It looks like this competition is going to be a bit messy this season as every week one or two matches seem to have late timing changes. I'll try to keep on top of them!
Week 5 was quite a high scoring week in spite of a couple of players failing to enter and in spite of the fact that there were no home wins in the 10 matches.
The main reason was Rotherham's loss to Norwich which was predicted by 13 of the 17 who entered. 3 of the other 4 also got points for an away win. minxymartin got Newcastle's loss to Man Utd. CutePR got Preston's loss to Cardiff. And prediction of the week was Rosco Bosco (our Scottish football expert) getting Celtic's loss to Rangers. Several players predicted a Celtic win but Rosco even played his joker on a Rangers victory.
There were plenty of points for the draws too. 6 players profited from Everton's scandalous draw with Liverpool, 3 got Palace v Brighton, 2 got Middlesbrough v Reading and 2 got West Brom v Burnley which was moved to last night.
Top score of the week was 5 points, achieved by no fewer than 7: northwesthoop, jimjams, SydneyR, kingfisher, MCM Hoop, ashqpr and CutePR. Another 5 players scored 4 points for 2 correct predictions but missing out on the joker bonus.
northwesthoop extends his lead at the top to 4 points. He has a very impressive 23 points after 5 rounds. jimjams jumps 2 places to 2nd. stoatey and qprallan are 1 point further back in 3rd & 4th. After that it's pretty congested with 14 players separated by just 5 points.