Great win for the neutrals, always nice to see a podium finish for cherry popper, even better a maiden win. He'll be celebrating that one! Luck, they say, but you got to grab those opportunities when they come by, don't you?

So who is this nil_krokodil, and what are we going to do about him?

Laugh out loud at myself for finally switching out captaincy and then Salah gets 13 points. Still a poor return by his standards but more than anyone on my team, with a front 3 that managed to collect 5 among themselves.

Nice one cygan, Gvardiol is brave. I liked Bowen for a long time too...

Me neither. I got burned by them just too often to ever consider them again a while back. Bedshitters, and it's a shame because Ange was pretty decent I thought -- the curse of media fawning struck him (and Newcastle) this season.

Son cuts a frustrated figure, he's too good to remain down, but he really deserves better than this.

Liverpool weren't even that scary.

Newcastle did their job. Now let's at least make the season a good one and give them a fighting chance for Europa by beating Spurs (Spurs will probably be shit in Europa anyway).

Note: I'm just shittalking since I'm still trying to comprehend the Slotmachine era about to dawn upon us. Hope we get a good game is all!

I finally brought my eyes to view the table and confirm, I have lost. Salah or no Salah. Still, hope he does you a favour and pump up some more fuel into his cylinders. If he has to end the season with nothing else, he should at least remind Slot why he's been there so long.

Every week feels like a long kiss goodbye for team buwaytress. Out of ideas. Hairdryer treatment failed. Ignoring them failed. Getting them to party failed. Full training failed. Fired the seniors and made way for academy, didn't work.

^Don't you hate teams like Girona? Make your heart go all warm and fuzzy, half the season the media were fairtytaling their story. And they score for fun, keep clean sheets, etc.

Then they drop like a stone, but instead of staying down, they gather everything around them for a good ending. Screwing up plans, bets, and my BSFL. Rant.

P.S. Getafe taking their moms on to the pitch was beautiful, too bad they lost.

Good game, notblox1. I lost the Arsenal City one and Girona just thrashed Barca, I didn't count points but I'm pretty damned sure you're ahead, with no way for me to catch up.

I'll tell my team to pack their bags and prepare for life in Division 2 because the way they're (not) playing, they might as well just throw in the towel already.

I'm gunning for Arsenal all the way here, now that my team found a way to bow out in unspectacular fashion. Gooners were objectively better all season long. More exciting (I'll pretend that 0-0 against City didn't happen, but that was the plan all along), more positive, and just well, not City.


Kane prevented plenty of St Totteringham days but yeah, it seems like Arsenal are back to toying with their big town rivals. What's your pick for the rest of the games? I should bet against it?

^ Ipswich back, yeah! Leeds needed them to lose, but also needed to win, Ipswich will be glad Saints didn't lie down and make it easy even away.

And indeed, as you say, it's the playodds, the most valuable competition in football. It is going to be a big shame though that Leeds or Saints was one I really wanted back too, and both might not make it.

Far too much. It seems now I have to rely on Wolves to not give City too easy a task. Then we can both watch Liverpool and see our fate from there. Given that Salah has been absent for weeks, it's not looking good for me at all.

Funny we both look down on Ferrari. It would be a terrible outing for them to do badly in sprint AND race, and yet we both went for the unlikely outcome.

Same here man, same here. It's just really the universe telling me that I don't know football anymore (or I never really did).

You can watch a team, follow them a bit, measure expectations on form, determination, talent, and bookmaker odds -- and then it all goes out the window anyway.

They have nothing to fear in Premier League. They're good enough to lose 2 games and still get Champions League, so I don't understand if that's a distraction. Here and now you can win a trophy.

You know how I feel too about Liverpool. Losing to United who will of course get thrashed by City in FA Cup. And losing to Atalanta who will of course get trashed by Leverkusen. We could have had two amazing finals, but we lost to teams who were, frankly, there to be taken.


What on god's blessed earth? I just looked it up -- couldn't find anything about it. One Greek guy owns them and Nottingham Forest... but I don't think they allow a guy to hold two executive positions in football do they?

Thank you for the reminder as I play freebet hunt in Bundesliga.

Think most of us got 4 points for Darmstadt relegation, I've already lost the pick on Heidenheim who prevail in midtable, but still got some hopes for Bochum but I really need Mainz to start showing up.

Leverkusen loss, Freiburg win, Werder and Mainz wins. It's worth 25/1 on an acca, so that should all hit easily, no?

Watkins and Raya are among the oldest survivors of my FPL. Even kept him on when he was injured. I didn't do the math but I think he and Saka are the biggest contributors to my tally this season.

Palmer..? He better do something, after wasting space on my midfield for 2 GWs! Oh and... Darwin still in my team but lost his captaincy. To... Palmer.

P.S. Me replying to Igebotz before noon on Friday with two posts. Not even my kids have this much attention. Also, congratulations to your moderator position. I better brush up on my pidgin..!

I told you guys, no one wants to read OP =p

Freebets only apply to Pot A, sorry paid. But you did a bloody good job there, but you would have needed a lot more points to break into top 10. Should have gone for the scoreless final maybe?

PSG - Real Final, I'm hoping for it too. After 80% of this tournament being rather shit, I think this is the one we all deserve.

The less said about my last few weeks in football, the better. At least BVB gave us some kind of nice match to watch eh? Now if they actually win this, I will regret not taking the 18/1 outright I piffed at just a couple of weeks ago. Serves me right.

ajiz138 and notblox1 I see your caps, but we'll only award one final freebet for the top 3 after the final. So well done, but you've got 3 more games to go =) Everyone who got points this week will probably have a shot. 1miau happy anyway with the positive result

All I had to do was believe in the draw to get myself into top 10...

Penalty from Son and a worldie for Palmer, all before HT, please. I can't go behind 0-2 before the weekend even starts!


Injury? Pretense? Who knows Ok, ok, Sinner doesn't fake injury.


Tennis indeed. Throw basketball into the mix. And DOTA. Sports, sports, sports.

The only certainty of BSFL is I should bet the opposite of 50% of my picks...


Went better than I expected actually so far. At the time I submitted, all four were at 2-2s, so I knew then, based on my "50/50 statistics" rule for basketball (which has so far proven to be a very accurate model), we should have on average 2 teams tying at 3-3. Doesn't matter as notblox1 also thought the same.

Missed this my man, and I was hoping for the same. I always feel like it's idiotic for teams like that to progress, since they ruin the games and won't make it to the final anyway. Emery will still be disbelieving his luck he landed the easier team in the semis. I really think it's written in the stars for Villa so it's theirs to lose, you're right.

P.S. I did see the match vs Chelsea and they did eventually drop points but that's to Chelski! No one left in Conference is half as talented.

Okay, I'm pretending to completely ignore the events of the last few weeks.

Surprisingly, I can't find much to cheer about from a betting perspective -- all teams left are evenly matched according to bookies; okay, Roma has the longest odds but 25/10 or so isn't really an underdog is it?

That means no betting for me, unless Leverkusen - Atalanta looks value to you...

Don't know about Shiftal but I'm seeing more and more people talk about Paxful as not a p2p platform, simply because it's not non-custodial. I've commented on it before and I think while I also recommend Bisq or similar over custodials, I see nothing wrong with people getting on Paxful and the like first to get the hang of how P2P should work.

Today, I do virtually all of my exchanges to fiat P2P -- directly with others, without using any platform. But this habit and network started on Localbitcoins -- the most centralised of them all, if you think about it.

I don't think that made it any less P2P... just "centralised" in various ways.

And now Sinner withdrew. So it's a big ass draw question for maybe most of us?

I knew I should have gone Rublev. Goddamn top seeds.