Killer Football

Killer Football - what's all that about. It's a competition we use for fundraising for our club. We did have it running, with some minor glitches in the Eircom League until Dublin City dropped out of site and it became an administrative nightmare, so we've had to make the call to cross over to the darkside and run one involving the English Premiership.

So How Does It Work:

• You start with 2 Lifes
• It's €10 a head
• Each week you pick a team from the weekend fixtures that you think are going to win
• If they win, your lifes stay intact, if they draw or lose, you lose a life
• Once you select a team, you can not select them until you have selected all the rest of the teams
• If you forget to send in your selection, an Automatic Selection is made going from the previous weeks league table (e.g. Going on the first week, Chelsea would be the auto-pick, as they won the league, after a few weeks, it's whoever is top, if you have already selected tehm, it's whoever is second and so forth)

Previous Killer Football
At the start of the Eircom League we did run Killer Football successfully. We started of with 13 people in. Mick McCourt & Stephen Large ended up sharing the pot after 9 match days, when the rest of us had lost out on our 3 lifes (cut down to 2 for the new one as the Premiership Killer is easier)

Mick McCourt had the longest winning streak selecting 6 winning teams in a row. But this pales into the shadows when looking at the magnificient losing streak of Will "The Child" McCann, when in the first 3 weeks I managed to select 3 losing teams in a row and ended up on the scrap heap - I have to say - not one of my finest moments.

So who'll win this time round is anyone's guess, but our numbers have grown and we now have 25 people competing - so may the best man win - na, screw that, I want to win.