As noted by Impossibilidisciple JD, the first game threw up a big surprise.
It's always annoying that, even though I no longer actually place my penny acca like I did back in the day. The good old days, when the streets were paved with gold and you couldn't move for disposable income. Not like nowadays where every penny needs to be justified. Even the 'leccy used to write this blog came with a cost. It's fine. My kids didn't need hot water to bathe with. Character building, as the monarch said of his school days.
I've somewhat lost the point I was making, which was that Newcastle are streaky buggers and this might be the start of a downtick, which, if I were, hypothetically speaking, a 6ft 4 Swedish bloke with a love for goals and Eritrean food, would probably make me think, sod this for a game of soldiers and be right on the phone to my good friends Norwegian Martin and Spanish Mik asking if they had room for a little one at the inn, ideally within the next 8 days.
But, I'm not a tall Swede. In fact, I'm neither of those things, so unfortunately, Mart & Mik will probably see their Whatsapp message left on read which is always awkward when a former colleague does the ghosting.
Anyway, loads of away wins on the Saturday. As much as I dislike rejection, I also like patterns in the universe, and 4 consecutive away wins (Bournemouth, Palace, Liverpool & Fulham) made my heart happy. Nearly as happy as a 2-0 Arsenal win with 2 Emi Martinez errors. Nevermind.
The next day, I was talking to a friend, who I've been trying to get to play Impossibilitee for years (unsuccessfully). We'll call him Adam, because that's what his parents named him. Adam is a Man Utd fan and has been miserable for years, which serves him right for being a Man Utd fan, especially one who lives in London. Adam was seeing another mutual friend, who is a Spurs fan. They were being miserable together. I was assisting them in their misery by pointing out that their respective pummellings to Brighton and Everton were quite funny, objectively.
They disagreed. Weirdos. Both results were clearly funnier than City going all City, or Chelsea beating Wolves. Finally, what's going on at Forest? Maybe Spurs should have a look at their manager, seems to know what he's doing.
Let's get statty:
This week, 22 people played
Most popular predicted results: Forest & Man City WINS (22/22)
Most disputed predicted results: West Ham vs Crystal Palace & Everton vs Spurs (12-6-4 & 6-4-12 splits respectively)
Highest odds: Josh Daniels (1516/1)
Lowest odds: Hannah Daniels (264/1)
Average odds: 610/1
Best predictors: Me & AFM (7/10)
Worst predictors: Loads of you (4/10)
Average score: 5.09/10
Best predicted results: Forest & Man City WINS (22/22)
Worst predicted result: Bournemouth WIN (0/22)
Everyone's score:
To this week's predos:
Good luck all
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