Matchday 25 Results: A handshake, a legend and a spanking

That lad Suarez - ever mother's idea of a perfect son-in-law eh? Far more exciting than the non-handshake (that's already been done to death) was Jamie Redknapp's insistence (even after seeing the video for the 50th time, including slowed down and zoomed in) that Rio didn't win the ball and should have been sent off - absolutely incredible and it only strengthens the belief that pundits don't actually watch the match and just regurgitate prepared lines.

Elsewhere - Thierry made me metaphorically cry, Yak's back, Chelsea continue to give us Gooners hope, Bolton are going down, Spurs - er...well yeah. City roll on and Norwich got a great result.

Something that got my goat was the Sunderland goal - I'm completely alone in this as far as I can see but I thought it was very unsporting to play on. Mertersacker went down under no pressure and clearly didn't slip - that's normally the sign of a serious injury. Even if McClean didn't realise initially, I'm sure there would have been a call from the Arsenal players, and the ref had enough time to size up the situation and blow up.

A head injury stops the game immediately, and I don't understand why any serious injury doesn't do the same. Mertesacker was stretchered off immediately and is awaiting the results of a scan on his ankle ligaments - which can be as serious as an ACL. Plenty of people feel Sunderland were within their rights to play on, but in all seriousness if it'd been the other way round, I'd have been embarrassed to have scored that goal.

I've also added another "professional" in this week - the Euro Club Index which gives % ratings for likelihood of results occurring. They join whoscored.com and Lawro as providing a benchmark for us to go up against.

To the stats:

This week, 22 people played

Most popular predicted result: Man City WIN (21/22 or 95% concordance)

Most disputed result: Everton vs Chelsea (7-6-9 split)

Longest odds: JT 24742/1

Shortest odds: Euro Club Index 838/1

Average odds: 7514/1

Best predictor: Joe Miller (7/10)

Worst predictor: Josh Daniels & Daniel Dexter (2/10)

Best predicted result: Man City WIN (21/22)

Worst predicted result: Norwich WIN (0/22) - that's pretty amazing...shows how good Swansea have been at home

Villain of the week: None this week I'm afraid - as I said before...I'm tired of the Evra/Suarez stuff.

Everyone's results:

To the leaderboard: Joe Miller extends his lead with a solid 7. Nick Collins is the other big winner, moving up with Lawro and myself falling back a little. The bottom half all moved up a little due to return of Ryan Wain who picks up where he left off - solidly at the bottom...

Check back later this week - I wrote a post about soft spots for other clubs and that'll be posted closer to the weekend when we have a little break for the FA Cup.

Have a great week guys