DAY 6 - TUESDAY JUNE 16th
All times shown are UK time
France vs Senegal 20:00
Iraq vs Norway 23:00
Argentina vs Algeria 02:00
Austria vs Jordan 05:00
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DAY 5 - MONDAY JUNE 15th
Well a 0-0 had to come eventually, but who would have thought it would be Spain vs Cape Verde...? Among those to be given that score by the randomiser, for 10 points, was Zoltán Vidák. 2 points later for Iran vs New Zealand sees Zoltán pip Neil Mullen to the Manager of the Day trophy with 12 points. Neil's 11 points from correctly guessing both the 1-1s made for a fantastic day, with others struggling for points. Neil replaces Roisin Guargena at the top of the Overall League, with Roisin failing to collect a single point and slipping to 3rd. 5 points is enough to nudge Mike Collyer up from 3rd to 2nd. Zoltán is the biggest climber, up 74 to 16th. Barbara Willingham gains 56 places in 43rd. Both fully-random teams.
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IRAN 2 NEW ZEALAND 2
Just two predictions of 2-2 made this one worth 7 points to David Metzger and Toby Fournier. Toby had just 2 points from the entire competition up to this one. 50 others took 2 points for the draw, with 1-1 the most popular selection. Chris Bounds is the highest placed manager to take points. Chris stays 4th but is 2 points closer to the top three.
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SAUDI ARABIA 1 URUGUAY 1
Not going to lie I was a little surprised to see the 1-1 was worth a bonus point, with only four predictions. With two randoms, six teams earned the 5 points, just 11 more earned 2 points for the wrong-score draw, with 119 empty-handed. With a second 1-1 in a row correctly guessed, Neil Mullen makes it five exact scores now and goes top of the Overall League.
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BELGIUM 1 EGYPT 1
13 predicted the draw, of which eight got it spot on at 1-1 for the 5 points. Three randoms came in too. So 5 points for 11 teams, while nine got the draw by the wrong score for 2 points. And after the competition opened with three managers getting the first three scores correct, we finally have someone hit four. Two in fact, and neither of those who guessed the first three. Mike Collyer hits top spot with his fourth on-the-nailer, squeezing Roisin Guargena out by virtue of that one extra correct score. Neil Mullen climbs seven spots to 3rd with his fourth spot-on. A little further down, Maura Horgan hits the top 10 and Andrew Kaeding returns to form, up 28 to 12th on the day so far. None of those who got Spain 0 Cape Verde 0 picked up any points, so 10 is still the score to beat for the Manager of the Day trophy.
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SPAIN 0 CAPE VERDE 0
Oh my heart. What a performance from Cape Verde to hold Spain 0-0. It's joy mostly for a bunch of managers who left the score to random, although two managers did predict a draw. Paul Willingham got it spot-on and picks up a big 10 points for his The Shockers team, taking Paul's total for the competition from -4 points up to 6 and moving The Shockers up from 132nd to 116th. Margaret Ann Montague predicted 2-2 and picks up 4 points. Three random scores came in spot-on to the delight of Martha Rees, John-Paul Meredith and Zoltán Vidák. Zoltán had a decent run of randoms early in the competition before a run of -6 points in five games saw him slump to 90th place... Zoltán's is right back up 72 places to 18th and goes top of The League of Randoms. Three other randoms picked a draw but not 0-0, so all in all 10 points for four, 4 points for four, zero for the rest.
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Day 4 - Roisin Guargena goes top and shares Manager of the Day with Chris Bounds and Stephen Wraige
Day 3 - Paula Wilhelm takes Manager of the Day, Steven Jewell hits 8-pointer
Day 2 - 13 share Manager of the Day as Nick and John go clear
Day 1 - six set the pace with two from two
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