Well, I’ll be damned. All week I’ve been looking forward to Survival Sunday (copyright Sky Sports, along with Super Sunday, Tussle Tuesday, Smash it Saturday and any other alliterated names that the broadcaster may or may not use to add drama to a day of football) and the battle between five teams looking to stay in the Premier League next season, then an 89-year-old prophet goes and ruins the fun.

Harold Camping believes that the world will begin to end tomorrow and will be destroyed completely five months later, over-shadowing (assuming we still have sun, Old Trafford and Jamie Redknapp’s wardrobe) Survival Sunday. It is the second ‘Rapture’ (as it is known in the doomsday-prophesier business) Mr Camping has predicted after the universe was spared from his guessing back in the mid-1990s; assuming the world pulls through, Wigan, Blackpool, Birmingham, Wolves and Blackburn will be looking for a sparing of their own a day later.

Having done a little survial predicting myself, thanks to the BBC predictor, my bottom six will finish as follows:

Wolves look good to beat Blackburn at Molineux to secure their top-flight status, while Steve Kean should scrape through. Wigan meanwhile have a difficult game at Stoke, who could still be hurting from two defeats against Manchester City in under a week. The possible absences of Matthew Etherington and Jermaine Pennant may blunt Stoke’s creativity, though Tony Pulis is confident of both playing a part. While Stoke limp towards the end, Wigan will be in a confident mood after their win over bottom club West Ham last week.

Tottenham should have enough to beat Birmingham and fend off Liverpool for fifth. While Blackpool’s chances of getting anything from a second-string Manchester United side must, surely, be highly unlikely.

Maybe my predictions will be wide of the mark. But one thing is for certain: they’ll be a darn sight closer than Harold Camping’s.