Your blog highlights the exact issue. It is hard to track what time kickoff is from abroad since our clocks changing do not mirror GMT. Knowing when deadlines change from being shorter and longer is hard to do. I am suggesting that, since we have a big clock before matches that counts down the time until kickoff...that we use that clock. Makes it much easier when it reads "predictions due 3 hours before kickoff" than needing to go to Google and do time zone conversions every week.

I am not looking for sympathy or credit for betting. I am requesting a small tweak to the format that hurts nobody while helping those of us not on UK time.

Sorry, gents. I think you are both misunderstanding my blog - I'm not asking for my bet to be counted. I'm asking for the deadline to be clarified for people who are not on UK time.

Can we change the betting wording on the polls to be formatted "poll closes X hours before kickoff"? This is twice I've put in my bet over an hour before kickoff and not had it counted, and I'm not sure when 12:00 is relative to the kickoff, especially with time changes. I usually can get bets in the day before, but if not I'd like to still be able to bet

I've certainly done it a time or two since the rule was changed. Have even bet on myself to lose, knowing we needed to rest players...and then lost that prediction while managing a draw anyway. Don't think a point or two in the prediction league is worth risking a blowout or anything of the sort, so I doubt anyone would truly abuse the system. Even if they did, I'm not sure I'd lose much sleep over it. The game already works on an honor system that nobody is playing while throwing matches for their mates whenever they face each other. No use solving a problem that doesn't exist, in my opinion. If it becomes a problem, can always be re-evaluated then

Bournemouth 3 - 0 Ipswich Town

Arsenal 2 - 0 Fulham

Brighton 2 - 1 Aston Villa

Nottingham Forest 0 - 0 Man. United

Wolves 1 - 1 West Ham

Chelsea 2 - 1 Tottenham

Man. City 4 - 0 Leicester City

Newcastle 0 - 2 Brentford

Southampton 1 - 3 Crystal Palace

Liverpool 2 - 1 Everton

No more errors, please! I'm losing points by the day as my score moves unstoppably towards zero.