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Predicting the outcome of a football game is a tricky business.

You can look at league form, a particular player’s form, the head-to-head fixtures from the past  and so on. But really, you just have no idea how it’s going to turn out. You might as well sacrifice chickens to read their innards or gather round the ouija board for all the insight it’ll give you.

I mean, he may have predicted the assassination of JFK, but I reckon even Nostradamus would be sitting in front of the telly on a Saturday evening, scratching his head going “Whit?!? Dundee only drew with Airdrie? I was sure they where due a win.”

So how did we do?

Well, Hearts drew 2-2 with St Johnstone (we tipped Hearts to win), Inverness Caley suffered a 3-1 home defeat to Ross County (again, we went for Caley) and in the other Fife derby, Cowdenbeath and East Fife’s game ended in a 1-1 draw (And guess what? Yes, we went for a Cowdenbeath win).

Our final prediction, like all the others we made, seemed such a sure thing we even placed a cheeky bet on it. We reckoned that Livingston where going to thoroughly pump Albion Rovers by an enormous margin that our £2.50 stake would return a healthy £6.56 in winnings, or £4.06 profit.

Enough for 6 Aberdeen butteries.

But alas poor Livi: ‘t was not to be, Albion Rovers won 1-0. When we heard that Livi defender Ewan Moyes had put the ball through his own net, a new internet acronym was created: LALAL. Lets All Laugh At Livingston.

So, complete shite then. At least the one football certainty we know of didn’t disappoint: Fort William lost again. 1-0. To Brora Rangers.