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

And here we are again. It's a new season and it's started off pretty much like the last one finished with riotact in the lead on 16 points. Well done, Sir

But the two performances that impressed me the most were The Nitpicker and McKay. Nitpicker for an interesting pattern of results that wasn't part of the norm - Reading's scorer and the only one to get points from all three of Hull, Watford and Brighton. But it's McKay who nicks it with his near full house on the Nuneaton game. That impressed me greatly

And talking of full houses; we've got two this week. Me on Ipswich and riotact on Brighton. So well done us


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The Results:

Arsenal 2-1 Cardiff (PIRES, Jerome)

West Brom 1-1 Reading (GERA, Doyle)

Wigan 1-1 Leeds (CONNOLLY, Hulse)

Nuneaton 1-1 Middlesborough (MENDIETA, Murphy)

Ipswich 0-1 Portsmouth (SILVA)

Hull 0-1 Aston Villa (BARRY)

Watford 0-3 Bolton (BORGETTI, Giannakopoulos, Fadiga)

Brighton 0-1 Coventry (McSHEFFREY)

Norwich 1-2 West Ham (MULLINS, Zamora, McVeigh)

Sheffield United 1-2 Colchester (KABBA, Danns, Williams)

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The Points:

riotact - 16 points (Arsenal result; Ipswich result & score; Hull result; Watford result; Brighton full house ; Norwich result)

McKay The Disorganised - 14 points (Arsenal result; Nuneaton result, score & scorer; Watford result; Brighton result & score; Norwich result & score)

Owlatron - 14 points (Arsenal result; West Brom result & score; Ipswich result; Hull result; Brighton result; Norwich result & score)

GreyDesk - 13 points (Arsenal result; Ipswich full house ; Hull result & score; Norwich result & score)

Ormondroyd - 12 points (Arsenal result; West Brom result & score; Ipswich result & score; Norwich scorer; Sheffield United result & score)

Yakusmaximus - 14 points (Arsenal result; West Brom result & score; Ipswich result; Hull result; Brighton scorer & 1st scorer; Norwich result & scorer)

The Nitpicker - 11 points (Arsenal result & score; West Brom scorer; Hull result; Watford result & scorer; Brighton result)

Orcus - 10 points (Arsenal result; West Brom result & score; Hull result; Watford result; Norwich scorer)

Bottletop - 8 points (Arsenal result; Hull result; Watford result; Norwich result)

Colonel creachy - 8 points (Nuneaton scorer & 1st scorer; Ipswich result; Hull result; Norwich result)

Demon Drawer - 6 points (Arsenal result; West Brom scorer; Norwich result & scorer)

summerbayexile - 6 points (Arsenal result; Hull result; Brighton result)

Cheers GD - a bit of local knowledge there.

Mr Warnock had better get the league results right after today's result.

Hi GD

Sorry to gripe but you've only given me 12 points on the table. I've done the sums and I got a total of 14.

Back to normal I see for my fantasy football results!! It obviously WAS a fluke!!!
SBE

Hi GD, I think I got an extra point in there too. You missed that I got Doyle to score in the West Brom match.

Huh? How come I've two points from the pool panel? What did I do wrong?

Bloody typical! I always get something or other wrong when there's 10 matches in the list

Yakus - I mistyped your points when putting into the big spreadsheet

Orcus - I missed Doyle in the marking. The Pools Panel thing is due to me recycling last season's spreadsheet. The data was in a hidden column that I forgot to strip out.

...oh and by the way, those smileys are at least new to me. Clearly I don't pay enough attention these days