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

I feel the need for a quiet week this week. So the selection is for relatively unfashionable teams, or (with one exception) teams who aren't doing anything that is unexpected of them.

Birmingham v Portsmouth
Middlesbrough v Wigan
West Brom v Sunderland
Leeds v Sheffield Wednesday
Leicester(*) v Cardiff

All selections to be in by lunchtime on Saturday, 21st January




(*) This is the one exception mentioned above. Fester *are* doing something unexpected of them this season: they're going down

Birmingham 0-1 Portsmouth (Benjani Mwaruwari)
Middlesbrough 1-3 Wigan (Jason Roberts)
West Brom 0-2 Sunderland (Anthony Le Tallec)
Leeds 2-0 Sheffield Wednesday (David Healy)
Leicester 2-2 Cardiff (Mark de Vries)

Birmingham v Portsmouth 1-2 (sutton)
Middlesbrough v Wigan 3-1 (mendietta)
West Brom v Sunderland 2-2(le tallec)
Leeds v Sheffield Wednesday 2-2 (brunt)
Leicester v Cardiff 2-1 (gudjohnson)

andy

i doubt ill get as many points as last weeks

Birmingham 2 - 1 Portsmouth (Clapham)
Middlesbrough 3 - 1 Wigan (Nemeth)
West Brom 1 - 3 Sunderland (Le Tallec)
Leeds 1 - 1 Sheffield Wednesday (Hulse)
Leicester(*) 0 - 0 Cardiff (No-one)

Birmingham v Portsmouth 1-1 (Jarosik)
Middlesbrough v Wigan 1-2 (Roberts)
West Brom v Sunderland 2-1 (Chaplow)
Leeds v Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 (Healy)
Leicester v Cardiff 0-2 (Jerome)

Birmingham v Portsmouth 1-1 (Heskey)
Middlesbrough v Wigan 1-3 (Camara)
West Brom v Sunderland 2-0 (Kanu)
Leeds v Sheffield Wednesday 3-0 (Blake)
Leicester(*) v Cardiff 1-1 (Jerome)

Birmingham v Portsmouth 1-1 (Heskey)
Middlesbrough v Wigan 2-1 (Yakubu)
West Brom v Sunderland 0-0
Leeds v Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 (Healy)
Leicester(*) v Cardiff 1-1 (Jerome)

Yakus.

Birmingham v Portsmouth 1-1 Emile Heskey
Middlesbrough v Wigan 0-1 Henri Camara
West Brom v Sunderland 1-1 Dean Whitehead
Leeds v Sheffield Wednesday 3-1 David Healy
Leicester(*) v Cardiff 2-0 Matty Fryatt

Bottletop

Birmingham 1-0 Portsmouth (Jarosik)
Middlesbrough 1-2 Wigan (Roberts)
West Bromwich 2-1 Sunderland (Ellington)
Leeds 3-1 Sheffield Wednesday (Blake)
Leicester 2-1 Cardiff (Elvis Hammond)

Birmingham 1 Portsmouth 1 Forsell
Middlesborough 0 Wigan 2 Roberts
West Brom 0 Sunderland 0
Leeds 2 Sheff Weds 0 Kelly
Leicester 0 Cardiff 0

SBE

Birmingham v Portsmouth 1-0 Pennant
Middlesbrough v Wigan 1-1 Camara
West Brom v Sunderland 1-1 Horsfield
Leeds v Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 Hulse
Leicester(*) v Cardiff 1-0 Gudjonsson

Birmingham 2 Portsmouth 1 Sutton
Middlesbrough 1 Wigan 3 Mellor
West Brom 1 Sunderland 1 Ellington
Leeds 2 Sheffield Wednesday 0 Healy
Leicester 1 Cardiff 2 Koumas

Birmingham 0-1 Portsmouth (O'Neil)
Middlesbrough 0-1 Wigan (Roberts)
West Brom 2-0 Sunderland (Ellington)
Leeds 1-1 Sheffield Wednesday (Eagles)
Leicester 1-3 Cardiff (Jerome)

McKay's pools panel stuff runs as follows...

Birmingham 1-0 Portsmouth
Middlesbrough 2-0 Wigan
West Brom 1-1 Sunderland
Leeds 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday
Leicester 1-1 Cardiff
With no additional scorer points.

Oh dear! Where did it all go wrong? Poor old Owlatron has gone from hero to, quite literally, zero this week

Riotact, on the other hand pulls off yet another winning week ()to build a solid lead up in first place after just three weeks of the season. Ormondroyd is lurking in second after a goodish week himself. And for some reason I seem to be in third (don't worry folks, I won't last )

Also we welcome back Egon this week. He posted a bunch of picks without so much as a by your leave, nor any explanaton as to where he's been all these months. But as he's an ex-manager himself, I guess it's alright, he probably thinks he still owns the place. ( Come to think of it I did find a mouldy old pair of size 16 boots lying around recently, and they can have only come from him back the last time he was in charge.)

Finally, the news is that McKay is alive and well after his short stay in hospital getting his 'cabbage' fixed up


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The Results:

Birmingham 5-0 Portsmouth (JAROSIK, Pennant, Upson, Forssell, Dunn)

Middlesbrough 2-3 Wigan (ROBERTS, Thompson, Hasselbaink, Yakubu, Mellor)

West Brom 0-1 Sunderland (WATSON)

Leeds 3-0 Sheffield Wednesday (BUTLER, Cresswell)

Leicester 1-2 Cardiff (JEROME, Fryatt, Koumas)

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The Points:

riotact - 12 points (Birmingham scorer & 1st scorer; Boro result, scorer & 1st scorer; Leeds result; Leicester scorer & 1st scorer)

Demon Drawer - 11 points (Birmingham result; Boro result & scorer; Leeds result; Leicester result, score & scorer)

Ormondroyd - 10 points (Birmingham result, scorer & 1st scorer; Boro result, scorer & 1st scorer; Leeds result)

GreyDesk - 8 points (Boro result, scorer & 1st scorer; Leicester result, scorer & 1st scorer)

Egon - 7 points (Boro result & scorer; West Brom result; Leeds result)

Orcus - 7 points (Boro result; Leeds result & score; Leicester scorer & 1st scorer)

summerbayexile - 7 points (Birmingham scorer; Boro result, scorer & 1st scorer; Leeds result)

Bottletop - 5 points (Boro result; Leeds result; Leicester scorer)

The Nitpicker - 5 points (Birmingham result & scorer; Leeds result)

Yakusmaximus - 5 points (Boro scorer; Leeds result; Leicester scorer & 1st scorer)

Colonel creachy - 4 points (Birmingham result; West Brom result)

McKay The Disorganised - 4 points (Birmingham result; Leeds result)

Owlatron - 0 points

i did tell you i didnt feel confident with my predictions seems i was right lol

andy

Now that's more like it for me.

that's the way to do it!