Hissing Sid

Avoiding the potential minefield that is the FA Cup by going to the World Cup... Japan to beat Costa Rica For BTTS, also in the World Cup, France v Denmark Best of luck Purple, LYB, and all you PUPs

Heading to the National League with Notts County (top) v Yeovil (18th) - Home Win For BTTS Cambridge v Accrington Best of luck ZLF, NFN FC, and all you PUPs

Veteran who was pitchside here. The Act of Remembrance is Last Post followed by a period of silence. (Formal activities then have the bugler play Reveille). We were informed just prior to going pitchside that the LP and silence was what would happen. It clearly didn't. @TIL 1010 is correct, there were many very annoyed Veterans afterwards. To many, the actual silence is sacrosanct. And yes, the issue has been taken up with the club.

Germany and the 2.Bundesliga this week Hamburg (2nd) v Sandhausen (16th) - Home Win For the match bet a Josh Sargent goal Best of luck Mandie, Meer Kat, and all you PUPs

Bravo Cosmic and Kathy. A fine weekend...

Greetings all. Portugal for me this week... Sporting CP v Guimaraes - Home Win For the match bet, City to win and BTTS. Best of luck Cosmic, Kathy, and all you PUPs

An offering from League 1 this week Sheff Weds (3rd) v Burton (23rd) - Home Win For the match bet, HT/FT Draw/Norwich Best of luck Diane, Greg, and all you PUPs

An offering from Serie A this week... AC Milan (3rd, 4-0-1 12-6 home) vs Monza (14th, 1-1-3 4-9 away) - Home Win For the match bet, a score draw Best of luck Jellytot, Indy, and all you PUPs

A Sunday offering from Bundesliga 2 this week... Paderborn (3rd, 5-0-1 21-6 home) v Sandhausen (11th, 0-2-3 5-8 away) - Home Win For the match bet, City to win and BTTS. Best of luck Kev, Hector, and all you PUPs

Its League 1 for me this week Sheff Weds v Cheltenham - Home Win For the match bet, HT/FT City/City Best of luck Swindon, NFN FC, and all you PUPs

So it wasn't to be. Ajax have now been added to the (long) list of clubs that have been crossed off the Xmas card list!!! As @nutty nigel says, everything has to fall into place for the 6 to win. This week it seemed nothing did! Especially my pick, yet another top v bottom failure So thanks again to Nutty for allowing me the honour of having a go, congrats again to The Bald One for adding to the pot, and thanks to all you PUPs for your picks.

Well, that didn't go very well did it!!! Onto Europe...we go again. Well done TBO66, more in the pot

Hmm, not sure what happened there. Let's try again... Right you lovely PUPs, here we go. Thanks all for your suggestions. There was certainly plenty of choice and with that in mind I've chucked @nutty nigel an extra tenner so we can have two lines, one UK and one European... Every selection is for a home win UK List Sheff Utd v Birmingham Leyton Orient v Newport Chesterfield v Maidenhead Notts Co v Altrincham Celtic v Motherwell Dunfermline v Peterhead (This is also my pick please) Euro List Ajax v Go Ahead Eagles Lazio v Spezia PSG v Nice Club Bruges v Mechelen Sparta Prague v Hradec Kralove Kilia Kiel v Weiche Flensburg Once again, thanks to all. Let the games begin...

Greetings all. Here we go again then. Thanks @nutty nigel for the intro. It's an honour to have this opportunity once more. As usual, each and every option will be considered and hopefully six of them will be put together to win some cash. I'll be back on Friday evening. Good picking and good luck everyone.