Week 29: Top FA cup teams stumble, Uefa teams tumble

Did any of you back an FA Cup treble of Pompey, Cardiff and Barnsley? I thought not! Only 9 games played in the Prem and not a great scoring week here. Only 17 of you managed over 100+. That's one of the lowest numbers I can recall. Well done and £50 to Richard Taggart who top scored with a very impressive 165 pts and moves into 13th overall. His 1-1 draw for Blackburn v Fulham probably made all the difference. Our resident mafioso, Don Falcone, was the only player to come anywhere near his score. Not a great deal of change at the top - Laura has now been leading for about 5/6 weeks, though it is squeezing up a bit behind her.

As an extra incentive to catch her up this week, there will be an additional winner's prize. 2 tickets to see the new hilarious one man show An Audience with Avram Grant. Hear about: "The day the team sheet fell off the wall, the time the ref played 3 extra minutes instead of 4, and the game when John Terry picked the team for me". The Runner Up gets 10 tickets + a copy of the new dvd - Pascal Chimbonda - How to take the perfect penalty (Just to be clear, Ciro wrote that, not me, David R)

Bonus Team: Portsmouth, 6 mins v Birmingham. 24 pts were on offer here and 15 of you picked these up. Would it surprise you to learn that the most popular choice was Chelsea to score first v Derby? 94 of you had them.

Predictions Cup: Week 29 saw the 4th Round and plenty of very close matches. Below are the full results and the remaining draw (also in the link called Predictions Cup Draw to the right). The closest tie of the round saw Leader Laura lose by one point to Peter Barrett, so no double for her. Whilst both former champs, Gary Martin and Matthew Flower are also put. Paul Fenton was the WBA of the round with the biggest winning score (and the only one over 100) Funnily enough, the Predictions Cup is mirroring the FA Cup. All of the Big guns at the top, and the recent winners are all out, so it has left the door open for a real nobody to win! :) For the record, 4 of the remaining 32 are women - and there will def be one in the last 16 as 2 of them meet in Round 5. James Marlow is the only remaining youngun..only 31 adults left to beat James!

Atb, Ciro

ROUND 4 - Week 29	PTS	ROUND 5 - Week 31	PTS
STEVE SMITH	44	DAVE TAYLOR	V
DAVE TAYLOR	80
STEWART WILSON	30	STEWART WILSON
GORDON BRYAN	24
GIDON KATZ	30	PETER HATT	V
PETER HATT	40
LAURA HOLMES	56	PETER BARRETT
PETER BARRETT	57
MATT PEDDLE	64	MATT PEDDLE	V
RICHARD NORRIS	60
ANDY LECK	83	ANDY LECK
CHRIS PENNIE	44
PHIL WILLIAMS	0	DOM MILLER	V
DOM MILLER	38
PAUL FENTON	122	PAUL FENTON
CHRIS HAWKES	40
DAVE SHEA	33	PHILIP COX	V
PHILIP COX	90
DARREN COX	40	DARREN COX
DANIEL KENTON	38
ANDY BONE	57	ROGER JENNS	V
ROGER JENNS	64
JOHN BECK	33	BARRY ALDRIDGE
BARRY ALDRIDGE	73
JAMES MARLOW	53	JAMES MARLOW	V
COLIN QUINN	38
PHIL McGOWAN	13	PHIL McGOWAN
MICHAEL CURBISHLEY	-9
VISHAL DHALL	61	VISHAL DHALL	V
GARY RHODES	53
JUSTIN DUKE	-41	RICHARD OWEN
RICHARD OWEN	70
GARY MARTIN	21	LYNDSEY EVANS	V
LYNDSEY EVANS	31
DAVID BEATTIE	99	DAVID BEATTIE
STEVE JOHNSTON	47
SAM HUXLEY	11	JON MURPHY	V
JON MURPHY	39
MATTHEW FLOWER	24	DAN SKIPP
DAN SKIPP	50
JOHN DISLEY	73	JOHN DISLEY	V
JACQUELINE HODGKINSON	59
ANT McPARTLIN	15	RICHARD KIRSCHKE
RICHARD KIRSCHKE	33
EDDY EDWARDS	23	EDDY EDWARDS	V
DANIEL WHITTOCK	21
MICHAEL RAKISON	63	STEVE BAILEY
STEVE BAILEY	74
PADDY TURLEY	-6	ROB CRUTCHLEY	V
ROB CRUTCHLEY	53
SIMON ROGERS	53	SIMON ROGERS
ALUN WOODWARD	15
DANIEL CRAIG	30	DARREN GERSHINSON	V
DARREN GERSHINSON	43
PAUL BRYANT	24	PAUL BRYANT
MATT HOLMES	0
DUNCAN CASTLE	30	OLIVER HOLLAND	V
OLIVER HOLLAND	68
LYN FARIELLO	95	LYN FARIELLO
JON ARMSTRONG	15
STEVE THOMAS	46	CHERYL HUSTON	V
CHERYL HUSTON	87
KAREN HILTON	47	KAREN HILTON
OWEN PUGH	44