Packs 47 - 52

A bumper six pack selection

Pack Fourty Seven


Ledley King – Most Wanted: When he's not injured anyhoo

Leon Osman – Everton: Wow! An Everton sticker!

Bolton Wanderers Badge: Ribbony

Sylvain Distin – Man City: Now buggered of to Pompey

Sergio Peter – Blackburn Rovers: Strange name

Craig Moore – Newcastle Utd: GOT! Another Antipodean swap

Lego Thing – The Ray: GOT! But I don't care.

Pack Fourty Eight


Everton Kits: Bad in every way.

Tim Cahill – Everton: Is that the complete Timmy set now?

Johnathon Fortune – Charlton Ath: No great fortune

Kevin Lisbie – Charlton Ath: Scored 3 goals in one match against Liverpool several years

Moritz Volz – Fulham: Volz, the only cool German ever.

Man City Badge: Ranieri's new team

Lego Thing – The Eel: My third one of these stoopid things

Pack Fourty Nine

Spurs Kits: Understated calssyness

Richard Dunne – Man City: Citeh capitano

Philippe Christanval - Fulham: One of the few Fulham players to not look like a paedo in their kit.

Pepe Reina – Liverpool: SUUUUUPER PEPEEEEEE!

Leighton Baines – Wigan Ath: Supposed to be very good

Chris Powell – Watford: I never know what to say about Watford players

Pack Fifty


Phil Jagielka – Most Wanted: He actually is quite wanted at the moment

Anton Ferdinand – West Ham Utd: Associated to the scum by birth

Niclas Jensen – Fulham: Not the kid.

Malky Mackay – Watford: Most. Scottish. Name. Ever

Quinton Fortune – Bolton Wanderers: Ex Scum...

Ji-Sung Park – Man Utd. - Would be extremely likable if it wasn't for the Scum thing.

Pack Fifty One


Wayne Rooney – Most Wanted: Not by the police, alas

Thomas Myhre – Charlton Ath: A glittering career of reserve goalkeeping.

Omar Poulso – Charlton Ath: Bald

Claude Makelele – Chelsea: Even at 137 the guy oozes class

Damien Francis – Watford: His name is Damien

Mikael Silvestre – Man Utd: A united defender - i am not allowed to comment

Pack Fifty Two


Spurs Squad: GOT! Squaddy swap

Abdoulaye Meite – Bolton Wanderers: Got! Not a Meite sticker.

Andrew Webster – Wigan Ath: Looks like a goon

Scott Parker – Newcastle Utd: Not any more he ain't. A good buy for the Hammer methinks.

Fulham Badge: Shiny Badge of Under-achievement.

Nicky Shorey - Reading: I've been impresses every time I've seen him. It'll be interesting to see how he copes with the Brazillians tonight.

Packs 44-46

After a Big Weekend and Big (very disappointing) Match we get back into the sticker swing...

Pack 44


Star Player - Andy Johnson - Everton: See they are shiny

Niko Kranjcar - Portsmouth: Also makes Radio Controlled cars...

Arjan De Zeewu - Wigan Ath.: Club Captain... oh no he's been released.

Lee Cattermole - Middlesborough: Northerm

Tugay Kerimoglu - Blackburn Rover: Hehehehe Too Gay Hehehehe

Pascal Chimbonda - Spurs: Decent French full back with a moaning pedigree as proof

Pack 45


Portsmouth Squad: GOT! Squaddy swap

Paul Gallagher - Blackburn Rovers: Young scot... that's it.

Tomas Rosicky - Arsenal: Only scores Cup screamers against Liverpool

Jordan Stewart - Watford: An example of why the were so easily relegated

Franck Queudrue - Fulham: Odd name

Nolberto Solano - Newcastle Utd: Little Nobby, great player

Pack 46


Stuart Downing - Most Wanted: You knoe the world is wrong when Stuart Downing is both a Star Player and Most Wanted - who the $*!@ by!

Heidar Helguson - Fulham: GOT! Useless swap

Stephane Henchoz - Blackburn Rovers: GOT! Still a great keeper

Kevin Davies - Bolton Wanderers: All together now... Who Ate All the Pies...

David Thompson - Portsmouth: Used to like this cheeky scouse scamp... now I think he's just a unprofessional, snidey, cheating scall.

Salomon Kalou - Chelsea: A good player in FM, not transferred it to the real Prem yet.

Stats

So 46 packs ripped open and 236 sticker lovingly eased into place. That gives me a completion percentage of 45.21%! So close to the halfway point now!

The NPP is till hovering just above 5 per pack at 5.13, so we still haven't reached the one Got Per Pack mark yet, with the GPP at 0.87.

The projected finish is now for pack 101.75.

Reading have really gotten static again, which has given Boro a sneaky chance to join them at the front of the race for team completion on 15 stickers. Arsenal and Blackburn are sticking close too on 14.

Bumper Six Pack: 38 to 43

Pack 38


Arsenal Kits: Not won nutthin...

Marlon Harewood – West Ham United: Seems to have been around for years... but has never really arrived.

Nicky Butt – Newcastle United: Doesn't look so good at the Toon does the England International

Eric Djemba-Djemba – Aston Villa: So bad the named him twice

Robert Green – West Ham United: Decent young keeper...

Scott Carson – Charlton Ath: Decent young keeper who really belongs to Liverpool - for now.

Pack 39

Fulham Squad: Or the scary squad as they are becoming known.

Francis Jeffers – Blackburn Rovers: Speaking of scary, annoying, unspeakably horrid things...

Jlloyd Samuel – Aston Villa: Jlloyd is such a made up name...

Aaron Lennon – Spurs: Nippy ickle winger

West Ham United Badge: Quality old skool badge

Kieran Richardson – Man Utd: Who says playing for a big club gets you into the England squad... well apart from Nicky Butt.

Pack 40


Luis Boamorte – Most Wanted: It mus be the kit...

Gary Neville – Man Utd: My eyyeeeeeeeeeeees. Irksome littl... sorry.

Robert Huth – Middlesbrough: Doesn't sound very German

Fabio Aurelio – Liverpool: Did look Fabio until his achilles went TWANG!

Rob Hulse – Sheffield United: Relegated journeman.

Ugo Ehiogu – Middlesbrough: Ugo has been around for ever. I remeber him playing for Villa against Tranmere in the league cup semi final... Bosnich so should have gone.

Pack 41


Liverpool Squad: GOT! It's a nice swap though.

Kevin Kilbane – Wigan Ath: Even even the Blue Noses thought he was crap.

Carlton Cole – West Ham: GOT! Still not as good as he thought.

Richard Wright – Everton: Ha haha hah ha hah ha. If he wasn't at Everton it would be tragic. He's been released now...

Brian McBride – Fulham: It must be the shirts, Brian isn't that creepy normally - surely?

Luis Garcia – Liverpool: The last time I heard about Luis he was at the Champion League semi final... watching Take That Live from Manchester on DVD. It's not been that long Luis...

Pack 42


Star Player – Stuart Downing – Middlesbrough: Star, yeah.

David Unsworth – Sheffield United: A sprightly young rookie.

Ishmael Miller – Man City: A haggard old veteran of some 53 years. Hang on...

Andreas Johansson – Wigan Ath: Nothing to say here... move along.

Ben Thatcher – Man City: Lucky not to be in prison, they're a bunch of softies at City.

Richard Lee – Watford: Understudy to the 14 year old Ben Foster.

Pack 16... sorry 43 - Yep, it's happened again!

Wigan Ath. Squad: That's fine...

Strange Lego thing – The Mantis: My second one of these stupid things...

Then we have the familiar grouping of:

George Boateng – Middlesbrough
Phillipe Senderos – Arsenal
Charlton Athletic Badge
Osmane Dabo – Man City
Julio Arca – Middlesbrough

All of who appeared together in pack 16. That to me is a bit fishy. OK my experiment doesn't replicate normal consumer behaviour - due to me taking packs from the same bulk retail box - but still it'll be interesting to see how this trend goes.

Stats

So 222 stickers are now well and truly stuck. If it was a cricket match I would be hopping along on one leg. That gives a completion of 42.53%!

The six packs were going pretty well until Doppleganger II: The Revenge. So we've 36 swaps. That means the GPP is still over 5 at 5.16 - with GPP obviously rising to 0.84.

The projected finish is still in triple figures at 101.11.

In the teams race Reading have stopped moving again allowing Boro to sneak to just one behind them on 13.

Packs 35-37: The Doppleganger

Pack 35

Star Player – Wayne Rooney – Man Utd: Shiny Shrek

Edwin Van Der Sar – Man Utd: A great keeper.

Marcus Hahnemann - Reading: A not so great keeper.

Theo Walcott – Arsenal: Baby Theo...

Man Utd Badge: A great pack for United.

Khalid Boulahrouz – Chelsea: GOT! Rubbish in every way.

Pack 36

Star Player – Joey Barton – Man City: See the way he's punched Fabregas in the face...

Cesc Fabregas – Arsenal: although Cesc did fall to the ground like a wounded ballerina.

Xabi Alonso – Liverpool: Half way line goal scoring machine.

Andre Ooijer – Blackburn Rovers: Sounds like a phrase from Carry On.

Stuart Parnaby – Middlesbrough: One of those solid players you know play football, but you never really see.

Kevin Doyle - Reading: Another Reading sticker! I'm only one sticker from completing a whole page!

Pack 14... I mean 37

Most Wanted – Kevin Nolan: I always confuse him with Tranmere Legend Ian Nolan...

Joey O'Brien – Bolton Wanderers: GOT! Goofy swap...

Frank Lampard – Chelsea: GOT! Fat swap...

Petr Cech – Chelsea: GOT! Fractured swap...

Ricardo Carvalho - Chelsea: GOT!... Hold on...

Sun Ji Hai – Man City: GOT!... Deja Vu!


Hmmm this is the sort of thing I was hoping to see.

Here we have two packs pulled from the same box with 5 identical stickers. If it was two, three, or even four I could maybe pass it off as coincidence... five is really pushing it.

Especially with such distinctive stickers.

Stats
Six packs worth of stats to update. We are now standing at 192 stickers stuck - we'll be over the 200 next time. Even with the disastorous pack 37 the NPP has stayed above 5 at 5.19, with GPP at 0.81.

The projected completion date has risen to just over 100 again at 100.59.

Reading have had a storming few packs and are now storming ahead in the race to completion with 15 stickers stuck. That's a full 4 stickers ahead Arsenal, Blackburn, Chelsea and Boro who are all on 11.

Packs 32-34

Pack 32


Man Utd Kits: Leage winning (boooo) kits!

Shane Long - Reading: There's a gag in there somewhere...

James McFadden – Everton: GOT! Everton really are struggling.

Robbie Keane – Spurs: Great little player, but has never really been as great as he promised early on.

Bobby Zamora – West Ham: A great Championship striker.

Nuno Valente – Everton: What is it with the Portuguese and naff slick hair?

Pack 33


Man City Kits: The Manchester derby is consecutive packs.

Antoine Sibierski - Newcastle United: Slap head cult hero. I said cult.

Andranik Teymourian – Bolton Wanderers: Where does Sam find them?

Sammi Hyypia – Liverpool: The best thing Houllier ever did for Liverpool

Claude Davis – Sheff Utd: You would not want to meet this bloke in a dark alley... or a brightly lit one... or a football pitch for that matter.

Graeme Murty – Reading: Reading keep storming on.

Pack 34


Tim Cahill – Most Wanted: GOT! A copy of the first sticker I picked out.

Paulo Bouazza – Watford: Another one for the cool names list.

Fabio Rochemback – Middlesbrough: Brazillian midfielder, I've resisted using the word cultured.

Radostin Kishishev – Charlton Ath: Relegated Bulgar

Keiron Dyer – Newcastle Utd: Fancy Dan moan merchant

Claus Jensen – Fulham: Fulham are probably thr=e oddest looking squad in the division.

Packs 29 - 31

Pack Twenty Nine


Aston Villa Squad: Although Villa have had a so-so season I reckon we'll start to see them as more of threat next season.

Javier Mascherano – West Ham: The Monster Masch. World beating international to West End Donkey and back to Super Smooth Euro Superstar.

Idan Tal – Bolton Wanderers: A name that looks like an anagram.

Didier Drogba – Chelsea: Dogbreath himself, I'm surprised he's only got 4 stars...

Leroy Lita – Reading: He's a good solid forward with a bit of spark.

Claudio Reyna – Man City: Looks like Andre's love child in his photo...

Pack Thirty


Blackburn Rovers Kits: Horrible betting sponsors...

Brad Friedel – Blackburn Rovers: Brad was frankly crap at Liverpool, he's now the most dependable keeper in the country.

Liam Ridgewell – Aston Villa: Looks a bit like my mate Rich... interesting that eh?

Christian Nade – Sheffield United: I've got Nade to say... ... ... sorry.

Stephen Hunt – Reading: A valid Reading sticker - blimey!

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink – Charlton Ath: JFH was such a disappointment. Usually guarantees a bag full of goals wherever he laces his mercenary boots.

Pack Thirty One

The Premiership Trophy: Sticker number 2! I think this another one that should be shiny shiny foil though.

Michael Dawson – Spurs: A good solid centre back, will probably get better and better with age.

William Gallas – Arsenal: A good solid centre back spolied by his Chelsea days and can't be arsed at Arsenal.

Matt Jackson – Wigan Ath: Is he the one that's been playing for 1500 years?

Nicky Weaver – Man City: Plucky nicky peaked when he was 19 in those play off final heroics... shame.

Tal Ben Haim – Bolton Wanderers: One of Big Sam's many exotic stars.

Stats
Wow, three packs with not a single swap! Very nice!

So another 18 stickers are added, making a total of 164 stuck. That's now a completion of 31.42%.

The NPP rises for the first time in ages to 5.29 with the GPP falling to 0.71.

With all that the completion target dips back under 100 to pack 98.67.

Reading are finally up and moving again, and Chelsea march on - both teams lead the way 11 stickers, but as you can see the spread behind is still plentiful and fairly even.

Only Everton and Watford are holding back, mustering less between them than most of the other teams in the league.

Villa Badge

Just as a quick break, you may remember me mentioning a while back that I quite liked the design of the Villa badge...

Well they must have been listening, because they've just announced a new version...


It's also quite nice actually, at least now I've got a bit more used to it.

As I've said, I like the old one, but it is a bit busy. The stripes on the background were maybe a little bit too much.

The new lion is a bit gayer looking, but overall the I like the retro look. The addition of their 1982 European Cup star is also quite a nice touch.

Overall I like it, but I still have a soft spot for the outgoing one.