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Premier League 2008/09 Predictions

As the new season looms, I thought I might as well stick my neck out and do a quick glance over each team’s prospects for the season, and where I think they’ll end up. Just so I can look nice and stupid in nine months’ time, like…

1. Liverpool
Well, frankly, why the hell not? It’s the prerogative of the Liverpool fan to claim every year that “this is our year”, so sod it, I’m going with blind misplaced optimism even after the shambles of the other night. There are various reasons I could give – the extra cutting edge of Keane hopefully turning those draws into wins, an already pretty solid backline getting even solider with the burgeoning Agger/Skrtel partnership to look forward to (and Dossena, again Wednesday notwithstanding, arguably Serie A’s top left back last season), Ryan Babel looking to start to fulfil his potential, the anger of one-too-many recent pathetic capitulations to United inspiring us to thrash them both home and away this time out, and our having the best fucking striker in the world wearing our number 9 for the first time since Rushie retired. But naturally, the main reason why we’ll win the league this season is that we’re wearing a silver and red away kit. You know it makes sense.