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

Southampton 1-1 Fulham (Ormerod)
Bolton 2-1 Liverpool (Nolan)
Everton 1-3 Man Utd (Saha)
Wolves 0-5 Arsenal (Henry)
Scunthorpe 1-0 Doncaster (Torpey)

I believe the mystery player may be a woman. Fulham, Arsenal and Doncaster are all top ladies' teams...

B

In which case, I'm going to bite the bullet and actually guess someone:

Marianne Spacey.

I concede that, even with Google's assistance, that answer would not have occurred to me.

B

Well, I have no idea which of those teams she played for, but she's the first English female player who popped into my head

I looked at your suggestion, Master B, realised I don't know any female football players and left it at that...

sprout

right, because i have sod all time this week i am going to have to ask for a pools panel please can we have scorers on them or not?

The Pools Panel selects scores only. The scorers are selected by a weighted-random-number-out-of-five process.

See, Desk, I do pay attention.

B

Marianne Spacey played for Wimbledon...

Southampton 0-2 Fulham (Boa Morte)
Bolton 2-2 Liverpool (Owen)
Everton 1-4 Man Utd (Van Nistelrooy)
Wolves 1-4 Arsenal (Pires)
Scunthorpe 2-1 Doncaster (Beagrie)

I don't know who the player is either, but staying in the women player theme, I'm going to guess at Rachel Unitt, who has at least played for three (Wolves, Everton, Fulham) of the clubs mentioned as far as I can work out.

Southampton v Fulham 2-2(phillips)
Bolton v Liverpool 2-1(Nolan)
Everton v Man Utd 2-1 (Ferguson)
Wolves v Arsenal 1-0 (Miller)
Scunthorpe v Doncaster 2-3 (Beagrie)

Southampton 2 Fulham 1 (McBride)
Bolton 1 Liverpool 1 (Owen)
Everton 1 Man Utd 1 (Van Nistelrooy)
Wolves 0 Arsenal 4 (Henry)
Scunthorpe 1 Doncaster 2 (Blundell)

Mystery player - Ernest Gund??

Southampton 2-1 Fulham (Phillips)
Bolton 1-1 Liverpool (Davies)
Everton 0-2 Man Utd (Scholes)
Wolves 1-4 Arsenal (Pires)
Scunthorpe 0-1 Doncaster (Blundell)

And the mystery player is....




... I'm not telling

Southampton 2-1 Fulham (Phillips)
Bolton 2-2 Liverpool (Davies)
Everton 1-2 Man Utd (Saha)
Wolves 0-2 Arsenal (Reyes)
Scunthorpe 1-2 Doncaster (Fortune-West)

Southampton 2-1 Fulham (Phillips)
Bolton 1-1 Liverpool (Nolan)
Everton 0-2 Manchester Utd. (van Nistelrooy)
Wolves 0-3 Arsenal (Henry)
Scunthorpe 0-2 Doncaster (Fortune-West)

Mystery player - rather like my team at the moment, I haven't got a clue.

Southampton 1-2 Fulham (Boa Morte)
Bolton 1-3 Liverpool (Owen)
Everton 0-2 Man Utd (Van Nistelrooy)
Wolves 1-4 Arsenal (Henry)
Scunthorpe 0-0 Doncaster


Mystery Player...Roy Evans!


spook

Southampton 2 - 3 Fulham - Malbranque

Bolton 1 - 3 Liverpool - Owen (This is guaranteed, I just dropped him from my fantasy team.)

Everton 0 - 1 Man Utd - Scholes

Wolves 0 - 3 Arsenal - Pires

Scunthorpe 1 - 1 Doncaster Blundell



Mystery Player -
Alan Ball has played for Everton, Arsenal and Saints and I believe he briefly player/managed Blackpool before returning to Southampton - so I'm going for him.

Bally actually started his career with blackpool and ended it with bristol rovers.

... and he's got a willy by all accounts.

Ah, so it *is* a woman then...

ok...ok....ok.....I dunno the name but I'll guess she plays in the number "8" shirt ......

I am unablr=e to explain why I put Blackpool in my mystery player guess - I was thinking Blackpool was missing from the teams so it couldn't be him, but whilst I thought the lady player had possibilities I couldn't solve it - so I'd go with Bally and where I said Blackpool in my post I MEANT Doncaster.