S4M8: International Love

Well hello there friends. Nice break?

The formality that is qualifying for Euro 2016 had meant we've had a break weekend - and the casualty of this weekend is EuroClubIndex who have removed their predos from the website for last weekend. Therefore, they don't have an entry for M7, unless someone knows how to find caches pages on the internet.

The papers seem to have spent the last few days talking about the decision to rest Sterling when he said he was tired, instead of pointing out that, comparative to most other countries, we're actually doing pretty well. Drama sells papers etc etc, but it's pretty tiresome.

Going back to the PL, Man Utd seem to have hit their stride with 2 consecutive home wins. I can just hear Surrey starting to warm up their cocky notes again. City & Liverpool also looked scratchy whilst picking up maximum points and Leicester & Swansea's bright starts seem to have faltered. In London, MoPo beat RoKo in the Spurs/Saints grudge match, whilst the inevitable happened at Stamford Bridge - a 2-0 win for JoMo and his band of horrible sewer dwellers. However, it was, in my opinion, not as bad as the scoreline points out - and with a different ref (not saying he was biased, just crap), my optimistic shout for a point could have come true. I accept that we wouldn't have had the penalty for handball as no-one handballed it, in the sameway that no-one played a through ball for Diego Costa. Ya dig? *Sob*

Let's get statty:

This week, 19 people played
Most popular predicted results: Liverpool & Man City WINS (19/19)
Most disputed result: Spurs vs Southampton (6-8-5 split)

Highest odds: Sam Ruback 3917/1
Lowest odds: Doron (!!!!) 866/1 - the reason you were so different to me is the 2 games you scored higher than me!
Average odds: 2101/1

Best predictors: Lawro & Josh Gaon (9/10)
Worst predictors: er...me and Josh Daniels (4/10). I get a moral point for not predicting what I actually thought though...

Best predicted results: Liverpool & Man City WINS (19/19)
Worst predicted result: Leicester vs Burnley DRAW (2/19)

Everyone's results:

I know ECI are still there but just ignore them.

Leaderboard (>2/3 weeks or 6/8):

Lawro returns to the top as we pass the 20% stage. Could he be the 1st to win 2 trophies? Newbies Andrew Feneley's Mum & Yo Abbott sit solidly in the mid-table I ain't doing so great, but nothing compares to the Moyesian descent of reigning champions ECI (who may have inadvertently suffered from the delayed posting. Oopsie).

To this week's predos: 

Man City vs Spurs - MAN CITY
Arsenal vs Hull - ARSENAL
Burnley vs West Ham - WEST HAM
Crystal Palace vs Chelsea - CHELSEA
Everton vs Aston Villa - DRAW
Newcastle vs Leicester - NEWCASTLE
Southampton vs Sunderland - SOUTHAMPTON
QPR vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL (cricket score)
Stoke vs Swansea - STOKE
WBA vs Man Utd - MAN UTD

Total odds: 619/1 (PaddyPower)

Good luck chums, I'm off to ensure that I get the ECI predos in for this week.