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There are some who call him... Tim

Tim Roberts from Dorset tops the Fantasy FA Cup leaderboard after the fifth round. 24 points from the round lifted him from eighth place into the top spot with 71 points.

There was no doubting the performance of the round though. Al Baird scored an amazing 33 points for the round, destroying the previous record of 27 points. His predictions included four perfect predictions and in total seven out of eight correct results! Al was 189th after the third round, 97th last round and is now 3rd!

Insert pun here

John Bingley is now in second place. If only Patrick Denning of Bradford had bothered to submit his predictions, I could have had a great headline.

Soccer mocker

Malaysian aie ...... and Nicholas Chapple of Devon also had great rounds, scoring 30 apiece. Meanwhile Canadian Duane Rollins is up to 5th. As he said on his profile page, "Won’t you be pissed when someone who calls it *soccer* wins, eh?". Too right, Duane. Might have to deduct... anyway...

Oh dear

While some scale the heights, others plumb the depths. Looking at the murkier end of the leaderboard, there are some diabolical performances. Emily K of Cambridge and Essex, and Caroline Martinez of Canada have both entered every round, and gained a pathetic 35 points so far. But the worst of the worst is Alex Selby-Cane of the Bahamas, who has scored just 34 points, with only 1 perfect prediction so far (which was 4-1, fair enough!)

How did you do?

To see how well you did, check your predictions. The sixth round draw will be made Monday lunchtime; the sixth round entry form will be available on Monday evening.

So how did your predictions do? Visit the forum and exchange your views!

Leaderboard

Pos

Name

5th

Points

up 1 Tim Roberts2471
up 2 John Bingley2170
up 3 Al baird3369
up 3 alex milne2469
up 5 Duane Rollins2768
up 5 Jim Delahunt2468
up 7 Roy Swales2467
up 7 Andrew Flower2467
up 7 Lorna Finnegan2167
down 7 equinespy1867
down 7 David Maynard1267

View the top 50 or full leaderboard

Made up news

Fantasy FA Cup entrants don't have ginger hair People with ginger hair reacted angrily to the news that Fantasy FA Cup entrants don't have ginger hair. "It's very discriminatory" claimed one redhead. "Typical media bias," grumbled another carrot-top. "Look at him. And him. And him. And her. Typical."

Team of the round

Watford were the pick of the teams in the fifth round, dispatching Premiership Sunderland. Watford scored in controversial fashion after 65 minutes. Thomas Sorensen saved Tommy Smith's penalty, but referee Mike Dean ordered a re-take, claiming Sorensen had been off his line.

Sunderland may have felt cheated, but they threw away many chances and Watford deserved the victory and their first quarter-final place in 15 years.

What was the performance of the round?

 

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