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

After the great performance by you guys in week fifteen, here's a another bunch of games where I think some serious points can be earned

Man City v Liverpool
Wigan v Tottenham
Sunderland v Birmingham
Luton v Crystal Palace
Plymouth v Reading

All prediction to be in by lunchtime (and you can take a late-ish one this week) on Saturday, 26th November.

Best of luck, people

Man City 2-2 Liverpool - Djibril Cisse
Wigan 2-1 Tottenham - Henri Camara
Sunderland 0-0 Birmingham
Luton 2-1 Crystal Palace - Warren Feeney
Plymouth 0-2 Reading - Leroy Lita

Bottletop

Man City 1 - 3 Liverpool (Morientes)
Wigan 2 - 1 Tottenham (Chimbonda)
Sunderland 0 - 1 Birmingham (Forsell)
Luton 1 - 4 Crystal Palace (Freedman)
Plymouth 0 - 2 Reading (Sidwell)

Serious points are no use to me, I'm after earning frivolous points...

Manchester City 2-1 Liverpool (Andy 'Andrew' Cole)
Wigan Athletic 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Jason Roberts)
Sunderland 0-2 Birmingham City (Mikael Forssell)
Luton 1-2 Crystal Palace (Tom Soares)
Plymouth 1-1 Reading (Dave Kitson)

Man City v Liverpool 1-3 gerrard
Wigan v Tottenham 2-1 cammara
Sunderland v Birmingham 2-2 le tallec
Luton v Crystal Palace 1-3 johnson
Plymouth v Reading 1-3 lita

Andy

Just a quickie ....

Man City 2 v 1 Liverpool - Andy Cole
Wigan 1 v 1 Tottenham - Roberts
Sunderland 1 v 1 Birmingham - Jarosik
Luton 0 v 2 Crystal Palace - Morrison
Plymouth 0 v 2 Reading - Kitson.

You all seem to be underestimating what a boring team of hard-to-beat grinders and draw-specialists Argyle have become under Tony Pulis...

Our record since he took over reads P10 W2 D6 L2

It's unlikely we'll beat Reading, but the draw is a very distinct possibility. Although we did win there on the first day of the season, albeit with a flukey last-minute goal.

Man City 0-1 Liverpool (Gerrard)
Wigan 2-1 Tottenham (Chimbonda)
Sunderland 2-2 Birmingham (Le Tallec)
Luton 1-2 Crystal Palace (Freedman)
Plymouth 1-3 Reading (Lita)

Man City v. Liverpool 0-0

Wigan v. Tottenham 2-0 (Jason Roberts)

Sunderland v. Birmingham City 1-2 (Forrsell)

Luton v. Crystal Palace 3-2 (Steve Howard)

Plymout Argyle v. Reading 1-1 (Paul Wotton)

(ooh its a nailbiter)

Manchester City 1-2 Liverpool (Crouch)
Wigan 1-1 Tottenham (Roberts)
Sunderland 0-1 Birmingham (Heskey)
Luton 1-1 Crystal Palace (Freedman)
Plymouth 0-1 Reading (Doyle)

Man City 0-1 Liverpool (Crouch - well I might as well keep backing him )
Wigan 2-2 Tottenham (Bullard)
Sunderland 0-0 Birmingham
Luton 1-2 Crystal Palace (Morrison)
Plymouth 1-1 Reading (Sidwell)

Man City 0-0 Liverpool (--)
Wigan 1-1 Tottenham (Defoe)
Sunderland 0-0 Birmingham (--)
Luton 0-2 Crystal Palace (Freedman)
Plymouth 0-0 Reading (--)


No I'm not taking the piss, nor being lazy in going for this number of nil-nils. I genuinely believe that this is what is going to happen this weekend. Honest.

Man City 0 Liverpool 2 (Crouch) Just a feeling in my blood
Wigan 2 Tottenham 1 (Camara)
Sunderland 1 Birmingham 1 (Stead)
Luton 2 Crystal Palace 1 (Freedman)
Plymouth 0 Reading 3 (Doyle)

I never saw him play in the flesh (unlike my father) but George will be sorely missed.

Man City 0 Liverpool 2 Crouch
Wigan 1 Tottenham 1 Roberts
Sunderland 1 Birmingham 2 Heskey
Luton 2 Palace 0 Howard
Plymouth 0 Reading 3 Doyle
SBE

Good grief am I the only one old enough to have seen George Best play ? I saw him score a wonder goal for Man Utd at Highfield Road - but we won 2 -1 and Ernie Machin got the winner .

They had a minutes applause at the Coventry game - which I thought was a good idea - much better than a minutes silence - I was on the local radio asking why - did they do one for Bobby Moore or Billy Wright ? No. Would they do one for Bobby Charlton ? No. Why not - he didn't sleep with Miss World.

The story of this week is the total dearth of scorer points awarded. In total there were only 3 given out against weekly average of more like 16! Also everyone seems to overplayed the power of the Premiership new boys, Wigan. With not a single point being won on the game.

That said, there were a few pretty useful plays this week. Summerbayexile, out one time league leader seems to be mounting a late season charge, and has won this week with ten points

Ormondroyd is also moving up on the outside with eight points and has closed right down on Orcus. Riotact is still hanging on and has pulled out one more point over Orcus to open up a seven point gap with just two weeks left to play.

Finally, well done Creachy: you've landed eight points this week, and overtaken our part-time player, Number Six

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The Results:

Man City 0-1 Liverpool (RIISE)

Wigan 1-2 Tottenham (KEANE, Davids, McCulloch)

Sunderland 0-1 Birmingham (GRAY)

Luton 2-0 Crystal Palace (HEIKKEN, Vine)

Plymouth 0-2 Reading (LITTLE, Doyle)

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The Points:

summerbayexile - 10 points (Man City result; Sunderland result; Luton result & score; Plymouth result & scorer)

Colonel Creachy - 8 points (Man City result; Sunderland result & score; Plymouth result & score)

Ormondroyd - 8 points (Man City result; Sunderland result & score; Plymouth result & scorer)

Demon Drawer - 7 points (Man City result; Luton result; Plymouth result & scorer)

Bottletop - 5 points (Luton result; Plymouth result & score)

riotact - 5 points (Man City result & score; Plymouth result)

Orcus - 4 points (Sunderland result; Luton result)

Owlatron - 4 points (Man City result; Plymouth result)

McKay The Disorganised - 3 points (Plymouth result & score)

me[Andy]g - 3 points (Man City result & score)

Number Six - 2 points (Sunderland result)

GreyDesk - all

Mackay I saw him play on TV a number of times both for Northern Ireland and other teams. Don't forget the 1970's weren't the ideal time to take your young son to a football game on the other side of Belfast.

True - I went with a friend in 1975 or 6 It was really strange driving round a block of concrete and seeing a rifle barrel centred on your head and following you as you drove up to the barrier.

YES!!!

Joint second, any 'in good