S4M17: Missed opportunities

I don't generally talk too much about my personal life on this blog, other than in quite vague terms 'cos frankly it's not got much to do with football. But last week, this happened:

Yep - the annual footballers' trip to a local children's ward to spread some festive cheer. I work in Spurs/West Ham territory and so my local unit was visited by a smattering of players from Spurs (& Leyton Orient...but...er....yeah).  I'd been quite looking forward to seeing who turned up and maybe surreptitiously stamping on a few toes, but (obviously) the date was kept a secret. So they pitched up last week - some guy, the other chap, Tash Parker from Dream Team and (in my opinion), one of the most punchable face'd players ever - Eriksen. I was on bloody annual leave (against my will) so missed all the fun (and stamping) - but I love how in this picture, the girl seems to be really unamused at who's come and the crappy signed card thing they've given her.

Anyway - I'm well annoyed and will be frantically trying to get a shift at a different North London hospital in the next week to get some of this:

That's how you make the kids smile...

To football - Southampton's miserable run continued at Burnley, Chelsea got back on their little horse against a useless Hull, whilst Man City looked a tad shaky in a narrow win against a Leicester side now looking rooted at the bottom of the table. WBA took Midlands bragging rights whilst Arsenal did some Toon spanking in the late game. Man Utd won comfortably although de Gea made some cracking saves - Balotelli should have scored at least 1, as should Sterling which may have made it interesting. Spurs did their customary last minute winner for a 2-1 win thing, and Everton were quite average against QPR, which is still enough to win 3-1 against a poor team who really should go down too.

Let's get statty:

Last week, 20 people played

Most popular predicted results: Southampton, Chelsea & Man City WINS (19/20)

Most disputed result: WBA vs Aston Villa (7-8-5 split)

Highest odds: AFM (obvs) 92020/1

Highest odds -excluding AFM: Feneley 17924/1

Highest odds excluding the Feneley family who really need to stop drinking before predicting: Steven Daniels 4876/1

Lowest odds: Sam Ruback (obvs) 543/1  

Highest score: Brad Allix (8/10) - making up for his shameful debut

Lowest score: AFM (3/10)

Average score: 5.75/10

Best predicted results: Chelsea & Man City WINS (19/20)

Worst predicted result: Burnley WIN (0/20)

Everyone's results:

To the leaderboard (>2/3 of weeks, or 11/16)

To this week's predos:

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

Total odds: 877/1 (Paddypower)

Good luck guys - blog to go up Monday night/Tuesday with Boxing Day and 28/29 fixtures