Another of our 66 World Cup winners has sadly past away RIP Nobby
Only 4 left 
Sir Bobby 
G Cohen
R Hunt
Geoff Hurst.

Not Chorley Town just plain Chorley, I know I lived near there

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LAST TIME OUT

PRESTON NORTH END 0 MILLWALL 2



BIRMINGHAM CITY 2 HUDDERSFIELD TOWN 1



LAST MEETING

PRESTON NORTH END 2 BIRMINGHAM CITY 0

FORM GUIDE MAX 25

PNE 15 BIRMINGHAM CITY 7

BRUM NEWBIES

Karanka has spent close to a million on Leko every other signing was a free, Clayton, Friend, Toral, Sanchez, Prieto, San Jose (he'll be lost lateral thinking on that one, just for oldies)

HEAD TO HEAD

First meeting in 1894 when as Small Heath they won at Deepdale 1-0, City's last victory in 2001 they won 2-0, my first ever game 6/4/1968 0-0 for what it's worth that will be the score tomorrow

MACS VIEW

With the forecast for an utter deluge the chances of escaping watching this are reducing by the minute, apparently a few of them were ill before the game last Wednesday, Bauer apparently gave a technicolour yawn in the home dressing room at half time. 360 minutes without inding the net at Deepdale against a Birmingham side under Aitor who will play 10 at the back.
Hopefully the crab like football which has been witnessed in the last four home games will be replaced by a vibrant attacking display as if.
City fresh from a late winner against Huddersfield will look to build on that Lucas J is back more than a useful forward this promises to be a massively dull game.

Lille currently top of Ligue 1 and it looks like Celtic "draw the short straw" in playing more opponents who are top of their own domestic league. I'm sure Neil Lennon will choose the team wisely esp with a view there is an important cup semi-final coming up on Sunday. IMO he'll be playing for a draw tonight. A win would be a bonus!

Player Pts CS CR GB BB SB
B.B.B. 6 0 2 NP 3 1
A.A.A. 6 2 0 NP -3 1
Bomber 4 2 1 -3 -3 0
Amelia 3 2 0 -3 -3 1
Snooty 1 0 3 -3 -3 1
St Charles 0 1 1 -3 -3 0
Sanjay 0 1 1 -3 -3 0
Twerton 0 1 1 -3 -3 0
Themaclad -2 1 0 -3 -3 0
Derby -4 0 1 -3 -3 0

Complete train wreck of a week in the PL where a paltry total of just 14 points are scored!!! I think I am safe in saying that this is an all time low total for a single week!! Ironically there were as many correct score predictions as their were correct results but with all bar one missing all their balls and only 3 scoring games at best the scores were awful!!

Top of the very small pile was AAA and once again BBB, each with 6 points. BBBs tactic of all 1-0 wins is proving worthy to keep him at the top of the table but this week be bottled the Gamball and that cost him 2 extra points. AAA never plays the Gamball but did manage 2 CSs. Third place goes to Bomber with 4 points, his highest placing this season. He scored on 3 games, one more than the two leaders but missed on all his balls.

Our two Terrier friends came in next, Amelia in 4th with 3 points and Lord Snooty 5th with one point. Amelia managed to get two CSs, whereas Snooty managed a weeks high 3 CRs, but both missed on their Gamball and Bonus, but did pick up the scoreball. Three players are joint 6th, St Charles, Sanjay and Twerton, only problem is they all ended on zero points with identical disasters all round in terms of how they managed to score absolutely nothing!!

Still they managed to do better than the bottom two!! Themaclad is in 9th on -2, one CS and missed all his balls was poor to say the least, but it was better than Derby who for the second week running is in last place, this week on -4 points!! We should start calling him Benjamin Button as he is just going backwards at the moment!! Laugh

Not much change in the table, BBB stetches his lead over SCO to 11 points and AAA overtook Sanjay to claim 3rd place. The rest are pretty much in the same spots, although with Derby's form we might see Twerton finally get off the bottom next week!! Bomber will confirm the full table.

Cheers
SCO


BBB 74pts
SCO 63
AAA 54
Sanjay 50
Amelia 44
Bomber 33
Themaclad 30
Snooty 27
Derby 21
Twerton 19



Oh dear.

Silver        7pts 2CS 2CR -3GB 6BB 0SB
Joker         3pts 2CS 2CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Zinman     3pts 1CS 2CR 0GB -3BB 0SB
Somerset  2pts 2CS 2CR -3GB -3BB 0SB
Beefy        2pts 1CS 3CR -3GB -3BB 0SB
BaggieOne -1pt 1CS 1CR -3GB -3BB 1SB
Stairs        -1pt 0CS 1CR 0GB -3BB 0SB
DD           -2pts 0CS 2CR -3GB -3BB 0SB
Minizin     -3pts 0CS 0CR 0GB -3BB 0SB
LadyJane  -4pts 0CS 1CR -3GB -3BB 0SB
1TrueBaggie -5pts - no predictions

Really? I mean really? I go away for a few days of monastic contemplation in the desert with my Zin Master, Charlie, and I come back to a week of complete and utter carnage in the prediction league. In my last write up I mentioned the consistency of the scoring in the Championship this year with total scores around 100 each week - last week you all let me down (I absolve myself of any responsibility) with a measly 37 points but this weekend saw a record low point. Yes, point. Just 1 single point was the sum total of everyone's "efforts" this weekend.

Half of this week's games produced a negative total score, not a single positive Gamball, just one correct bonus and 2 scoreball points. Definitely a week to forget. It could have been a lot worse but for those of us who chose to ignore the Gamball. We should also be grateful for the relatively high correct scores to correct results ratio. The number of correct scores was higher than the number of correct results with the wrong score - I don't recall seeing that before.

The only player to achieve respectability is Silver - 7 points would normally see you in mid table but not this week! Silver only got 2 correct results but in both cases got the score spot on - it also helped that one of those games was his bonus. Joker takes 2nd place, another to get 2 correct scores on his 2 correct predictions and also one of the 2 scoreball winners. Level with him on a magnificent 3 points is Zinman, thankful for leaving the gamball well alone.

Somerset and Beefy are the other players to register a positive score - Beefy had the week's high 3 correct predictions but ballsed up his balls and Somerset matched Silver and Jokers 2 correct scores.

And then the Minusmen (and Lady). BaggieOne was another who got all of his correct results spot on - the issue was that he only got 1 correct prediction. Stairs only got 1 correct result but was helped by not playing the gamball. DD matched Silver's 2 correct results but failed to get any scores correct and missed out on all his balls.

Minizin had a complete blank - not a single correct prediction and no scoreball. He would have scored a minimum (appropriately) if he'd been brave enough to play the gamball. He'll no doubt moan about the injustice of Bournemouth's 96th minute equaliser costing him 5 points- welcome to the prediction league! Somehow Mini's complete blank isn't bad enough to put him bottom. LadyJane managed just 1 correct result and her loss from the gamball gave her a total of minus 4 for the week. I should probably apologise to Lady Jane for not doing a write up last week when she headed the table by some distance, but it was back to normal this week!

No show from OneTrueBaggie.

This week's low scores will see some shuffling in the overall table but little significant movement.  Somerset will take back top spot from Minizin who drops to 3rd place with Zinman settling back into 2nd. Joker and Beefy are close behind with lady OneTrueBaggie falling back into mid-table with Stairs. Silver's good week lifts him off the bottom to be replaced by DD and Lady Jane.

Must do better next week!

Zin

Somerset 53pts
Zinman 50
Minizin 49
Joker 47
Beefy 47
Onetrue 40
Stairs 39
Silver 33
BaggieOne 29
Lady Jane 26
DD 26

THE MATCH

SATURDAY 31ST OCTOBER 3:00PM

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LAST MATCH



Well how can I put that into words, POOR, DOGSHIT, CRAP, PATHETIC, EMBARRASING, GUTLESS, USELESS, PAINFUL (You can pick your own word for last nights performance). A goalkeeper who doesn't know what he is doing, Defenders who cant defend, Midfielders who can't tackle, pass or create anything and Forwards who cant shoot anywhere near the intended target. Rotherham weren't any great shakes, but knew how to tackle, pass and shoot, the basics for a football match.

THE MATCH



So Wycombe up next and there first win of the season Wycombe have drawn 1 and lost 7 in the league this season. They have scored 3 and conceded 16, so expect a couple of from them and a clean sheet. If we lose this Monk has to go

CURRENT FORM

OWLS               -                  

WYCO               -                             

THE BASTARD IN THE BLACK

KEITH STROUD
Matthew McGrath and Carl Fitch-Jackson
Fourth Official : Sam Lewis

THE TEAM

Doesn't matter anymore, they are all shit. No Lees or Van Aken, Flint got injured, Iorfa may be back. Dawson has to be dropped.

Westwood
Palmer Iorfa Borner
Harris Bannan Pelupessy Penney
Windass
Rhodes Paterson

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

3-1 Paterson

BML STANDINGS

Owlkev 3
Washington 2
Maddix 2
Wereham 1
Stateside 1

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Barnsley v Watford
AFC Bournemouth v Derby County
Luton Town v Brentford
Middlesbrough v Nottingham Forest
Millwall v Huddersfield Town

AHAHH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC





One for Washington

SMILIES/BALLS

 Bonus Ball
 Score Ball, Free to use Ball , play it on a game that you think both teams will score in !
 Gamball,

New Scoring System

Incorrect Result =  0 point
Incorrect Result (Bonus Ball) = -3
Incorrect Result (Gamball) = -3
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Score Ball = 1 added Point if both teams score.  !

Correct Result = +2 points
Correct Result (Bonus Ball) = +3
Correct Result (Gamball) = +5  
Correct Score = + 4 points
Correct Score (Bonus Ball) = +6  
Correct Score (Gamball) = +10  

Just a reminder you DO NOT have to play the Gamball if you dont want too, the score will then be marked normal.  


Again the third from bottom of the premiership will play off against the third in the table from the Championship to keep even more excitement going, they will have to predict through all the Playoffs and the winner obviously takes their place in the Premier League the following season  

Beefy, Bomber, Zinman & SCO  


If you do not predict,...........
If in your league everyone scores above zero you will receive Zero points,
However if in your league the person with the lowest score is below Zero (eg -4) you will score -5 and receive your first strike, Remember 3 strikes and you're out.

All scores must be in before MIDDAY SATURDAY,(For The Early Kick Off If Applicable) If the early kick off is missed the rest of your predictions must reach us by 2.45pm or none will be counted.



* NEW & UPDATED 2020/21 PARTICIPANTS,

Premiership
                           
1/ AAA
2/ Amelia
3/ BBB
4/ Bomber
5/ Derby
6/ MacLad
7/ Sanjay
8/ SCO
9/ Snoots
10/ Twerton                
                         
Championship

1/ BaggieOne
2/ Beefy
3/ DD
4/ LadyJane
5/ Joker
6/ MiniZin
7/ OneTrueBaggie
8/ Silver
9/ Somerset
10/ Stairs
11/ Zinman


                        
                             
I'm almost 100% sure Myself & the Scorers get the scores added up correctly, From time to time over the season we may get now and again get this wrong, SO IN THE EVENT OF ANY POINTS DISCREPANCIES can i ask all you guys to check your predictions and if you feel they are incorrect in anyway contact me Via PM within a week of the TABLES & SCORES being presented and they will be corrected the following week.
Anything later unless it is a Major error will NOT be corrected. It is as much your responsibility to check your scores as much as it is ours to try and score them correctly.
Beefy  

Friday 30th Oct

1/ Wolves v Crystal Palace 20:00

Saturday 31st Oct

2/ Sheff Utd V Man City 12:30
3/ Burnley V Chelsea
4/ Bristol City V Norwich City
5/ Millwall V Huddersfield
6/ Preston V Birmingham
7/ Swansea v Blackburn
8/** Wycombe V Sheff Wed  

Sunday 1st Nov

9/ Aston Villa V Southampton
10/ Man Utd V Arsenal

I know that Port Vale are something of a bogey team especially if Tom Pope is playing.

All over them first half and should have been at least two goals up by half time. In fact it could well have been 4-0 but instead the first half finished goalless

Within 5 minutes of the re-start we were at last ahead. A ball in from the left to Alfie May at the near post was deftly flicked on to Andy Williams at the far post who turned it in from all of a yard out.

That should have been a sign that we were going to 'crack on' and secure the game. Instead within a few minutes Vale were level when an unmarked player headed in at the far post. Unbelievable.

But worse was to follow as Vale were now in the ascendancy and another poor defence mistake led to a winner for Vale.

Just to add insult to injury Pope came off the bench for the last few minutes but to no avail.

Now bring on FGR!! Oooops