Jagdev tops Forecast Challenge standings

Manchester City’s players on stage celebrating with their fans after winning a fourth English Premier League title in five years. — AP

IN the end, Jagdev Singh comfortably topped the MetroSport Forecast Challenge, but not before some real close calls leading up to the end-of-season run-in of the English Premier League.

The Challenge, designed for the StarMetro football pundits and based on predicting the outcome of four selected Premiership matches each week with a system that rewards the exact scoreline with 40 points and 10 for the correct result (win, lose or draw), remained largely close until well into the second half of the season when long-time Liverpool fan Jagdev pulled away.