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Results - Round Five Congratulations to @CaaC (John) who wins the final round of the season ahead of @Pyfish. Both remaining contenders picked a third consecutive match winner, and both Brest and PSG dispatched their opponents comfortably. Unfortunately for @Pyfish, Mbappe didn't even feature for PSG but he'd have been doing well anyway to beat @CaaC (John)'s pick, Wissam Ben Yedder, who helped himself to the first of Monaco's four goals against Nantes just 6 minutes into the game. Our points scorers this round: 6 points (3 correct picks + 3 bonus points) - @CaaC (John) 5 points (3 correct picks + 2 bonus points) - @Pyfish 0 points - @nudge, @Viva la FCB, @6666, @Michael, @RandoEFC, @Lucas, @Storts, @Stan, @Tommy, @Bluewolf, @...Dan, @Dan, @Redcanuck, @Rucksackfranzose and @DeadLinesman Thanks to everyone for taking part this season!

@CaaC (John) enters the Hall of Fame for a third time, and the first since his back to back Spanish and French victories in the 2020-21 season. @nudge is the champion for the second consecutive season - the first time anyone has won the LMS League back to back - congratulations!

The 2023-24 season has now been concluded: The last round showdown at the top of the standings as all of the players that were mathematically able to win the title were eliminated in the first round, meaning that @nudge holds on and wins the Last Man Standing League title by 1 point, ahead of @Viva la FCB and @6666 in joint 2nd place. Congratulations to our top three! @CaaC (John) and @Pyfish both gained several positions in the final standings thanks to being the only two players to score points in the final round. It's hard to hand out a wooden spoon award this year as several entrants who took part in 4 or 5 rounds ended up tied on 5 points. See you all for the Euro 2024 edition!

The PL title decision went down to the final day, and Man City sealed it expectedly at home to West Ham. In this league though, the title was pretty much sewn up for several weeks. Before we crown the winner, the top scores for Week 38 came from the closest challenger, @6666, and @Storts who was the only one to improve his position on the final day. Both scored 18 points, whilst the next best was @Rucksackfranzose with 17 points. Most positions were sewn up, and nearly all regular competitors scored 500+ points, an indication of the impact having 4 points for a perfect score had. On to the winner who has been top of the pile since Week 26 - @Rajabhat Rovers! Congratulations to our regular prediction-league competitor! That week was the first time he took the league and he made the spot his own. As per tradition, here are some seasonal summary stats: Other Leaders Throughout the Season: - @6666 (Week 1-3, 5-19, 23-25) - @Lucas (Week 4) - @Dan (Week 20-22) Highest Individual Scores in a Week - @6666 - Week 1 - 38 points - @Dan - Week 18 - 32 points - @Rajabhat Rovers - Week 28 - 25 points - @CaaC (John) - Week 35 - 24 points - @Storts - Week 37 - 24 points Most Perfect Scores in a Single Gameweek - @6666 - Week 1 - 5 - @Dan - Week 18 - 5 - @Lucas - Week 1 - 4 Finally, it's the Premier League Prediction League Hall of Fame.... 2015/16 - @Storts 2016/17 - @Rajabhat Rovers 2017/18 - @Lucas 2018/19 - @JoshBRFC 2019/20 - @Lucas 2020/21 - @Rajabhat Rovers 2021/22 - @Mark Mark 2022/23 - @Lucas 2023/24 - @Rajabhat Rovers Congratulations to @Rajabhat Rovers who is now the outright leader for most wins of the Premier League Prediction League! Thank you to everyone who took part this season. Hopefully you can all return for the next season which begins in just under 3 months! Before that, there is the Euro 2024 Prediction League & Cup Competition to take place this summer, so if you haven't joined up yet, please do HERE

Adding more fuel to the fire, Karl Marx was ethnically Jewish, as his father converted to Lutheranism before his birth. There are instances throughout history of Jewish people being persecuted for leftist ideals or even worse 'the Jewish Bolshevism' that communism was a Jewish plot to undermine western society through the use of 'cultural Marxism'. How ironic that someone would use the same tactics against leftists that Nazis used against Jewish people..

Only Robert Glatzel being one of three shared top scorers prevented the bonus round scores from being an utter embarassement. Bonus Round 1) Bluewolf 9 points 1) nawoo 9 points 1) Rucksackfranzose 9 points 4) Viva la FCB 8 points 5) Coma 7 points 5) Michael 7 points 7) londonerlilie 5 points 8- CaaC(John) 3 points 9) Stan 2 points 10) Tommy 1 point Congrats on the deserved win @Michael Final Table 1) @Michael 229 points 2) @Viva la FCB 219 points 3) @Bluewolf 214 points 4) @Tommy 211 points 5) @Coma 205 points 6) @CaaC (John) 202 points 6) @Stan 202 points 8- Rucksackfranzose 186 points 9) @nawoo 156 points 10) @londonerlilie 152 points Like in the Buli PL I'll post the relevant final standing to facilitate it for you to check your bonus round points. Top 3 teams 1) St Pauli 2) Kiel 3) Düsseldorf Bottom 3 teams 16) Wehen 17) Rostock 18) Osnabrück Largest goal margin Hannover 7-0 Osnabrück (6th matchday) Karlsruhe 7-0 Magdeburg (26th matchday) Winning teams: Hannover and Karlsruhe Losing teams: Osnabrück and Magdeburg Top Scorer Robert Glatzel, Haris Tabakovic, and Christos Tziolis 22goals each

Congrats to the winners and thank's for running this game Stan and I will look forward to the next one, this, to me, has always been my favourite game and through this I have learnt of teams that I have never heard of before.

Week 40 Results Hearts 3-3 Rangers Union Berlin 2-1 Freiburg Man Utd Women 0-6 Chelsea Women Bolton 2-0 Oxford New York City 2-1 New York RB Wehen 1-2 St Pauli Anderlecht 0-1 Club Brugge Galatasaray 0-1 Fenerbahce Granada 1-2 Celta Vigo Le Havre 1-2 Marseille Round-up Some more places decided in respective leagues across the world, and some winners of cup competitions too, not to mention promotions and relegations sorted out! Highest score came from last-place @Pyfish with 15 points. Meanwhile, the top 5 all scored 11 or 12 points but no movement in the rankings. All players barring myself scored a Perfect Score too.

Crawley sealed promotion with a clean-sheet victory over Crewe, first of the 2 goals coming at the end of the first half, in the 41st minute. No winners here! Lots went early for the first goal in Man City vs West Ham, but @Bluebird Hewitt got the closest to 2 minutes with his 3rd-minute pick. Table after Game 136: @Bluebird Hewitt goes up to 7th place and is now joint with @Bluewolf on 19 points.

Rest in piss, Raisi.

They have done it! Nice not to see Red Bullshit winning for a change.

Congrats @Michael well played bud. This was also a banger to predict, I was going to say harder but idk this Bundesliga 1 season was kind of all over too to some degree. Thanks for running again @Rucksackfranzose always fun to take part in.

Imagine if Arsenal had won at the Etihad instead of parking the bus

They should change the fixture schedule so the top teams from the previous season play each other in the last few games and likewise for the newly promoted sides and teams that finished near the bottom the season before. Having these foregone conclusion matches at the end takes away from the excitement. Imagine if last weekend you had City vs United and Arsenal vs Newcastle then this weekend it was Arsenal vs City? Gets rid of this tedious case where one team is 2 points clear with 10 games to go and 8 of their remaining fixtures are guaranteed wins.

I want to see him at Bayern just for the drama.

Congratulations to Chelsea Women for lifting a fifth straight Title in a row.. Thought the season might fade and they would end up with nothing but they turned it around in the last 3 games of the season to end on a high.. A fitting end to Emma Hayes time with the club and congrats to all players that made it happen..

Ladies and gents, we have a winner, the only question left is who will win the bonus round, still that has no bearing on the final table and won't be waited for by me, therefore. On a sidenote: Hats off to @Coma, while there were 4 players predicting another champion than Bayern, he was the only one winning the full 3 points for predicting them finishing on 3rd spot. Bonus round 1) 6666 15 points 2) Michael 14 points 3) Tommy 13 points 3) Viva la FCB 13 points 5) Coma 11 points 6) Stan 10 points 7) Bluewolf 8 points 7) CaaC (John) 8 points 9) nawoo 6 points 9) Rucksackfranzose 6 points Congrats 6666 on winning this year's edition! FINAL TABLE 1) @6666 254 points 2) @Tommy 248 points 3) @Michael 244 points 4) @Bluewolf 241 points 5) @Stan 240 points 5) @Viva la FCB 240 points 7) @Coma 211 points 8- Rucksackfranzose 198 points 9) @CaaC (John) 192 points 10) @nawoo 157 points Disclaimer: To make it easier for you to check your bonus round points here are the correspondending Buli final standings. Top 4 positions 1) Leverkusen 2) Stuttgart 3) Bayern 4) Leipzig Bottom 3 spots 16) Bochum 17) Köln 18) Darmstadt DFB-Pokal winner Leverkusen runner-up: Lautern semifinalists: Fortuna Düsseldorf and Saarbrücken Top scorer Harry Kane 36 goals

Results - Emilia Romagna Grand Prix Getting the results up quickly this week as we're going back to back with Monaco this weekend. As we can see, it's a very low-scoring week, with a certain Australian driver scuppering a lot of people's predictions. The non-Verstappen pole vote was split between Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris this week. It looked as if @Whiskey and @OrangeKhrush could have been in for a nice differential score here but Norris was pipped to 2nd place by Oscar Piastri in the final Q3 runs. It's been so long since nobody picked "pole position" correctly that I actually had to look up the rules to see if I ever gave out 2 points as a consolation to whoever got closest but I never have so it's 0 across the board for qualifying. Onto the race, and everyone picked 3 of 4 drivers to fill their non-Verstappen podium - Leclerc, Sainz, Perez and Norris. @Whiskey and @The Palace Fan hoovered up here, sticking Norris and Leclerc in their exact positions, while @OrangeKhrush was the only other person to bag 5 points for a driver in the exact correct spot. @RandoEFC, @Stan, @MUFC, @nudge, @Coma and @DeadLinesman all pick up 4 points for having 2 of the 3 drivers correct but neither in the right place. @Tommy suffered the most this weekend as he and @OrangeKhrush were the only ones to be let down by both Sainz and Perez. Nobody predicted Oscar Piastri in their top three or for pole position which is one of the two major reasons why we have such a low-scoring week. Onto the random driver, @RandoEFC and @OrangeKhrush were the only beneficiaries of Nico Hulkenberg's 11th placed finish so score 5 points each. @Tommy and @DeadLinesman can consider themselves unlucky to have missed by one position on either side. The Bonus Question turned out to be a dud this week. Of the 8 drivers trailing their team-mates in the championship (I omitted Hamilton and Bottas as "obvious" picks although even then, Bottas didn't beat his team-mate and Hamilton only did because of a weird decision by Mercedes), only the most ridiculous picks - Lance Stroll and Logan Sargeant - would have bagged 5 points here, and only because their team-mates retired. Gasly, Ricciardo, Piastri and Sainz all saw backing, but none of them were able to defy the form book to finish ahead of their team-mates on Sunday. A poor week overall, but joint Driver of the Day goes to @OrangeKhrush, @The Palace Fan and @Whiskey. @OrangeKhrush sneaking into double figures is enough for him to become the latest narrow leader of the Drivers' Championship, while previous leader @Stan is also overtaken by @RandoEFC. @The Palace Fan is still very much in the hunt with another strong score mitigating his no-show in China. If @Whiskey can continue to close on the competitors in front of him at a rate of 6 points a week, he'll be off the bottom of the table before the halfway point of the season despite missing three rounds of predictions. In the Constructors' championship, the only notable performance really was Red Bull's poor one, the only team to score anything other than 13-14 points. They lose a spot to Aston Martin in the standings while McLaren retain their lead overall. Monaco predictions will be posted tomorrow.