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

If you thought that week 4 was hard, spare a thought for me who's going to have go roaming all over the web with a copy of babelfish trying to get the results and scorers. As this is likely to take me quite a while to do, I thought I'd get week 5 up and running right now.

As you can see, it's American football for this week.


New York Red Bulls v Columbus Crew
Real Salt Lake v FC Dallas
Los Angeles Galaxy v Colorado Rapids
Chicago Fire v D.C. United
Houston Dynamo v Chivas USA


With the time zones thing coming into play, you've got until, say, 10pm on Saturday, 16th Spetember to get your predictions posted.

Shouldn't that be American Soccer?

wouldnt count on it

No, it's American football (note the use of the lower case 'f') as it relates to football played in America.

If our colonial cousins wish to refer to the game as soccer, well that's up to them, and we'll promise not to laugh too loudly

Ah, I missed the capital F thing, I just had visions there of predicting a 87-42 scoreline correctly and wondering who was going to score the first touchdown

You've proved you know as much about Football as I do about football then.

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=45824

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"New York Red Bulls"

I'd imagine they have some players flying down the wings

*sigh* I'll get my coat.

*snicker*

Must be all that basketball I watch

Which city was it that used to have a team called The Clash? When I heard about it, I almost thought it worth moving to wherever-it-was just so you'd get to say 'Right, I'm just off to go and see The Clash' on a regular basis. But then I'm quite sad.

New York Red Bulls 1 Columbus Crew 0 Edson Buddle
Real Salt Lake 0 FC Dallas 2 Carlos Ruiz
Los Angeles Galaxy 2 Colorado Rapids 2 Landon Donavan
Chicago Fire 1 D.C. United 2 Jaime Moreno
Houston Dynamo 2 Chivas USA 0 Dwayne de Rosasio (Although I secretly hope for Daglish)

Who does Danovan play for ?

Donovan plays for LA Galaxy which is irrelvant.

Well, here goes nothing.


New York Red Bulls v. Columbus Crew 2-1 (Edson Buddle)

Real Salt Lake (yeah like they're Spanish) v. FC Dallas 1-2 (Carlos Ruiz)

Los Angeles Galaxy v. Colorado Rapids 1-1 (Nicolas Hernandez)

Chicago Fire v. D. C. United 1-0 (Andy Herron)

Houston Dynamo v. Chivas USA 2-0 (Brian Ching)

I thought they were just claiming the lake's really made of salt...

Well I wasn't sure but I did spot a crown on their club crest which kind of hints at the meaning they intend

Actually I have to say the american obsession with sports stats I find really irritating normally but it's kind of helpful for this competition

Yeah it did come in a bit handy for this week didn't it.

New York Red Bulls 1-1 Columbus Crew (Virtuoso)
Real Salt Lake 1-3 FC Dallas (Cooper)
Los Angeles Galaxy 1-0 Colorado Rapids (Donovan)
Chicago Fire 1-2 D.C. United (Gomez)
Houston Dynamo 2-2 Chivas USA (Ching)

New York Red Bulls 0-1 Columbus Crew (Joseph Ngwenya)
Real Salt Lake 0-2 FC Dallas (Kenny Cooper)
Los Angeles Galaxy 1-1 Colorado Rapids (Landon Donovan)
Chicago Fire 2-2 D.C. United (Jaime Moreno)
Houston Dynamo 2-0 Chivas USA (Brian Ching)

Well, I was going to say something about knowing nowt about American football, but I know nowt about English football as well...

So far this season I seem to be scoring points in alternate weeks. I believe I'm due for one of my 'good' weeks, so here's hoping...

New York Red Bulls 2-1 Columbus Crew (Buddle)
Real Salt Lake 0-2 FC Dallas (Cooper)
Los Angeles Galaxy 1-0 Colorado Rapids (Gordon)
Chicago Fire 2-1 D.C. United (Jaqua)
Houston Dynamo 1-1 Chivas USA (Juan Pablo Garcia)