And the winners are...

Now that the dust has finally settled on another fine football season, it's time to announce the winners of SPAOTP's two online competitions.

Back in July 2008, we invited you all to take part in our Fantasy Premier League and 'I Know The Score' League, both run in conjunction with the official Premier League website. Once again, we had a terrific response from all of you resulting in a record 121 players taking part in the former, and after 38 weeks of ardent battling we are delighted to announce that the winning team was Leeds from the Front, managed by Chris Gordon.

Chris amassed a total of 2,134 points (averaging over 56 per week) and finished 10 clear of Graham Matthews' Nowt Since '68 in second. In third place was Riverdale FC, managed by James Dutra, with 2,083 points.

Congratulations to all of them and indeed all of you who took part. Thanks to your efforts, the SPAOTP.com mini-league was finally ranked 389th out of 140,784 which, we think you'll agree, is something to be very proud of.

Over in the 'I Know The Score' mini-league, we're delighted to announce that two old friends of SPAOTP ended up at the top of the pile. The outright champion was Tokyo Toffeeman who ended the season on 2,485 points - just fifteen clear of ChrissMari who put in a last ditch challenge with 200 points on the final gameweek. Had she not predicted Hull would get a draw against Man United on the last Sunday, she might have just snatched victory but that's just us being pedantic... ;-) Third place went to minty83 who ended up with a creditable 2,390 points.

Once again, congratulations to the winner, Tokyo Toffeeman, and our thanks to everyone that took part. We hope we can call on your participation again next season!