The football season gets under way again on Saturday – or at least it does if your team isn’t in the Premier League, which starts a week later. My beloved Queens Park Rangers are off to Vicarage Road to take on Watford and I’ll be there with my three sons to cheer them on. We ‘did the double’ over the Hornets last season – the only team we beat home and away – so there’s a smidgen of hope. But there are also plenty of reasons to be pessimistic, and not just about the opening game.
Last season we conceded 71 goals, the second worst defensive record in the league
According to Opta, a British sports analytics company, QPR are going to finish dead last in the Championship. It got a supercomputer to run 10,000 simulations of how the season is likely to play out and 23 out of the 24 teams won the title at least once, with the only exception being the Super Hoops.
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