Tony Cottee - Guest Predictor. Former England, West Ham, Everton & Leicester striker and now Sky Sports pundit, Tony Cottee has joined the FPL as a guest predictor. He may even be adding predictions for this coming round of matches, but if it's not this week it will be very soon.

Changes To The Members Area

From the middle of this week there will be a change in your members area. From Wednesday you will be able to login and if you choose to, change any of the score predictions you have already made. Basically if on a Monday you put in a score like Liverpool 1 - 2 Man Utd then later in the week, for whatever reason, maybe injuries or squad rotation you want to change your predictions, you can do right up until the window closes, usually on the Saturday morning.

We are working on this at the moment and for those who have already entered their predictions, it should be up and running tomorrow or Wednesday.


International Break

Following England's demolition of the mighty Andorra the team move on to Croatia this week for the second match in this International double-header. Let's hope the Croatian groundsman has had his heavy roller fixed and has been able to flatten the ground around goal mouths this time.

It wasn't the most inspiring of matches on Saturday but they never really are any more. Watching England play over the past seven or eight yearsreally has been hard work and this was the "generation" that was going to win us the World Cup!!

Personally I'm not a fan of these breaks but it did give me the chance to make my first visit to Stadium MK where I saw The Dons cruise to an easy win over Yeovil. It's a fantastic new stadium, padded seats with lots of leg room just like at The Emirates and a really friendly atmosphere. It was like a vision of football in the 21st century.


The Week Ahead

It's going to be a difficult week to predict the scores and how the table will look on Monday night. The FPL table is set to change so those on top at the moment shouldn't get too comfortable. Here's how I see it.

Blackburn is a tough place to visit but I can see Arsenal turning them over and coming back to London with the points. Fulham have a good record at home against Bolton, they have played each other for the last nine seasons in a row, Fulham winning on six occaisions with three draws.

Liverpool v Man Utd I think most people will have as a draw although I favour United a little, and I just have a sneaky feeling for Man City over Chelsea after the Wright-Phillips and Robinho transfers.

Newcastle, despite losing Keegan in the week should be too strong for Hull at St James Park, and despite making a solid start to the season I can't see Boro going back to Teeside with more than a few sticks of Pompey rock.

WBA v WHU is a tough one and I could see that finishing in a draw while Wigan should win a close match at home to Sunderland.

Everton got a wake up call last week at the hands of Portsmouth and may have had a bit of a kick from Mr Moyes. Enough of a kick I suggest to go to Stoke and win.

Finally Monday nights game sees Villa visit White Hart Lane. Another match that could go either way, if I remember correctly it finished 4-4 last season so who knows what'll happen this. I'll go for Spurs to just edge it.

John has added his predictions so login to your members area to see what he thinks and remember if you have already added your predictions you will be able to change them from Wednesday if you choose to.

Here are next weeks fixtures:

Blackburn Rovers		v		Arsenal
Fulham		v		Bolton Wanderers
Liverpool		v		Manchester United
Manchester City		v		Chelsea
Newcastle United		v		Hull City
Portsmouth		v		Middlesbrough
West Bromwich Albion		v		West Ham United
Wigan Athletic		v		Sunderland
Stoke City		v		Everton
Tottenham Hotspur		v		Aston Villa

Make Your Changes

To make a change, login to the members area where you will see your table unlocked on the left and the current Premier League table on the right. Click on the first team you want to change (call it team A) and select the team you want it to swap places with (team B) and team A will appear where team B was. Do that twice more then click update and thats your changes made for this week.

www.fpl.org.uk/members.php

*** Once you click the update button there is no going back. If you make a change you can undo it by clicking the Revert Teams button, so long as its before you have done the final update.

** You do not have to make all of your changes at once.

The window will close again on Saturday 13th around lunchtime so make sure you have made your changes and added your predictions by then. Changes are of course optional, you can make one, two, three or no changes if you choose.