There's a long way to go and that's great news

NOW we are two or three games into the league season, you'll hear lots of talk about how the respective divisions are starting to take shape.

With Chelsea hovering over the relegation line, perhaps someone could give us a price about Jose Mourinho steering the Stamford Bridge outfit into the Championship.

And how about a quote for Leicester to win the Champions League in 2017?

They will also be plenty of miseries who will protest that we can't draw many conclusions from the opening couple of games and we should be aware the season is a long journey.

And that's great because there are nine months of great football value still ahead of us.

One thing we surely already knew is that Sunderland will be going down with the Christmas decorations and I don't suppose it will be getting much better for them this week with Swansea heading to town.

Anything odds-against about Garry Monk's boys has to be snapped up and I reckon the Stadium of Light faithful will be heading for the doors even earlier than they were when they lost to Norwich last week.

In the Championship, Bolton are beginning to look a desperate team and they are having all sorts of problems in the final third.

They have failed to score a goal yet this term and I'm taking Nottingham Forest to see them off at the Macron.

Complete your yankee with a couple of bankers. Cambridge should have few problems against Crawley, who somehow survived an onslaught from Portsmouth in midweek to earn a draw.

Their luck is about to run out and the same could be said of Yeovil.

They host Luton, who were sunk by a late Bristol Rovers goal on Tuesday and the Hatters will be keen to take it out on somebody.

So roll on another Saturday where we can bash the bookies and let's drink to many more.​