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How will our illustrious panel fare this week? Will they put in a Chelsea-like performance or end up resembling Norwich? Plus, don't forget to enter our quiz for a chance to play at Villa Park

With the Premiership heading towards a conclusion, this could be the last set of predictions our team come up with before Chelsea win the Premiership for the first time and their first championship for 50 years.

What next? Newcastle might win the FA Cup and Alan Shearer might play for England again. Incidentally, odds of 3-1 on the latter seems like a decent price - a better bet than a smaller companies fund manager to outperform the market before the next World Cup. What am I bid for that one?

There was a full programme of games over the weekend, so as ever turn on Teletext or check Sky Sports and see how the 'experts' got on.

For once, rather than sounding like a collection of fund managers or economists who all have the same middle name, Consensus, the three pundits have a real diversity of opinion and only a small amount of emotional predicting, this week.

Our panel is Andy Clark (AC), head of distribution at DWS, Michael Warren (MW), managing director at DWS Investments, and Lawrence Gosling (LG), former editorial director of Investment Week and now editorial director of Football First newspaper.

Blackburn v Southampton

AC: DRAW

MW: HOME

LG: AWAY

A tricky game to call. Blackburn are very hard to break down, but they struggle to score goals. Southampton's good run came to an abrupt end against Chelsea last time out, but Crouch's height could help Southampton edge it.

Bolton v Fulham

AC: HOME

MW: HOME

LG: DRAW

Fulham eased their relegation worries against Portsmouth the previous week and scored some goals at last, which could give them the confidence to get something out of this game, while Bolton chase a European place.

Chelsea v Birmingham

AC: HOME

MW: HOME

LG: HOME

The expected home win that should take Chelsea one step closer to the Premiership title. Assuming the Blues win this game they'll only need two more wins - and their next two games are both at home against Arsenal and neighbours Fulham.

Man City v Liverpool

AC: HOME

MW: AWAY

LG: HOME

City's good home form and Liverpool's poor away record, plus the diversion of the second leg of the Champions League against Juventus, points towards a City home win.

Middlesbrough v Arsenal

AC: AWAY

MW: AWAY

LG: AWAY

Universal agreement that the Arsenal will win this one. A half-fit Henry scored a hat trick last time out and the Gunners have perfected the art of taking maximum points off Boro at the Riverside, in recent seasons. It's hard to see it not continuing.

Norwich v Man United

AC: DRAW

MW: AWAY

LG: HOME

Norwich might be nearly down, but they will not give up and still look like scoring goals, albeit while leaking them as well. United are struggling to score since Van Nistelrooy came back in to the team. And they have a cup semi-final, the following weekend, to divert their attention from bagging second place in the Premiership.

Portsmouth v Charlton

AC: HOME

MW: AWAY

LG: DRAW

This hasn't got the most attractive game written all over it. Portsmouth's poor form, combined with the erratic nature of Charlton, particularly away from home, means this has got 0-0 written all over it, which for Portsmouth wouldn't be a bad result.

Aston Villa v West Brom

AC: HOME

MW: DRAW

LG: AWAY

Yet another Midlands derby, which for Villa have been their undoing this season. West Brom are showing a bit of form, backed by the music from The Great Escape. Could this be the latest step towards Premiership safety for the Baggies?

Everton v Crystal Palace

AC: AWAY

MW: AWAY

LG: AWAY

This could be a question of emotion for the three pundits, because Ian Dowie's team seems to have attracted a lot of the sympathy vote this season. With Everton struggling badly, common sense says Palace have a chance, but Andy Johnson cannot find the back of the net and fellow striker Dougie Freedman hasn't scored all season. Probably a 0-0 draw.

Tottenham v Newcastle

AC: DRAW

MW: HOME

LG: HOME

Assuming this one doesn't end up in a punch up like Newcastle's last Premierhip game, then it is hard to see the Toon coming away with anything, even though Spurs have been a little erratic.

Lawrence Gosling is publishing director of Football First, the national Sunday football paper

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