PREMIERSHIP FOOTBALL PREDICTIONS 2001/2002
 
Every other week this site will be updated for the prediction of the England FA Barclaycard Premiership league table for the 2001/2002 season. Every prediction made on 10 February was a guess based on how each team was playing in the season to the start of February 2002 - it is quite possible that any team could improve dramatically and make the predictions inaccurate - as the real results come in the table will be updated for the actual results (although the future predicted results will not be changed).
 
 
*** See the real final Premiership table below ***
 
Final table prediction on 27 April 2002 (after all teams have played 38 games)
            

 
Team F A Points
     
Arsenal 78 37 84
Man Utd 92 46 82
Liverpool 62 27 80
Newcastle 75 50 74
Leeds 53 37 66
Chelsea 66 36 65
Tottenham 50 52 53
West Ham 47 56 53
Aston Villa 44 47 48
Fulham 39 42 47
Everton 44 53 46
Middlesbro 35 47 45
Charlton 38 51 43
Southampton 44 55 42
Sunderland 30 50 42
Blackburn 48 53 40
Bolton 43 61 40
Ipswich 41 61 36
Derby 32 64 29
Leicester 29 65 25

   

Report on 27 April 2002
         
Arsenal are doing better than was originally predicted to be - Sunderland, Fulham and Newcastle, however, are not doing as well as predicted. Even if Arsenal lose away to Manchester United on 8 May (as predicted back in February), they have been predicted to beat Bolton away and Everton at home to take the title. *** Note Manchester United were originally predicted to take the title back in February and Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Newcastle were correctly predicted to be in the Champions League next season*** *** 11 May - Arsenal beat Manchester United at Old Trafford with a 1-0 score on 8 May to take the title and drop Manchester United to third place behind Liverpool ***

*** Chelsea were originally predicted to come fifth and Leeds sixth - if Chelsea can beat Aston Villa at home they would come fifth but the prediction back in February was for a 1-1 draw which may only be good enough for 6th place *** *** Chelsea lost to Aston Villa on 11 May and so came sixth with Leeds coming fifth ***

Blackburn is now also doing better than predicted at the bottom end of the table and will not go down. Ipswich are are predicted to lose away to Liverpool on the last day of the season to be relegated with Derby and Leicester. Sunderland have been predicted to beat Derby at home to stay up. *** Note Leicester, Derby and Blackburn were originally predicted to go down in February with Bolton and Ipswich predicted to just escape relegation - congratulations to Blackburn for staying up - the confidence they got from getting to the Worthington Cup final and then winning it probably helped their league results *** *** Ipswich lost their final game away to Liverpool 5-0 on May 11 and so were relegated with Derby and Leicester ***

 

The final table (after all games completed on 11 May) was:
Team F A Points
     
Arsenal 79 36 87
Liverpool 67 30 80
Man Utd 87 45 77
Newcastle 74 52 71
Leeds 53 37 66
Chelsea 66 38 64
West Ham 48 57 53
Aston Villa 46 47 50
Tottenham 49 53 50
Blackburn 55 51 46
Southampton 46 54 45
Middlesbro 35 47 45
Fulham 36 44 44
Charlton 38 49 44
Everton 45 57 43
Bolton 44 62 40
Sunderland 29 51 40
Ipswich 41 64 36
Derby 33 63 30
Leicester 30 64 28

 
             
                                                         
 
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