Matchday 7 Results: Better late than never...

Apologies for the lateness of this week's blog. It's been a bit of a manic week and I've taken advantage of the International break to put this stuff on the back burner!

Interesting set of results this week - a decent spread with the Arsenal fans solidly towards the lower half (mimicking real life....), probably due to us being unable to be rational over the North London Derby. Only 1 Arsenal fan bet against his own team - and he was punished by the footballing gods for this act of heresy with a terrible score. I'm not going to say who he was, but Moe Jiller should be ashamed of himself.

We had a new player this week, and the return of an original player - let's hope you both stick around and work your way onto the leaderboards!

Full breakdown as follows:

16 players this week

Most popular predicted result: Man Utd WIN (100% concordance)

Most disputed result: Everton vs Liverpool (4-5-7 split)

Longest odds: Ryan Wain 19568/1

Best Predictor: Richard Verber (8/10)

Worst Predictor: Feneley, Dex & Joe Miller (4/10)

Best predicted result: Man Utd WIN (16/16)

Worst predicted result: Swansea WIN (2/16)

I scored a mediocre 5/10 - again totally failing with the Sunday games. Looking ahead to the next set of fixtures, I hope it won't be the same again!

Villain of the week: Martin Atkinson for having a colossal mare and getting the Rodwell red card totally wrong in the Merseyside derby. At 0-0, halfway through the 1st half, you'd have to be the most blinkered of Scousers to think that that decision didn't have a massive impact on the game and potentially deny the Verb a colossal 9/10.

Full results:

Big changes to the leaderboard this week. Josh Daniels joins after having played the required >2/3 of weeks (5/7) and slots in at joint 3rd place. Lawro makes a dash to the top and long term high-flier Feneley crashes down to near the bottom. Ryan Wain still props the table up, but the gap between top and bottom is down to ~1.5 from more than 2 last week.

So go enjoy the international break - I personally could give a monkey's about England tonight (although Montenegro was a lovely country - got 2 of the most delicious coffees I've ever had there for under 1.5 Euro!), and my sporting kicks this weekend will be of the egg-chasing variety.

Have a great weekend and I'll see you all next week with the new set of fixtures!