Barry and Paul’s Predictions – The Final Reckoning
Welcome to Barry and Paul’s Predictions – The Final Reckoning. GW38 brought the season to a close in typical GW38 style. The final game-week of the Premier League often throws ups some unusual final scorelines and this season was no different; a 9 goal thriller in Spurs last home game at Wembley, City scoring a solitary goal in their win at St Mary’s, and of course my beloved Newcastle putting 3 past Chelsea without reply – Happy days!
What started as an informal and innocent comment on another random article, asking you what you thought the game-weeks scores would be that week, has turned into something of an FF247 staple article now! Careful what you say around here folks, it can often rob you of hours of your life! That it then took on a life of it’s own is thanks to the continued engagement and enthusiasm from you lovely lot – so a massive thank you from both myself and my fellow Chuckle Barry (Matt) for making this happen.
We would also like to announce that Barry and Paul are going global, which is a more exciting way of saying that we’ll be running a competition throughout this year’s World Cup finals.
Some of you will be taking a well deserved break from all things ‘Fantasy’ this summer, but if you fancy trying your hand at predicting results throughout this years World Cup then this is the place to come. We’ll be posting up more details before you can say ‘England are going home’ or ‘England fans clashed with local police in Russia’.
Before then we still have two weeks of results to reveal, and of course this season’s overall winner, so without further ado, lets see who did what, and how!
In GW37 it was Mr.Bean who took top spot; 13pts were just enough to see off second placed Neelbasus and DenPerryDidit, who both finished on 12pts. A whole host of teams were just behind them on 11pts in third, I’d tell you who they were, but Barry (Matt) didn’t tell me, so if you’re really interested then shout out and I’m sure he’ll let you know!
Weekly Leader board (GW37)
Winner = Mr.Bean 13pts
2nd = Neelbasus and DenPerryDidit 12pts
3rd = Lots of people 11pts
In the final game-week, 12pts were enough to make Sam10 the winner, closely followed by yours truly with 11pts. Third place was a tie; Constantine and Albox both picking up a solid 10pts.
Weekly Leader board (GW38)
Winner = Sam10 12pts
2nd = Rosco 11pts
3rd = Constantine and Albox 10pts
Congrats Mr.Bean and Sam10, please email us at contact@fantasyfootball247.co.uk to get your hands on that FF247 t-shirt.
OVERALL WINNERS(S)
So who won the 2017/18 Barry and Pauls Predictions overall league title I here you cry! Did Init do enough to hold on to top spot despite predicting a 0-11 score for Man City in GW38?
Well in short no.
It was apparent from the get-go that when it comes to this predicting lark, two of you are seemingly a cut-above the rest. Coys and DenPerryDidit have been making this look easy from day one, and in the end, it’s perhaps fitting that they both finished the season with an epic total of 221pts. Perhaps the pressure got too much for our illustrious leader? There have been rumours that perhaps in the name of good sportsmanship, he simply became a little ‘overly generous’ in his predictions (Southampton v Man City 0 -11 anyone?), we’ll never know. Init finished the season just 2pts behind our leaders; 219pts wasn’t enough to for Init to win it (I know, I know) but it was a bloody good effort all the same.
Congratulations Coys and DenPerryDidit. Perhaps it would have been better if Init had won, because now he needs to provide not one but two suitable prizes for your achievements, over to you boss! Email the site please both.
The Final Table
Thanks for reading Barry and Paul’s Predictions – The Final Reckoning
This article was written by Barry and Paul… aka Matt and Rosco.
In light of my footy ML being my main focus –
My Dad bought me this t-shirt as a joke 2 years ago. I’ve never worn it, obviously! I have however dug it out and I’m going to wear it tomorrow morning and walk into the football dressing room with it on after last weekends ML shenanigans.
There will be scenes!
Good have tidied your room for the photo
I’m going to pretend you edited that. I wrote ‘could’ obviously :lurker:
What is happening to everyone tonight lol. Just wrote my way out of articles for next season
Even AT has gone caveman English now, has Matt robbed everybody’s phone?
It’s my accent. When I’m typing whilst thinking about the words I get ‘should of’, ‘won’ instead of ‘one’ etc.
Or it’s Matt…
Or even ‘should have’?
Clever phone you have there though if it types in your accent
My fingers type in my accent, and my phone does not correct it hahah
‘Should of’ is definitely the most frequent grammar error for a ‘Yorkshireman’, and I can’t stand it!
Took me forever to get past ‘I least’ and begin using ‘at least’
It’s southern generally I think. I’ve spent 4 years editing Cookie’s ‘should of’ to ‘should have’ and he’s never once noticed
Oh. Now I think about it, loads of UK accents would suggest that ‘of’ is correct
It really ain’t
I do notice I just don’t make a song and dance about it 😉
Think its an Essex thing. ‘Should have’ is correct.
Maybe it’s just Cookie’s way of subtly trying to tell you he doesn’t want to write articles anymore
Well stop bloody well doing it every week then! :rant:
He’s been telling me that in a non subtle way for 2 years! He’s just been shit out of luck
I don’t need to be subtle in arranging my summer off 😉
Kop is lying in wait. 😉
Like a snake in the grass.
Eh?
The words are back to front though?
😉
Just turn your phone around the other way 😉
Nice T -shirt but blimey i wouldnt want to meet you down a dark alley mate !! Wheres your axe ??:
Hahaha. I can’t decide if he’s a centre-back who gets on with his job or that sort of dickhead striker that’s always moaning at the ref and picking fights with the opposition 😆
I was thinking more…
I’m not convinced he was impressed. He did however give us an invite to his wedding. I’ve just accepted…..
I’ll just leave this here then…
If only you were as good at FPL.
I’ll just leave that there 😉
I don’t have to be, fantasy MLS and NFL hook me up every season with money.
Besides I was #1 in Colombia one season and 2nd or 3rd this season. Being the Messi of fpl in Colombia is better than being the Phil Jones of fpl in the UK. 😉
That’s like saying you won the Giro in the UK, theres about 20 people playing
NFL is always easier when you play alone too 😉
As long as it pays, I am not concerned.
I’m still sore about the NFL!
Good morning ladels and jellyspoons.
Hope you all have a brilliant weekend especially all our new guys here. I’ll try to stop by to dip in and out but I’m not going to lie …. today’s a busy one.
Five hours OT at work then off to a Royal Wedding barbecue, Scottish Cup Final at 3, FA Cup Final after that I’ll be drinking.
Tomorrow is wide open for good reason.
So basically : coffee, white zinf, McEwans and Carling. Have a great day mate. See you on Monday!
Have a great day GP :beer: !
My schedule for this weekend is slightly different…
No wedding to watch, to start with ))) …
-Tennis WTA Rome (1st Semifinal)
-Tennis ATP Rome (1st Semi Nadal vs Djokovic)
-Juventus-Verona
(Scudetto party+Buffon’s farewell)
-Tennis WTA (2nd Semi – Sharapova)
-FA CUP Final
-Tennis ATP Rome (2nd Semi A.Zverev)
-WC HOCKEY (2nd Semi)
…..
Sun :
-Tennis WTA Rome Final
-Tennis ATP Rome Final
-Local League Final Basketball (attending)
-FINAL FOUR EUROLEAGUE Basket (Final game)
-Hockey WC – Final game
That schedule indicates one of two things.
Single as hell
Married for over 20 years, which is basically single if kids are grown up already.
Thought you knew me better 😉 !
36yrs old
Married for 6yrs (no kids…yet)
Sports fanatic
Hyperactive
p.s. sports=footie,basketball,handball,tennis etc…no cricket ; rugby ; golf etc…
that’s an understanding wife you have there HL.
You should give us a tips article on how you manage that 😉
@Dreamers – she did not read the “small letters” in our
prenuptial agreement :p haha…
She read them, you will soon find out you didn’t see her revisions. Any ‘good’ wife would store all this and cash in when you least expect it.
That’s a pretty likely scenario, Mito ))) !!
Hope the final 7 events are better than this HL!
You’re still practically ‘single’ in many respects until that first kid arrives. That’s when you’re then a bit fcked in terms of ‘me’ time…
For sure…
Im enjoying it while it lasts )))…
No kids plans but will probably happen w/in a year time…year and a half max…
Now, imagine this : a kid,2 cats(and Im a dog person -which will eventually join us as well)…
Pure fun
!!
hey HL,
The wife said to me – will we go again? I said ” hell no”.
We are now expecting our third (and final) kid.
When you dont have kids, you think you dont have time (you do).
Then you have one
You think you dont have time (you do)
You have another
You realise all the time you had when you had one
And …. now – I literally dont know where the time will come from
Many congrats Dreamers! Sort of 😉
Its good news Init. Just my humour.
I’ve a mate similar to HL. 9 years married, does everything in his own time, now expecting their first and he is in for a world of change. I find it quite funny. We are both similar ages (38/39) and the lad has never been rushed at anything in his whole life.
@Dreamers – Congrats mate !!
!!
Having 3 is like a full time job on its own
Not that we don’t want one…we do…
…and she is only 48yrs old !!
We’ve been moving a lot (around Europe) over the past few yrs…and we finally settled down 6months ago (not sure for how long though)…
Taking care of my mom now…65yrs old diagnosed with a very advanced stage of cancer…
Ironically, my wife’s mom is going through the same…
Her “situation” is even worse
So,yeah…no excuses but it’s been (and still is) a very tough period of our lives !!
Hoping for some better times ahead !!
Thats rough HL. Sorry to hear that.
Taking the positive here, HL’s wife is about 20 years younger than him
Thought I was doing well at 6 years
@Init – Haha…Nice one )))
36yrs old vs 30yrs old…
So a 6yrs diff ))) …
@Dreamers-pretty much the same,mate…
I’ve said before and I’ll probably say it again…it’s such a shame that the FA Cup isn’t what it once was. I remember the days when the build up would have already started on the BBC. Today all they’re interested in is silly wedding!
and then it’ll be the media next season that criticises the top teams for not taking it seriously!
The media interest in the wedding is ridiculous.I’d say the majority of the population arent interested ! I’m off to paint a fence till the footy starts,i’d rather watch that drying !!!
They’ve been talking about it on the radio over here all week and I think it’s on Irish tv. My Mrs says she wants to see the dress! It will be white, what more does she need to know?!!!
Loving the wedding!!
I wouldn’t expect anything else from you 😉
Can’t not like Prince Harry!
Of course you can, he’s ginger!!
Further proof that West Ham have no class!
They gave him a testtomoan.
What pricks.
At least his long cousin redheaded Harry is doing well.
Good afternoon everybody, hope you are all well and enjoying this lovely sunny day. I am doing Manchester run tomorrow so going to watch the game without a beer, what was I thinking? Have fun whatever you are doing! ?
Run? Sounds like an ancient form of transportation. I prefer to avoid it.
That’s what I should have done, they got me to agree when I was at a weak moment.
I try to stay so out of shape, that it wouldn’t occur to anyone to ask me. They don’t want my death on their conscious. 😉
When you were drunk? How ironic
Good luck with it, looks like it’ll be hot as hell too!
ancient form of survival more like I think Mito
Feel I may have missed something in the last few days. Lots of unfamiliar names and faces. Nice to see the site grow.
Think Init and the lads have acquired another fantasy site
Welcome Caroline
You joke, but in a way that is what has happened!
bring me up to speed AT?
In a nutshell, Fantasy Football First is shutting/has shut down. The guy who ran it was good mates with the lot running this site (their ties go back to the days of FFC before they went their separate ways with FF247 and FFFirst) so a couple of good words were put in about this site and it was suggested that if they were looking for a similar forum with a friendly community, they should make accounts over here.
So that’s of course what they did
Hey Dreamers, I’ll tell you later, I just want to see what AT’s interpretation of events is as I have a feeling it may be quite funny
Oh, there we go, it was quite disappointingly accurate
Hahaha. What were you expecting? Lies about you stealing from the poor to bring in ad rev? Or to bring some new life to the site because you’re bored of the regulars?
I thought FFF had shut a couple of years back.
A vicious takeover with some backstabbing might have been a better story.
I finally caught up on The Walking Dead this week. I am just going to assume you know the characters or this will be too long. Rick gave his word to these lads – killed them. Then used Karl to distract Negan. I like the show….
Go on try again – dont let truth get in the way of a good story.
It was more AT’s interpretation on WhatsApp of how I approached it! But yeah what he said is actually the truth. Both FFF and us originated from FFC and luckily enough both sites prospered and more importantly grew a very similarly friendly community so it felt only right to offer out the hand of friendship to any lost souls so that they wouldn’t lose their community. Much in the same way / reason that FF247 came to fruition in the first place after the demise of FFC.
The Utd bench looks as though they are part of a chain gang!!
Why did Chelski sell Matic?
Squeaky bum time for Gary Neville!!
Poor game really.
Bad decision to sell Matic. Don’t know why.
So in short – I’ve nothing constructive to add to ur post.