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that would be a Manchester United game before anyone suggests something like Telford

Why? They're away to Everton next week, so everyone would just pick United to win, choose van Nistelrooy as the scorer and spell his name wrong as usual. Not very interesting, really.

i know that. but i thought we were'nt having anymore Arsenal OR United games, but we have an Arsenal one and look what the predictions are so i thought a United one would even it out a bit

er pools panel please this week, cant be bothered to think...

The way Ruud's scoring lately it probably wouldn't be a winner.

May I make a sensible point? What do we usually do when a game gets called it off? It's not happened before when I've been playing...

Mind you, what do I care - I'm right off football, me

Sorry, I meant 'gets called off'

Is this a case for 'the Pools Panel' ?

If memory serves, Mr Desk simply gives us an extra game to forecast the following week.

What usually happens is I make it up as I go along

As I've already got the week 6 games worked out, I won't be adding to them. So I think what I'll do is carry your predictions for the Hartlepool game over until is eventually played, and then add any points to your Week 5 totals. A sort of 'Week 5a' if you will.

I've done a preliminary marking of the 3 games so far, and it makes for some interesting reading. Three players have scores for every match; another three have Full Houses; Robbie Keane is responsible for 22 scorer points; and one traditionally lousy player is doing somewhat OK this week.

Uncle Heavy asked for a Pools Panel predictions for this week, so here they are.

Arsenal 0-1 Manchester City
Fulham 1-1 Spurs
Portsmouth 1-2 Wolves
Norwich 2-0 Sheffield United
Hartlepool 1-2 Luton Town
... with no scorer points

I hope he likes them

Henry and Keane definitely came up with the goods this week. Loads and loads of scorer points all over the shop for those two! The mystery player was indeed Michael Brown, so that's another 2 bonus points this week for Egon.

Owing to Hartlepool's match being suspended. There will be no points awarded for that match at this stage. If I remember I will award points based upon your current predictions once the postponed match is played later in the season.

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The Results:

Arsenal 2-1 Manchester City (TARNAT, Henry, Anelka)

Fulham 2-1 Spurs (KEANE, Malbranque, McBride)

Portsmouth 0-0 Wolves (--)

Norwich 1-0 Sheffield United (ROBERTS)

Hartlepool P-P Luton Town

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The Points:

Number Six - 10 points (Arsenal result & scorer; Fulham result & score; Portsmouth result; Norwich result)

Old Uncle Zarniwoop - 9 points (Arsenal result & scorer; Fulham scorer & 1st scorer; Portsmouth result; Norwich result)

Bottletop - 8 points (Arsenal result & scorer; Fulham scorer & 1st scorer; Norwich result & score)

Master B - 8 points (Arsenal result & scorer; Portsmouth full house )

Psycorp603 - 8 points (Arsenal result & scorer; Fulham full house )

Robin - 8 points (Arsenal result & scorer; Portsmouth full house )

sprout - 8 points (Arsenal result; Fulham scorer & 1st scorer; Portsmouth result; Norwich scorer & 1st scorer)

creachy - 7 points (Arsenal scorer; Portsmouth result; Norwich result, scorer & 1st scorer)

Egon - 7 points (Arsenal result & score; Fulham scorer & 1st scorer; Mystery Player bonus)

Lord Smooth - 7 points (Arsenal result & scorer; Fulham scorer & 1st scorer; Norwich result)

McKay The Disorganised - 7 points (Arsenal result & scorer; Fulham scorer & 1st scorer; Norwich result)

Ormondroyd - 7 points (Arsenal result & scorer; Fulham scorer & 1st scorer; Norwich result)

todd_abraham87 - 7 points (Arsenal result & scorer; Fulham scorer & 1st scorer; Norwich result)

Otto Fisch - 5 points (Arsenal result & scorer; Fulham scorer & 1st scorer)

Owlatron - 5 points (Arsenal result & score; Fulham scorer & 1st scorer)

spook - 5 points (Arsenal result & scorer; Norwich result)

WILD BIRIYANI - 4 points (Arsenal result; Portsmouth result)

GreyDesk - 2 points (Arsenal result)

me[Andy]g - 2 points (Arsenal result)

Uncle Heavy - 2 points (Norwich result)

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Which means that this week's lucky winner is Number Six (again ). Well done sir

Cor!

Kind of makes up for yesterday's humiliation...

Oooh Close!!!

Not from where I'm looking it's not

Last season's extravaganza proved it's a marathon, not a sprint

Can I ask for a recount please?, (Portsmouth v Wolves correct result?) as a late starter here, I need every point I can get..

Cheers Bottletop.

Hmm... you predicted a 2-1 win for Portsmouth. The result was nil-nil.

Oops!
After exhaustive investigation into this unfortunate matter, it has been decided that the BBC (Big Bottletop Chappy) is completely in the wrong and needs to offer an grovelling apology to the governing body of H2G2 Fantasy Football League, recognising that mistakes have been made, and the need to learn from them.
(Getting your facts right before shooting off at the mouth being one)

Sorry Mate

Yay! I'm rolling in the full houses this season!

And shame on anyone who couldn't predict a 0-0 draw between two clubs whose combined strike force consists of Teddy 'Too Slow' Sheringham and Carl 'One Goal' Cort...

B