Matchday 34 Results & Matchday 35 Predictions: One thing less to play for

Well, where to start? Why not at the top? Man Utd were afforded the chance to seal the title by a 6 minute meltdown from City at White Hart Lane, and it was a chance that they gleefully took, to win their  20th championship in significantly less thrilling a manner than the conclusion to last year's effort. Not that they'll be complaining, I'm sure. So congrats to them.

Sunday's other talking point came at Anfield when Uruguay's favourite headline hogger stole the spotlight in the second half. The good - a delicious clipped assist for Sturridge and a deft header to equalise deep into injury time. The bad - a rather brainless handball to afford Hazard the chance to restore the lead. The ugly has been spoken about at great length, and not much more needs to be said - it's clearly ridiculous, unacceptable and a little bit screwy at the same time. Evra's post-title chomp on a severed arm showed a level of comedic genius generally unassociated with footballers (other than Jason Bent). However, the best reaction came from the Red & White Kop Liverpool fans forum. Twitter account @RAWK_Meltdown is a whistle-blower on some of the best comments made there (as far as I understand, please correct me if it's genuine parody).

Here is a selection of my favourites...some funny and some stupendous in their utterly blinkered defence of the indefensible.

All I have to add, is that Mrs RAWK Meltdown is a very lucky lady. 

(Disclaimer: This is not an attack on Liverpool football Club, all fans of Liverpool FC, Scousers in general, Liverpool the city, the baffling architecture of their cathedral or Blood Brothers the Musical, before I get misquoted.)

At the wrong end, QPR are all but mathematically down, as are Reading. It looks like the 2 'races' left will effectively come down to 2 playoff games - those between Chelsea & Spurs, and Aston Villa & Wigan. More on that in future weeks.

Let's get statty:

This week, 21 people played.

Most predicted result: Arsenal WIN (20/21)

Most disputed result: Liverpool vs Chelsea (8-5-8 split)

Highest odds: Josh Daniels 11,369/1

Lowest odds: Sam Ruback 2521/1

Average odds: 5748/1

Best predictor: Martin Keown (8/10)

Worst predictors: Jonathan Chernick & Tarek Najm (2/10)

Average score: 5/10

Best predicted result: Arsenal WIN (20/21)

Worst predicted result: Spurs WIN (1/21 - EuroClub Index with the narrowest of wins).

Villain of the week: Sometimes, the law is an ass. It may be the case this week, as the villain cannot be the obvious culprit, but instead must go to Mancini for the baffling failure to hold out against Spurs.

Everyone's results:

To the leaderboard:

Movement at the top is rather lacking, but it's extremely close between the top 3 with 4 more matchdays to play! This is in stark contrast to last year when Joe had effectively won with ages to play - seems reality and Impossibilitee have swapped places. I've finally leapfrogged my brother, which is deserved because I say so and 2 good weeks from Doron (sorry about missing you out last week) see him leapfrog Tarek, who had a week to forget.

To this week's predictions then:

Man City vs West Ham - MAN CITY
Everton vs Fulham - DRAW
Southampton vs WBA - SOUTHAMPTON
Stoke vs Norwich - STOKE
Wigan vs Spurs - SPURS
Newcastle vs Liverpool - NEWCASTLE
Reading vs QPR - DRAW
Chelsea vs Swansea - CHELSEA
Arsenal vs Man Utd - DRAW
Aston Villa vs Sunderland - SUNDERLAND

Total odds: 5644/1 (Paddypower)

Thanks for your comments last week guys, will deliberate for a bit and we'll have a vote and a re-clarification of the rules over the summer before the new season. Good luck!