Here are participating posters' point totals in the prediction game.  This is an accumulated total covering the first six weeks. 

Vandervaart23 slipped out of the top slot following a spectacular run by LondonHammers.  This is probably his sole consolation today following an ugly West Ham loss at Upton park.

We are roughly one fifth of the way through the season so there are a lot of opportunities for top pickers to make their way into the "big four" positions.

I want to point out that in addition to offering a team jersey to any ten out of ten gameweek predictor, Nick Webster has graciously offered to give a team jersey of your choice to the top three finishers in the prediction game at the season's end.  Thank you Nick Webster!

I hope that inspires our top posters to spitshine the crystal ball.  I look forward to your participation and as always may the best predictors win!! (Please note that I do not qualify to try to win a team jersey).

Here are your point totals:

1.  LondonHammers  126

2.  BridgeWarrior  124

3.  daFootballs  114

4.  VillaFan99  111

5.  AFC74  106

6.  VanderVaart23  105

7.  YankshirePud  98

8.  Liverpoolfc73  97 

9.  Goldsoundz  94

10. Brewtowngunner  93

10.  anti-madrista  93

10.  FarPost79  93

10.  PanzerBallack  93

11.  SunnyWarPaint  91

12.  SempreManUtd  89

13.  NickWebster  88

14.  bonmot  87

15.  Saratogalion  86

16.  Layni  85

16.  RedDragonDevil  85

17.  PbRMasterKiller  80

17.  kleekster81  80

18.  RedSmoke  78

19.  Roonalvezha  73

20.  MANUTD28  72

21.  WhiteHartLane10  70

22.  blacksmith21  68

23.  FFCDuex  64

24.  RealGooner  63

24.  ryanm75  63

24.  severnstoke3  63

25.  morrisc  59

26.  driverstrate  56

27.  LesClaypool  55

28.  OKCChelskifan  51

28.  3lions9  51

29.  trueblue007  49

29.  manuchamps  49

30.  canisLupus  47

31.  liverpoolreds33  44

32.  trinifootie  40

32.  bze_chelsea  40

32.  sheehyCFC  40

33.  DEARSENAl  39

35.  boxbox  38

36.  juveforever  37

36.  jaybxnyc  37

37.  yiddo9  36

38.   KDRIZZLE  35

39.  NasriAgunner08  33

40.  juskikit  31

41.  RudyReds  30

42.  LesClaypool  28

43.  jcosker  26

44.  arsenal111  25

44.  TheArSeNaL  25

45.  Kudra19  24

45.  CeleryTosser  24

46.  Livebird9  23

47.  Dioesdel10  22

48.  injward14  20

49.  chlsealover#58  19

49.  Sandiegodevil  19

50.  GunnerGuy  18

50.  redevil83  18

50.  pablito14  18

51.  mjoshua  17

51.  RedDevilsChick  17

51.  ibleedred  17

51.  goonergunz  17

52.  Gooner4lyfe  16

52.  alofmetb  16

52.  Robinho&ManCity4ever  16

52.  nickpyll  16

52.  starsenal  16

53.  ziakowski14  15

54.  fortynineunbeaten  14

54.  manuchamps  14

54.  birthfutboldeath  14

54.  madrid4eva  14

55.  bladeaxp  12

55.  jaybxnyc  11

56.  Lextrix  10

56.  ManUtdHonour  10

57.  RedDevilz  7

58.  MattLC  6

59.  RackAttack  6

Let me know if you think I made a mistake in your total.  Good luck this upcoming week and may the best teams win!

Ok, Gameweek seven predictions are due.  As we sit here, Keane is telling his boys to do anything short of murder to take Arsenal out of their rythm.  Will it work?  Chelsea and ManUtd both play tough opponents and arguably ManUtd's game away may be a bit more difficult.  Meanwhile Liverpool will not collect points easily at City.

Here we go: 

Sunderland 2    Arsenal 3 

West Brom 1    Fulham 0 

Wigan 1   Middlesbrough 1 

 Blackburn 0    Man Utd 1 

West Ham 2    Bolton 1 

Chelsea 2    Aston Villa 1 

Man City 2    Liverpool 1 

Portsmouth 2    Stoke 0 

Tottenham 1    Hull 2 

Everton 3    Newcastle 1

Good luck and as always may the best teams win! 

Here we go:

Everton  1 Liverpool 2

Aston Villa 2 Sunderland  1

Fulham 1 West Ham  2

Man Utd 2 Bolton 0 

M'brough 3 West Brom 2 

Newcastle 1 Blackburn  3

Stoke 0 Chelsea  3 

Arsenal 2 Hull City 0

Portsmouth 2 Tottenham  2

Wigan 2 Man City 3

Good luck and as always may the best teams win! 

Ok, boy s and girls the round five prediction results are in.  A decent outing by the group this time around. 

The "big" game between Chelsea and ManUtd ended in a 1-1 draw with CanisLupus providing the following pregame analysis: 

oil company #1 v struggling investment firm 1-1
i would not be surprised to see manu nick this one. in fact i'll give them a 40% chance of doing so, but more likely the honors will finish even. if you're a manu fan, you want ronaldo back but you don't want mikel anywhere near him! how good is that ankle anyway?
why won't chelsea win, you ask? manu need this more than they do. and i think both teams would be more afraid of losing than they will be committed to winning.

ManCity provided unexpected excitement with their six goals against Pompey in league play then promptly lost to a division one side in the Carling Cup.  The Zola era began at West Ham with a convincing 3-1 win against rudderless Newcastle.  Liverpool couldn't buy a goal at Stoke while Arsenal were dominant in their 3-1 win at Bolton.  Spurs have begun their 2008 campaign much like they did their 2007 season...at the bottom of the league.

Our top predictor this week was LondonHammers who had eight correct results and three good scorelines.  On his heels were Panzerballack, Severnstoke1 and SempreManUtd with seven good picks each.  We had eight posters with only three good picks (kleekster81, bze_chelsea, jaybxnyc, Whitehartlane10, bonmot, SunnyWarpaint, VanderVaart23 and diosesdel10).  Our celebrity participant, Nick Webster, had four good predictions and no good scorelines.

The easiest pick was the Arsenal win over Bolton.  Only FFCDuex, MANUTD28 and WhiteHartLane10 got that one wrong.  The next easiest prediction was the Villa win over WBA with only five posters missing it.  The most difficult prediction was the draw between Liverpool and Stoke.  Only five posters (Starsenal, Severnstoke1, redevil83, Bridgewarrior and RedSmoke a.k.a. CelticSmoke) got it right.  The next most difficult pick was the Hull/Everton draw (21% of posters).

Here are your individual results followed by the weeks point totals:

LondonHammers  8/3

Panzerballack  7/3

SempreManUtd  7/2

Severstoke1  7/2

AFC74  6/2

juskikit  6/2

KDRIZZLE  6/2

3lions9  6/1

Anti-Madrista  6/1

sandiegodevil  6/0

OKCChelskifan  6/0

sheehyCFC  5/2

RedDragonDevil  5/2

CanisLupus  5/1

reddevil83  5/1

RedSmoke  5/1

MANUTD28  5/1

LesClaypool  5/1

goldsoundz  5/1

ReealGooner  5/1

daFootballs  5/1

saratogalion  5/0

FarPost79  5/0

liverpoolfc73  5/0

yankshirePud  5/0

FFCDuex  4/3

ryanm75  4/2

manuchamps  4/1

starsenal  4/1

boxbox  4/1

roonalvezberba  4/1

bridgewarrrior  4/1

layni  4/1

madrid4eva  4/1

deeArsena1  4/1

NickWebster  4/0

brewtowngunner  4/0

VillaFan99  4/0

bze_chelsea  3/2

kleekster81  3/1

WhiteHartLane10  3/1

bonmot  3/1

Sunnywarpaint  3/1

jaybxnyc 3/0

diosedsel10  3/0

VanderVaart23  3/0

Weekly point totals:

LondonHammers  31

severnstoke1  28

Panzerballack  27

SempreManUtd  25

KDRIZZLE  23

AFC74  23

Anti-Madrista  22

juskikit  22

ReddragonDevil  20

OKCChelskiFan  20

SheehyCFC  20

3lions9  20

sandiegodevil  19

FFCDuex  18

redevil83  18

RedSmoke  18

MANUTD28  18

daFootballs  18

RealGooner  17

Goldsoundz  17

LesClaypool  17

saratogalion  17

CanisLupus  17

starsenal  16

FarPost79  16

ryanm75  16

YankshirePud  16

liverpoolfc73  16

deeArsena1  15

roonalvezberba  15

layni  15

BridgeWarrior  15

manuchamps  14

boxbox  14

bze_chelsea  14

AFC74  14

kleekster81  12

bonmot  12

brewtowngunner  12

VillaFan99  12

NickWebster  12

Jaybxnyc  11

Whitehartlane10  11

SunnyWarpaint  11

VanderVaart23  10

Good luck next round!

Here we go:

Everton  1 Liverpool 2

Aston Villa 2 Sunderland  1

Fulham 1 West Ham  2

Man Utd 2 Bolton 0 

M'brough 3 West Brom 2 

Newcastle 1 Blackburn  3

Stoke 0 Chelsea  3 

Arsenal 2 Hull City 0

Portsmouth 2 Tottenham  1

Wigan 2 Man City 2

Good luck and as always may the best teams win! 

Round 4 prediction results are in.  Another tough week if you are trying to make money at this...unless you are a bookie.

Fifty four posters gave us their picks this week.  Our top predictor this round was BridgeWarrior with seven good picks.  We had six poster with six good ones(panzerBallack, Blacksmith21, YankshirePud, SunnyWarPaint, VillaFan99 and yours truly).  Bridge also had the most good scorelines with three.  Two posters scraped the bottom this week with only one good pick each, namely FFC Duex and WhiteHartlane10 (I'm not saying weed is a factor in these, I'm just saying.....).

The most difficult pick was WBA beating West Ham.  Only three posters called that one (boxbox, blacksmith21 and yiddo9).  The easiest prediction to make was the Arsenal win over Blackburn...forty two posters got it right.  Only four posters predicted the Hull victory over Newcastle with both yiddo 9 and LondonHammers predicting the correct scoreline as well.  Our celebrity predictor, Nick Webster, had another tough week with only three good picks.

Here are your individual results followed by your point totals:

BridgeWarrior  7/3

VillaFan99  6/2

SunnyWarPaint  6/2

YankshirePud  6/2

daFootballs  6/1

blacksmith21  6/0

PanzerBallack  6/0

juveforever  5/2

roonalvezha  5/2

boxbox  5/1

bonmot  5/1

severnstoke3  5/1

FarPost79  5/1

yiddo9  5/1

ryanm75  5/1

Anit-Madrista  5/1

OKCChelskiFan  5/0

RedDragonDevil  5/0

Vandervaart23  5/0

Robinho&ManCity4ever  4/2

LondonHammers  4/2

PbRMasterkiller1  4/1

Madrid4eva  4/1

AFC74  4/1

morrisc  4/1

juskikit  4/1

birthfutboldeath  4/1

goldsoundz  4/0

liverpoolfc73  3/1

RedSmoke  3/1

layni  3/0

manutdhonour  3/0

kleekster81  3/0

MANUTD28  3/0

brewtowngunner  3/0

3lions9  3/0

sempremanutd  3/0

NickWebster  3/0

saratogalion  2/1

Trinifootie  2/0

realgooner  2/0

RackAttack  2/0

FFCDuex  1/1

Whitehartlane10  1/0

Point totals:

BridgeWarrior  28

YankshirePud  24

SunnyWarPaint  24

VillaFan9  22

daFootballs  22

blacksmith21  19

roonalvezha  19

juveforever  19

PanzwerBallack  18

severnstoke3  18

Anti-Madrista  18

boxbox  17

bonmot  17

farPost79  17

yiddo9  17

ryanm75  17

LondonHammers  17

Robinho&ManCity4ever  16

RedDragonDevil  15

AFC74  15

OKCChelskifan  15

Vandervaart23  15

morrisc  14

birthfutboldeath  14

juskikit  14

madrid4eva  14

PbRMasterkiller1  14

goldsoundz  12

RedSmoke  11

MANUTD28  11

liverpoolfc73  11

manutdhonour  10

kleekster81  10

layni  9

brewtowngunner  9

3lions9  9

sempremanutd  9

NickWebster  9

saratogalion  8

RackAttack  6

realgooner  6

trinifootie  6

FFcDuex  5

Whitehartlane10  5

Good luck next round and may the best teams win!

Round 5 of the Premier league is upon us with  the fixture between Chelsea and ManUtd looming large.

Here we go:

Blackburn 1  Fulham 0 

Bolton 1  Arsenal 2 

Liverpool  2 Stoke City 0 

Sunderland  2 M'brough 2 

West Ham  2 Newcastle 1 

Chelsea 2  Man Utd 1 

Hull City  2  Everton 3 

Man City 2 Portsmouth 1 

Tottenham 1 Wigan 0 

West Brom 1 Aston Villa3

Good luck and may the best teams win!

P.S. sorry about the delay in getting your week 4 results in...it's been a crazy week, but I'll have them for you tonight. 

Round four of the English Premier League is upon us after a round of WCQ games.

Congratulations to England supporters following a convincing win over Croatia.

Here we go:

Liverpool 1  ManUtd 1

Newcastle 1  Hull  0

Blackburn 1  Arsenal 2

Fulham 2  Bolton 0

WBA 1  West Ham 2

Pompey 3  Boro 2

Wigan 2  Sunderland 2

ManCity 1  Chelsea 3

Stoke 1  Everton 2

Spurs 3  Villa 2

As always may the best teams win.

Here are participating posters' point totals in the prediction game.  This is an accumulated total covering the first three weeks. 

Our best poster so far is VanderVaart23.  He has averaged six good predictions each Gameweek and is 18 out of 29  for a 62%.  That means if you are a gambler you should probably pay attention to his picks.

1.  VanderVaart23  61

2.  BridgeWarrior  60

3.  AFC74  55

4.  PbRMasterKiller  52

5.  Brewqtowngunner  51

6.  NickWebster  50

7.  Saratogalion  49

8.  Layni  47

9.  VillaFan99  46

9.  Liverpoolfc73  46

10.  daFootballs  45

10.  LondonHammers  45

11.  Goldsoundz  44

11.  bonmot  44

11.  liverpoolreds33  44

11.  anti-madrista  44

12.  FarPost79  42

13.  blacksmith21  40

13.  driverstrate  40

14.  YankshirePud  39

15.  RedDragonDevil  37

15.  SunnyWarPaint  37

16.  WhiteHartLane10  35

16.  trinifootie  35

17.  MANUTD28  34

18.  SempreManUtd  33

18.  NasriAgunner08  33

19.  PanzerBallack  31

19.  kleekster81  31

20.  FFCDuex  30

21.  RedSmoke  29

22.  Roonalvezha  28

23.  LesClaypool  27

24.  jcosker  26

24.  jaybxnyc  26

25.  arsenal111  25

25.  TheArSeNaL  25

26.  RealGooner  21

26.  manuchamps  21

27.  injward14  20

28.  3lions9  19

28.  yiddo9  19

28.  chlsealover#58  19

29.  GunnerGuy  18

29.  morrisc  18

30.  mjoshua  17

30.  RedDevilsChick  17

31.  Gooner4lyfe  16

31.  RudyReds  16

31.  OKCChelskifan  16

31.  alofmetb  16

32.  trueblue007  15

32.  ryanm75  15

33.  canisLupus  13

34.  KDRIZZLE  12

35.  Lextrix  10

36.  boxbox  7

36.  RedDevilz  7

36.  CeleryTosser  7

37.  MattLC  6

Let me know if you think I made a mistake in your total.  Good luck this upcoming week and may the best teams win!