Blonde Football World Cup 2014 Predictions Competition

[MereNovice]

Germany 4 Portugal 0
Iran 0 Nigeria 0

Probably bad news for the 4 managers who picked Portugal to top Group G; 35 managers have Germany.

Probably bad news for the 11 managers who picked Iran to have the worst group record.

[MereNovice]

Excluding the Brazil v Mexico game, every team has now played once and a quarter of the matches of the competition have been completed.

Goals scored:  49
Yellow cards:  45
Red cards:  3

Top scorers:

3   Thomas Müller   Germany
2   Robin van Persie   Netherlands
2   Karim Benzema   France
2   Arjen Robben   Netherlands
2   Neymar   Brazil


For clarification, where a player is sent off for a second yellow card offence, I am counting this as one yellow card and one red card. This is consistent with the betting sites with which I am familiar. Apologies for not clarifying this before the start of the competition.

[MereNovice]

Spain 0 Chile 2


3 people selected Spain to win the cup.

26 people selected Spain to make the semi-finals.

31 people selected Spain to win Group B.

7 people selected Spain to be runner-up in Group B.


Only BornToBubble had Spain not to qualify from Group B.

[willrobrobu]

Spain 0 Chile 2


3 people selected Spain to win the cup.

26 people selected Spain to make the semi-finals.

31 people selected Spain to win Group B.

7 people selected Spain to be runner-up in Group B.


Only BornToBubble had Spain not to qualify from Group B.

we knows our footballs

[MereNovice]

Colombia 2 Ivory Coast 1

13 people have Ivory Coast to top Group C.
21 people have Colombia.
5 people have Japan.

[BorntoBubble]

hate to say i told you so.

[MereNovice]

hate to say i told you so.

Oh, go on - have a gloat.

[MereNovice]

Uruguay 2 England 1

Selections for Group D winners:

Uruguay   12
Costa Rica   0
England   13
Italy    14

[MereNovice]

Two goals for Luis Suarez too which should be some consolation to the two people who selected him for top scorer.

[MereNovice]

Italy 0 Costa Rica 1.

Ooops!


Nobody selected Costa Rica to get out of Group D.

4 people selected them to have the worst group record.

It's probably bad news for the seven people who selected them to score least goals, too.

[MereNovice]

Nigeria 1 Bosnia-Hercegovina 0

Bosnia-Hercegovina won't progress from Group F.

28 people selected them to finish second.
11 people selected Nigeria to come second.

[MereNovice]

Every team has now played twice and a half of the matches of the competition have been completed.

Goals scored:  94
Yellow cards:  83
Red cards:  5

Top scorers:

3   Robin van Persie   Netherlands
3   Thomas Müller   Germany
3   Karim Benzema   France
3   Enner Valencia   Ecuador
3   Arjen Robben   Netherlands

Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Neymar (and 6 other players) have scored twice.

Cameroon, Greece and Iran have all scored 0 goals.
Mexico and Nigeria have conceded zero goals.
Six teams (including Spain and England) have no points so far.
The Netherlands and France lead the way in the goal scoring charts with 8 apiece.

[MereNovice]

If you're struggling to work out the chances of your selected teams progressing to the next round:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/19/upshot/world-cup-2014-how-teams-can-advance-to-the-next-round.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=UP_HTC_20140622&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1388552400000&bicmet=1420088400000&_r=3

[MereNovice]

With Group B complete, the table looks like this:

Manager      Score
Horneris   *   10
Mark_Porter    *   10
booder   **   10
anthonyl      10
blueace      10
bookiebasher      10
BorntoBubble      10
ChipRich      10
claypole      10
craigbetts      10
dino1980      10
Eddycadub      10
kp24      10
Matt50      10
mic5      10
mondatoo      10
Nakor      10
Nico29      10
smurf      10
tikay      10
waz1892      10
Graham C    *   5
Peter-27   *   5
$heriff_Fatman    **   5
MPOWER   **   5
TightEnd   **   5
Big_D       5
BulldozerD      5
Doobs      5
ForthThistle      5
George2Loose      5
horseplayer      5
Killer River       5
TheDazzler      5
TL900      5
toddswain      5
TommyD      5
willrobrobu       5
Yian      5


Those with "*" after their name are only in the £10 pool.
Those with an "**" are only in the fun pool.


Nobody got the two teams in the right order but everybody got at least one team right.
Isn't that a nice way to start?

[tikay]

With Group B complete, the table looks like this:

Manager      Score
Horneris   *   10
Mark_Porter    *   10
booder   **   10
anthonyl      10
blueace      10
bookiebasher      10
BorntoBubble      10
ChipRich      10
claypole      10
craigbetts      10
dino1980      10
Eddycadub      10
kp24      10
Matt50      10
mic5      10
mondatoo      10
Nakor      10
Nico29      10
smurf      10
tikay      10
waz1892      10
Graham C    *   5
Peter-27   *   5
$heriff_Fatman    **   5
MPOWER   **   5
TightEnd   **   5
Big_D       5
BulldozerD      5
Doobs      5
ForthThistle      5
George2Loose      5
horseplayer      5
Killer River       5
TheDazzler      5
TL900      5
toddswain      5
TommyD      5
willrobrobu       5
Yian      5


Those with "*" after their name are only in the £10 pool.
Those with an "**" are only in the fun pool.


Nobody got the two teams in the right order but everybody got at least one team right.
Isn't that a nice way to start?

I see I am joint leader.

Justice, at last.

Class will out.