Winner Stays On 
/ Jamie "The Pacman" Pacheco / 28 January 2011 / Leave a Comment 
The fair and mature way to find a winner if the match ends a draw
"If a team is playing against another which is two or more divisions below them that team should have to play with a handicap. Like having to eat a roast dinner just half an hour before kick-off. Or playing with shorts that are a little too big for the players. Or having to play with Niklas Bendtner in your starting line-up."
It's FA Cup this weekend so WSO has come up with a few suggestions as to how to make the competition interesting again, plus the small matter of the selections of our two contestants.
The danger that was Dangerous Dave is no more. He couldn't hack it. The pressure of being reigning Winner Stays On reigning champ got to him and he bottled it. There's no other way of describing it.
This week we kick off the competition with an FA Cup tie. Ah, the FA Cup. They say the competition creates heroes and makes dreams come true.
But here at WSO we're not so sure about that. All it seems to create is a congested fixture list and the only dreams that come true are those where your team gets knocked out early on so you can concentrate on more important matters.
So here are WSO's suggestions as to how the competition can be improved.
1)Make the draw more dramatic.They always get some World Cup winner from '66 in and they ask him to pick a ball out of a bowl. There are a few gasps and some representative from the club jots down who their team has drawn. As if they're going to forget on the way home or as if the information isn't available elsewhere. Play some music, get the mascots to square up to each other like they do in boxing, get a comedian to make some disparaging remarks about each club. Do something.
2)Make it a more even contest. A few weeks back I had the fortune to play a round of golf with a player ranked in the World's Top 10 in a charity event. Suffice to say, I suspect he'd played before. Suffice to say he played off a handicap. Suffice to say he still beat me to a pulp. But why should football be any different? If a team is playing against another which is two or more divisions below them that team should have to play with a handicap. Like having to eat a roast dinner just half an hour before kick-off. Or playing with shorts that are a little too big for the players. Or having to play with Niklas Bendtner in your starting line-up.
3)Scrap replays. No-one wants to have to play the same team just a few days after you've already played them, it's boring. Find a winner on the day. If it's a draw after 90 minutes, do what most mature adults do when trying to come to a solution. Get the PS3 out, pick your best player and have them play Pro Evolution Soccer against the opposition's best player on the console with the teams you actually play for. And let the game unfold on the big screens so the crowd can feel involved. If that ends a draw too, get the two captains to play paper-scissors-stone, best of three. At no point should the teams resort to a penalty shoot-out. That's just pot luck and doesn't help us find the deserved winner.
Looking for deserved winners this week are reigning champ If Only and challenger Ahenbest.
This week's matches:
If Only's selections:
Everton v Chelsea-Back Over 2.5 goals at 2.02
Arles v PSG- Back a PSG clean sheet at 2.14
Lazio v Fiorentina- Lazio to score two goals or more at 3.6
Ahenbest's selections
Everton v Chelsea- Back Chelsea to win at 2.08
Arles v PSG- Back PSG to win at 1.57
Lazio v Fiorentina- Lay Lazio at 2.24
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