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“Just A Girl”:

Dontcha just love an International week?!

The latest perennial ” feast or famine” instalment proved to be as divisive as expected with thirteen players galloping to 40 points or more in Week 3.

But, the £20 was up for grabs right up to the last day – and what a day that was!

Julian F nearly fluked his way to a weekly win under the hallucinogenic visions of man flu, the current league champion began his march to the top, one of our own here at PAS Towers benefitted from some choice last minute action, Neil T had a super, erm, SunTuesday with 3 correct scores in a row and George T rallied superbly after missing the first four games…

Alas, if you get a 13 point start in the first game then you’re pretty much nailed on the to win the week right?

Wrong!

Well – 3 of the 4 who got that epic 9-0 scoreline fell by the wayside, but Jason Morris 53 (6) stormed home by getting his own 3 out of 4 correct scores on the final day benefitting fully from two last minute goals to boot!

Well done Jay, no doubt you’re the toast of “The Syndicate”!

 

 

“Don’t Speak”:

Feeding off scraps at the Bulgaria end of the week were 12 lost souls who failed to reach the heady heights of twenty points.

Seven of those were bereft of a correct score…in an International week – eeeek!

Arch point refuser this week was Richard Lee 16 (0).

At least Tran-me-air won though, eh Rich?

 

 

Correct Score of the Week:

If you weren’t in it, you really weren’t in it…most popular score was Slovakia’s 1-1 draw with Wales– 35 of us got that!

 

Twenty two were all over the 0-3 to Germany in Estonia

18 got the very annoying last minute spoiling Liechtenstein 0 Italy 5

Seventeen got A Seleção’s 3 goal demolition of Luxembourg

12 just knew Norn Iron would score against Holland for a 3-1

Nine quite rightly predicted Sweden’s 0-4 thrashing of Malta

4 secretly said prayers the “Saints of Nil” for the stalemate in Georgia, and they listened…

4 said “Me! Me! Look at me! Yes! Me!” for their ridiculous Belgium 9 San Marino 0

Julian F nailed France 1 Turkey 1

Mark J B nabbed the form book upsetting Coventry 0 Tranmere 1

James C saw his typo come good on the game in Prague starring England

 

However, this week’s best correct score goes to George Triantafillou for his I-live-in-an-upside-down-world-so-this-is-normal inspired, Scotland 6 San Marino 0!

 

 

Bet of the Week:

David G was on “Bet of the Week” position 33rd in Week 2 so we asked him to provide a treble selection for the £3 “trixie” bet.

And guess what?!

He did the business – not quite the ultimate, but fair play…

 

Rochdale to beat Accrington – in (the total football paid off!)

Pompey to draw with Gillingham – in (proper dull all that one…)

Southend to draw with AFC Wimbledon – out (ooops!)

 

So, £7.59 goes on “Bet of the Week” slot 33rd –  solid…

 

King Jazz Sian is 45th this week….

J, I need your 3 team treble by Friday please!

First one in with a full house??

 

 

 

Table News:

 

“Hella Good”:

Jason Morris moves up 24 places to go 4 points ahead of George T who in turn is three points ahead of Neil T in third.

 

Five crashed the Top Ten.

 

“Underneath It All”:

Jamie Fairhurst is still bottom, two points behind Shezan J, who in turn is 1 point adrift of Rich L…

 

“Hey Baby”:

Highest climber this week, up a whopping 51 places is Sam Arora – honourable mentions go to Dan H (+39), Pete B (+38), Stuart F (+43), Angelo H (+47), Tony M (+33), Ric P (+45), Alex T (+38), Mark J B (+30), Justin C (+37) and Neil O (+45)

 

“Spiderwebs”:

Falling furthest this week, down a whopping 46 places is Richard Hirst – dishonourable mentions go to Paul V (-33), Patricia F (-35), Debbie L (-29), Andy F (-40), Eddie O (-39), Jack B (-41), Simon Lindq (-38) and Alex R (-28)

 

Click here for further details…

 

 

PAS Champions League 2019/20 Knockout Stages:

Matchday 2 this week – fixtures can be found here

If you’re at “home” – don’t forget to play your “joker”!

 

Dates for your diaries – PAS CL Weeks

Matchday 2 – Week 4

Matchday 3 – Week 6

Matchday 4 – Week 8

Matchday 5 – Week 10

Matchday 6 – Week 12

 

PAS Cup 2020:

In order to be invited to enter the PAS Cup 2020 you will have to finish in the Top 32 after 13 weeks of play. Currently sneaking the last spot is the man at the Beeb…Chris Birch!

 

And Another Thing:

All but two of the payments are in – muchos gracias personas.

One thing I learnt this week is, NEVER EVER trust an old spreadsheet that you haven’t “double checked” in a while.

Yep, I found out that I’ve been subsidising the PAS prize money coffers to the tune of £300 a season for God knows how long cos I’m an idiot who just thought “well, it’s an expensive world, of course I’m a bit skint…”

Life lesson kids, life lesson… <monkey head in hands emoji> x 1,000

 

 

Twitter is dead & so is Instagram – but we’ve got a What’s App group!

Wanna join?

Why?

Well, I send round reminders that you don’t have to check your email for.

Erm…some people are quite funny (some are annoying) & hopefully, we’ll get some good pics of away fans at games.

We will crush any “hilarious GIFs” though…

Plus, you can gloat when you land that 9 pointer in the 91st minute!

Email me over your number and i’ll add ya ([email protected])

 

Cheers,

Pab

“Oi! Mercury 2008! Mon coude est meilleur que…attendez, nonnnnnnn?!!”

 

“What Love”:

After last week’s shenanigans it had to be a better week eh? Well, for me, no!

Yes, I did manage to not forget to do my scores.

But then Mr 2-0 decide to put in a barnstormer of a week and carried Chris B, Rob C & Anders H to the brink of an unprecedented triptych weekly win.

And, I then watched in abject horror as Liverpool and Palace stole two correct score draws from under my nose in last-minute controversies.

Woe is me.

I’m sure there were plenty of others with similar stories, but I’m just feeling a bit sorry for myself, it’s been a long week…    : (

So, around 18 people were in with a shout of nabbing the £20 prize (38 punters scored 20 points or more this week – which is good but also a bit rubbish) but it was my weekend drinking partner that managed to steal the accolade by way of that Liverpool penalty and the fact he had Stoke down to win. And win 1-2 to boot!

Alex Rossi 35 (6) has Week 2 forever next to his name now winning a poor week at a decent stretch.

Congrats mi Wool amigo, don’t be wasting that dosh on wine, women & song now will you…

 

“Come Save Me”:

We’ve got 100 real people playing this season (well done us!) but it would seem, with volume, comes complacency!

Two thirds couldn’t manage more than 19 points this week as correct scores were even more elusive than usual.

16 players registered “zero” in the column marked “CS” – eeeek!

However, (weirdly?) single-digit scores were attributed to only one.

Norman Lee 7 (0) you really are all alone this week…

 

 

Correct Score of the Week:

If you got even one this week…most popular score was Birmingham’s Friday night 89th minute 2-1 defeat of Boro– 19 of youse got that!

 

Twelve turned up Watford 0 Sheff Utd 0. Then sobbed a little bit as he thought of those poor souls who were actually there.

5 nailed Fulham 2 Charlton 2

Alex R, Stephen P & Debbie L somehow stumbled on Swansea 1 Stoke 2 (how????)

Richard H, David G & Alex R (again) landed on the two-two in the Highlands. Yep, that’s in Scotland…

Matt W, Ben H & David G (again) quite rightly predicted Rangers 5-0 thrashing of Hamilton

Mike K & Sam O thrilled at the thrilling Southampton 1 Chelsea 4

 

 

However, this week’s best correct score goes to Julian Fernandez for his VAR-is-well-cool-despite-what-my-bruv-says inspired, West Ham 1 Crystal Palace 2!

 

 

Bet of the Week:

We didn’t change it up!

Neil T was on “Bet of the Week” position 11th in Week 1 so we asked him to provide a treble selection for the £3 “trixie” bet.

And guess what?!

He did the doo! Kinda.

Solid start from the Belfast Boy…

 

Fulham to beat Charlton – cross (not quite sure how that didn’t happen though)

Sheff Wednesday to beat Wigan – tick (in Monk we trust…)

PNE to beat Barnsley – tick (whoomp, there it is!)

 

So, £2.12 goes on “Bet of the Week” slot 11th –  building…

 

So, Andy F & David G are in joint 33rd, but David Goggin was 1st out the hat.

Dave, I need your 3 team treble by Friday please!

No pressure matey…

 

 

 

Table News:

 

“Let Her Go”:

Kate Slee moves up 2 places to go 1 point ahead of Dave C who in turn is one point ahead of Ben McK in third.

 

Four crashed the Top Ten.

 

“Man I Need”:

Jamie Fairhurst remains rooted to the bottom of the pile one point behind then inseparable Norman L & Glynn F…

 

“The Throw”:

Highest climber this week, up a whopping 54 places is Rob Currin – honourable mentions go to Alex R (+48), Mr 2-0 (+39), Chris B (+41), Anders H (+48), Moi (+37), George T (+43) and Julian F (+52)

 

“Uncertainty”:

Falling furthest this week, down a whopping 40 places is Joe Massey – dishonourable mentions go to Norman L (-28), Paul D (-35), Tim P (-29), Nick W (-29), Stuart F (-38), Rowan M (-38), Clare T (-38), Patricia F (-28), Neil C (-36) and Mark S (-28)

 

Click here for further details…

 

 

PAS Champions League 2019/20 Knockout Stages:

Matchday 1 Group games went ahead this week…

It. Was. Erm. Exciting?

 

We had 5 successful jokers! 1 really successful joker! 4 hammerings! 1 heartbreaker! And, 6 away wins!

Two won their game with 15 points & 2 lost theirs with 22 points!

 

Early doors people, early doors…

 

Full fixtures & results can be found here

 

Dates for your diaries – PAS CL Weeks

Matchday 2 – Week 4

Matchday 3 – Week 6

Matchday 4 – Week 8

Matchday 5 – Week 10

Matchday 6 – Week 12

 

PAS Cup 2020:

In order to be invited to enter the PAS Cup 2020 you will have to finish in the Top 32 after 13 weeks of play. Currently sneaking the last spot is …Andy Fowler & David Goggin!

 

And Another Thing:

A lot of the payments have come in – thanks! Anyone who hasn’t got round to it, please do as soon as possible – don’t make me chase you!

 

 

Twitter is dead & so is Instagram – but we’ve got a What’s App group!

Wanna join?

Why?

Well, I send round reminders that you don’t have to check your email for.

Erm…some people are quite funny (some are annoying) & hopefully, we’ll get some good pics of away fans at games.

We will crush any “hilarious GIFs” though…

Plus, you can gloat when you land that 9 pointer in the 91st minute!

Email me over your number and i’ll add ya ([email protected])

 

Cheers,

Pab

“Oi! Mercury! Our Dave is better than your Dave…”

 

“Streatham”:

Oh man! It was a proper Funky Friday eh? The chaos of a new functionality not quite hitting the ground running had us in tailspin here at PAS HQ – and then some.

Dan was sunning himself in warmer climes and Dave was 5 pints deep in a big night out when it all kicked off (if you’re on our What’s App group – and why wouldn’t you be? – you saw the drama unfold blow by blow!).

Moi? I’ve no clue with tech stuff. I was frantically searching drawers for magic markers and planning how I could document & print out over 100 scoresheets! Basically, we were at Def Con 1 and I was that close to pushing the button marked “abandon week”…

Dan queued at passport control. I sobbed at the thought of losing players new & old just when it looked like we’d broke the 100 entrants barrier…then Dave did his stuff half cut in the night and hungover in the morning and the day, weekend – football! – was saved! Hooray for Dave – absolute star!

So apologies for the lateness of this update – i’ve been in shock. And in pubs…cos the upshot of all that drama was that I forgot to do my Saturday 3pm scores! Would you Adam & believe it?!

Anyway, as per usual, quite a lot of you clearly knew what I didn’t.

Best of the bunch?

Our own Streatham boy, Dave Crisp 41 (7) soul danced in front of the debutant Brett D, “Top Girl” Kate S & stalwart Simon Lindq courtesy of nailing one of only two stalemates in Week 1!

Those late late weekender nights did you no harm at all Crispy son!

If you got 30 points or more this week, you were one of 20 – I doff my cap, you jammy…

 

So, congrats to Mr C, £20 winging it’s way back to you ASAP – always the best week to win innit!

 

 

“Thiago Silva”:

Did you score more than Mr 2-0 this week?

Wow, I’m in awe…

55 of us couldn’t manage that this week.

Shocking.

Not as shocking as Sp*rs though eh?! <smiley face>

Four players didn’t manage a correct score and 4 couldn’t muster up a measly 15 points!

One “newbie” feeling more “Sp*rsy” than others though is Jamie Fairhurst 11 (0).

A woeful debut sees him at the bottom of the pile in the opening week – but he did have the just as hapless newcomer Glynn F for company though…

Like father like son eh J?!

 

 

Correct Score of the Week:

It’s gonna be one of those season’s again…most popular score was Man City’s 1-3 win at Everton – 29 of youse got that!

Twenty one got Bournemouth’s “Desmond” with West Ham

17 banked the five point  2-2 betwixt Hull & Cardiff

Nine more we’re so happy for Villa 2-2 Burnley they will actually wear that ballet dress…

4 got the dull-all at St Mirren Park

Dave C, Kate S & Andy F celebrated the bore draw between Kilmarnock & Ross County

Neil O & Greg F just knew Barnsley would score against Brentford for a 1-3

Neil C & Tim P obviously guessed Derby would beat Birmingham 3-2

Eddie O was well away with the 1-2 away win for Luton

New boy Matthew M made us all green by happening upon Sheff Utd 0-1 Liverpool

 

However, this week’s best correct score goes to Ben McKeown for his Friday-night-last-minute-9-pointer-thriller inspired, Stoke 2 Nottm Forest 3! 

 

 

Bet of the Week:

So, we’ve failed quite spectacularly in the last few seasons on this – actually, we’ve always failed.

So!

This year, we’re being brave and we’re gonna stick with it to see, with hope, how we go! Again…

How?

Whoever is on the “Bet of the Week” position for the following week will be asked to provide a treble selection so we can place the allocated £3 for the bet.

The winnings will stay on that slot and collected by the lucky person residing there at the end of Week 13.

Got that? No?!

OK…

The person on 11th will make the selections for Week 2, the person on 33rd in Week 2 will make the selections for Week 3,the person on 45th in Week 3 will make the selections for Week 4 and the person on 65th in Week 4 will make the selections for Week 5 and back round again to 11th…yeah?!

Good.

So, Steve M, Neil T, Mark S & Neil C are all in joint 11th, but Neil Templeton was 1st out the hat.

Neilster, I need your 3 team treble by Friday please! No pressure son…

 

 

 

Table News:

It’s Week 1 – it is what it is! Click here for the full table.

Please be aware we may lose some players but we may gain some – so if you know anyone out there who wants to get involved, put them in touch! It’s never too late…and we’re soooooo close to that magical 100 player benchmark, so go get ’em people!

 

PAS Champions League Group Stages 2019/20:

Starts next week! Matchday 1 fixtures can be found here

If you’re at “home” – don’t forget to play your “joker”!

 

Dates for your diaries – PAS CL Weeks

Matchday 1 – Week 2

Matchday 2 – Week 4

Matchday 3 – Week 6

Matchday 4 – Week 8

Matchday 5 – Week 10

Matchday 6 – Week 12

 

 

PAS Cup 2020:

In order to be invited to enter the PAS Cup 2020 you will have to finish in the Top 32 after 13 weeks of play. Currently sneaking the last spot is …quite a few people actually!

 

And Another Thing:

A lot of the payments have come in – thanks! Anyone who hasn’t got round to it, please do as soon as possible – don’t make me chase you!

 

 

Twitter is dead & so is Instagram – but we’ve got a What’s App group!

Wanna join?

Why?

Well, I send round reminders that you don’t have to check your email for.

Erm…some people are quite funny (some are annoying) & hopefully, we’ll get some good pics of away fans at games.

We will crush any “hilarious GIFs” though…

Plus, you can gloat when you land that 9 pointer in the 91st minute!

Email me over your number and i’ll add ya ([email protected])

 

Cheers,

Pab