h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Arsenal 2-0 Middlesborough (Pires)
Birmingham 3-1 Wimbledon (Savage)
Man City 1-1 Spurs (Anelka)
Bournemouth 0-1 QPR (Thorpe)
Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 Peterborough (Robins)

and... Scarborough 1 Chelsea 4 (Sestanovich)... which I'm pleased to say I'll be lucky enough to be attending

Well it is the biggest thing to happen to anon-league Yorkshire team this season, so I'm not overly surprised you're going to be there...

Arsenal 2 Middlesborough 0 (Bergkamp)
Birmingham 2 Wimbledon 1 (Forssell)
Man City 1 Spurs 1 (Anelka)
Bournemouth 0 QPR 0
Sheffield Wednesday 2 Peterborough 0 (Owusu)

Otto

Arsenal 2-0 Middlesborough (Bergkamp)
Birmingham 2-1 Wimbledon (Forssell)
Man City 2-1 Spurs (Anelka)
Bourenmouth 0-2 QPR (Gallen)
Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 Peterborough (Robins)

spook

Arsenal 2-0 Middlesborough (Ljungberg)
Birmingham 2-0 Wimbledon (Forrsell)
Man City 1-1 Spurs (Fowler)
Bournemouth 0-1 QPR (Rowlands)
Sheffield Wednesday 0-0 Peterborough (--)


I shall decline to have a guess as to the identity of the mystery player

Arsenal 1 - 3 Middlesbrough (Nemeth)
Birmingham 3 - 1 Wimbledon (John)
Man City 2 - 1 Spurs (Anelka)
Bournemouth 2 - 4 QPR (Thorpe)
Sheffield Wednesday 3 - 0 Peterborough (Holt)

Ah, but Egon, for the radio I only cover West Yorkshire... this was a TV gig I was lucky enough to get - my reward for having spent the entire week going up and down the A64. I did the 147-mile round trip fom Leeds to Scarborough on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday... they wanted me to go on Friday as well, but I thought enough was enough!

And they wuz robbed yesterday. Definite penalty! It was all quite poignant really - having done so much work on the Scarborough story, I'd got to know the players a little bit. Colin Cryan and Stan (Ashley Sestanovich to you) were great lads, both there on a three-month loan from Sheffield United, just like I'm on a three-month loan from London. And now it's all over and we all go back to where we came from struggling to get a place on the sub's bench or sort out another loan deal.

But it's been a great ride! Just a shame they were denied the penalty and replay at Stamford Bridge that they deserved.

*reads last post*

*apologises for topic drift and any hint of self-pity that my have come across, 'cos that's really not what I'm feeling at all, it's been great*

Well much of that came up just as expected. Almost all get the points for the Arsenal and Birmingham matches, which helps this along to be another high scoring week.

The two bits that surprised me this week are:
1) Who saw Bournemouth coming
2) How come so many of you know about Sheff Wednesday scorers? (Or is that Sheffield Wednesday's *only* scorer perhaps )

Finally, it is Egon who gets the 2 bonus points for getting David Seaman right as this week's mystery player.

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The Results:

Arsenal 4-1 Middlesborough (BERGKAMP, Job, Ljungberg, Bentley)

Birmingham 1-0 Wimbledon (HUGHES)

Man City 1-1 Spurs (ANELKA, Doherty

Bournemouth 1-0 QPR (FEENEY)

Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 Peterborough (ROBINS, Proudlock)

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The Points:

Number Six - 13 points (Arsenal result; Birmingham result; Man City full house ; Sheff Wed result, scorer & 1st scorer)

Otto Fisch - 13 points (Arsenal result & scorer; Birmingham result; Man City full house ; Sheff Wed result & score)

Owlatron - 13 points (Arsenal result; Birmingham result & score; Man City result, scorer & 1st scorer; Sheff Wed result, scorer & 1st scorer)

sprout - 13 points (Arsenal result; Birmingham result; Man City full house ; Sheff Wed result, scorer & 1st scorer)

Ormondroyd - 12 points (Arsenal result & scorer; Birmingham result; Man City result & score; Sheff Wed result, scorer & 1st scorer)

spook - 11 points (Arsenal result & scorer; Birmingham result; Man City scorer & 1st scorer; Sheff Wed result, scorer & 1st scorer)

todd_abraham87 - 11 points (Arsenal result; Birmingham result; Man City scorer & 1st scorer; Sheff Wed full house )

me[Andy]g - 10 points (Arsenal result; Birmingham result; Man City result; Sheff Wed result, scorer & 1st scorer)

Egon - 8 points (Arsenal result; Birmingham result; Man City scorer & 1st scorer; Mystery Player bonus points)

GreyDesk - 8 points (Arsenal result & scorer; Birmingham result; Man City result & score)

McKay The Disorganised - 8 points (Arsenal result; Birmingham result; Sheff Wed result, scorer & 1st scorer)

Psycorp603 - 8 points (Arsenal result; Birmingham result; Sheff Wed result, scorer & 1st scorer)

WILD BIRIYANI - 8 points (Arsenal result; Birmingham result; Man City scorer & 1st scorer; Sheff Wed result)

Uncle Heavy - 7 points (Arsenal result; Birmingham result; Sheff Wed result & score)

creachy - 6 points (Birmingham result; Man City scorer & 1st scorer; Sheff Wed result)

Master B - 5 points (Arsenal result & scorer; Birmingham result)

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So this week we have four joint winners. Well done Otto, Owly, sprout and Number Six

I think not...

Allowances must be made for the fact that you were presumably calculating the results while your boys were doing battle in the FA Cup, so congratulations on the result and your dedication.

But perhaps you were distracted by the news from Nottingham, because I think you've done me out of two points. I think your friends from Hillsborough actually provided me with a full house, and I had the first scorer in the Arsenal game.

*sigh*

I always fear looking at the first post on the thread after I've put up the results, as it's invariably someone claiming that I've made a mistake. And in this case I have.

Yes, Bergkamp was first scorer in the Arsenal match - one more point.

Yes, you did get the score right for Wednesday - that's another point.

These two extra points now mean that you are the sole winner this week with 14 points


* wanders off to update the spreadsheet and the table *

You'll appreciate that I am rather starved of glory at the moment. I have to get it where I can.

Fair point. And of course we will be doing our best on Wednesday to even things up a bit for you

Given the way our season's progressing, I think it would be curmudgeonly to do anything other than give a hearty round of to Ormondroyd for this week's performance.

Thank you!

Now if only the lads at Valley Parade could have a similar return to winning form...

Greydesk.....

I just read the frt page bit,,u,,u got link to "when saturday comes"....I guess u av seen the film ??....my dad was in it,he was a brewery worker at the time & got his pic took wiv his pals n Sean Bean,,,small world eh ??

Now how is that

You know, I've always had a soft spot for that movie. I mean it has it's serious flaws - terrible character continuity and appalling football action. But the script is done with love and Sean Bean, Pete Postlethwaite and Emily Lloyd really have a bash with their characters and it somehow all pulls through in the end.

OK, for a British film, Four Weddings and a Funeral it ain't, but it is way better than that bloody Full Monty

the best British film i have seen is 'Love Honour And Obey'

"you're fat and i'll throw you in the river!"

"FIX BAYONETS!"

just a couple of classic quotes

"I demand to have some booze."

"We've gone on holiday by mistake."

"We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them here, and we want them now."

"I will have you even if it is burglary!"

"Don't threaten ME with a dead fish!"

"There is a certain je ne sais quois about a firm, young carrot."


Movie quotes? I'm sorry, you just can't beat Withnail...

i've never really sat down and watched that properly though it does appear to be my style of film