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  1. 7 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

    Actually it was the S4C broadcast that they had.

    Good to know, although even when you're tuned into it on linear TV they've got an English option behind the red button for those who ddim yn siarad yr iaith. 

    Which now won't be needed in the summer, sadly. 

  2. 32 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said:

    Paul Bodin, Cannonball Taffy O'Jones, Charlotte Church, Ivor the Engine - twoi chłopcy zostali solidnie pobici.

    'Fraid that's the singular form of 'your'. Always pay a professional translator, folks. 

    Yes, even for a silly reference on a message board. Not that I'm bitter about the result tonight, having watched the proper way on S4C (iPlayer with English commentary, you say? Pah!) 

  3. The final scores went into the opening post of the thread late on Sunday evening, and then the latest table was figured out. Nobody into double figures this time, and a fairly narrow spread of scores – and yet there's a fair bit of movement. Tilde goes up a place, while joint top scorer Vegeta leapfrogs both him and me to gain two spots. Above that, reigning champion MVP RULZ climbs ahead of the absent @Stinky Dad whom we have to hope is all right as it's unusual for him to miss a round. The other equal best participant this time out was Rory, who's now seven points clear at the summit.

    Worst performer Chutney Spoon is well adrift at the bottom and I'm not going to pretend there's much incentive for him to carry on now he's out of the Cup. Speaking of which, Bent Wookie was probably unlucky to go down 8-9 in a repeat of a group phase meeting he already lost 5-2 back in November. That leaves MVP RULZ and Vegeta to contest the final in May, a fixture the former won 8-5 only last month right at the end of the pool stage. 

    No bonuses this week since the randomly selected 'wildcard' match was #5 in Lyon, which no-one thought would end in an away win with a record-breaking early goal. Victories for Italy's men plus Chelsea and Arsenal's women on the road, as well as Rangers at a neutral venue, were all generally good for one-pointers. Stalemates in Dublin and Copenhagen, on the other hand, produced a bit more of a mixed bag of guesses. Lastly, a home reverse at Wembley in hindsight shouldn't have been surprising but it caught out three quarters of pickers. 

    This is going up a day earlier than usual because the next round is a double which starts mid-afternoon on Friday. Don't say @ultimo the great hasn't been warned!

  4. Men's International Friendly matches

    Ireland 1-2 Belgium 
    Slovakia 0-1 Austria 
    Denmark 2-1 Switzerland 
    England 1-1 Brazil 
    France 3-1 Germany 
    Ecuador 0-2 Italy 

    WSL
    Everton 2-2 Liverpool 
    West Ham United 1-3 Chelsea 
    Aston Villa 0-0 Arsenal 

    Scottish Women's League Cup Final
    Partick Thistle 0-3 Rangers (@ Hearts)

  5. The results were up in the first post on Sunday night again, and the table was recalculated moments later. The only movement involved Vegeta and lowest scorer TildeGuy – who didn't get bonus points as the only participant to make his picks before the D2D bet was posted – both moving down a place. Meanwhile at the top, the gap to Rory was closed by a single point.

    Chutney Spoon opted for a draw, which allowed even those who wrongly plumped for a home win at Broadhall Way to claim extra points. His overall score was still bang average, yet after all that he's left another point further adrift of Bent Wookie. No other bonuses since the randomly selected 'wildcard' fixture was match #10, where everybody incorrectly thought Inter would overcome their visitors from Naples. 

    Elsewhere, victories for Man City, Derby and AC Milan (what a trio!) plus score draws at Kenilworth Road and The Olympic Stadium all proved fruitful, but a rare triumph for Burnley, a surprisingly comfortable success for Fulham and a seven-goal thriller at Old Trafford all caught most people out. 

    The next card, with a mix of men's international friendlies and domestic women's club matches, will go into the initial post shortly. It's the calm before the storm of the Easter double header and end-of-season run-in. Oh, and at least it's the semi-finals of our own FPL Cup too. 

  6. Wouldn't normally be in favour of simply talking out a potential new law, but Truss' bill is genuinely sickening. Mainly aimed at trans kids which is horrific enough, but some clauses near the end appear to seek to amend the Human Rights Act to change the definition of 'sex' in general (i.e. for adults too) to a binary one and not recognise gender fluidity at all.

    Plus it's not just Truss ploughing a lone furrow on behalf of her new American paymasters: the bill's been co-signed by Ian Paisley Jr and some prominent Tories including Priti Patel, Ben Bradley and another Conservative who isn't my current MP but is going to be the candidate where I live next time due to boundary changes. Hopefully he's on course for a massive defeat.

  7. For those of you watching in black & white, Chutney Spoon is playing in yellow. 

    By which I mean, on some devices you might not be able to see his D2D bet, which is on a draw. I see Stevenage lost in midweek, so I'm disagreeing with him by backing Orient: 

    FA Cup Quarter-finals

    Manchester City 3-0 Newcastle United 
    Manchester United 0-3 Liverpool 

    Premier League
    Burnley 1-0 Brentford
    Luton Town 3-2 Nottingham Forest
    Fulham 2-2 Spurs
    West Ham United 1-1 Aston Villa 

    League One
    Derby County 3-1 Bolton Wanderers 
    Stevenage 0-1 Leyton Orient w/Tim Healys Chutney Spoon

    Serie A
    Hellas Verona 2-0 AC Milan 
    Internazionale 2-1 Napoli 

  8. The final scores went into the opening post on Sunday night as usual, and the new table was figured out right after that. Despite a high-scoring week, there wasn't much significant change. Rory extends his lead by a single point, the only movement involves Tilde leapfrogging joint lowest scorer Vegeta, whilst Bent Wookie had a decent round despite getting his D2D bet wrong thanks to Villa's spectacular collapse at home to Spurs and so moves three points further clear of Chutney Spoon. 

    Reigning champion and weekly best performer MVP RULZ doesn't go up a place, but at least puts himself back among the chasing pack. He also came closest to getting the 'wildcard' scoreline correct, which was randomly selected as match #4. I was the only one who got the outcome incorrect there by thinking The Seagulls might actually progress, fresh off a huge win at Ashton Gate the previous weekend. 

    Elsewhere, victories on the road for Rangers and Inter Milan, plus Hearts' and Chelsea's women – and alongside score draws at Anfield and the Artemio Franchi – all proved fruitful, with only a comfortable reverse by Barnet catching most people out. Wolves' success in a typical late-season mid-table battle against Fulham produced more of a mixed bag of guesses.

    The next set of 10, in which we squeeze in yet another D2D before the international break and Easter, should be up at the top of the thread very soon.  

  9. Initially misread "Do you have a Will?" as "Do you have a Wii?" and wondered where the questions about other consoles had gone.

    Hope the questions about homes is all-time and not current number of addresses else it'll sound like I'm some kind of feudal landowner. 

  10. Premier League

    Wolves 1-1 Fulham
    Aston Villa w/Bent Wookie 1-3 Spurs
    Liverpool 2-3 Manchester City 

    Women's FA Cup Sixth Round
    Brighton & Hove Albion 1-0 Manchester United 
    Everton 0-2 Chelsea 

    FA Trophy Round 6
    Bromley 3-0 Barnet

    Men's Scottish Cup Round 6
    Hibernian 1-2 Rangers 

    Scottish Women's Cup Round 5
    Partick Thistle 0-3 Hearts

    Serie A
    Bologna 0-1 Internazionale
    Fiorentina 2-2 Roma

  11. The results were up in the initial post on Sunday night, and the table was updated soon afterwards. In a low-scoring round, the top 3 going into the weekend all finished level with each other. Chutney Spoon only did slightly better so he's now 21 points behind a returning Bent Wookie. I moved up a place thanks to match #8, the randomly selected 'wildcard' fixture, a score draw at the Philips-Stadion. 

    That also netted Rory two bonus points, alongside his other three-pointer, the Manchester derby (where most people at least got the right outcome). His D2D was another home win, this time over in Indonesia, but perhaps his 'exotic' choice should've been Nepal since he probably needs a Sherpa and an oxygen tank now, as that bet elevated him into first place! There were no other exact scores to be had this time out, so no further movement either. 

    Elsewhere, victories on the road for Liverpool's men and Rangers' women were generally good for one-pointers, but draws in Spain and west London plus another home reverse at Goodison Park produced a mixed bag of guesses at best, as did the overwhelming triumph for Porto. It was a much bigger margin of victory than anyone could've expected at the Estádio do Dragão. 

    The next card, including another D2D, should go live in the first post imminently. 

  12. Quote

    I have the vaguest memory of seeing him as enhancement talent “Jack Foley” against someone (Hercules?) on one of those WWE rewind/classic shows they used to show on Sky

    Same here, except I faintly recall that his opponent on that occasion was Kamala. 

  13. 11 hours ago, Joe Blog said:

    Ahhh right,

    1985 - 2004 = 19 years

    2024 - 2004 = 20 years

    thanks for that. 

    Yup, that's what I was getting at. Will hold my hands up and admit that I worded it about as abominably as possible last night. 

  14.  

    11 minutes ago, Mr Kennedy said:

    Entirely feasible that they can put their differences aside when somebody is insulting their family?

    Indeed it is. But Cody himself (not only his "crybaby" fans) throwing those insults out when he'd voluntarily given up his main event spot six days earlier still basically came out of nowhere.

  15. Considering the previous explanation was just that Rock and Roman arrived in Vegas for the Mania hype show separately because they hated each other's guts and ended it by ever twirling, twirling towards freedom, at least the latest social media output tries to make sense of it all – which is better than continued silence on the subject, I suppose. 

  16. Girl All the Bad Guys Want made a reference to watching wrestling on Monday nights, didn't it? 

    In case you really want to feel like a fossil, their song 1985 is older now than the actual year 1985 was when they recorded it. 

  17. 22 hours ago, I Bent My Wookie said:

    Sorry. 

    Changed phone last week and only was able to get hold of my old email Sunday to reset password. By that point it was late so couldn't get any results in. 

    Full service will be resumed. 

    Fair enough, glad you're staying with us. Just to be clear: everyone's allowed to make their picks on desktop too, which is what I'm gonna do right now... 

    Premier League

    Brentford 1-3 Chelsea

    Everton 1-1 West Ham United
    Nottingham Forest 1-2 Liverpool
    Manchester City 3-0 Manchester United 

    Scottish Women's Premier League
    Hibernian 0-2 Rangers 

    La Liga
    Valencia 0-1 Real Madrid 

    Athletic Bilbao 2-3 Barcelona

    Eredivisie
    PSV Eindhoven 2-2 Feyenoord 

    Primeira Liga
    Porto 1-0 Benfica 

    Indonesian Liga 1
    Persebaya Surabaya w/Rory 0-3 PSS Sleman

  18. 10 minutes ago, seph said:

    I'm busy for a variety of IRL reasons, so I need to drop out of this one. Sorry I couldn't keep up and my football-fu is way off.

    Cheers for your hard work as ever Foggy.

    Thanks for clearing that up. Don't know if you caught it, but I addressed this in the previous write-up since you'd ducked three weeks in a row anyway. 

  19. The final scores went into the opening post on Sunday night, and the table was updated right after that. In another low-scoring week, there wasn't much of a spread of different scores. Only Vegeta stood out from the pack by getting into double figures, so he moves above Tilde in the sole change to the standings this time out. Special mention to Rory who got an exact score from the draw at the AmEx.  

    Meanwhile, ultimo extends his lead over Stinky by one point to eight. The randomly selected 'wildcard' fixture was match #8, Monaco's win at Lens, from which nobody took three points but three participants took a single bonus each. One of those was crucial to the quarter-final replay as it edged Chutney Spoon ahead of me. That leaves the semi-final draw as follows: 

    Vegeta vs. I Bent My Wookie
            
    Tim Healy's Chutney Spoon vs. MVP RULZ

    Bent Wookie skipped this one, but unlike seph he's got a busy March coming up with a Cup semi and a D2D so hopefully he's not given up completely. Anyway, elsewhere victories for Villa, Palace, Man City, Arsenal and Wolves all generally proved good for one-pointers, but the League Cup final and American results turned out to be more of a mixed bag of guesses.

    A new set of 10 should be up at the top of the thread shortly. 

  20. 4 hours ago, tiger_rick said:

    Hilarious that they sent Australia this show. You'd think it might kill the territory but then you remember they sent us Rebellions and Capital Carnage and Mayhem in Manchester and it just made the Stockholm syndrome more powerful.

    As mentioned upthread, they didn't send Perth this show - the state government of Western Australia actively courted it and for those who were watching live the event was heavily punctuated by tourism ads. 

  21. 1 hour ago, Carbomb said:

    No, the singles match. Was that not on SmackDown? Could've sworn I remembered a blue ring apron.

    I wasn't going by a visual memory. I recalled watching the singles match on a Friday night and the handicap match on a Saturday... back when I had Sky, before the time of on-demand TV and before weekends all blurred into one amorphous splodge. 

  22. 11 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

    Good telling can make you forget yourself. I always think back to that Triple H/TAKA Michinoku title match on SmackDown, when the outcome was the most obvious thing to anyone, smark or casual, yet for a few brief moments both guys made it completely plausible that an upset was on the cards.

    It can play such a trick on you that you forget which show it happened on!

    Are you thinking of the Kai En Tai & Brooklyn Brawler vs Triple H handicap match from three months later? Because that one actually was on SmackDown. 

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