Houdini

It doesn't look like anyone will stop Coventry this season. 10 points clear of 2nd and 3rd already!

Newcastle have been inconsistent all season so after beating City on the weekend a match like this was likely to happen.

Standings at the end of Gameweek 12: Main league 1. Brett Buttler - A Cunha Matatta 704 pts 2. Liam Sota - 23 (Twenty Three) 693 pts 3. Mack - Mackington United 672 pts 4. Houdini - New Dog. New Tricks 642 pts 5. Sarah - MarshoFC 640 pts 6. Dobbo - Cunha Believe It? 630 pts 7. Viper* - Pain In Diaz 626 pts 8. awardinary - Ha'Cunha Mateta 575 pts 9. Herbs - Herbilore 510 pts Head to head league 1. Liam Sota - 23 (Twenty Three) 27 pts (9 wins, 0 draws, 3 losses) 2. Mack - Mackington United FC 24 pts (8 wins, 0 draws, 4 losses) 3. Sarah - MarshoFC 24 pts (8 wins, 0 draws, 4 losses) 4. Houdini - New Dog. New Tricks 18 pts (6 wins, 0 draws, 6 losses) 5. Dobbo - Cunha Believe It? 18 pts (6 wins, 0 draws, 6 losses) 6. awardinary - Ha'Cunha Mateta 18 pts (6 wins, 0 draws, 6 losses) 7. AVERAGE 9 pts (3 wins 0 draws, 9 losses) 8. Herbs - Herbilore 6 pts (2 wins, 0 draws, 10 losses) Gameweek 12 results: Herbilore 41-62 (Twenty Three), MarshoFC 33-56 Cunha Believe It?, Mackington United 56-53 New Dog. New Tricks, Ha'Cunha Mateta 42-39 AVERAGE Gameweek 13 fixtures: (Twenty Three) Vs Ha'Cunha Mateta, AVERAGE Vs Mackington United, New Dog. New Tricks Vs MarshoFC, Cunha Believe It? Vs Herbilore

This Week's Results: 1st DJHazey 21 pts 2nd King Rollo 19 pts 3rd Steve201 18 pts 4th Viper*, Dobbo 17 pts 6th Sarah 16 pts 7th Flatcap, Mack, Houdini 14 pts 10th LiamSime 13 pts 11th Rooney 12 pts 12th LewisGT 11 pts 13th Suedehead2 7 pts Standings: = 1st Rooney, King Rollo 164 pts 3rd Houdini 160 pts 4th Dobbo 156 pts = 5th Sarah, Steve201 140 pts 7th LiamSime 134 pts 8th Mack 131 pts = 9th Suedehead2, DJHazey 130 pts 11th Flatcap 126 pts 12th LewisGT 123 pts 13th awardinary 115 pts 14th Viper* 101 pts 15th Liam Sota 33 pts Fixtures (All kick of times are 15:00 GMT unless stated otherwise) Saturday 29th November Brentford Vs Burnley Manchester City Vs Leeds United Sunderland Vs AFC Bournemouth Everton Vs Newcastle United (17:30) Tottenham Hotspur Vs Fulham (20:00) Sunday 30th November Crystal Palace Vs Manchester United (12:00) Aston Villa Vs Wolverhampton Wanderers (14:05) Nottingham Forest Vs Brighton & Hove Albion (14:05) West Ham United Vs Liverpool (14:05) Chelsea Vs Arsenal (16:30) Well done to DJHazey on winning this week. Thank you to everyone who took part this week.

Arne Slot out? who would have thought that 12 months ago!

Saturday 22nd November Burnley 1-3 Chelsea (12:30) AFC Bournemouth 2-0 West Ham United Brighton & Hove Albion 2-1 Brentford Fulham 1-1 Sunderland Liverpool 1-0 Nottingham Forest Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-2 Crystal Palace Newcastle United 0-3 Manchester City (17:30) Sunday 23rd November Leeds United 2-2 Aston Villa (14:00) Arsenal 2-0 Tottenham Hotspur (16:30) Monday 24th November Manchester United 1-0 Everton (20:00)

Alpine: Colapinto vs Gasly [Q,R] Aston Martin: Alonso [R] vs Stroll [Q] Ferrari: Leclerc [Q,R] vs Hamilton Haas: Ocon vs Bearman [Q,R] McLaren: Norris [Q,R] vs Piastri Mercedes: Antonelli vs Russell [Q,R] Racing Bulls: Hadjar [Q] vs Lawson [R] Red Bull: Verstappen [Q,R] vs Tsunoda Sauber: Bortoleto vs Hulkenberg [Q,R] Williams: Albon [Q,R] vs Sainz Jr Pole Position: Norris Winner: Norris Fastest Lap: Norris

Spain beat Costa Rica 7-0 in the 2022 World Cup and that was before they levelled up to become the Nations League & Euro 2024 winning team that they turned into. I read that the record is a 10-1 win for Hungary against EL Salvador in the 1982 World Cup and going into that tournament they had never won the World or European Cup before and managed to be able to get a win like that. I can't compare like for like but it might be the case that the top teams now are stronger than the likes of Hungary back then so it could be a possibility. I hope it doesn't happen though, if every match could be a 5-5 or 5-4, 4-3 , 3-3 thriller that would suit me haha. And yes you're right about teams finishing with 0 points and no goals not being new.

From the list of teams mentioned in pot 4 that have been in the World Cup before Haiti lost all of their matches in 1974 and so did Congo in that same tournament. Iraq lost all of their matches in 1986, Qatar were abysmal in their own 2022 World Cup. New Zealand lost all of their matches in 1982 but managed to draw all three in the 2010 group stage. Those teams are there to make up the numbers really and when they come up against teams from pot 1 they're going to take heavy losses, unless if they play any of the three hosts. The team from pot 4 that eventually gets drawn into the group of death probably won't even score a goal.

Almost all of the teams in pot 4 are going to take some real batterings. Records could be broken at this World Cup.

I hope Italy makes it this time. They are a very noticeable absence when they don't qualify and this time around they would have needed to be perfect to finish above Norway in their group and would have been if not for Norway.

Wow! The ending to the Scotland match 😮

Nice overhead kick from Scott McTominay!

As good as it is for new and unusual teams to qualify for the World Cup I think there is a risk of some low quality or one sided matches taking place if there are too many new teams. Unrelated to European qualification but I've just read that Curacao who are ranked 82nd in the FIFA World Rankings are on the verge of securing a place at the World Cup. A team like this realistically are not likely to put up much of a fight against a more established national team and if you get two teams of this ilk playing each other it probably will not provide an end-to-end goal fest either.

Not to be in the end for Nigeria, World Cups are more enjoyable to watch as a neutral really and I don't think we would have got past the group stage if we qualified. Remains to be seen how Congo will do from here.

Portugal have secured their place at the World Cup with a 9-1 win against Armenia. Cristiano Ronaldo will miss the first two games of his last World Cup tournament due to the red card he received a few days ago.

I forgot about Odegard and didn't know Oscar Bobb was from there, looks like they have a decent squad as you mentioned. They should do quite well then at the World Cup unless if they are put in a group of death.

Yes I am but live in England.

Now that Norway are almost qualified it will be interesting to see Haaland play in his first World Cup. I don't know how good Norway are as a squad of players but if Haaland takes his current goalscoring form into the tournament and gets 2-3 goals per game Norway could go quite far as it would be hard to lose matches from those kind of positions unless if their defence is very poor.

Hopefully Nigeria win though not so sure we would get through the inter confederation play offs if we do so. I think the same for Congo as well.

Rob Edwards largely contributed towards Luton getting relegated again last season, down to League One. And as far as this season goes it's only 15 games out of 46 that have been played so far in the Championship and the teams behind Middlesbrough are very close in the table so as was mentioned there's no guarantee that they will go up either. I wouldn't be confident of Wolves coming straight back up with the squad they have now and with Rob Edwards as manager.

Standings at the end of Gameweek 11: Main league 1. Brett Buttler - A Cunha Matatta 657 pts 2. Liam Sota - 23 (Twenty Three) 631 pts 3. Mack - Mackington United 616 pts 4. Sarah - MarshoFC 607 pts 5. Houdini - New Dog. New Tricks 589 pts 6. Viper* - Pain In Diaz 586 pts 7. Dobbo - Cunha Believe It? 574 pts 8. awardinary - Ha'Cunha Mateta 533 pts 9. Herbs - Herbilore 469 pts Head to head league 1. Liam Sota - 23 (Twenty Three) 24 pts (8 wins, 0 draws, 3 losses) 2. Sarah - MarshoFC 24 pts (8 wins, 0 draws, 3 losses) 3. Mack - Mackington United FC 21 pts (7 wins, 0 draws, 4 losses) 4. Houdini - New Dog. New Tricks 18 pts (6 wins, 0 draws, 5 losses) 5. Dobbo - Cunha Believe It? 15 pts (5 wins, 0 draws, 6 losses) 6. awardinary - Ha'Cunha Mateta 15 pts (5 wins, 0 draws, 6 losses) 7. AVERAGE 9 pts (3 wins 0 draws, 8 losses) 8. Herbs - Herbilore 6 pts (2 wins, 0 draws, 9 losses) Gameweek 11 results: (Twenty Three) 70-42 Mackington United, Ha'Cunha Mateta 46-37 MarshoFC, AVERAGE 38-44 Herbilore New Dog. New Tricks 37-48 Cunha Believe It? Gameweek 12 fixtures: Herbilore Vs (Twenty Three), MarshoFC Vs Cunha Believe It?, Mackington United Vs New Dog. New Tricks, Ha'Cunha Mateta Vs AVERAGE

Not planning on watching this but from the list of names Angryginge will win. The only person who could maybe stop him from winning is Jack Osbourne if he gets sympathy for his dad's passing a few months ago and if the grief if shown somehow on TV. Otherwise it will be an easy dub for Angryginge.

This Week's Results: 1st Rooney, Houdini 17 pts 3rd King Rollo 16 pts 4th Steve201 12 pts 5th Suedehead2 11 pts 6th LiamSime, LewisGT, Flatcap 10 pts 9th DJHazey, Viper*, Dobbo 8 pts 12th Mack 6 pts 13th Sarah 5 pts Standings: 1st Rooney 152 pts 2nd Houdini 146 pts 3rd King Rollo 145 pts 4th Dobbo 139 pts 5th Sarah 124 pts 6th Suedehead2 123 pts 7th Steve201 122 pts 8th LiamSime 121 pts 9th Mack 117 pts 10th awardinary 115 pts = 11th Flatcap, LewisGT 112 pts 13th DJHazey 109 pts 14th Viper* 84 pts 15th Liam Sota 33 pts Fixtures (All kick of times are 15:00 GMT unless stated otherwise) Saturday 22nd November Burnley Vs Chelsea (12:30) AFC Bournemouth Vs West Ham United Brighton & Hove Albion Vs Brentford Fulham Vs Sunderland Liverpool Vs Nottingham Forest Wolverhampton Wanderers Vs Crystal Palace Newcastle United Vs Manchester City (17:30) Sunday 23rd November Leeds United Vs Aston Villa (14:00) Arsenal Vs Tottenham Hotspur (16:30) Monday 24th November Manchester United Vs Everton (20:00) Well done to Rooney & myself on winning this week. Thank you to everyone who took part this week.

Not only that but they have already broken the defensive record for goals conceded in a Premier League season it seems.