Sons FC

Very close indeed. Cartperson again.

Outstanding answer and if I may say so, inspirational!

@YouReds,@Smallen, @Symbolic,@chris79, @Timma@sisyphus, @HOORAY HENRIK, @Tecmo, @SilenceOfTheLahms, @Mr Wallin, @oche balboa, @Marvin, @Pafnus Just over two hours to go lads - don't be the worst position in a football team - left behind!!

@YouReds, @SouthCoastRed, @Smallen, @Rob1981, @VP., @Symbolic,@chris79,@sisyphus, @HOORAY HENRIK, @Tecmo, @SilenceOfTheLahms, @Mr Wallin, @oche balboa, @Marvin, @Pafnus Don't forget lads - the first semi-final is tonight!!

Two great teams and it's very hard to choose but I have gone for Mutters.

I think borderline racist is a bit much on a conceptual issue. On the general point - absolute nonsense - it shouldn't matter who wins it as long as football wins.

Semi-finals Tuesday 13th December Argentina v Croatia 2-0* Wednesday 14th December France v Morocco 2-1 Bonuses The total number of goals across all the games - 6 The total number of goals scored in the first half - 2 The total number of goals scored in the second half - 3 The total number of goals scored after 90 minutes - 0 The total number of hattricks - 0 The number of games going to extra time - 0 The number of games going to penalties - 0 The total number of penalties scored (including those in normal game play) - 0 The team which scores the fastest goal - France The team which scores the last goal - Argentina The time of the first goal - 8 minutes The time of the last goal - 89 minutes The scorer of the first goal - Griezman The scorer of the last goal - Mac Allister The total number of yellow cards - 12 The total number of red cards - 0 The total number of substitutions across all games - 19

Quite right Orzers. I have checked your score and it is correct - it is the write up that is incorrect. Sorry for denying you a shot at glory!

@Smaldini, @YouReds, @Gizzy, @SouthCoastRed, @Darius1998, @Smallen, @Rob1981, @Mahzun_Savas, @The Golden boy, @oriole01, @VP., @Symbolic, @Jeroen Thijssen, @Lucas, @Hoarau, @ferrarinseb, @av3ry, @Constantine, @chris79, @Pompeyboyz, @Whoopy D, @GunmaN1905, @vikeologist, @cafcrocky, @Timma, @craigcwwe, @Orzelek, @WillHoward42, @sisyphus, @HOORAY HENRIK, @Tecmo, @SilenceOfTheLahms, @The_jagster, @Mr Wallin, @oche balboa, @Marvin, @CFuller, @Pafnus It comes down to this. Glory and heartbreak are uncomfortable bedfellows and inspire ordinary men to do extraordinary things. They are forced together, bound to one another while being pulled in opposite directions - each needs the other to fulfil their destiny but cannot achieve it alone. One creates the other and is destroyed by that creation as it has always been - an eternal struggle, each needing to dominate, while denying the other, which cannot be denied. Anyway, it's the semi-finals and if you all marvelled at the bonuses on offer in the quarter finals, prepare to be even more marvellousnessed (yeah, it did get away from me a bit). Whopping bonuses as well!! fun for everyone and anyone can win. Good luck everyone. Scoring Predict any time up to kick off the score of each game (You may change your predictions at any point up to the kick off time by either editing or reposting). Any changes made after the kick off time will be disregarded. Predict each score. 50 points if you get the win/lose/draw right and 100 points if you get the exact scoreline right. Nap - indicate one game for a nap bonus. If you get the exact score right, the nap bonus will be a super 200 points. Please mark your nap clearly. Semi-finals Tuesday 13th December Argentina v Croatia 19.00 Wednesday 14th December France v Morocco 19.00 Bonuses The total number of goals across all the games - 200 points The total number of goals scored in the first half - 150 points The total number of goals scored in the second half - 150 points The total number of goals scored after 90 minutes - 500 points The total number of hattricks - 300 points The number of games going to extra time - 100 points The number of games going to penalties - 150 points The total number of penalties scored (including those in normal game play) - 150 points The team which scores the fastest goal - 250 points The team which scores the last goal - 250 points The time of the first goal - 2,000 points for the exact time The time of the last goal - 2,000 points for the exact time The scorer of the first goal - 2,000 points The scorer of the last goal - 2,000 points The total number of yellow cards - 100 points The total number of red cards - 150 points The total number of substitutions across all games - 2,000 points

Blimey! actually your bonus score was 110 for a total of 294. I will correct it in the next update.

Quite right! Corrections made with apologies.

Crikey - checking now.

@The_jagster - I have corrected the table and the write up. It is only 50 points as I had the other 10 already there.

It's not 50 - it's 60 points! 10 additional points for being within the range of the first goal scored. Huge apologies. I will correct it.

Oh Jaggie, I hope so. I will check it now.

@Smaldini, @YouReds, @Gizzy, @SouthCoastRed, @Darius1998, @Smallen, @Rob1981, @Mahzun_Savas, @The Golden boy, @oriole01, @VP., @Symbolic, @Jeroen Thijssen, @Lucas, @Hoarau, @ferrarinseb, @av3ry, @Constantine, @chris79, @Pompeyboyz, @Whoopy D, @GunmaN1905, @vikeologist, @cafcrocky, @Timma, @craigcwwe, @Orzelek, @WillHoward42, @sisyphus, @HOORAY HENRIK, @Tecmo, @SilenceOfTheLahms, @The_jagster, @Mr Wallin, @oche balboa, @Marvin, @CFuller, @Pafnus, Looks a lot like moving day to me!! Of those who entered, everybody moved and there were huge changes in the table - as we hoped for. The actual round scores were pretty immaterial and would have made virtually no difference to the table but as you know by now - it is all about the bonuses and did they deliver! A quick word on the yellow cards. There was a lot of confusion on the number of yellow cards shown at the Netherlands v Argentina game and there were numbers ranging from 18 to 23 cards in some of the data sources. Due to the uncertainty and the inability of the main sources to agree, I have discounted the number of yellows shown in that game as we cannot reach an accurate figure. Nobody predicted the exact games going to extra time and nobody predicted Croatia to beat Brazil - why would you? The England game was pretty even with slightly more correctly predicting that France would go through and 2-1 to France was the highest scoring game. The bonuses have swung the table into disarray and disorder with our new top four catapulting up the table due to some whopping bonuses. Pride of place goes to our friend Oriole!!!!, who climbs a huge 13 places to claim top spot. Very well done to him for a magnificent effort and pulling off a big move. He also scores the biggest bonus score of the round. He becomes our new beloved, sagacious and revered leader and we will take a greater interest in everything he says over the next few days. Other big climbers include VP who climbs 14 to claim second spot, which is an outstanding achievement - very well done. The Old Git moves up to complete the podium places in third. I am sure he will be delighted when he wakes up from his doze - someone slip a celebratory Werther's Original in his cocoa tonight. Seb revs up that Ferrari to accelerate into fourth with a huge leap of 14, which is also an achievement that deserves great merit - keep motoring on Seb! Craigy comes in at fifth with another mighty leap and this is great reward for him for superb bonus scoring. As a consequence of the moves at the top, Gizzgoggles drops a not disastrous three places thanks to a decent bonuses score. Hoarau climbs an impressive 10 places to secure seventh place, helped enormously by being the only one to correctly guess the total number of subs, which carried a whopping 200 points bonus. YouReds climbs three to eighth, Darius drops five to ninth, while The Legend makes his move, climbing a huge 15 places to complete our top ten - very well done to all of them. Just outside the top ten, Smoulders drops five and GunmaN falls ten to drop out of the top ten. Then we have Constantine. Special mention for him as he is our top mover this round - rising a super impressive 19, I'll say it again...19 places!! Great effort. Jeroen nearly matches him with a spectacular rise of 16 places. Rob falls an acceptable six places, although he will be disappointed, Lucas also drops six but will be thankful for a reasonable bonus score. Our previous round winner and beloved leader Smallen doesn't move a small(en) number of places, he moves a huge 16 places in the wrong direction!!! Disaster for him as he is one of only three players not to score any bonus points. Coming the other way to meet him, Orzelek rises a more than handy nine places, while The Golden Boy and prediction league brother Pompers both fall a disappointing seven places, despite reasonable bonus scores. The Golden Boy is one of two players to benefit from the ruling on yellow cards and winning the bonus points. Vikie bucks the mini trend above him by rising two places but Wallin and Caffers fall one and eight places respectively. Will also benefitted from the rule change on yellows and rises four places as a result. Mahzun and I fall a pretty steep 18 places mainly due to poor bonuses scores, while Avers drops a disappointing seven places and the inspiration and mentor drops two places!!!! Fullers drops six places as one of the three not to score any bonuses points. Chris rises a decent three places, while Whoops a daisy drops seven places and is the third player not to score bonus points. That leaves us with the non entrants this round. the hall of shame consists of Henrik, Symbolic, Sysiphus, Oche, Tecmo, Silence of the German, Marvin and pafnus. Come back guys - we miss you and there is a plenty of time and certainly plenty of bonus points to go! So, onto the semi-final - fixtures and bonuses will be tabled shortly. Player Quarter-FInals Bonuses Total +/- 1. Oriole01 10 370 508 +13 2. VP. 5 350 479 +14 3. Southcoastred 20 260 445 +2 4. Ferrarinseb 5 310 429 +14 5. Craigcwwe 0 300 411 +14 6. Gizzy 5 210 384 -3 7. Hoarau 0 250 366 +10 8. YouReds 10 210 357 +3 9. Darius1998 15 70 354 -5 10. Timma 0 250 334 +15 11. Smaldini 15 150 328 -5 12. GunmaN1905 15 110 311 -10 13. Constantine 10 210 292 +19 14. Jeroen Thijssen 5 200 283 +16 15. Rob1981 15 110 281 -6 16. Lucas 5 120 280 -6 17. Smallen 10 0 270 -16 18. Orzelek 20 160 259 +9 19. The Golden Boy 10 100 245 -7 20. Pompeyboyz 0 100 231 -7 21. Vikeologist 10 100 202 +2 22. Mr Wallin 5 100 215 -1 23. Cafcrocky 0 70 195 -8 24. WillHoward42 10 100 189 +4 25. Mahzun_Savas 5 10 174 -18 26. Sons FC 10 10 178 -18 27. Av3ry 0 60 170 -7 28. The_Jagster 5 60 160 -2 29. CFuller 10 0 118 -7 30. Chris79 0 50 115 +3 31. Whoopy D 10 0 99 -7 32. Hooray Henrik DNE 79 33. Symbolic DNE 77 34. Sysiphus DNE 32 35. Oche Balboa DNE 31 36. Tecmo DNE 29 37. SilenceOfTheLahms DNE 28 38. Marvin DNE 25 39. Pafnus DNE 11 Bonuses The total number of goals across all the games - 10 The total number of goals scored in the first half - 3 The total number of goals scored in the second half - 7 The number of games going to extra time - 2 Correctly predicting all the specific games going to extra time - Croatia v Brazil, Netherlands v Argentina The number of games going to penalties - 2 The total number of penalties scored (including those in normal game play) - 15 The team which scores the fastest goal - France The team which scores the last goal - Croatia The time of the first goal - 12 minutes The time of the last goal - 117 minutes The total number of yellow cards - 13 - revised The total number of red cards - 2 The total number of substitutions across all games - 33

Kopsy and Cartperson.

Oh, I can't vote for a draw - it has to be GunmaN. Sorry Mutters.

Mutters and GunmaN honours even with a draw. Haguey

Friday 9th December Croatia v Brazil 1-2 Netherlands v Argentina 0-2* Saturday 10th December Morocco v Portugal 1-2 England v France 1-2 Bonuses The total number of goals across all the games - 7 The total number of goals scored in the first half - 4 The total number of goals scored in the second half - 5 The number of games going to extra time - 1 Correctly predicting all the specific games going to extra time - Netherlands v Argentina The number of games going to penalties - 0 The total number of penalties scored (including those in normal game play) - 3 The team which scores the fastest goal - Brazil The team which scores the last goal - Brazil The time of the first goal - 12 mins The time of the last goal - 90+4 The total number of yellow cards - 12 The total number of red cards - 0 The total number of substitutions across all games - 32

@Smaldini,@SouthCoastRed, @Darius1998, @Smallen, @Rob1981,@Symbolic, @ferrarinseb, @av3ry, @Constantine, @chris79, @Whoopy D, @vikeologist, @Timma, @craigcwwe, @Orzelek, @sisyphus, @HOORAY HENRIK, @Tecmo, @SilenceOfTheLahms,@Mr Wallin, @oche balboa, @Marvin, @Pafnus, First call - get your predictions here. No...get your predictions in here.

Two of my favourite prediction league colleagues. How to choose? I'll look at the teams and it will not be personal.

Shame about Kawee, I thought he had a really strong team.

Listen to Jaggie everyone - Jaggie knows.

@Smaldini, @YouReds, @Gizzy, @SouthCoastRed, @Darius1998, @Smallen, @Rob1981, @Mahzun_Savas, @The Golden boy, @oriole01, @VP., @Symbolic, @Jeroen Thijssen, @Lucas, @Hoarau, @ferrarinseb, @av3ry, @Constantine, @chris79, @Pompeyboyz, @Whoopy D, @GunmaN1905, @vikeologist, @cafcrocky, @Timma, @craigcwwe, @Orzelek, @WillHoward42, @sisyphus, @HOORAY HENRIK, @Tecmo, @SilenceOfTheLahms, @The_jagster, @Mr Wallin, @oche balboa, @Marvin, @CFuller, @Pafnus, It's the quarter finals and super points are available across the games and the bonuses...well, just look at the bonuses. Bonuses, bonuses, bonuses!! You can almost forget the games themselves - they won't generate very many points - it's the bonuses that count!! 1,800 bonus points up for grabs - not bad, eh? Scoring Predict any time up to kick off the score of each game (You may change your predictions at any point up to the kick off time by either editing or reposting). Any changes made after the kick off time will be disregarded. Predict each score. 5 points if you get the win/lose/draw right and 10 points if you get the exact scoreline right. It's the return of the nap! - indicate one game for a nap bonus. If you get the exact score right, the nap bonus is a super 50 points. Please mark your nap clearly. Quarter-Finals Friday 9th December Croatia v Brazil 15:00 Netherlands v Argentina 19:00 Saturday 10th December Morocco v Portugal 15:00 England v France 19:00 Bonuses The total number of goals across all the games - 100 points The total number of goals scored in the first half - 50 points The total number of goals scored in the second half - 50 points The number of games going to extra time - 100 points Correctly predicting all the specific games going to extra time - 500 points The number of games going to penalties - 50 points The total number of penalties scored (including those in normal game play) - 100 points The team which scores the fastest goal - 50 points The team which scores the last goal - 50 points The time of the first goal - 200 points for the exact time, 10 points for five minutes each side The time of the last goal - 200 points for the exact time, 10 points for five minutes either side The total number of yellow cards - 100 points The total number of red cards - 50 points The total number of substitutions across all games - 200 points