L13 Winter 2008 : Week 2 BotW

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Bet of the Week comes from Week 1 winner Martin Stafford – a lot of thought gone into this!

In these difficult economic times it may be better to pursue shorter prices and if it were my last fiver, I’d commit Wigan heresy and back Saint Helens in the rugby league grand final, there is poor value on offer though a 8.5 point handicap will only give 6/4 in a two horse race…

However in the spirit of PAS, its always better to go for a football accumulator…

Landing 3 draws will pay you approx 30/1 so split the fiver in a on an optimistic acca

Sunday has plenty of draws: Chelsea v Villa, Everton v Newcastle and Man City v Liverpool all to draw £2.50

You could always use the other £2.50 to then cover the 3 doubles in some face saving cover bet or because someone has to win at chelsea sooner or later chase value by putting the other £2.50 on Villa to win at chelsea (11/2 and probably longer on betfair)

(obviously a Chelsea win would ruin this so if you want to play safe back Saints on saturday in the M62 rugby grand final)

Confused? Play safe? Never!

I’ll break it down and make it simple for you (and edit the choices!)

  • £2.50 on St Helen’s to win with a 8.5 point handicap @ 6/4
  • £2.50 on Chelsea / Everton / Man City draw treble @ 30/1

Follow it if you dare!

Cheers
Pab

Result: LOSE! -£5

L13 Winter 2008 : Week 1

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Tigers! Tigers! :
In a mixed week for Wiganers (lose the rugby / win in the football / pies a bit too hot for the clement weather…) local boy Martin Stafford 40(7) was the on the upbeat side taking the first weekly prize of £20 AND the first weekly win of the new regime (did you get a 0-0?!). Well done Martin, I think a trip to your local DVD emporium to buy the last season of The Wire is on the cards yeah?! It’s brilliant, just wait til you see what happens to M–snip!
Toon! Toon! :
It’s always been girls allowed in PAS but debutant Louise Briggs & veteran Clare Nevin 10(0) really let the side down with this weeks worst score. Apparantly Louise is sooooo embarassed she’s hopped off to Oz
Correct Score of the Week :
Loads of you got the old skool 7 pointer that is now a 5 pointer called Rangers, 5 got Wigan beating the “team that will ruin football forever with their silly money”, amazingly, Matt W / Danielle F / Dave C / Anthony L all got Celtic’s 9 pointer 3-2, cunningly, Nick H / Neil T / Martin S / Lisa G got the only new 8 pointer that is 0-0 (Barnsley – Norwich) and Mark McD got 5 points for his Burnley 3 PNE 1. However, this weeks best score was Will Oppong’s Reading 4 Swansea 0. Eight lovely points my Gooner bruvver!
Bet of the Week:
For all you newbies, the Weekly winner gets a chance to lenfd you his or her expertise and guide you where to place a fiver when you visit the bookies at the weekend (everybody does that right?!). The bet can be on absolutely anything (we’ve F1 bets before, a few gee gees and plenty of madcap accumulators) and the idea is for us all to follow the advice and win some money! Over the years we’re about even all told so let’s hope Martin S gets us off to a flyer! The BotW will be maied round with the last reiminder and my scores on a Friday…
Table:
Week 1 is attached – all prize money will be added on once I have the all players paid up and confirmed…which leads nicely to…
Money!:
If you’ve paid up – thanks! If you haven’t – as soon as please! (contact me for payment details)
Other Stuff:
Spot the good and bad in this email? “Can you put me down for 4-0 for utd, arsenal and chelsea. 1-1 for liverpool. celtic and rangers 3-0 Newcastle beaten 0-1 and the rest 3-0” That’s right! Good that the player mailed me a few scores cos they didn’t have time and bad asking for 3-0 for “the rest”. If you cant/don’t complete all your scores you can ONLY have 2-0 as a “blanket” score! Got that? Good. We have our analysts poring tirelessly over the entries weeding out any spoilers, so don’t do it kids – just say no! I In this case, 2-0 gave the player a better score anyway!

And Another Thing: did you get beaten by a 12 week old???!

Cheers,
Pab

L13 Winter 2008 : Pre Season

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We’ve had a flurry of interested punters, the scoresheets are being processed, the huge-ever-pulsating-scoring-matrix-that-makes-tells-us-the-weekly-winner-and-compiles-the-league-table has been fired up by the coal monkeys and we’re almost ready to confiem this season’s runners and riders…involved yet? C’mon, you know you wanna….

We start on weekend 27th/28th September 2008!

If you’re a newcomer (hola!) or a regular (welcome back!), check out the “Rules” on www.pabspace.co.uk – they tell you all you need to know & hopefully it will all make sense!

Send this on to anyone you know who might be interested and get them to mail me so I can add them to the list – the more, the merrier, the more money in the kitty to be won!

P-A-S rocks! You get to show off how good you are at guessign scores! There’s a end of year poll where you get to show off how cool your music taste is! You get to show off how much money you take off the bookies in the “Bet of the Week” feature! Basically, it’s showing off…

Don’t take my word for it, check these testimonials…

  • “I play P-A-S and I’m not mental” – K Charters
  • “I put Palace to win every game. Sometimes they do. It’s all about the long game” – G Blackburn
  • “I was sooooo excited and giddy about playing the legendary PAS I wet myself…” – L Gray
  • “I know about football and I know PAS not only enhances your judgement for fixed odds betting it can be a considerable source of income in itself” – J Sain
  • “I’m a girl and even I won a weekly prize – so two fingers up to you tw*tty boys who think you know everything!” – M Webster
  • “I tried to play the system by putting in 3-1 blanket scores every week. I got found out and banned. Now I’m in jail. Don’t do it kids..” B Hannan
  • “I just threw dice for my scores and finished bottom – I don’t recommend this” – A Bennet-Dawson
  • “F*ck the football, why was Mark Ronson in the Top 5 albums last year?!” – S Morrissey
  • “I used to play religiously every season and now I live in Australia!” – J Fonas
  • “Don’t let your heart rule your head – Rangers always win 3-0 – it’s a nailed on 7 pointer” – C O’McGoldrick
  • “I give my winnings to homeless smackheads” – Mr. 2-0

Anyway… The all leagues have kicked off, so time to start honing those footie predicting skills, watching every game on telly, swotting up on the reports in the papers, poring over the league tables and ignoring every single “tip of the week” from the pro punters – enjoy!

I’ll BE SENDING THIS INVITE OUT A FEW MORE TIMES AND THEN I’ll LEAVE YOU ALONE UNTIL NEXT YEAR… PROMISE!

Cheers,
Pab

PS – remember, getting involved will seriously change your Saturday afternoons for 13 weeks and Geoff Stelling will cheer and dismay you in equal measures! Go on, you know you want to… plus, it’s a real “water cooler” moment on a Monday morning at work!

Euro 2008 : Finals (Complete)

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Hola!

Well that was good wasn’t it?!

Congrats to our winners – Jon Tofeili 47 (9 + 1) was the deserved winner just keeping out Ciaran McG 45 (4 + 10). Jon A 32 (4 + 7) was top of the chasing pack in 3rd place and Dave N 31 (2 +12) has Fernando Torres to thank for securing him the last prize spot as his goal last night gave him the edge over Martin S who nearly completed a remarkable comeback from spending most of the month in the wooden spoon slot. Speaking of which, Tim Birtwisle 16 (0 + 4) is now the not-so-proud owner (but at least you get £5 back mate – you paid me too much!)

Neil M, Mr 2-0 and Matt W all landed in the “spot prize” slot – as Mr 2-0 doesn’t exist I will donate “his” winnings to the first homeless person I see once I’ve been to the bank later (we care a lot!)

Mark F has the consolation of having a home and now £5 for his “best correct score of the tournament” (Croatia 2 Germany 1).

Thanks for taking part – all winners’ prize money will be whizzed over asap – we start all over again in September, your job now is to go and recruit as many new players as possible!

Watch out for some rule changes as we enter our 20 year anniversary here at PAS, also, we’re very close to a “online” entry scoresheet, so that may be available too. (I’ll be asking a few of you to site test in August if Dave N’s plans all come together)

Cheers, enjoy the summer! I will be in touch…
Pab.

Euro 2008 : Semi Finals (Complete)

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Ahhh, the magic of Predict-a-Score!

Martin S had all but given up and resigned himself to the wooden spoon 4 games ago and now he’s in the prize money positions – Ciaran McG had settled for second at best, now he’s giving a Jon T a real run for the title!

Why? Both of the lucky gits benefited from Lahm’s last minute winner over the robbed Turks – however, as they both got the score right they cancelled each other out, so as we go into the final game Mark F still has the “Best Correct Score of the Tournament”

Final scoresheet back to me by 19.44 on Sunday please

Cheers!
Birthday Pab (43 – jeez!)

Euro 2008 : Quarter Finals (Complete) – After 28 Games

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Still all to play for – even Martin S can get in the prize frame with 3 games to go!

Looks like Jon T will be crowned Euro champion bar some freaky high scores and Tim B will need to pull a correct score out of the bag to avoid the wooden spoon.

Semi final scoresheets back to me by Wednesday 25th June by 19.44

Cheers!
Pab.

Euro 2008 : Group Stage – After 22 Games

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Hola!

2 games to go in the Group stage and it looks like Jon Tofeili has all but tied up the Euro crown – only a spectacular loss of form or some outrageous late form from the rest will stop him.or loads of goals from players with a team left in the tournament (come on Turkey!).

All to play for in the other prize positions though as literally everyone bar the bottom three can still realistically make it – Matt Davies is sitting pretty in third no doubt with a wry smile on his smug little face as his “tactical decision to rely on Italy and Mr 2-0 putting him up there” has indeed, put him up there.

Unreserved apologies to Martin Stafford as he correctly pointed out this won’t be his third spoon in a row but in fact his second – the special golden commemorative outsize piece of cutlery has gone back into storage ready to come out for the end of PAS L13W08 then.

Attached is the Quarter Final scoresheet – back to me by 19.44 TOMORROW please – I’ve left Holland to play either Sweden or Russia – please delete accordingly.

Cheers!
Pab.

Euro 2008 : Group Stage – After 20 Games

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Hola!

20 games in, we enter the final third…

Jon T doesn’t need bonus goals as cuts an impressive swathe at the top – a 7 player peleton is scrapping for the rest of the prize positions whilst at the bottom Martin S is still on course for an unprecedented 3 wooden spoons in a row…

Cheers!
Pab.

Euro 2008 : Pre-Season

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22 entrants for this years elite competition – as you know the Top 16 were all to be entered into a draw for a finalist team to earn them bonus points for every goal they score in the tournament.

Mrs F conducted the draw despite being heavily pregnant and needing a wee every 4 minutes – as always, he who organises the draw gets the last team in the hat. Boo!

The draw as it happened…

  1. Clare Nevin – Croatia
  2. Nick Hogwood – Austria
  3. Tim Birtwisle – Czech Republic
  4. Tony Bowley – Sweden
  5. Jon Allin – Portugal
  6. Ciaran McGoldrick – Germany
  7. Gareth Morgan – Romania
  8. Danny Ashworth – Greece
  9. Matt Davies – Italy
  10. Jon Tofeili – Poland
  11. Will Oppong – Switzerland
  12. Mark Fawke – France
  13. Neil Meredith – Holland
  14. Dave Nicklin – Spain
  15. Ben Hogwood – Russia
  16. Pab – Turkey

PAS Euro 2008 will commence on Saturday June 7th @ 6pm

Top 32 we leave you here – I will be in touch in September about Lucky 13 Winter 2008.

Top 16 – we continue on the next email.

Salud!
Pab.

L13 Spring 2008 : Week 13 – Final Result

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Top Bananas
Congrats to Nick Hogwood winning his first scudetto and almost £200 for the season – Nick moved up 3 places to edge out non mover Will Oppong in second and Week 13 winner (and the week’s highest climber!) Tony Bowley in third. Matt Davies’s “Best Correct Score of the Season” (unlucky Barrie R!) helped put him in 4th just above long term leader Neil Meredith in fifth by virtue of 5 more correct scores (there’s always the PAS Cup for Neil or will it be time for a verse of “I’m Forever Blowing Doubles”?). Jon Allin, Mark Fawke & Danny Ashworth all fell a few places to take up 6th,7th & 8th respectively and Ben Hogwood and Dave Nicklin stayed put in 9th and 10th. It was nice to have a member of the PAS Board in the prize positions cos I’m not gonna mention who finished in the “ouch” slot….
Spotters
Gareth Morgan got just reward for his fine BotW in 13th, Janine Ryan made use of several people doing her scores by claiming 17th (unfortunately just outside the Euro 2008 qualification spot though – more later…) Jazz Sian probably had his worst season ever but still managed to win some money in 27th (congrats/envy is due to Jazz as he has now officially passed the £1,000 prize money barrier – amazing!). Howard Thomas plugged away landing on 32 and John Williamson is what PAS is all about (sending in scores all the way from Japan!) persevering to get the last money position on 42nd.
European Adventure
Jon Tofeili dropped nicely into 16th position to take the last slot for PAS Euro 2008…here’s the boring, but essential bit – Top 16 it’s a fiver to play Euro 2008 – let me know if you don’t want to play – I’ll take your entry fee from your prize money if you actually won some. ANYONE ELSE who wants to join us in Switzerland/Austria has to pay a tenner and certain rules apply – let me know if you’re interested asap!
Wooden Spoon
It went to the wire (kind of) but in the end Martin Stafford refused to let go of the spoon he won last season and will now have another to remind him of his shame!
PAS Cup:
Can Neil Meredith salvage something from a promising season? Will Mark McDowell be the PAS Cardiff and upset the form book? All will be revealed on May 22nd… don’t worry you’ll all be kept in the loop, willingly or not!

Thanks for you participation once again, we couldn’t do it without you – it all starts again in September – you WILL be emailed!

Cheers,
Pab.