Challenge Lawro Week 19 – Festive Fracas

Week 19

26th DECEMBER 2010

The dearth of un-snowy games last week lent itself rather nicely to a small fightback against the evil powers of Lawro. Wrongly backing City to beat Everton at home looks schoolboy with hindsight. They’re probably the only worse chokers than us, or perhaps a certain Lasagne-blaming wannabes.

Nevertheless we’ve clawed back a precious few points and the disruption’s left the table looking perversely favourable for us Gooners. Two points off the top is the understandable mantra right now even if, ‘game in hand’, would just as fairly be a stinky Manc’s reply. I do wonder if the blue and red sides of the city (I say the city, I guess I mean 100% genuine [Welcome to] Manchester & Salford), are getting on better now that they’ve both been victim of their best players making it patently clear just what currency their loyalty’s measured in. Wouldn’t happen at Arsenal of course…apart from Adebayor.

Back to this weekend and I’ve got the biggest sign yet that the waters have a win in them for us against Chelsea tomorrow.

Lawro has predicted us a win

From someone as adventurous as he is, that’s frankly incredible. I will presumably have jinxed any good fate created by aping that fact here but bugger it, I think the vote of confidence from a sourpuss like Mark is exactly the kind of boost we need. This is revolutionary, this is new labour. Sort of.

As for the other games my thoughts are getting depressingly close to Mark’s these days. I’m putting that down to some part of having our fingers burnt by the flair preddos (though they’re great when they work) and also just having much more of a sense of the teams in the 2nd half of the season.

Thoughts before Cheslea and serial Balotelli bashing on its way!

 

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For anyone new to the party this is where we pit our minds against the greatest of all ex-moustachioed pundits to see whether the preddo’s really do maketh the man. Every week Mark will whisper his crazy predictions to a junior BBCfootball.com writer and we’ll try our best to beat him, or at least not fall asleep. You can see how [badly] we get on in running totals down the sidebar every week.

Think you know / knew better – have a go yourselves in the comments. You can’t be worse than those drunks on the cream sofa…or us.