Premiership Pre-Season Bingo

July 24th, 2006 | by: Daryl | View Comments

There are two ways to count the days until the English Premiership kick off. One is to use a calendar, like this.

The other is to play “Premiership Pre-season Bingo,” which is much more fun…

Basically, you cross the event off as and when it happens. Once you have five in a row (horizontal or vertical) it’s time for the Premiership to begin:

Big tip of the hat to Footie Girl, who spotted this first.

So far, I count the following events:

• “Cannavaro to Real Madrid” Yep.
• “Transfer falls through because a player fails a medical” – Robert Huth’s failed move to Middlesbrough.
• “Players signs for one club, then less than a day later signs for a completely different club” Didi Hamann to Bolton, then Manchester City.
• “Liverpool sign a South American player” Take your pick from Mark Gonzalez, Fabio Aurelio and Gabriel Paletta.
• “Spurs sign yet another midfielder” Didier Zakora, come on down.
• “Liverpool sign a ne’er do well striker, who was a boyhood fan” Sounds like Craig Bellamy.
• “Chelsea buy a player just to stop anyone else buying him” This one’s open to interpretation, but John Obi-Mikel?

So the card looks like this:

UPDATES (July 29th):

• “Van Nistelrooy to Real Madrid” – Affirmative.
• “Michael Carrick to Man United” – Hey presto.

So, the card now looks like this:

Given that some events are now impossible (eg Cannavaro to Chelsea) which line has the most chance of being completed?