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

Continuing the theme of moving down through the divisions, plus one from overseas. I offer you this:


Macclesfield v Bristol Rovers
Swansea v Scunthorpe
Cambridge Utd v Oxford Utd - and no jokes about sinking boats please
Leyton Orient v Darlington
East Stirling v Gretna


The closing time for all predictions to be in is 12noon on Saturday, 26th February

Now, in theory, this should be my area of expertise

Macclesfield 2-0 Bristol Rovers (Potter)
Swansea 1-1 Scunthorpe (Trundle)
Cambridge Utd 1-3 Oxford Utd (Mooney)
Leyton Orient 0-0 Darlington
East Stirling 1-6 Gretna (Deuchar)

B

Macclesfield v Bristol Rovers 3-1 (tipton)
Swansea v Scunthorpe 2-2(torpey)
Cambridge Utd v Oxford Utd 1-2(basham)
Leyton Orient v Darlington 1-0 (steele)
East Stirling v Gretna 1-5(deuchar)


andy

i thought i was pretty good at geography, but i can't figure out which of these matches is overseas...

leyton orient is not really in the orient... it's actually in a village wet of basildon

gretna, stirling and swansea, though in savage countries inhabited by face painting headhunters, are not technically overseas which by defintion requires presence of a sea to go over en route...

The silkmen are my mum's team! *faints*

Macclesfield 2-1 Bristol Rovers (Tipton)
Swansea 1-1 Scunthorpe (Trundle)
Cambridge Utd 1-2 Oxford Utd (Mooney)
Leyton Orient 1-0 Darlington (Scott)
East Stirling 2-5 Gretna (Deuchar)

And I think there's a good chance that Cambridge are going under...

It's the Scottish one that counts as overseas.

A bunch of unruly colonial types who have their own Parliament, but expect the English to pick up the tab for all of their spendthrift policy decisions

we'll trade you for corsica, and even throw in marseille, which is about half corsican.

Would you consider Monaco?

B

it's not ours to give, and never will be if albert comes up with a male heir...hmmm...

monaco for jersey then?

Cable-knit or Pringle?

Cashmere, if it's a matter of negotiation.

SCOTLAND IN OVERSEAS SHOCKER!!!!!

And Gretna is only just, about 1 mile over the border as well.

GD Speandthrift!!!!

Excuse me, we are merely making up for the lack of investment carried out while the English held the purse stings they seemed to fail to understand the scale and size of Scotland.

the scale and sighs of scotland?

That would be the Poll Tax debacle riotact!

Macclesfield 3-1 Bristol Rovers (Tipton)
Swansea 0-3 Scunthorpe (Hayes)
Cambridge Utd 1-3 Oxford Utd (Mooney)
Leyton Orient 1-2 Darlington (Wijnhard)
East Stirling 1-5 Gretna (Deuchar)

I'm going to include the nicknames of this weeks teams to show a very interesting note:

Macclesfield ‘the Silkmen’ Town 3 Bristol ‘Pirates’ Rovers 0 Parkin
Swansea ‘the Swans’ City 1 Scunthorpe ‘the Iron’ United 2 Steve Torpey
Cambridge ‘the Us’ United 0 Oxford ‘the Us’ United 2 Mooney (note you would expect some more original nicknames for these centres of learning)
Leyton ‘the O’s’Orient 1 Darlington ‘the Quakers’ 1 Wijnhard
East ‘the Shire(or the Hobbits from visiting fans)’ Stirlingshire 0 Gretna 4 Deuchar

i feel like a gutless wonder predicting 5 goals for Gretna... if i had any guts i'd say they'd score 10, especially against a bunch of furryfooted rascals that eat 12 meals a day!

Macclesfield 2-0 Bristol Rovers - Parkin
Swansea 1-1 Scunthorpe - Trundle
Cambridge Utd 0-1 Oxford Utd - Mooney
Leyton Orient 1-1 Darlington - Steel
East Stirling 0-2 Gretna - Deuchar

Bottletop

I'm wondering how GD is going to distinguiosh between all these Tony Curtis come the weekend.