S4M36: The Focus shifts to 18

So it's official. Chelsea are champions. In a perfect display of irony after all the chat this week on Chelsea's style, they won 1-0 with  rebound from a missed penalty to get over the line with 3 to play. Liverpool similarly just about managed to beat a QPR side who are now all but down. Gerrard's farewell narrative tour continues with a missed penalty followed minutes later by the winner. Joining them will be Burnley, who would be disappointed to come away from their match at Upton Park with nothing - yet again, I find myself typing the word penalty in conjunction. To make it 4 in a row, we turn to Manchester where van Persie missed a penalty that would have earned a point for Man Utd - instead, they've now lost 3 on the spin, without scoring a goal for the first time since 1989. Somewhere in the north of Spain, there's a chuckling Scotsman. At the bottom end of the table, Leicester, Aston Villa and Sunderland all won to keep it very tight for that final relegation place - Newcastle join the party with their 8th consecutive loss followed by a remarkable unravelling on camera by John Carver - who is doing his best to never ever work in football again.

Swansea beat Stoke to record a record points total for them, whilst Aguero scored yet again against Spurs to keep City's bid for second alive. Finally, a superb 1st half performance from Arsenal knocked the stuffing out of Hull, and confirmed the 20th consecutive St Totteringham's Day. There's been a lot of negative comments about the celebrating of this ancient feast to which I respond - isn't mockery and banter against your rivals a massive part of being a football fan?

Finally, this week saw the Champions' League semi-final first legs, which I'll briefly touch on, even though I saw not a single minute of either of them. Juve got it spot on against Madrid - both teams were missing star midfielders, but they coped better to give themselves a great chance to catenaccio it out in Madrid. Pep clearly tried to do something clever with Bayern that mere mortals like me can't understand. However, I don't think you can really do anything to stop the Barca front 3 - the pace, work rate and skill they possess is unrivalled in any club side currently, or in history according to my knowledge.

'Nuff chat. Let's get statty:

This week, 20 people played.

The most popular predicted results: Leicester & Chelsea WINS (20/20) (massive endorsement of Newcastle there)

The most disputed prediction: Aston Villa vs Everton (5-6-9 split)

Highest odds: Josh Daniels 3795/1

Lowest odds: Steven Daniels 462/1

Average odds: 1733/1

Best predictors: Yo Abbott & Josh Gaon (8/10)

Worst predictors: Me, Feneley's Mum, Josh Daniels & WhoScored.com (4/10)

Average score: 6.00/10

Best predicted results:  Leicester & Chelsea WINS (20/20)

Worst predicted result: WBA WIN (0/20)

Swing: Swansea's opener from Jefferson Monteiro (7 of us lost out)

Everyone's scores:

To the leaderboard for those who've played >2/3 seats (24/35)

To this week's predos:

Everton vs Sunderland - EVERTON

Aston Villa vs West Ham (The Cameron Derby) - ASTON VILLA

Hull vs Burnley - HULL

Leicester vs Southampton - DRAW

Newcastle vs WBA - NEWCASTLE

Stoke vs Spurs - STOKE

Crystal Palace vs Man Utd - MAN UTD

Man City vs QPR - MAN CITY

Chelsea vs Liverpool - CHELSEA

Arsenal vs Swansea - ARSENAL

Total odds: 1106/1 (PaddyPower)

Good luck guys!