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Lawro 4:52 Tue Jun 21
I'm good. I'm really good.
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It takes a knowledgeable (and brave) person to predict Premier League results in the very public forum of BBC Sport Online - especially this season.
That man is, of course, our own football expert Mark Lawrenson.
He may have consistently tipped West Ham to falter and - like almost everybody else on the planet - failed to forsee Leicester's incredible title-winning campaign.
Indeed, if Lawro's predictions had all been correct, West Ham would have finished 17th with 34 points - 10 places lower and escaping relegation by a single point.
And he also had Leicester and Newcastle finishing in mid-table.
But you cannot argue with the facts over a full season. Lawro - who makes his predictions on a Thursday morning - outscored every single Premier League club's supporters by a healthy margin.
His season average of 76 points after 38 game weeks dwarves even the top-performing set of fans, Stoke City, who averaged 64.8 points across the season.
Spurs fans were the least knowledgeable - finishing bottom of the table with a 61.4. And those unforgiving West Ham fans? A respectable fourth-placed finish with a score of 63.8.
"The West Ham fans gave me some stick earlier in the season because of my scores," Lawrenson told BBC Sport. "They even sang about my predictions at one game, which I've never had happen before.
"I know I've annoyed Southampton and Swansea before, to name but two teams… and I'm sure Swansea fans have noticed that I have relegated them again, like last season.
"What I always say to anyone who asks me about my predictions is that if I could really seriously predict football results, I would be sitting on my ocean-going yacht, which would be moored off the Bahamas. But it is good fun, that is the main thing.
"It's nice to know I've done better than the fans but I would probably have a higher average score if I made my predictions as close to kick-off as they can.
"Some people have made a big deal about the league table based on my predictions, but when I am making them, I don't even look at it. I am trying to predict the right results that week, not balance it out so teams are closer to their actual positions.
"What Leicester have done in the Premier League this season shows how difficult it is to predict anything, really."
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/36320357
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AdamL
11:49 Wed Jun 22
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"Dwarfs", surely?
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Sydney_Iron
8:01 Wed Jun 22
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He is alright in my book, has a sense of humour and enjoys a laugh and doesn’t take himself too seriously from what I can see, if he really did come on here and see how his threads went, he would probably have good laugh about it.
The thatch headed cunt…….
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Sven Roeder
11:44 Tue Jun 21
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Am sure when I Iooked he had Liverpool losing one of their first 30 games or similar
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Marston Hammer
8:34 Tue Jun 21
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I like him, top bloke is Lawro
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Mad Dog
8:33 Tue Jun 21
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Gthc
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holyhandgrenade
7:42 Tue Jun 21
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Good bloke and all a good laugh. Enjoy it all lads
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Eerie Descent
6:54 Tue Jun 21
Re: I'm SPLATTT!!!
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Evening, Lawro son.
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bruuuno
6:33 Tue Jun 21
Re: I'm SPLATTT!!!
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(nt)
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