Midas Cases IV
Updated July 18th 2008
Stoke City - Premiership (2008/2009)
Dean's Midas team this season will be Stoke City who are in the top division for the first time in 23 years.
Stoke are 4/9 on second favourites to get relegated but Dean is confident that they will stay up. Please refer to this article for more information...
Can Midas help Stoke City stay in the Premiership...
Dean was also recently featured on the Sentinal website, please click here for more information.
He also featured in this recent article.
Midas helps Stoke City stay in the Premiership
Update - May 2009
Against all the odds Stoke City assured Premiership survival for another year just as Dean had predicted back in July 2008.
Dean said "No one outside of Stoke gave me a chance with this prediction and bookmakers Paddy Power even paid out on their relegation after just one game, whose laughing now eh?"
Luton Town - League II (2008/2009)
Another team who look like they need Dean's help this season are Luton Town who start the new campaign on -30 points... Dean was recently featured in this article on Dunstable Today's website.
Update - April 6th 2009
After starting the season on -30 points Luton Town finished the season on a massive high beating League One high flyers Scunthorpe United 3-2 after extra time at Wembley in front of 55,000 (40,000 were from Luton).
After yesterday's wonderful win and if they do go down they will at least go out of the Football League with dignity and glory and ready for next season.
Dean said "No one gave Luton a chance today, but yet again I am involved with the underdog coming out on top, everyone involved with Luton Town deserved this moment, the players, the manager but most importantly the fans, who have been nothing short of brilliant this season."
Dean was honoured to receive this message the day after the final from Luton Town owner Nick Owen: "We are thrilled and I appreciate your thoughts and support. Up the Hatters."
Update - April 13th 2009
On Monday 13th April Luton Town were finally relegated after a hard fought season long battle.
Club Chairman Nick Owen said "Our club is now stronger than ever: psychologically, spiritually and financially"
Manager Mick Harford said "I looked at the clock in the dressing room and said to the players: remember this time, five to five on 13th April. This is the rebirth of Luton Town Football Club." "We will go forward, we will kick-on. There are lots of people worse off than Luton Town Football Club."
"They are winners. We've got a group of winners. They've won a trophy this season. There are millions and millions of players who have never won a trophy and this group of players did."
Luton Town
Rachel Rice - Big Brother (2008)
Back on June 5th Dean advised the media and Rachel's brother Joe that Rachel would be his Midas pick on Big Brother.
On Friday 5th September Rachel was confirmed as the shock winner of the show after beating odds on favourite Mickey Hughes.
The Final result was Rachel 51.3% vs Mikey 48.7%
The next morning Rachel's brother Joe sent Dean this message "Thanks for supporting Rachel Dean"
During Big Brother Dean also did an eviction prediction for Alpha FM every Friday evening with Andrew Gasgoigne and then did a follow up on the Saturday morning with Mike Patterson to see if he had got it right.
Dean went on to predict 11 out of 12 evictions correctly.
Alpha FM can be heard online at http://www.alpha1032.com.
Dean,
My brother told me about you the night I came out of BB :-) Amazing that you got it right it must be amazing to have such a wonderful gift :-) Thanks for predicting me :-)
All the best
xxx
Rachel Rice
Rachel Wins Big Brother 2008
Christine Bleakley - Strictly Come Dancing (2008)
This is Dean's first ever involvement with BBC's Strictly Come Dancing and his chosen Midas act is One Show presenter Christine Bleakley, her professional dance partner is Mathew Cutler.
The show starts on September 20th.
Good Luck Christine.
On September 15th 2008 Dean received this lovely email from Matthew Cutler.
Hi Dean
I had a quick look at your website and I must say ' very impressive'. Of course you have our blessing to support Christine and myself this year, please do and ' work your magic'
All the best
Matthew
Update - 30th November
Christine eventually finished 5th out of 16 couples and issued this statement shortly after.
Christine admitted that she had not expected to survive so long and said: "I thought I would go in the first week, It's been absolutely incredible."
Matthew Cutler with Christine Bleakley.
Football Midas Cases (2008)
Lewes FC (September 08) - No Wins in 12 games until Dean offered his help live on local BBC radio, they won their next match 2-1 with an 88 minute goal.
Colchester United (October 08) - In the summer Colchester moved into their new stadium, after 6 games they were still winless and many fans called it a curse, Dean was featured in the Colchester Evening Gazette and advised he would help them get that first vital win, They won their next game 5-0.
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Newcastle United (October 08) - After no wins in 8 matches Dean advised all the local north-east media that Newcastle would win their next match at home to WBA, they went onto win 2-1.
Carlisle United - League 1 (2008) - As we enter November League One Carlisle United have had no wins in 11 games, just 1 point from a possible 30 and no goals in 4 games so Dean has offered his "Midas Touch" to the The Cumbrians.
Dean said "I am very confident that if Carlisle allow me to help, by the end of November I will have helped them get a few wins on the board"
This appeared in the News & Star on Saturday 1st November 2008 http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/1.263712.
Stay tuned to see what happens...
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Non League Today (November 1st 2008)
On a cold Autumn Sunday morning Dean was advised by a friend that he had a feature in national weekly paper, non league today.
Here is the article, Dean would like to thank Steve Whitney for all the nice comments, it really is appreciated.
Back Of The Net By Editor Steve Whitney.
Midas Touch!
They say all good things come to an end. Well I was very proud of the fact that my Wellingborough Town under-18 side had gone over a year unbeaten in the league, stretching back to October 15th 2007, until going down to a last-minute 2-1 defeat to Rothwell Town on Wednesday night.
However, although undoubtedly the lads were not at their best by any means, after kicking both cats and my dog on numerous occasions after returning home, I suddenly realised why we had lost that long unbeaten run!
On the table at home was a now screwed-up piece of paper that was once the luck that had helped us on our way. Prior to October 15th 2007 we had lost two out of three games. I received an email from well-known Psychic Dean Maynard, who was informing me how he had a hand in helping Torquay beat Yeovil in the FA Cup.
I jokingly wrote back saying that I could do with some psychic assistance, and he sent me an attachment to download which was in the form of a strange-looking logo. He said I should keep it with me during matches and it was sure to help.
I did this and we embarked on that great unbeaten league run.
On Wednesday I discovered that my wife had washed a pair of trousers without looking in the pockets and duly washed the pair containing Dean's `magic` logo.
Although the logo is still visible, the luck has obviously been washed off!
Something in it, or rubbish?
Well, Dean has been involved with some other extraordinary things, most famously when his record brought him to the attention of the Chicago White Sox baseball team, who went on to win the World Series in 2005 for the first time in 88 years!
He also offered his support to the Wigan Warriors rugby league team in their bid to escape relegation, after which they won nine out of ten games and survived after being rock bottom.
He also claims to have helped his home-town club Reading storm to the Championship title and win promotion to the Premiership in 2005/06.
Maynard has also backed many celebrities around the world and is currently supporting Laura White on ITV`s `X-Factor`.
Whether it is rubbish or not, I have certainly emailed Dean for another of his `magic` logos which will hopefully arrive before our next league game!
Non League Weekley.
Chat It's Fate - (Out October 15th 2008)
On June 25th Psychic Dean 'Midas' Maynard gave 4 pages of predictions for Chat it's Fate's first ever annual.
The book was released on the 15th October, on the day of it's release the Madonna divorce prediction came true followed by David Tennant qutting as Dr Who the following week and last night Dean's Barack Obama premonition came true as he became US president.
Dean was honoured to receive this from the Books editor:
I'm over the moon and overexhausted as spent much of the night following the election, Sensational stuff, Dean, well well done!!
Mary Bryce
Editor, Chat it's fate
Chat It's Fate.
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