England beaten in final again!
Who would believe it – once again England have lost in the final match of a World Cup competition! Luckily I’ve had a word with Sepp and he’s agreed to hold a few meaningless friendlies so we can finish our challenge.
Round 3 winner was Colin Weddell who just edged out Mikeb. Early leaders in Round 4 are hurley_burley1 and Maxster with 20 points each from the opening 6 games – but there is still a long way to go.
The Auckland continues to lead overall – but M_Wiseman has closed the gap to just 4 points. davepierce67 and keiron are also just about still in contention for top prize – and a couple of maximums could still haul a few of the chasers back into the running.
WCC2010 – another update!
OK – Round Two has been and gone and the £20 prize for winning the round went to M_Wiseman with 39 points, despite fierce competition from swiggy (38) and Hamish (37).
We’re now half-way through Round Three and joint-leaders for the round are Colin Weddell and kris on 22 points each.
Overall leader is still Round One winner The Auckland on 95. The Barron boys keiron (84) and kris (82) are second and third respectively with M_Wiseman (81) and swiggy (80) currently completing the top five. Still plenty of games to go – but someone needs to start closing the gap at the top pretty quick!
WCC2010 – we’re off and running!
OK – so here we are, just about a week into the 2010 World Cup and you’d have to say it’s all going along quite nicely – other than the fact that a lot of the football has been pretty dire, those damn bloody vuvuzelas are driving me up the wall – and, of course, Robert Green had to choose perhaps the worst possible moment to display Scottish tendencies and throw the ball into his own net! Hmmm.
In the Challenge we’ve now completed the first phase (doesn’t time fly when you’re enjoying yourself?) – and the winner of Round 1 is one of our American cousins – Eric Clark masquerading as The Auckland. So not only do the Yanks take our valuable World Cup points off us – Eric’s now blagged twenty of our English pounds. Outrageous!
Eric is also the current overall leader – hardly surprising as we’re just two games into Round 2. Veteran WAFFLer davepierce67 is second (and if you wonder why I describe him as “veteran”, have you seen his mugshot on Arsebook??), closely followed by irishbee, keiron and Rachel J (our top girly at this stage).
Down at the derriere it’s interesting (but not too surprising) to see a whole bunch of Scots. Says it all really. Mark Rhodes is also in amongst them – but at least he has the excuse that he’s letting Random Roger do all the work for him!
Prizes for the competition will be:
| First place: | £200 |
| Second place: | £100 |
| Third place: | £70 |
| Fourth place: | £40 |
| Fifth place: | £20 |
| Round Winners: | £20 each |
Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Probably.
Important Notice
On Saturday April 3rd the server where my website is hosted was the victim of an attack by malware hackers. As a result of this various parts of my site were tampered with in an attempt to affect my visitors with malware.
All of the bad stuff has now been removed – but anyone who accessed the site between Saturday 3rd and Tuesday 6th may potentially have been directly affected by this action.
If you did access the site during this period I strongly advise you to run a FULL anti-virus scan of your PC. I also strongly recommend that you download and install the free Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software from http://www.malwarebytes.org/ and then run a further FULL scan of your PC using that.
If either your anti-virus or the anti-malware software shows up any problems and you need further help, feel free to drop me an email and I’ll do what I can to assist.
Andy
World Cup 2010 – Let’s get this party started!
OK – the first matches are now barely 5 months away and it’s time to start up the World Cup hype machine. We all have to do our part – so I’m doing mine by opening up the World Cup Challenge 2010 for registrations. Woo-hoo! Entry costs a mere twenty quid and I also accept payment in Euros, US Dollars, Green Shield Stamps and shiny coloured glass beads. You can register here – but only if you really want to! If any of your mates have more money than sense feel free to invite them along.
I can’t wait to see the Ingerlund squad on Top Of The Pops singing their fab(io) World Cup song !
p.s. – If you have any problems registering (or with other areas of the site) please email me using the links on the web-site or reply to this post.
It’s coming home to South Africa ……..
That’s right – the preliminaries are over, the ridiculously elaborate draw has been made and the wallcharts have been prepared (unless you’re a total slacker). Now it’s time to start the countdown in earnest!
Between June 11th and July 11th next year a total of 64 matches will be played during the World Cup Finals in South Africa. Some of the best footballing nations in the World will be there – and so will England! Your challenge, should you choose to accept, is to forecast the correct score in all 64 matches. Piece of cake I’d say – but even if you don’t manage to get all 64 matches spot on you’ll still earn points for getting close.
Usual rules apply – and it’s all strictly pay-to-play. In 2006 we had 39 mugs and the top prize went to Dave Pierce – so there’s hope for us all!
Registrations will be open soon – or you can email me to pre-register if the excitement’s all too much for you!
Don’t be a World Cup Willy – get yourself registered today, safe in the knowledge that the competition will still hold some interest for you even after Ingerlund have succumbed on penalties to a bunch of cheating dago foreigners! Where else could you have this much fun for a mere twenty quid without getting arrested?
‘Ere we go, ‘ere we go, ‘ere we go!
