A few things to note:

• Pam R is Top Girl
• Pam D isn’t bottom
• Mr 2-0 did really well this week and no one was with him
• Matt G – nothing to do with the table, but are you aware of the Palace – Coventry score??? He he he! I take it our annual agreement is in full affect…

All prizes are valid at the end of Week 13.

New prize – we’ve added the “Close, But You Actually Get A Cigar” slot on 11th. Fresh back from Cuba, it’s a splendid big bad boy from the range Fidel used to personally hand out to visiting dignitaries. Mark McD will vouch it takes about a day to smoke…

To be invited to PAS Spring 2007 / PAS Cup 2007 you need to finish in at least 32nd postion.

Funds for the Cup competition currently stand at £117.50 – nice!

Week 2 scoresheet to follow…

Cheers,
Pab

Hot :

The freak football money machine that is Jazz Sian moves increases his lead to an astounding 25 points. He may have name that sounds like a z-list Welsh female lounge act but his predicting is TOTP. Tony B, Dan R & Mark J B lead the chase in vain…

Cold :

Pieman supreme, Neil Birchall languishes 10 points adrift of Danny B who is reflecting the Chelsea model of consistency

Bubbling :

Highest climber this week is Greg Edwards up a giant stairwell of 30 places to 28th – props to Tony B (+28), Mark J B (+22) and Ben H (+24)

Tepid :

Gary Blackburne may be good at shooting clay pigeons but he’s dropped the most places this week (-22) to 27th – those to scoff at are Neil M (-14), Craig P G (-18), Mr. 2-0 (-17), Clare N (-16), Ben McK (-17) and Pam D (-17)

Marmite :

Love it or hate it, finishing here on Week 13 will bring a you a big jar of Guinness Marmite – Mark McD has his knife at the ready and toast in the toaster…

Spotters :

Current residents are 14th – Janine R (-14), 17th – Mark F (non mover (again!)), 23rd – Martin S (+11), 33rd – Simon L (non mover), 39th – Gareth M (+10), 46th – Jon T (-10), 58th – Pam D (-17) and 64th – Ben A (-10)

Cup 2007 :

At the end of Week 13 you need to be where Julian F is ( -4) to qualify for the Lucky 13 Spring 2007 & the Big PAS Cup!

Fratton Park :

He needed anything but a Villa win and my good friends at the Lane made him sweat for it! Thanks to the 2nd best defender in France last year (the first was Sagna, natch) Tony Bowley 49 (8) picks up the £20 weekly prize and posts a handsome winning score that will be hard to beat this season. Well done Mr B, I’m sure you can buy back Marlon Harewood for Forest with that fistful of cash…

Deepdale :

As uninspiring as Man Yoo grinding out another 1-0, Pam Dyson 12 (0) is hoping for better things after this current flop.

Correct Score of the Week :

Twelve monkeys got Celtic’s 3-0, six of the best got Hearts 1 – 3 at St Mirren and Stephen P & Danielle F got 8 points for Hull City 3 Ipswich Town 1. Correct score of the Week this week goes to Wayne Connolly for his inspired PNE 0 Bristol City 0. It’s not all goals goal goals y’know…

Bet of the Week :

4 out of 7 was good but not good enough when you need 7 out of 7. We go into Week 3 £10 down and looking to Tony B to recoup…

News :

Ever wondered what your fellow PASer’s look like? See that Steven Beale, that’s Mark Fawke that is!

Cheers,
Pab

Esplendido :

He’ll be flinging toffees back at the players when he’s next at Goodison – Mark J Brown 40(4) is flush with Week 1’s £20 prize. Well done my Scouse friend – will you be spending the money on elocution lessons or losing it all in 30 seconds at the online casino?

Cigarillo:

PAS virgin Mark McDowell 12(0) won’t forget losing his cherry for a long long while after this first time flop. Predicting the score for AFC Wimbledon is a long way from playing with the big boys Marky! Stick to the ping pong son…

Correct Score of the Week:

Dreams are quite often hard to decipher. Of course, it all makes sense now! What I thought was a eight in the Land of Nod was actually a three – ho hum… Loads of you back in reality knew the Arse would get three against The Sheffield Tavern. Likewise for the Jambos 1-3 and amazingly, the 0-0 between Leicester and Colchester. Props to John G (Ipswich 3 Sunderland 1), Mark J B (Plymouth 3 Norwich 1) and Howie T / Matt G (Southend 0 Cardiff 3) but this weeks accolade goes to Ben Alder for his Reading 1 Man Utd 1 prediction – which leads us nicely to…

Bet of the Week :

Our very own World Champion (where’s the photo with the Cup??) Simon L was tasked on the opening week and his “safe” treble fell at the final hurdle thanks to Palace legend Stevie Coppell putting out a side to stop “unbeatable” Man Yoo – boo hoo! We go into Week 2 £5 to the bad. Mark J Brown is next up. It should be good kids – he likes a flutter.

Table News :

I’ll send round the first table a bit later on – see below.

All info will be up on the NEW (this!) webpage – but I’m not telling you where it is yet cos it’s not quite finished….Week 2 scoresheet and Week 1 table will mailed round later…

Cheers,
Pab

Can you believe Jazz Sian got the 7-4!!

Well he didn’t – but he will finish 2nd or 3rd again this week – the man is a machine – someone stop him!

This week’s winner will either Tony Bowley or Mark J Brown

Mark needs 0-1 to Villa to win it or any Villa win to split the weekly prize.

Any other score and Tony will win his first week in his debut season.

Cheers,
Pab

Top One:

Rather ominously Jazz Sian moves to the head of the peleton early doors with a nice 13 point buffer to boot – Neil M and Dave McS head the chasing pack.

Not Sorted:

Poor Neil Birchall stays rooted to the bottom 7 points adrift of predicting car-crash that is Jon A

Up Up Up!:

Highest climber this week is (fairly obviously) Howard Thomas up a whopping 46 places to 6th – respeck is due to Craig P-G (+26), Dan R (+24), Matt H (+31) and Ben McK (+32) who all had the foresight to realise the default score would do just nicely this week. Tim B (+36) actually submitted a scoresheet.

Down Down:

Falling furthest was our celtic friend across the water Ciaran McGoldrick who managed to plunge 31 places to 56th – those also not worthy of a mention are Mark G (-20), Simon L (-21), Martin S (-20), Jon T (-27) and Phil C (-21)

Marmite:

Love it or hate it, finishing here on Week 13 will bring a you a big jar of Guinness Marmite (it was a limited edition when I bought it but now the market seems to be flooded with it!). Craig P-G has his knife at the ready and toast in the toaster…

Spotters:

Spot prizes are well worth winning eh? Current residents are 14th. Donna E (-7), 17th. Mark F (non mover), 23rd. Michelle F (-1), 33rd. Simon L (-21), 39th. Olly O (+23), 46th. Anne C (+9), 58th. Greg E (-4) and 64th. Ben H (-4)

Cup 2007:

At the end of Week 13 you need to be where Will O is ( -5) to qualify for the Lucky 13 Spring 2007 & the Big PAS Cup!

Cheers,
Pab

Class 1 (h)Omlette :

In a pig of a week for predicting scores (what’s going on in the Scottish Prem??) getting over 20 points was an achievement – when Mr 2-0 has the 4th best score you know it’s bad… So, getting 30 plus is really going some (well done Tim B and Jazz S – you’re the bridesmaid for the 2nd week on the trot!) – congrats then to Howard “Hitman Howie T” Thomas for his v impressive 36 (4) that included 13 bonus goal points. Nice. Having recently given up being a bou- I mean, “door technician”, Howie will find the £20 a welcome income cos we all know our favourite people in clubs are really poorly paid for a dangerous job and that’s why they get angry and have to put punters nose first through fire doors… Don’t hit me! don’t hit me!

Bad Egg :

I think we’ve got a new record lo-score folks – Jon Allin 5 (0) has recorded a score that even a rugby loving breeze block could better. If they could use email of course.

Correct Score of the Week:

Loads (13) got Rangers, half a dozen got WBA’s 2-3 at Scunny (yeah, that’s how weird this week was!), Danielle F, Steve B, Mark McD & Richard L got Arsenal’s 5-0 cruise v a pub team from Derby, Howard T & Scott A got Gretna 3 Dundee Utd 2 (how?) and Mark F got the Toon’s 3-1 v Bad Boy Inc… However, on his birthday, Dave Nicklin takes this week’s, and new best of the season score with Stoke City 3 Plymouth 2.

Bet of the Week :

The curse of a weekly win strikes again. I failed. Miserably. I blame Benitez (Michael Parkinson, that mad man @ Tynecastle, Helen Mirren and the hapless Mr Jol). We are now £5 down looking to Howie T to come up with 7 winning teams for Week 3.

News:

Arsenal are going to win the League.

A few bods still haven’t managed to get their money in – this week please or you’re on the “Hall of Shame”! No. Really. Don’t make me do it…

Cheers,
Pab.

The Cadbury’s Gorilla:

Dontcha just love it when a plan comes together? Sven swans in @ 16/1 to pick up the August “Manager of the Month”, City win on Sunday @ 13/8, go second making a mockery of the early prices/point spread in the Handicap/Total Points markets and Arsenal are cruising at the top and, more importantly, are 9 points clear of Sp*rs with a game in hand. Add to that a lovely little 5-0 prediction to get the ball rolling, it’s no surprise you pick up the £20 prize for Week 1. Ahhh yes, I can feel it coming in the air tonight and some of that money will be spent on a big f*ck off bar of choc (seeing as I’m on the wagon at the mo). Just to confirm then, 40 (5) tops the pile…

Rubbish Monkey:

What would you rather have? A broken metatarsal or a score of 8(0)? Neil Birchall and Emile discuss… (whilst eating a pie, natch)

Correct Score of the Week:

Loads of us got the Arsenal score (as predicted weeks ago – see below) and the Celtic score, a few less got the Sheff Utd 8 pointer and Phil C, Jon T, Donna E picked up 9 points for Watford 3 Soton 2 – lots of last minute goals in those games make it all the sweeter! However, the CSotW has to be unique, so hats off to Mark Grey who accurately guessed West Ham 3 Boro 0.

Bet of the Week:

Our reigning champ sent in his selections a bit too late to send round (and they were rubbish anyway) so we’ll kick this off in Week 2 with yours truly. We’ll make it a bit easier to follow this season too. If you win a weekly prize you’ll be asked to use your football predicting skills to win the rest some scant consolation. The idea is to advise which 7 teams to select for a £5 accumulator. I’ll be sending round my magnificent seven on Friday…

News:

Remember this from Sep 3rd? “Week 1 scoresheet will be mailed round on Monday 10th September. Cheers, Pab. PS – Week 1 features Spurs – Arsenal, I’m looking at an eight pointer…” Obviously I knew it would be 1-3 (as did four other Gooners and one Sp*rs fan – well done Johnny W!) but our favourite (betting genius) son took it one step further… “Hi Pab, I noticed you mentioned ’8’ points for the Spurs-Ars game a week or two ago in one of your emails, and I thought he could only mean 3-1. You’ve had a few of these predictions come in before so I stuck a few quid on it. I also had Spurs HT, Arsenal FT, as well as Spurs to score first and fail to win. They all came in but I’d have been glad to lose the tenner or so I put on them!!” The man is a bookie bashing legend…

A few bods still haven’t managed to get their money in – this week please or you’re on the “Hall of Shame”!

Things We Would’ve Liked To Hear This Weekend At The Match – “Oh you can freeze 500 mill, and you can freeze 500 more, Cos Thaksin’s got another billion underneath his bedroom floor, SHIN-A-WATRA! SHIN-A-WATRA!” Chant of the season so far, from Man City fans to the tune of The Proclaimers’ “500 miles”.