Mindfulness

Nottingham Forest

Crystal Palace

My hope is that it's a Tuesday deadline, no-one else enters team and defaults to Liverpool, Liverpool draw or loose and Brentford claim last minute spawny draw with Everton, Mindfulness wins comp. And DON'T @ the other entrants as a reminder @Fader !!! DON'T YOU DARE !!!

@Fader Deadline Tue 19:30 surely?

Brentford + Joker

@Fader Will upcomming midweek EPL card be round 4?

Brighton & Hove Albion

I've had some time to calm down, reflect somewhat, and of course, quell the rage. In my completely unbiased view, I don't know how Palace lost that game, a draw would have been within the normal limits of taste and decency but beyond that is just plain bizarre. The one thing that did suprise me was Everton's fitness and concentration levels which were really good to be fair. I was not expecting that. Apologies to anyone that listened to me but the pain is all mine.

A word of warning @Fader from my completely unbiased view of Palace games: I was actually not looking forward to this game on paper a while back, because of reasons you mentioned: Everton normally do ok at Selhurst + Palace struggle against teams that come to Selhurst and play good defensive football + Moyes bounce. However! That midweek Merseyside derby would have used up energy with Palace having couple extra days to recover. No Ndiaye or Doucoure now for Everton and their total absences list is starting to look pretty ridiculous. Eze, Sarr and Nketiah will be back for this game, Palace looking very competitive now. Spirit level good at Everton but I don't see them winning this game, a draw maybe, but away win looks unlikely from my fully unbiased perspective.

Bournemouth

Chelsea

Bring back Neil Warnock 'For One Last Job' is surely the only solution @StevieDay1983

@harry_rag Apparently Martin Scorsese cut that scene out of Taxi Driver because it was deemed too 'upbeat' for the overall tone of the film but great to see it here on Punters Lounge all those years later!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year guys. Long Live The Lounge !!!

Thanks @Darran, that's actually the perfect segway for me to re-post my non-league storm list from a few years ago. Don't have any for letters A and B of the alphabet for some reason, and quite frankly, I can't be bothered to think some up now, I'm too angry at the weather. Storm Coupon Crusher Storm Drizzle no bet Storm Every time it rains (Pitch inspectors go insane) Storm Fixture Failure Storm Goodness gracious my spreadsheet is spacious Storm Honey I shrunk the shortlist Storm I don’t think we’ll make it to full-time Storm Just the one game remaining Storm Krone Killer (For non-league punters in the Danish sovereign wealth fund) Storm Lost Lolly Storm Money to the B 365 Storm No bet Storm Off Storm Push Storm Questions need to be asked in parliament Storm Refund Storm Stakes returned Storm Tarpaulin too much to ask for Storm U gotta be kidding?!?! Storm Void Storm Why even bother if they’re not playing in the Tamplin Dome? Storm X-pect the 1X messed with Storm You only give (your stake to the same bet) twice Storm Zealous over-use of the term ‘match abandoned’

Arsenal

Chelsea

Brighton & Hove Albion

Liverpool

Been trying to bring up the ELO ratings for Serie A and La Liga but the cupboards are bare. I felt I should let you know, but you may already know, do you know? let me know.

Everton

Liverpool

West Ham

Bournemouth

Tottenham Hotspur