Incredibly now in its 14th season, welcome back once again to the competition that's more eagerly anticipated than a set of Holly Willoughby's leaked iCloud pictures (one day chaps, one day)
@Bedsaddick is the current yellow jersey wearer as last year's champion. Who will be joining the Hall of Fame below next May?
HALL OF FAME
06/07 - Tricky
07/08 - Howitzer
08/09 - oohaahmortimer
09/10 - Low Ears
10/11 - Supaclive
11/12 - CAFCSinger
12/13 - StrikerFirmani
13/14 - No.1 in South London
14/15 – Callumcafc
15/16 – Clive / Hants Addick
16/17 - Nicholas
17/18 – Taxi Lad
18/19 - Bedsaddick
19/20 - ????
So, a recap. It's so simple Joey Essex could manage this. All you have to do is predict the result from three games on the selected weekly list of fixtures - (we sometimes omit fixtures we think are likely to be very one-sided gimme like Chelsea v Dagenham, Man City v Newport or Millwall v Charlton).
Scoring:
- 1 point if you get the scoreline in the right direction (home win, draw, away win),
- 3 points if you get an exact scoreline (2-1),
- and if you are lucky enough to get all three results exactly right, you get the joy of 5 bonus points (total 14 points), (and the disappointment of finding out what the odds would have been if you had placed it with the bookies!)
- To encourage continued participation (and to provide a further ballache in administering), participants are given three byes throughout the season for when they forget to enter, are away on holiday etc. In that instance, added to your running total will be the average points score from the other participants for that week (final three weeks of the season won’t count).
You do not have to do anything to have the bye total added to your score, it will be calculated for you.
Also returning this season will be the League tables after Week 3, with everyone trying through the season to stay out of non-league and push their way up to the Premiership.
Thanks for continuring to support this long-standing competition, good luck everyone!
Pick 3 from the 16 games below (Sat 3pm, unless stated)
Championship
Luton v Boro (Fri 7.45)
Barnsley v Fulham
Blackburn v Charlton
Brentford v Birmingham
Millwall v Preston
Reading v Sheff W
Stoke v QPR
Swansea v Hull
Wigan v Cardiff
Forest v WBA (Sat, 17.30)
Bristol C v Leeds (Sun 4.30)
League 1
Burton v Ipswich
Blackpool v Bristol R
Wimbledon v Rotherham
Cov v Southend
Community Shield
Liverpool v Man C (Sun, 3pm)
**Note - Beat the Bookies will be returning next week when the big boys are back**
Comments
Stoke v QPR 2-1
Burton v Ipswich 1-3
Swansea v Hull 1-1
Wigan v Cardiff 0-1
Millwall 0 v 2 Preston
Liverpool 1 v 3 Man C
Barnsley v Fulham 1-3
Millwall v Preston 0-1
Stoke v QPR 1-0
Blackburn 1-1 Charlton
Millwall 1-3 Preston
Luton v Boro 1-2
Barnsley v Fulham 1-2
Swansea v Hull 2-1
Barnsley v Fulham 1-2
Reading v Sheff W 1-1
Blackpool v Bristol R 2-1
Brentford v Birmingham 3-1
Coventry v Southend 2-0
Stoke v QPR 2-0
Forest v WBA 1-2
Bristol C v Leeds 0-1
Reading v Sheff W 2-2
Stoke v QPR 3-1
Brentford v Birmingham 2-0
Blackpool v Bristol Rovers 1-0
Coventry v Southend (0-2)
Liverpool v Man C (1-2)
Stoke v QPR 2-0
Brentford v Birmingham 2-0
Barnsley v Fulham 0-2
Brentford v Birmingham 3-0
Brentford v Birmingham 2-1
Blackpool v Bristol R 2-0
Coventry v Southend 1-0
Brentford v Birmingham 2-0
Swansea v Hull 2-1
Wigan v Cardiff 1-2
Barnsley 1 Fulham 2
Millwall 1 Preston 2
Coventry v Southend 2-1
Stoke v QPR 3-0
Barnsley v Fulham 0-2
Blackburn v Charlton 3-0
Stoke v QPR 2-0
Barnsley v Fulham 0-2
Blackburn v Charlton 0-1
Wigan v Cardiff 0-2
Coventry 1-0 Southend
Wigan 0-2 Cardiff
Blackburn v Charlton 2-0
Stoke v QPR 2-0
Cov v Southend 2-0
Wigan v Cardiff 0-2
Cov v Southend 3-0
coventry v Southend 2-0
stoke v QPR 2-0
Blackburn 3 v 0 Charlton
Millwall 0 v 1 Preston
Blackpool v Bristol R 2-1
Coventry v Southend 1-2
Stoke v QPR 3-1
Barnsley v Fulham 1-2
Stoke v QPR 1-0
Coventry v Southend 1-0
Brentford v Birmingham 2-0
Stoke v QPR 1-1
Swansea v Hull 2-1