Future Islands' Samuel T Herring reckons Liverpool will lose against Chelsea tonight

As part of this week's BBC Sport Premier League predictions, Mark Lawrenson invited Future Islands' Samuel T Herring to predict the outcomes of this week's jam-packed game schedule.

There's only two games left this week, with Man United going up against West Ham at Old Trafford at 6pm BST today (22 July), and 2020 Premier League winners Liverpool are taking on Chelsea at Anfield from 8:15pm BST.

Herring, although based in the US, supports Everton. He predicts that Man Utd will win 3-1 against West Ham, and Liverpool will lose 3-2 at home to Chelsea.

The Future Islands singer says of his prediction of the Liverpool v Chelsea score, "I have been fighting back and forth about this one but since I found about Lawro being an ex-Liverpool player, I have to go against him. Plus I really think that when opposition players have to give them the guard of honour, it really fires the other team up. I originally had Liverpool to win 3-2 but I am going to switch it. 2-3."

Speaking about how he got supporting Everton, Herring explains, "I started watching the Premier League in 2013 when it was shown a lot at the recording studio we were using in New York. I'd always watched football when I was a kid, but I didn't have a favourite English team."

"I got home after recording had finished, and kept watching, but I needed a team to root for," Herring continues. "I didn't just want to go for a 'money' team - one of the best sides, who are always going to win - so I looked at the table and picked the teams who were ninth, 10th and 11th, and decided it was going to be one of them. Those teams were Aston Villa, West Brom and Everton. I watched them all play a game in turn before picking one, and the last team I saw were Everton. They played in the same colour blue I wore as a kid for my baseball team when we won the state championship and I just knew straight away they were my team."

He adds, "When I watched them, the feeling grew and grew. I like a team without an ego who, when they win, it really feels like something - and it still does. I didn't realise until I saw Everton play that I was always an Everton fan, i just didn't know it."