Fog Dude

Which would be odd, since AFAIK that's not the name of a song she wrote.

Yeah, that was my understanding too. And I've specifically only ever heard commentary say "Slam" rather than "Slammer" which would make it sound less like a wrestling move and more like either a prison or a cocktail.

Premier League Bournemouth 1-0 Leeds United Brentford 3-0 Nottingham Forest Coventry City 3-1 Sunderland Hull City 2-0 Ipswich Town Liverpool 1-1 Arsenal Scottish League Cup semi-final Hearts 2-1 Hibernian (@ Hampden) Imitation Bundesliga Bayern Munich 2-2 Borussia Dortmund Serie A Milan 0-1 Internazionale Juventus 1-2 Napoli Proper Bundesliga Austria Vienna 3-2 Rapid Vienna

I raced to get the results into the initial post on Sunday night... then noticed on Monday I'd somehow missed/forgotten about the second Arsenal goal against Everton, so had to redo everything Tuesday morning. It made a difference to one outcome in the FPL Cup and therefore to Group B in the standings, but also affected who was top scorer. Initially I thought nobody had made it into double figures or got more than a single exact scoreline right, but it turned out MVP RULZ had actually managed both feats. That leaves him not only in the upper half of the main competition, but also clearly with the best record in the Cup pool phase so far too. The three participants on zero points needn't despair, mind - at least one of them will make it to the knockouts, and there's another matchday coming right up this weekend. It was also a decent round for Bent Wookie who closes the gap at the bottom to four, with joint worst performer ultimo the person they're now chasing. Stinky avoided being level with him despite posting too late to pick half the matches, so instead it was Tory Spoon who found a different route to a mere three points. At the other end, Tilde extends his lead to a whopping eleven, with Rory very nearly catching Gooner as his main challenger. The randomly selected "wildcard" fixture was match #2 where nobody plumped for 0-1 but half the field still took a bonus point apiece for betting on an away win. Elsewhere, victories for Newcastle and Hashtag's men (they'll be dancing in the streets of Hashtag, etc) plus Stoke's women generally proved fruitful, alongside a stalemate on Wearside and a score draw in Eindhoven. Rare home reverses at Stamford Bridge and Camp Nou against Spurs and Real Madrid respectively caught most people out, as did an upset in the Scottish Cup, but only the first of those three matches was a complete dud. Right, as mentioned, we're doing two rounds of FPL Cup group clashes in a row, so it'll be an otherwise normal set of 10 appearing at the top of the thread in a few moments.

Sounds like you were looking forward to Arsenal getting to play at Highbury for the first time in over two decades. Pity they didn't turn up.

It doesn't really sit well with me that when the other thread this discussion was in was hijacked, the first counter-argument was (as it too often is in this country) "you can't be 100% sure somebody actually did it" as opposed to "the state taking anybody's life is always wrong in principle" Even if you accept Chutney Spoon's premise, that he so casually dropped into the previous convo as if we'd all agree, that one particular offence is somehow way worse than all the others people could be convicted of, reintroducing capital punishment would be a slippery slope that could then see it start being used for lesser crimes. Describing an "example" of a case that he'd consider beyond the pale in gory, morbid detail which wouldn't even cross the minds of most right-thinking people is well dodgy too, just sayin'.

Premier League Arsenal 3-0 Everton Coventry City 1-2 Fulham Chelsea 3-1 Spurs Crystal Palace 0-0 Newcastle United Sunderland 0-2 Leeds United FA Trophy Round 1 Deal Town 1-3 Hashtag United Scottish Cup Round 2 Renfrew 0-1 Stirling Albion La Liga Barcelona 2-1 Real Madrid Eredivisie PSV Eindhoven 2-2 Feijenoord Women's FA Cup Round 1 Northampton Town 0-3 Stoke City

The results have been put up in the opening post since Sunday night, followed by an unwelcome change in the table as I slip to second from bottom. A last-minute equaliser from visitors Dundalk cost me a potential eighteen birthday bonus points, which instead dispersed among all other participants. Eight players took no further points from that outcome though, so credit to top scorer Stinky Dad for being the only person to bet on a draw and get the exact scoreline to boot. He therefore moves further away from last place which leaves Bent Wookie chasing me to avoid the wooden spoon, at just two points behind. In a high-scoring round, TildeGuy and Gooner weren't far off matching Stinky's weekly haul, but in the end it was the former who extended his lead by another single point to a slightly safer half a dozen. The randomly selected "wildcard" fixture was match #8 in Alsace, where most people correctly opted for an away win, but Chutney Spoon nabbed the bonuses for himself by being the sole picker to get a 3-1 PSG victory spot on. Elsewhere, triumphs for Liverpool, Fulham, Arsenal, Lyon and Rio Ave all generally proved fruitful, but yet another home reverse for Newcastle and a score draw at Elland Road turned into more of a mixed bag. Everybody was caught out by the extraordinary final quarter of an hour at Leatherhead, where the hosts came back to lead 3-2 only to concede again late on. That was the third weekend in a row with six goals in a Yeovil match, but they couldn't quite keep up the pattern as there were seven goals scored in last night's replay as the Glovers ultimately came through by five goals to two. Right, as briefly touched upon last week, there's been quite the snag with somebody's D2D which means I might have to ask them for a fourth choice after all down the line. So in the meantime, with no D2D this coming weekend, let's instead turn our attention back to the FPL Cup with another round of group stage clashes, alongside the usual set of 10 actual football matches in the original post in a few ticks.

Birthday double bill of Street Fighter followed by Forgotten Island this afternoon/evening and yes, in that order so the former was almost empty and the latter packed with the intended audience, i.e. tweenage girls. Thoroughly enjoyed them in different ways. The films, I mean. Street Fighter probably works best if you have some affinity for the source material like most here, and/or if you're familiar with the original attempt to bring the IP to live action (which is the main reason my big sister's curious about it). Didn't outstay its welcome and the performances of leading WWE stars were adequate. Wasn't expecting them to go all in on the expectation of a sequel already. Thought they were gonna go with a different ending for Forgotten Island but then it had another 20 minutes to run. Terrific to find out that cheap knock-off trainers can stop you from being a troglodyte. Was wondering where I'd heard the voice of the adorable mushroom warrior from before, and it turns out it's Ronny Chieng from The Daily Show. Surprisingly, there were a couple of similarities as both movies use anime sequences to fill in backstory (occasionally in a deliberately unreliable way). Both also feel firmly rooted in the early 90s aside from somehow including Who Let The Dogs Out? from the year 2000 diegetically in their soundtracks.

I'd better make my pick nice and early so you all know where you stand for the bet: Premier League Brentford 0-1 Liverpool Fulham 2-2 Hull City Newcastle United 1-0 Aston Villa Leeds United 2-0 Manchester United Nottingham Forest 0-2 Arsenal FA Challenge Cup Fourth Qualifying Round Leatherhead 0-3 Yeovil Town Irish Premier Division Sligo Rovers w/Fog Dude 2-1 Dundalk Ligue 1 Strasbourg 1-1 Paris St Germain Olympique Lyonnais 3-1 Nice Portuguese Cup Round of 64 54 Louletano 1-2 Rio Ave

The final scores went into the initial post on Sunday night, and led to a change at the bottom of the table. With the damage done the week before, I Bent My Wookie slipped into last place behind Stinky Dad despite the latter self-handicapping by missing the first weekend and sometimes picking late. They weren't the worst performer for the round though, as MVP RULZ kept up the tradition of a poor score while getting a D2D bet wrong. It could've ended up even more wide of the mark, mind you, as his beloved Owls needed a last-gasp equaliser to avoid defeat at Huddersfield. Only Chutney Spoon failed to disagree within him and yet was somehow joint top scorer anyway. At the other end, TildeGuy consolidates his lead over Gooner by increasing it from four points to five. Everybody except the aforementioned MVP RULZ and Bent Wookie took a point from the randomly selected "wildcard" fixture, which was match #2 at Stamford Bridge. That turned out to be an even more comfortable home win than anyone was expecting against an out-of-sorts Cherries side. Elsewhere, slim pickings really. Victories for Liechtenstein's women (as in the football, not recent political changes there) and Leverkusen's men were generally good for one-pointers, but all the domestic outcomes proved to be a mixed bag, while Bayern's draw down the road at Augsburg, in their closest thing to a local derby nowadays, caught most people out. We've had a bit of a complication with one of the D2Ds but it's not the next one, so let's not worry about that just yet. In the meantime, a new card with a long-planned D2D should appear at the top of the thread just a moment.

Loathe as we might be to praise Romesh on here, I think he got it spot on when he said the instruction to choose "the most trustworthy person" in the initial group before they even got to the castle, was an experiment to see how quickly most other contestants turned on them.

Premier League Aston Villa 2-1 Brentford Chelsea 3-1 Bournemouth Ipswich Town 1-0 Fulham Sunderland 1-2 Brighton & Hove Albion Manchester United 2-0 Spurs Liverpool 1-1 Manchester City League One Huddersfield Town 2-2 Sheffield Wednesday w/MVP RULZ Imitation Bundesliga Augsburg 0-1 Bayern Munich Mainz 1-2 Bayer Leverkusen Women's international friendly Liechtenstein 0-0 Gibraltar

So that's where I heard the name! I think one of his relatives was the sole representative of Mexico at a past Winter Olympics, in skiing? That's one minor annoyance put to bed then. As for padel: a whole load of new courts just opened up down the road from here, but whenever my Dad visits he'd prefer to find somewhere to play pickleball instead these days.

Sorry, didn't notice you hadn't put an England score until I came to collate the results together on Monday night (they're also in the opening post, natch). In hindsight, predicting that Croatia would score doesn't look too clever but it does unfortunately leave you having scored nothing from the remaining nine matches. I've double checked because it gives me no pleasure to report somebody getting nought so do let me know if you think I've got that wrong. Anyway, for some reason ImgBB is co-operating again this week so we're back there again for the table. Despite getting his D2D bet wrong, as mentioned Chutney Spoon wasn't the worst performer for the round and in fact made it into double figures to stay in the top half of the standings. Seven of the eight people who picked on time correctly disagreed with him to nab two bonus points apiece, albeit Rory wrongly thought the tie would go to a replay. After being unlucky not to take the lead last time out, TildeGuy makes no mistake and does overtake Gooner after all. The latter was saved before by the randomly selected "wildcard" game but in a reversal of those fortunes, it was match #5 at Windsor Park that came out of the hat and only Tilde got it spot on as a stalemate. Stinky, although he posted his guesses late, is now only three points adrift at the bottom. Elsewhere, wins for Scotland, Denmark, Cowdenbeath and both Man City and Barcelona's women all generally proved fruitful, alongside a draw in Port of Spain. Meanwhile, Ireland being held in Serbia caught some people out, while England's huge victory in a training exercise in Rijeka was only good for one-pointers. Mostly back to normal football this coming weekend, aside from a single international that will make everybody roll their eyes and/or groan. The next set of 10 will also contain another D2D in the original post in short order.