DAY 26 - MONDAY JULY 6th
Managers with random scores fared best on Day 26. Rachel Walker takes the Manager of the Day trophy with 11 points, a perfect 8 for Portugal 0 Spain 1 plus 3 points for United States vs Belgium. Top predicting manager was Simon Bebbington with 8 points - all for the Spain win. Neil Mullen is still top overall, 4 points ahead of Ryan Keenan, Neil Mullen a further 2 points back. Mike Moore continues to top the Knockout Stage League, equal on points with Jeff Norton, Jonathan Liu 3 points behind in 3rd.
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UNITED STATES 1 BELGIUM 4
Gutted. I went against my own 'never change a prediction' policy to switch this one from 1-1 to 1-3 on the basis Belgium would be particularly fired up for it. That 93rd minute fourth goal for Belgium robbed me of 4 points. No-one got the score correct, not even a random, the best return was 3 points for four managers. Top three overall were all on 1-1, so no points there. In the rest of our top 10 we had another three 1-1s, a couple of USA wins (-2 points) and two on 1-2. So 2 points each for Jimmy Jazz and Ken Hargreaves is a half-decent reward. They're our top two scorers for the day, in the top 10, with just 4 and 5 points respectively. The top four teams in the Knockout Stage all had USA to win, followed by three on 1-1 who will be happy with zero points while those above lost two. Them Jimmy Jazz, the highest in the Knockout League as well as Overall League to earn 2 points.
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PORTUGAL 0 SPAIN 1
Two thirds of us were on the Spain win, but just one predicted 0-1. That manager was Simon Bebbington, who takes a huge 8 points. It moves Simon up to 18th overall and right up to 5th in the Knockout Stage League, just 6 points from top spot. Probably most important to Simon, he's up three places to 5th in Copa del Mundo 2026 and 2nd in its Knockout Stage League.
Our top three overall had different results - zero points for Neil Mullen on the draw, -2 for Nick Mullen on Portugal, 2 points for Ryan Keenan with 0-2. Neil stays top and is still 4 points clear, but it's Ryan now in 2nd. In 4th, Alison Giovannetti's hopes were further boosted, 3 points making up between 1 and 5 points on the top three.
Mike Moore stays top of the Knockout Stage League - but with zero while Jeff Norton picked up 3, they're now level on points with 56. Jonathan Liu is 3 points back.
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