PAs Lucky 13 Winter 2025 Week 3 round up

Written by

Officially my 3rd team at next year’s World Cup… (it’s Cape Verde, mum. And that lad on the left is from Dublin!)
   

“Honey For The Bees”:

Blimey – that certainly was a classic old-skool “International Week” – so I’ll cut to the chase from the off…   A whopping FORTY EIGHT of us scored 30 points or more this week, with thirteen of those hitting the 40 point plus marker! And one of them went into the hallowed “fifties”… Neil T obviously stole his daughter’s lucky PAS charm this week, scored 47 points, and still pulled up short…yeah, I know right?! To be fair, he was outrageously denied a weekly win courtesy of 3 x added-on time away goals in Malta, Scotland & Portugal – see, stealing gets you nowhere, kids… Rob C must be rueing missing a game after getting a nine pointer in Latvia that put him close on forty nine points.   So that left Pete Britton 55(6) up front & centre to take the weekly £20 prize! “Dream Team” (whadyamean you don’t play it??!) empresario Pete can mainly thank an added-on time correct score treble – however, I think the real story here was the homing in on a fourfold of 8 pointers…   Well done Pierre, looks like it’s on trend to hit the Top Ten in our respective competitions!   The Slinky Six   Assists – M. Depay G. Mancini (90’+3) – Italy M. Oyarzabal (90’+2 pen) – Spain      

“Weak In The Presence Of Beauty”:

Feeling a bit underwhelmed by the “point plunder” that International Week promises? Yeah, I know… But, once again, even this week’s loser wasn’t really that much of a loser! (helpful?!)   Only 1 (ONE) person failed to get more than fifteen points this week.   Eight poor souls didn’t manage a correct score, including three who scored 20 points (yes, that’s you Lily T, Ollie O, Neil O!)   Good news – All in double figures though, eh?! <smiley emoji>   Bad news – Laura Harrison 15(0) was left languishing once again…   Oh, and Laura, International Week is back in Week 8 – eeeek!      

Correct Score of the Week:

Didn’t we do well…most popular score was Italy’s 3-0 win against Israel – 26 of us got that!   Twenty five got the 1-3 Italian win over Estonia 22 felt Slot Fergie vibes when this Spanish 92nd minute penalty secured an 8 pointer 4-0 v Bulgaria Eighteen revelled in the schadenfreude of the Netherlands’ late late show in Malta 17 got 3 goal demolition of Azerbaijan by France Sixteen quite rightly predicted Germany’s 4-0 thrashing of Luxembourg 11 will shout out loud about the humbling of Finland by Netherlands Five made us all green by happening upon San Marino 0-4 Cyprus 4 put us all to shame by predicting Latvia 0 England 5 Howard T, Martin S & Frankie L we’re so happy for Portugal 2-2 Hungary they will actually wear that ballet dress… Ben McK, Matthew S & David M had Norway’s merciless deconstruction of Israel Patricia F & Matthew S (again!) just knew Stockport would keep a clean sheet for a 1-0 vs Blackpool           However, this week’s best correct score goes to…nobody – that doesn’t happen very often!      

Bet of the Week:

Danny A was on “Bet of the Week” position 60th in Week 2 so we asked him to provide a treble (that’s a home, an away and a draw) selection for the £3 “trixie” bet.   And guess what?! We won! Again! Kinda…   “Saturday special…” (becoming “a thing” these “specials”) Stockport (H) – yes! Barnet (A) – yes!! Chesterfield/Salford (D) – oh no!     So, £2.90 goes on “Bet of the Week” slot 60th –  better than nowt! Nice one Danny boy!   Matthew E, Debbie L & Nick Hogwood are in 45th – Debbie was first out the hat, so…   Mz Lee, I need your 3 team treble (H, A & D) by Friday please!   Keep the giddy up, giddy upping!          

Table News:

 

“Wishing You Were Here”:

Elliot Davy jumps 2 places to the top, 1 point ahead of Pete B who, in turn, is two points clear of Neil T in third.   Six crashed the Top Ten.    

“Invisible”:

Laura Harrison drops four places to the bottom, 5 points adrift of Paul F, who, in turn, is three points behind Patricia F…    

“Love Resurrection”:

Highest climber this week, up a whopping 60 places is Rob Currin – honourable mentions go to Pete B (+32), Stefan P (+30), Harry H (+43), Scott H (+36), David M (+44), Jack B (+30), Rich L (+49), Sam A (+48), and Dom W (+33)    

“All Cried Out”:

Falling furthest this week, down a whopping 43 places is Stanley Marriott – dishonourable mentions go to Julian F (-31), Tony M (-42), Sean K (-38), Anthony R (-34), and Ollie O (-32).     Click here for further details…      

PAS Champions League Knockout Stages 2025/26:

  Matchday 2 Group games kick off in Week 4!   If you’re at “home” – don’t forget to play your “joker”!   Full fixtures & results can be found here     Dates for your diaries – PAS CL Weeks
Matchday 2 – Week 4
Matchday 3 – Week 6
Matchday 4 – Week 8
Matchday 5 – Week 10
Matchday 6 – Week 12
     

PAS Cup 2026:

In order to be invited to enter the PAS Cup 2026 you will have to finish in the Top 32 after 13 weeks of play. Currently sneaking the last spot are the twinned…Dan Wayman & Norman Lee!      

And Another Thing:

All the payments are in – prize money confirmation incoming!   Oh, and if you’re doing Sky Super 6 you need to join our league! It’s bubbling up nicely at the moment…   PAS Sky Super 6 League (pabPAS – pin: PPW6JE)     Twitter is dead & so is Instagram – but we’ve got a What’s App group! Wanna join? Why? Well, I send round reminders that you don’t have to check your email for. Erm…some people are quite funny (some are annoying. obvs) & hopefully we’ll get some good pics of away fans at games (spoiler: we don’t) We will crush any “hilarious reels” though… Plus, you can gloat when you land that 9 pointer in the 97th minute! Email me over your number and i’ll add ya ([email protected])   Cheers, Pab