Gruffgoat’s 2016-17 Barclays Premier League Predictions

Zlatan Ibrahimović

With the 2016-17 Barclays Premier League season just underway, it’s time to gaze in to our crystal balls, and put a stake in the ground for how we think this season will end.

Of course a prediction like this is going to be spectacularly wrong and will likely piss off large of groups of fans who think their team should finish, top 10, top 4, top 1, etc.  But if rubbing some folks the wrong way was an excuse to stop making predictions, then we’d never make predictions!
And where is the fun in that?

So without further ado and with a list that as an Everton fan I’ll probably feel a bit icky writing, I give you Gruffgoat’s EPL predictions for the 2016-17 season:

1.    Manchester United
2.    Manchester City
3.    Arsenal
4.    Chelsea
5.    West Ham United
6.    Everton
7.    Tottenham Hotspur
8.    Southampton
9.    Liverpool
10.    Leicester City
11.    Stoke City
12.    Sunderland
13.    Swansea City
14.    Crystal Palace
15.    Middlesborough
16.    Watford
17.    Burnley
18.    AFC Bournemouth
19.    West Bromwich Albion
20.    Hull City

Feel free to complain in the comments. I'm going to need a shower.

~G.

5 Key Questions Heading in to the 2016-17 Barclays Premier League Season

With an Olympic games in full swing in Brazil, one might have been tempted to let the 2016-2017 Barclay's Premier League season sneak up on you.

But soon the Olympic torch will be passed, and the football fans among us will be able to devote our full attention what should be a glorious EPL season.

Here are some of the more sumptuous questions we have before us:

1. Will plucky Leicester City continue in the Cinderella form that not only let them stay alive in the top flight two seasons ago, but catapulted them over the usual suspects and on to Premier League champions!

2. Will Manchester United be able to elbow its way back in to Champions League football now that the towering figure of Zlatan will be parked front and center of the Man Utd. attack?

3. Will Chelsea redeem itself from its abysmal (by Chelsea standards) 10th place season?

4. Will Everton stop tying matches?

5. Will new kids on the block Burnley, Middlesbrough, and Hull City send more Premier League regulars down to the Championship?

Get your alarm clocks set folks. Football season has begun!