6 wins 2 draws for him. In reality it would be 5 wins and 3 draws.

Mike.

Xavi6

mike65 wrote:

He's got Liverpool pretty much right, if we win tomorrow its 8 played 6 wins 2 draws for him. In reality it would be 5 wins and 3 draws.

Mike.

That's cause they're the only club he knows anything about!

Xavi6

A good day for Mark yesterday -


Birmingham v Reading

Match preview
Prediction: 1-2
WRONG

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Derby v Middlesbrough

Match preview
Prediction: 1-1
WRONG

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Man City v Bolton

Match preview
Prediction: 1-1
WRONG

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Portsmouth v Tottenham

Match preview
Prediction: 2-1
WRONG

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Sunderland v Aston Villa

Match preview
Prediction: 1-2
WRONG

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West Ham v Everton

Match preview
Prediction: 1-1
WRONG

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Wigan v Blackburn

Match preview
Prediction: 2-1
RIGHT but wrong score

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Fulham v Newcastle (1715)

Match preview
Prediction: 1-1

WRONG

Muff_Daddy

Lawro has 1st place Arsenal in 5th place now, behind Villa and 11 points behind Chelski.

Shocking!

Pepe LeFrits

Chelsea's point at the Emirates following United's loss to Liverpool means the Blues now move 6 points clear.

I wonder have any boardsies posted their weekend predictions for all the games so far? It'd be interesting to see how their table looked...

MrJoeSoap

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

Chelsea's point at the Emirates following United's loss to Liverpool means the Blues now move 6 points clear.

I wonder have any boardsies posted their weekend predictions for all the games so far? It'd be interesting to see how their table looked...

I can show you my Paddy Power account to prove that I'm hopeless!

Xavi6

With City in 13th I think we can safely say our European dreams are over for another year. And how Arsenal are going to make up that 11 point deficit on Chelsea I don't know.