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Week 18 Table Hearts 2-0 Dundee Besiktas 1-0 Fenerbahce Roma 4-1 Lecce Angers 0-3 Lyon LA Galaxy 2-1 New York RB Central Coast 2-1 Sydney FC Man Utd Women 4-0 Liverpool Women West Brom 2-2 Sheff Utd Gremio 0-3 Corinthians Atletico Madrid 4-3 Sevilla Round-up Interesting round of fixtures as 8/10 of the games had 3 or more goals, and it ended with a thriller in Madrid as Atletico came back from 1-3 down to win 4-3 in the final minute. In the rankings, @Tommy just about holds on to the top spot. His closest challengers are now @RandoEFC and @Viva la FCB, with the latter top-scoring with 17 points. They both overtook @6666 but between the four of them there are still only 3 points difference. @nawoo capitalised on low scores from @CaaC (John) and @Spike, but @Rucksackfranzose held on to his 5th place. And further down @Pyfish has finally come off the bottom spot and is ahead of the absent @Azeem...

I worked at a nursing home for years. Anyone who says they don't support assisted dying, send them on a trip to the local high care dementia wing of a nursing home. Literal prisoners in their own body, scrunched up in the same position, unable to move, just able to blabber and eat slop. No way to die.

Reminder @RandoEFC @CaaC (John) @Tommy @Bluebird Hewitt @Azeem @Viva la FCB @nawoo @Rucksackfranzose @Coma @Spike @Pyfish @6666 And also a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year

A very wide spread range of scores: 9 points divide top from shared bottom, although thre high score is only 11 points. Matchday 15 1) CaaC(John) 11 points 2) 6666 8 points 3) Stan 7 points 3) Viva la FCB 7 points 5) Coma 5 points 5) nawoo 5 points 7) Bluewolf 4 points 7) Rucksackfranzose 4 points 9) Michael 2 polnts 9) nudge 2 points 9) Tommy 2 points CaaC(John) climbed from 8th to shared 4th spot. Table after 15 matchdays 1) @Stan 115 points 2) @Viva la FCB 105 points 3) @Bluewolf 99 points 4) @6666 98 points 4) @CaaC (John) 98 points 6) @Michael 97 points 7) @nudge 90 points 7) @Tommy 90 points 9) @nawoo 88 points 10) Rucksackfranzose 87 points 11) @Coma 68 points Now the winter break has officially begun. I'll open the next matchday thread at the begin of 2025. Wish you all an enjoyable christmas and a very good new year! The latter would be a welcome alternation after the last few.

That's been one of our better matchdays. Matchday 12 1) Stan 11 points 2) Bluewolf 10 points 2) nawoo 10 points 4) 6666 9 points 4) michael 9 points 6) nudge 7 points 6) tommy 7 points 8- Coma 6 points 8- Rucksackfranzose 6 points 8- Viva la FCB 6 points 11) CaaC)John) 4 points Ding, Ding, Ding! We got a new table leader! Table after 12 matchdays 1) @Stan 87 points 2) @Viva la FCB 84 points 3) @Michael 81 points 4) @Tommy 78 points 5) @Bluewolf 77 points 6) @6666 75 points 7) @CaaC (John) 74 points 8- @nudge 73 points 9) Rucksackfranzose 71 points 10) @nawoo 69 points 11) @Coma 52 points

Week 20 Results Melbourne Victory 1-1 Melbourne City Aberdeen 1-3 Hibernian Sunderland 2-1 Norwich Osasuna 1-2 Athletic Bilbao Barcelona 1-2 Atletico Madrid Genk 2-0 Anderlecht Hannover 0-0 Hertha Berlin St Etienne 0-4 Marseille PSV 3-0 Feyenoord Atalanta 3-2 Empoli Round-up A few tasty fixtures to begin the festive football fun... For the first time in several weeks, the top 4 remained exactly the same! However, despite @Viva la FCB maintaining top spot, arguably @RandoEFC profited most by being the highest scorer out of the 4, but now gaining ground on the 3 ahead. He's now also level with @Tommy and @6666. Most notably though, top score came from @Spike which was aided by the Prediction of the Week - he was the only one to get Atletico Madrid's 2-1 victory over Barca exactly correct. Only he and myself gained places, two each.

Week 19 Results Schalke 1-1 Dusseldorf Sheff Utd 2-0 Plymouth Udinese 1-3 Napoli Basel 0-1 Grasshoppers Melbourne City 2-2 Auckland Club Brugge 2-0 Genk Celtic (p)3-3 Rangers Real Sociedad 0-0 Las Palmas PSG 3-1 Lyon Racing Club 1-0 River Plate Round-up This week it's @Viva la FCB's turn to take top spot after a hiatus of 8 weeks. He leads by a solitary point over @Tommy, who also has a one-point advantage over 3rd-placed @6666. @RandoEFC drops down to 4th in the title race. The next bunch of players are separated by just 7 points, between @Rucksackfranzose in 5th and myself in 9th. Top score of 15 came from myself, whilst @Pyfish in 12th got the second-highest score of 14.

Three participants scoring double digits and an average score above our usual standards. That was a good matchday for us as a group. Matchday 13 1) Bluewolf 12 points 2) Stan 11 points 3) Michael 10 points 4) nudge 9 points 5) Viva la FCB 8 points 6) CaaC(John) 7 points 6) nawoo 7 points 8- 6666 6 points 9) Rucksackfranzose 5 points 9) Tommy 5 points 11) Coma 3 points Top spot and 2nd place as well as 4th and 5th spot are separated by 6 points each. Table after 13 matchdays 1) @Stan 98 points 2) @Viva la FCB 92 points 3) @Michael 91 points 4) @Bluewolf 89 points 5) @Tommy 83 points 6) @nudge 82 points 7) @6666 81 points 7) @CaaC (John) 81 points 9) @nawoo 76 points 9) Rucksackfranzose 76 points 11) @Coma 55 points

A matchday neither desastrous nor glorious. Although it's been one of our better matchdays, Matchay 15 1) Bluewolf 10 points 2) nawoo 9 points 3) Coma 8 points 4) Stan 6 points 4) Viva la FCB 6 points 6) Michael 5 points 6) nudge 5 points 6) Tommy 5 points 9) CaaC(John) 4 points 10) Rucksackfranzose 2 points nudge lost over half of her advantage. Table after 15 matchdays 1) @nudge 99 points 2) @Bluewolf 96 points 3) @Michael 91 points 4) @Viva la FCB 83 points 5) @Stan 82 points 6) @Coma 80 points 7) @CaaC (John) 76 points 8- @nawoo 75 points 8- @Tommy 75 points 10) Rucksackfranzose 65 points

Our Golden Wedding Anniversary is today, 50 years of love and toil but we are both still here, nothing special tonight, our daughter is here with wee Kaiden, having a wine and a chippie carry out, nothing special, that will do us. This is an old photo our daughter put out on FB wishing us all the best, me minus my beard. This will do me for the night with a chippie to boot.

Reminder @Tommy @Bluebird Hewitt @Azeem @Viva la FCB @nawoo @Rucksackfranzose @Coma @Spike @Pyfish @6666

Only the final results of the three Sunday matches prevented our scores from being absolutely desastrous. Matchday 14 1) nudge 9 points 2) Viva la FCB 8 points 3) Michael 6 points 3) Stan 6 points 5) CaaC (John) 4 points 5) Coma 4 points 5) nawoo 4 points 8-Tommy 3 points 9) Rucksackfranzose 2 points 10) Bluewolf 1 point Last matchday nudge shared the lead now there's already a gap between her and shared 3nd place. Table after 14 matchdays 1) @nudge 94 points 2) @Bluewolf 86 points 2) @Michael 86 points 4) @Viva la FCB 77 points 5) @Stan 76 points 6) @CaaC (John) 72 points 6) @Coma 72 points 8- @Tommy 70 points 9) @nawoo 66 points 10) Rucksackfranzose 63 points

People should be able to choose for themselves... Both my parents suffered and I know for a fact that my father would have taken the option to end it all earlier because he knew what was coming. There comes a point in your life where the quality of life is no longer there anymore and it just becomes a struggle to get through each day and that is no way to live.. It just becomes tedious survival with no happiness... I am sure that there would be other family members that might oppose it but that is probably down to some selfish reasons, nobody likes to let a loved one go but let them choose and give them some dignity or you might end up with the situation @Devil-Dick Willie mentions where the choice eventually passes you by and you are trapped in a body that hardly functions and I don't personally fancy going out like that..

I have a very strong opinion about this. People should have the right to die with dignity, and they deserve to have the right to choose it on their own terms.

Week 21 Results Sydney 3-0 Melbourne Victory Cagliari 0-3 Inter Milan Lazio 1-1 Atalanta Porto 4-0 Boavista Western United 1-0 Brisbane Roar Sheff Utd 1-1 West Brom Motherwell 2-2 Rangers Derby 0-1 Leeds AC Milan 1-1 Roma Sporting Lisbon 1-0 Benfica Round-up A mixture of results to decipher as only 4 games had 3 or more goals in them, and others were fairly tight with two 1-0 victories and 4 draws elsewhere. In the league, @Viva la FCB loses out the biggest as we approach the turn of the year dropping from 1st to 4th. @6666 took full advantage by getting 17 points and heading to the top of the table going in to 2025. @Tommy remained in 2nd and @RandoEFC goes up to 3rd. The best score came from @Rucksackfranzose who gained 18 points, and along with that was prediction of the week for being the only one to predict the 1-1 draw between AC Milan and Roma. Elsewhere @CaaC (John) got the lowest score of the round with 7 and but still went up a place.

Nice game for Quansah to come into and hopefully get a bit of confidence back

That second half was a proper stroll and we still managed to score 2. Could have scored more and Salah could have had at least a hatrick. What a ridiculous season he's having.

@Dan holds on to 1st place again but the two now directly below him had the best week - @nawoo with 16pts flying into 3rd place, and @CaaC (John) heading up 2nd with 15pts; both are now just 3 points off the top. A tricky set to predict for shown by there only being two perfect scores, one by the 3rd highest scorer for the week which was @Mark Mark and the other from the player occupying 4th which is @6666. Only 6 points separate 2nd to 7th, and 10 points between 8th and 11th.

I think that whole video was made by AI

What a player. Up to 4th in the all time top scorers for Liverpool now too, ahead of Billy Liddell

I agree, let's skip 2025 altogether!

Since Bluewolf's Nürnberg 1-0 Braunschweig call was the only predicted perfect score, it's this matchday 's prediction by default. Also it's remarkable Regensburg - Darmstadt was the only match nobody gained points with given our scores. Matchday 17 1) Rucksackfranzose 6 points 2) Michael 5 points 2) Viva la FCB 5 points 4) Bluewolf 4 points 4) nudge 4 points 6) nawoo 3 points 6) Stan 3 points 6) Tommy 3 points 9) CaaC(John) 1 point 10) Coma 0 points The third player passed the 100 point mark. Table after 17 matchdays 1) @nudge 105 points 2) @Bluewolf 104 points 3) @Michael 101 points 4) @Stan 92 points 5) @Viva la FCB 91 points 6) @Coma 88 points 7) @nawoo 83 points 7) @Tommy 83 points 9) Rucksackfranzose 79 points 10) @CaaC (John) 78 points

Reminder @Azeem @Viva la FCB @nawoo @Rucksackfranzose @Pyfish @6666

Although his 2-2 prediction only won him 1 point is worth mentioning Coma was the only player to correctly predict a draw between Dortmund and Hoffenheim. Matchday 14 1) Stan 10 points 2) 6666 9 points 3) Coma 8 points 4) nawoo 7 points 4) Rucksackfranzose 7 points 6) Bluewolf 6 points 6) CaaC(John) 6 points 6) nudge 6 points 6) Viva la FCB 6 points 10) Tommy 5 points 11) Michael 4 points Stan passed the triple digit mark, after only 14 matches. Table after 14 matchdays 1) @Stan 108 points 2) @Viva la FCB 98 points 3) @Bluewolf 95 points 3) @Michael 95 points 5) @6666 90 points 6) @nudge 88 points 6) @Tommy 88 points 8- @CaaC (John) 87 points 9) @nawoo 83 points 9) Rucksackfranzose 83 points 11) @Coma 63 points

I did it to get @Bluewolf close to me

Have to admit @Michael was right Schalke are definitively better than Elversberg.After all Schalke are on 14th spot and reached amazing 17 points after 16 matchdays, while Elversberg are only table leader with 28 points.

There's complaining about the refs though and then there's touting conspiracies about how they're out to get you now because you were very loosely related to an incident that got one of them sacked .

Reminder @Tommy @Azeem @Viva la FCB @nawoo @Rucksackfranzose @Coma @Spike @Pyfish @6666

Horse has already bolted on this one...

Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - Results With both championships on the line going into the final race of the season, it was a dramatic weekend for the F1 Prediction League. Only three people correctly predicted Lando Norris for pole position, with title contenders @RandoEFC and @Tommy cancelling each other out with 5 points each. @Whiskey also picked up 5 points here on his way to a strong score for the weekend. On to the race, and @Tommy and @Whiskey stuck with a Norris pole to win double to pick up another 5 points, with @Stan the only one to bag 5 points for Norris' victory. @RandoEFC, @MUFC, @Dave, @DeadLinesman and @OrangeKhrush all had to settle for 2 points each for predicting P2 for the McLaren driver. Nobody held out much hope for Ferrari's Constructors' championship hopes this weekend. Only @nudge and @Dave dared to predict a top 3 finish for Carlos Sainz, but they missed by one position and had to settle for 2 points. Meanwhile, nobody backed Charles Leclerc to overcome his 10-place grid penalty and score a podium finish, so it was a low-scoring set of podium predictions overall. On to random driver Jack Doohan, and nobody was particularly optimistic about his chances, but it was @Dave and @DeadLinesman who nailed his 15th place and picked up 5 more points each. The bonus question asked us to predict one driver from a set of team-mates enjoying their last race together. @RandoEFC and @MUFC's pick of Bottas looked good when the Finn reached Q3 in qualifying but an incident-strewn race saw him retire in his F1 swan-song. @DeadLinesman and @OrangeKhrush were robbed as Russell lost position to his team-mate on the final lap. Alex Albon dropped out of the points late in the race, but with his team-mate retiring, 11th place was still enough to deliver 5 points for @nudge in this prediction. Finally, @Stan, @Tommy, @Whiskey and @Dave took the smart route of backing Carlos Sainz in light of his team-mate's 10 place grid penalty, and the Spaniard delivered a strong P2 and 5 points each in his final outing in the red car. Season Predictions - Results As expected, the final race sees no change to the provisional results posted last week. A quick recap: Everyone scored 10 points for WDC. It was 20 points for the winner and 10 points if your guy comes 2nd or 3rd but we did half points for Verstappen/Red Bull this season. Everyone except for 2 people scored 5 points here due to the Red Bull rule of getting half points. @Tommy got 10 points for Ferrari's top three finish. @RandoEFC got nothing as Mercedes finished 4th. Seven different drivers won a race this season so 5 points went to @Tommy and @OrangeKhrush who came closest to this total. Five different constructors finished on the podium at least once so @MUFC, @nudge, @Whiskey and @Dave can thank Alpine's performance in Brazil for their 10 points here. Nobody predicted the driver with the most retirements (Albon with 6) so @RandoEFC picked up 5 consolation points as Gasly had more DNFs than any of the other drivers who saw backing. @Dave and @Coma get 10 points each for getting the most driver head-to-heads correct (9 out of 10). There are some quite amusing quirks in this area such as Piastri and Stroll being seen as potentially close pre-season and Ricciardo beating Zhou despite being dropped with a quarter of the season remaining. F1 Prediction League 2024 - Final Results As the joint-top scorer this weekend, @Tommy finally ends up on top and wins the championship after a season of lead changes at the top. Congratulations! Last season's champion @RandoEFC has to settle for 2nd place while @OrangeKhrush takes 3rd place despite tailing off in the last few races. @Dave's double figure haul in the final race sees him pip his team-mate @MUFC to 4th place in the standings. @Stan, @nudge and @DeadLinesman weren't too far apart and @Whiskey's long road to remove himself from the bottom of the table ends in success following @Coma's extended absence. The Constructors' championship was comfortable for Red Bull in the end, with Mercedes and McLaren failing to break 20 points in the final race. Congratulations to @Tommy and @nudge! The battle of the often one-car teams at the bottom goes in favour of Aston Martin but Ferrari end the season with the highest score at the final round. Drivers' Champion: @Tommy Constructors' Champion: Red Bull ( @Tommy and @nudge ) Thanks to all for taking part! I hope to see all of you back for next season!

Love them now.

Onana makes these types of mistakes too often. De Gea was better than him when they let him go and he's still a better keeper now.

With the closeness of the rankings there was bound to be some change for this midweek round. One person who took advantage and got the highest score of the round by far was @Mark Mark with 18 points, and he climbs to 5th. Also notably, @CaaC (John) climbs ahead of @Dan and @Lucas to go into top spot and take a 2-point lead into the next round. We now have a 5-point gap between 1st and 7th, and then a small bunch of players including myself, @nawoo and @Rucksackfranzose trying to play catch-up!

Amended.

Cheers. @RandoEFC I've updated my picks.

@Stan @RandoEFC @Dave FYI, seeing as you put him into your Top 3: Charles recieved a 10 place grid penalty.

@nudge, @Bluewolf, @Michael, @Coma, @Tommy, @nawoo Last reminder!

@Michael, @Tommy, @Bluewolf, @6666, @nudge, @nawoo, @Coma Last reminder!

I think you're confusing doctors with politicians.

Results - Qatar Grand Prix A bit of a collective recovery this weekend after a couple of very difficult races. Nobody predicted Max Verstappen for pole position so nobody gets any points. Perhaps we'll have to introduce a rule next year for the person/people to pick the highest qualifier that saw any backing to get 2 consolation points like we do elsewhere, but for now, no points scored on Saturday. Nobody predicted a Verstappen victory either, but @Stan, @Whiskey, @Dave, @DeadLinesman and @OrangeKhrush all had him elsewhere in their top three, scoring them 2 points each. @RandoEFC was the only one to nail Leclerc's finishing position in 2nd, while @MUFC, @nudge, @Whiskey, @DeadLinesman and @OrangeKhrush get 2 for having him one position away on either side. @RandoEFC, @Tommy and @Dave all bag 5 points for Piastri's 3rd place with @Stan and @MUFC picking up consolation points. Esteban Ocon was this weekend's random driver and retired on the first lap. Everyone predicted him between 9th and 11th so the 2 consolation points had to go to @Stan, @nudge and @Whiskey who predicted him lower than the rest. Finally, Pierre Gasly's 5th place secures Alpine as this week's top scoring team in the battle for 6th. I'm actually relieved by this as I worded it as "this weekend" when I meant "on Sunday" so luckily Gasly scored enough points in the main race to render Hulkenberg's 2 Sprint Race points to be irrelevant anyway. The points for this one go to @RandoEFC, @Tommy, @nudge, @Whiskey, @DeadLinesman and @OrangeKhrush. Update - Season Predictions Not much has changed here but I wanted to be clear with what's in play going into the final race. The WDC points and Drivers to Win a Race points can not change in any way. The WCC points can change - if Ferrari win the WCC instead of McLaren, @Tommy's score will be boosted from 10 to 20 for this prediction. Constructors to Score a Podium could technically still go to anyone but seems very unlikely to shift up from 5 in the last race. Most Retirements - this is the only one where the provisional score has changed since the last update. Alex Albon is currently sitting on 6 DNFs so none of the drivers backed by us can beat that, meaning that only 5 points are on the table. @RandoEFC is leading with Gasly's 3 DNFs heading into the final race and these points are guaranteed. Sargeant and Ocon won't be racing to boost their tally, Magnussen is more than one behind, meaning that the only other person who can become a joint winner of these points is @Dave if Stroll gets a DNF this weekend. Driver Battles - these are pretty much all locked in now. Many of the losing drivers who can mathematically change the outcome of their head-to-head aren't even racing this weekend. Barring a Zhou podium or an Albon victory, these points are locked in for @Dave and @Coma at 10 points each. Standings (One Race Remaining) As the top-scorer this weekend, and having vitally gained an extra 5 points for the "Most Retirements" category in the Season Predictions, @RandoEFC reclaims the lead of the championship with a 3 point margin ahead of @Tommy. Single figure scores for @OrangeKhrush and @MUFC leave them pretty much out of contention. At the other end, @Whiskey's double-figure score and another @Coma absence mean that there's a battle for 9th place at the last race. The Constructors' Championship is about as close as you can get, with the top three teams covered by single figures. @Tommy and @nudge hold the advantage going into the last round while consistency is key for Mercedes as @MUFC and @Dave are the only team with both drivers in the top half of the Drivers' standings. McLaren, boosted by @RandoEFC's extra 5 points from Most Retirements, are in striking distance of both with the championship leader and @DeadLinesman combining this weekend to bag the first 20+ score we've seen since Mexico. It's all to play for! The final round of predictions for Abu Dhabi will be posted tomorrow.

It's all change at Week 13! Of those that predicted, only 2 of the 11 didn't change position. Myself and @Storts remain in the positions we started the gameweek in, but the biggest talking point was @Bluewolf who amassed a big 20 points to lift him into 7th! @Dan and @Lucas profit the most as they head up into 1st and 2nd place thanks to low scores from @CaaC (John) and @Rajabhat Rovers. Amazingly less than 10 points separate 1st through to 8th and that's comfortably the tightest it's been ever in all the time this league has been running. There's no runaway leader with such a range of scores. Don't forget the mid-week predictions - deadline is TUESDAY 3rd DECEMBER at 19.30pm GMT - https://talkfootball365.com/topic/24698-stans-pl-prediction-league-202425-week-14-fixtures/

It's Hippocratic Oath, ans using a knife is also in violation of what some Greek nonce said two and half thousand years ago. Don't you get tired of being wrong all the time? https://marcovecellio.net/downloads-10/downloads-13/files/the hippocratic oath.pdf

Why have you done it 3 weeks away Too many wines got your dates mixed up...

Alisson back in goal for us tonight

Sincere apologies to @RandoEFC, as always that was a fantastic fantasy year and I can only imagine that hard work that goes into it behind the scenes. Unfortunately, life (two kids is fantastic - honestly) meant that I was simply unable to log in and predict each time, appreciate the messages so I could keep playing and glad to get myself off the bottom at the last attempt! As punishment I want to see @Daveface down painted in McLaren Papaya, forced to make engine sounds while @MUFC and @Tommy tickle each others feet and laugh.

@RandoEFC @CaaC (John) @Tommy @Bluebird Hewitt @Azeem @Viva la FCB @nawoo @Rucksackfranzose @Coma @Spike @Pyfish @6666

It's amazing with ai what people can do now. I tell you another film I'd love to see. 28 days earlier. When the virus first starts. What do you think?

Also, the sooner Jota is back the better. Nunez seems like a nice fella, but he’s frustrating as fuck to watch. I’m not arsed if he is sold at this point.

Just watched the first 2 episodes, feels more like the goonies or stranger things, its definitely different but im here for it Something fishy with that force user being in the cell with the kids when he can just leave when he pleases maybe a plant to find this lost treasure world??