WEEK 30 - Calm Down, Calm Down!

One of those weekends we neutrals with nothing to play for all love! Liverpool are on fire right now, Utd can only respond with temper tantrums and Chelsea get schloppy. Well done to the single person amongst who you predicted a 2-0 win for Fulham (alas, I can't tell who unless I look through every single sheet personally - no chance!) That's a great prediction, but can you call this one too? What injury will Stevie G pick up in the next day or so that makes him pull out of the England game next weekend? Groin Strain whilst warming down? Calf strain in light training? Tread on a rusty nail whilst getting out of bed? Night club fracas involving Rio Ferdinand that mysteriously keeps the pair of them out? 50 pts for anyone who can name it :)

Back in the land of Prem Predictions, We have the 4th new leader in 4 weeks! Gareth Rossiter has come from nowhere and now leads fellow Bodger, Mark Edwards, by 19 pts. Just to prove how tight it is up there, our last leader, Richard Webb, posts an average score, but falls to 6th! This week's winner is Lee Andrews - one of only four of you who managed 200+ in what was a pretty unpredictable week. Well done mate! All the usual stats below. Atb, Ciro

1. AVERAGE POINTS THIS WEEK: 70.2 (Last week: 52.2)

2. TOP 20 SCORERS

1	LEE ANDREWS	227
2	IVAN GHOUSE	224
3	IAN BEST	213
4	GRAHAM SIM	204
5	NEIL TAYLOR	198
6	JACK BRANCH	197
7	VICTOR OLIVER	195
8	NEIL DOWLING	187
9	JONATHAN GRIFFIN	185
10	STEVE THOMAS	179
11	DUNCAN CASTLE	178
12	MARIO D'SA	175
13	JOHN WILLIAMS	174
14	YAD LUTHRA	172
15	BRYAN JOBLING	166
16	EWAN McTAGGART	165
17	ANDY CORRITORE	165
18	HOWARD PHILLIPS	162
19	WYN ROBERTS	162
20	STUART WALKER	162

3. THIS WEEK'S £50 WINNER. Well done to:

LEE ANDREWS - 227

Bonus	Home Team				Away Team	Bonus	Points
	Blackburn	1	v	1	West Ham		50
	Fulham	1	v	2	Man Utd		-9
	Liverpool	2	v	1	Aston Villa		8
	Man City	1	v	0	Sunderland		30
	Newcastle	1	v	2	Arsenal		27
	Portsmouth	1	v	1	Everton	1	-3
	Stoke	2	v	1	Middlesbrough		14
	Tottenham	0	v	1	Chelsea		-6
	West Brom	1	v	1	Bolton		50
	Wigan	1	v	0	Hull		30

4. BONUS TEAM

- Everton, 4 mins v Portsmouth

# Pts won: 36

# Players correct: 29

- Most Popular Choice: Man City: 62

5. THE OVERALL TOP 10

PREV	POS	NAME	WEEK 30	TOTAL
4	1	GARETH ROSSISTER	142	2850
5	2	MARK EDWARDS	132	2831
6	3	MARK ALBOROUGH	129	2826
2	4	ANDREW SAVAGE	93	2813
14	5	DUNCAN CASTLE	178	2812
1	6	RICHARD WEBB	60	2803
7	7	DAVID FRAIL	85	2773
12	8	MITCHELL WOOLF	103	2759
11	9	BEN SHEPHARD	92	2748
13	10	JARED OYSTON	86	2739

WEEK 29 - A total travesty

Well, if you've got a blog at your disposal, use it I say! 2 seasons ago, West Ham should have been docked points. They weren't (that was upto the FA) and they stayed up. Yet they now have to pay £25m for that privilege. If at all, Sheff Utd should have sued the FA for being incompetent..NOT the Hammers for winning more pts than they did (Having already been fined a record £5.5m). It's a disgrace that some Lord with no understanding of football made this ruling. How can you really judge what contribution a single player has made? That is insulting to the other 10 who were brilliant in that run-in. What about all the pts the club lost when he was in the team and was a stone overweight? What about the 3-0 defeat at Bramhall Lane when Tevez had a stinker? And now the Sheff Utd players and their total **** of an ex manager, who weren't good enough to stay up despite having a 10 pt lead over West Ham with 6 games left, want compensation too??! What next? Do clubs sue referees for bad decisions? Do you sue players who cheat and win a crucial penalty? Why didn't Spurs sue the hotel that gave them food poisoning and cost them a Champions League place a few years ago? It's a joke.

Right, am forgetting why you are all here! Another new leader this week as Richard Webb moves from 5th to top spot, With 9 weeks of the season left, this is a great time to go to the top & with the gap between the top 10 remaining less than 100 each week, anyone can do the same with one great score. Well done to Andrew York,, who is our latest weekly winner (thanks to his bonus choice) and I fancy the remaining weekly winners will all probably be people not in the title race, but who take a few risks. Cup news and all the usual stats below. Atb, Ciro

PES Cup - Round 4

Latest results (and 5th round draw) in the link to the right. Only 32 of us left now. Tie of the Round was Neil McColl beating Steve Brown -9 to -10! Well done to the winners. Hard luck to the losers. Pls get in touch if I've made a mistake..cheers

1. AVERAGE POINTS THIS WEEK: 52.2 (Last week: 109)

2. TOP 20 SCORERS

1	ANDREW YORK	183
2	COLIN DOWELL	178
3	PAUL OSMOND	172
4	MELANIE RONALD	172
5	STEVE BAILEY	172
6	MARK DAVISON	172
7	NATHAN NAPIER	169
8	MARK ALBOROUGH	165
9	EDDY EDWARDS	162
10	GARETH BURNS	159
11	ALAN CROWHURST	156
12	NICK DEAR	155
13	JOHN KEANE	149
14	PAUL BRYANT	148
15	MARK BESSANT	147
16	PHIL WALSH	145
17	KELVIN PAGE	144
18	ANDY TAYLOR	143
19	DANIEL CRAIG	143
20	STUART WHITEHALL	142

3. THIS WEEK'S £50 WINNER. Well done to:

ANDREW YORK - 183

1	Arsenal	2	v	0	Blackburn		14
	Aston Villa	0	v	1	Tottenham		24
	Bolton	2	v	1	Fulham		-9
	Chelsea	2	v	1	Man City		14
	Everton	1	v	0	Stoke		11
	Hull	1	v	1	Newcastle		50
	Man Utd	2	v	1	Liverpool		-12
	Middlesbrough	1	v	1	Portsmouth		50
	Sunderland	1	v	1	Wigan		-3
	West Ham	1	v	1	West Brom		24

4. BONUS TEAM

- Arsenal, 2 mins v Blackburn (the 2nd week running Blackburn have conceeded in the first 2 mins)

# Pts won: 20

# Players correct: 30

- Most Popular Choice: West Ham: 92

5. THE OVERALL TOP 10

PREV	POS	NAME	WEEK 29	BONUS	TOTAL
5	1	RICHARD WEBB	113	0	2743
1	2	ANDREW SAVAGE	69	0	2720
4	3	ADAM LANDE	80	0	2712
7	4	GARETH ROSSISTER	109	0	2708
2	5	MARK EDWARDS	63	0	2699
13	6	MARK ALBOROUGH	165	0	2697
3	7	DAVID FRAIL	56	0	2688
6	8	CHRIS JONES	50	0	2660
11	9	LINO CARBOSIERO	97	0	2660
9	10	BEN SHEPHARD	63	0	2656