Leicester and West Ham fans will be pleased Mark Lawrenson’s predictions were wide of the mark

Predicting Premier League results is tough - no one's kidding themselves about that.

None of us would have backed Leicester City to win the league back in August (well, almost none of us), while Newcastle United weren't expected to go down after spending big last summer. But when you have the chance to right wrongs by picking results on a weekly basis, there's a little more room for manoeuvre. Unless you're Mark Lawrenson. The BBC pundit has developed a reputation for bias against certain clubs. While that might not necessarily be the case, it certainly seems as though he overrates some teams and underrates others. The evidence for this is a table shared by Digital Spy's Matt Hill, which shows just how wrong Lawro was by drawing up a league table based on his predictions over the course of the campaign. The biggest disparities between actual and anticipated predictions come with Leicester City and West Ham United, who would be 12th and 17th respectively (instead of first and sixth) if Lawrenson had been spot-on every week. Of course, for some clubs to be lower than their real position, others must be higher, and that honour goes to West Bromwich Albion (seventh instead of 15th), Newcastle United (11th instead of 18th) and Chelsea (third instead of ninth). https://twitter.com/gethill/status/731400437459501056 Some fans might be angry with the pundit. https://twitter.com/essojohn/status/726156140678107138 But others are just basking in his wrongness. After all, there's only one table that matters. https://twitter.com/markblk9779/status/727241930992660481 https://twitter.com/glees5150/status/727241743704412160 At least he was right about Aston Villa.