Football's Back

As England's cricket team look to confirm themselves as the Number One team in Tests the domestic football season starts in earnest again today as the Premier League kicks off.  To me it almost feels that the season starts to early, lets not forget they have been playing in Scotland and European matches for a month or more now!

What of course this does do is provide plenty of options for me when it comes to making predictions so won't complain at that.  There were no predictions last week but from the previous week I had a 60% success rate leading to a profit of £1 for the week and taking losses down to £9.50.  This week with so much sport on around the world I will be making 12 predictions.

My first prediction this week is for the cricket where I expect the England bowlers to wrap up a win by the close of play today and become the World Number 1.

The final Golf major of the year will complete in Atlanta tomorrow and is highly likely to produce another first time major winner.  To win the USPGA Championship I'm predicting Aussie Adam Scott to continue hs form from last week and England's Lee Westwood to finish in the Top 3.

The final Tennis major of the year will start in New York in a couple of weeks but in the meantime the best male players have been in Montreal with only one of them looking to have retained their form from the early part of the season - Novak Djokovic who I'm predicting to win the Rogers Cup.

In less than a month the Rugby World Cup will kick-off in New Zealand and today sees more warm-up games for the Northern Hemisphere sides and I'm predicting England to beat Wales in Cardiff and France to defeat Ireland.

The other form of Rugby (League) has continued through the summer and today's Superleague prediction is for Bradford to beat Hull KR.

In Brno in the Czech Republic the Moto GP season continues and whilst it would be great to see a competitive Ducati bike and Valentino with a chance of challenging for a win, realistically this isn't going to happen so I'm predicting his former team-mate Lorenzo to win and Dani Pedrosa to make the podium.

Finally, on to the football and the Premier League kick-off this weekend.  Over the course of the season I can't see past Manchester United retaining their title but the race for Champions League places should be fascinating.  For this week though I'm predicting draws between Liverpool & Sunderland and Fulham & Aston Villa as well as a win for Manchester United at West Brom.

In summary the predictions are:

Test Cricket

England to defeat India in Edgbaston Test at 1/20

USPGA Golf

Scott to win at 9/1
Westwood to make Top 3 at 5/2

Montreal Master's Tennis

Djokovic to win at 2/5

Rugby Union Internationals

England to defeat Wales at 4/7
France to beat Ireland at 2/9

Engage Superleague

Bradford to defeat Hull KR at 5/8

Moto GP in Brno

Lorenzo to win at 3/1
Pedrosa to podium at 1/5

Premier League Football

Liverpool to draw with Sunderland at 10/3
Fulham to draw with Aston Villa at 5/2
Manchester United to win at West Brom at 4/7