Week 17

No !!

Nooooooo!!

As Sugar and Ashley once again prove that they can do the unfathomable, we see two innocent victims of pure stupidity !!

James was top this week with an impressive 13 points in a relatively low scoring week. The Sugar/Ashley combination was Rico and myself with two points a piece. Its tighter than a gnat's chuff at the top of the table.

No transfers this week.

The Chairman

Franco FC get smashed to pieces..................

SANTA CLAUS.........

1. Wears red.

2. Good at breaking into houses.

3. Has loads of electrical goods that nobody can trace.

4. Drives an unlicensed vehicle.

5. Only does one day's work a year.

Are you sure he's not a fucking Scouser?

Week 16

In an interview after the game the gifted lazy arse pikey claimed "Its just like my mum says, you don't get one car to stop for ages and then you get to squidgy five in a row !!"

Berbs again wakes up for DP who was this week's Pep Guardiola with 24 points. This brings him within 4 points of Theo, the new leader of the pack. McNick who continues to maether about a player he could have out bid me for if he really wanted to (Cahill) still remains second. The "Not So Special One" this week was James with a big old zero.

No transfers this week.

The Chairman

Week 15

Allegedly certain senior players at Chelski were the reason for the departure of Uncle Fester. They questioned what value he added to the club. Who else can light a bulb in their mouth?


Hopefully his departure will lead to a slight demise with the Moody Blues.

A bit like the top of the Premier League, there were no major gains on the top two. Donald was this week's Owen Coyle with 14 points. Tevez again reviving his famished scoreline with a bucket full of points. I was second (13 points) thanks to the Elmader-Davies combo meal ticket. John was the recipient of the dodgy curry with -4 points.

Two transfers this week. Theo transfers one Spurs player for another. Jermaine "leaps like a salmon" Defoe for Peter "Spider Legs" Crouch. I 've gone Brummie bringing in Ridgewell for Cuellar. If you all click on the table below you will see this weeks points and the transfers to date. I am aware that some of you may have made purchases belonging to others.

The Chairman

Is this worse than Rocket Ronnie's miss?

Judge for yourselves...

http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/8566107/23052785

Week 14

Because of his superior skills PE teacher, Gwyn Morris had to write special rules. These restricted Bale to playing one touch football and not using his left foot. No wonder our Gareth is so bloody scary !! He could do it all by the time he was 12 !!

Despite every other Spurs defender being in negative figures, Gareth keeps doing the business for Nick. He takes the lead after a barnstorming week , which sees him score 34 points. Big contributions from Bale(7), Downing(7) Hart(6) and Sagna (6). My second place 19 point score is not really worth mentioning in comparison. Donald was Roberto Mancini with a single point in this two game week.



Two transfers by Stathis. Robinson out, Not so Flappyhandski (Fabianski) in. Ireland out, Albrighton in. I get rid of Giggs ( I bet he is back next week) for Jarvis.

The Chairman

Week 13

With plenty of defensive lapses its been a low scoring week. This weeks Roy Hodgsons are Stathis and Mike with 10 points each. Kevin Davies (8) doing the business for Mr Marneros, which sees him gradually creep up on Rico and James. Mike moves closer to the top thanks to a Torres brace. The Harry "I insist on playing a lone striker who has not scored a single league goal this season" Redknapps were Theo and Rico with big fat zilches.

Two transfers this week. Nick "still banging on about Cahill" McAth ditches Pienaar for Kuyt. Mike with no opposition buys back Balotelli for Dembele. Will it be the curse of the buy-backs. It struck on more than one occasion with a certain Gary Neville !!

The Chairman

Week 12

This photo just about sums up this duffoid !!

Its been a return to form for the FFL thoroughbreds Nick and Mike. Nick was this week's Chris Houghton with 20 points and a wide range of scorers. His major contributors were Vidic (6), Dempsey(6) and Carroll (4). Mike with 17 points continues his resurgence with the aid of a Kevin Nolan hat trick. I was this week's three legged donkey trailing with a horrible 3 points. As we reach quarter of the way through the season, Theo leads the pack in pursuit of his second FFL title, but its very early days.

No transfers this week.

The Chairman

Happy Birthday to 'The Greatest'

Sit back, watch and enjoy................


Argentinos Juniors and Youth World Cup


Diego at Napoli


"Do you know what kind of player I could have been if I had not used cocaine"


The Best of Diego......


Diego plays for Spurs!


He's still got it


Six v One? No problem!!

Week 11

Gimping aint easy!! Was it really worth a life time ban? I suppose so, its only Sunderland.

Theo and Donald continue their early surge for glory. Team of the week was Mike with 14 points. Nasri, Nolan and maybe a rejuvenated Torres providing the bulk of his points. Stathis has finally hit fourth gear and with his "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" of a team achieved a wholesome 12 points. James stalled horribly with a single point.

Only one transfer this week. Mike has given Konchesky the boot, bringing in the young bright Everton prospect Seamus Colman.

The Chairman

How did you take the Rooney news?

Week 10

Its been a tussle at the top. Donald just heading Theo as they begin to pull away from the rest of us. DP was also the manager of the week with 16 points followed closely by Theo on 14. Tevez and Brunt again doing the biz for DP. Rico was performing like his beloved Liverpool with -2 points. Stathis, well done, double figures at last. Short and sweet this week, off to Milan. COYS !!!

Only one transfer this week. McNick transfers Kuyt for Dempsey.

The Chairman

I'm back....................

Apathy, disillusionment, cynicism, lack of empathy

These are the words that spring to mind when I currently think of football.

Am I falling out of love with the game? Possibly. The ‘beautiful’ game is no more, and it hasn’t been for a long time. Prices through the roof – I’m not prepared to pay 50 quid every other week to watch Darron Gibson and John O’Shea plod their way at Old Trafford.

Then there is the number of cunts in football. There used to be a handful of these hate types now everywhere you look they are everywhere.

There are the usual cunts like Ashley Cole, Alan Shearer (as a player and certainly as a pundit), John Terry, Diouf etc.

But we now have a new echelon of football cunts who infect and infest the game. People like Mick ‘up his own arse’ McCarthy, Ian ‘buffoon, rent a quote’ Holloway, Neil Warnock (his name is an anagram of wanker by the way), William ‘loony’ Gallas.

And then there’s the written press who have out of nowhere have become football ‘celebrities’. Morons like Shaun Custis and Andy Dunn to name but two. The proliferation of talk show crap – step forward Adrian Durham you knob and his television ‘twin’ Tim Lovejoy.

Where has Jimmy Hill gone? Des Lynam? I can handle Lineker and Hansen and just about stomach Lawerenson, but MOTD is actually very shit these days.

Referees? Shit, shit, shit. How Howard Webb did not get a universal slaughtering for his World Cup Final display is beyond me. Are we in Communist Russian? Is The Sun the new Pravda????

But all this is part of a bigger reason and with Mighty Mouse eager to hear my latest anti-scouse rant, I’m afraid I am going to disappoint, and here’s why.

When I woke up on Saturday morning and read that the ‘dippers’ when on the verge of getting a nine-point penalty my initial amusement (I fell out bed such were the belly laughs) was overwhelmed by a sense of perspective.

You see, if this were to happen it would be an absolute fucking travesty. Yep, that’s right, you have read it right I am saying that were the vermin rat munchers left on MINUS 3 points I think it would be an utter disgrace.

Why? One reason is because they are United’s bitterest and biggest rivals (boy I loved watching them squirm when Berba smashed in his hat trick). There are clubs that profess to claim United being their biggest game but inbred Bolton don’t count and as for the multitude of Arsenal fans who tell me ‘we hate manure’, fucking grow up you pricks. We have never been your rivals and never will. You just happen to be an irritant on the way to Ferguson (in this era) winning title after title.

Surprised? You should be I guess. I may hate the team from the self pity city. I may have to use Nintendo Wii honed reflexes to avoid their spit at Old Trafford and flying coins (this one always perplexes me, surely the mass unemployed need every penny???). I may hate their self-pity and self righteousness, THAT song, the Munich chants (again, don’t get this given their tragedies they never tire of telling the world). I have laughed at the sight of the Fat Spanish Waiter talking about FACHTS. Seen him spunk £18m on a full back who can’t defend, £20m on a striker who was resold back to Spurs for nearly half price, attempt to buy Gareth Barry while at the same time piss off Alonso and then end up with neither. Lucas? Vornonin? Let’s not go there.

But, and you know this is very hard for me say, I respect them. Respect them for their history (Chelsea are you listening?). Respect them that during their glory years they did it with pure graft, management that was beyond anything else at the time and the most important thing it was all paid for by themselves.

There was no Russian oligarch to bankroll the club. A man who knows the illegality of what he did (and continues to do so) that he became a governor of a remote Siberian state. Why become governor? It affords you immunity from prosecution! Clever eh? As clever as bleeding a whole nation dry! And where can he ‘hide’ and legitimise his money? That’s right, Chelsea Football Club.

As for those bitter blue bastards over at Wastelands, well the less said the better. Even with having an owner who is worth 100 billion pounds (say it again, 100 billion pounds) they still buy dross, play dross and are run by a complete idiot. If you recall Gary Cook claimed Kaka didn’t have the bottle to go to city!

Back to the granny stabbers and yes, it was hilarious that with open arms and open arseholes they welcomed H&G (Hicks and Gillett) while at the same time singing U-S-A at Old Trafford. Oh the scouse wit!

But these clowns, much like the Glazers, are ruining football history. These con-men who have taken over both club should be found and sent to Guantanamo Bay.

They don’t ‘get’ football, they are only in it to line their pockets. But you know what this is what greed does. The Premier League is a bloated parody of itself. Best league in the world? My arse. The FA? Bunch of morons who couldn’t run a bath.

If Liverpool do go into administration then hopefully it will be the wake-up call that has been coming since Leeds started to implode- but those sheep shaggers are not big enough to warrant widespread action. The government needs to step in and rid the game of chancers and gamblers who are ruining the game.

Last week United announced an operating profit of £100m, the balance sheet shows a LOSS of £80m. Over the last five years United have had a net spend of approx £60m on transfers, roughly £11m a year. Over the same period United have HAD to pay nearly £470m in interest payments thanks to those Glazer gimps. That’s roughly £93m a year. How the fuck is that allowed to happen?

Rant over. I am back, temperature rising, temper raging.

MIKE PIERI IS MISSING

Gentlemen,

We are all aware that the once mighty reds of Liverpool are stuck in the bottom three of the Premiership following a highly embarrassing home defeat to Blackpool. This of course followed on the back of the equally embarrassing home defeat to Northampton.

Whilst this may have shocked the nation and made headline news what is of equal, nay, much more concern is that our beloved former chairperson and ex-champion of the Dwight Yorke Cup FFL has not posted a single comment. I'm sure you are all as worried as I am by this radio silence and we can only hope that this absence is only temporary.

Mike - if you're out there and able to read this please give us a sign. Anything will do. The world just doesn't seem right without the "bin dippers" getting abused by you.

Week 8

Could this be the FFL bargain of the season?

Its been a good week for Theo, with the "Van der Vaart - Spider Legs" combination bagging 10 of his 16 points. Theo was this week's Ian Holloway. He now jointly tops the table with Donald, while Nick slips away due to his two point display making him this weeks Roy Hodgson. There was only one transfer this week. I have traded Gyan for Elmander. The biggest shock of the week was not the Blackpool result, but the fact that there has not been any word from Pieri since the scousers were officially in the bottom three. Probably still creaming his pants !!

The Chairman

Premier League - Cult Eleven

Although this link gives only one of the players - the midfield general that every team needs - there's another ten of them to reminisce and enjoy. I'm sure we've all got our favourites and we could probably nominate our own alternative eleven (why not?) but I've picked a player that all Spurs fans will remember with warm affection...Steffen Robo-Freund

http://www.footballfancast.com/2010/10/football-blogs/the-premier-leagues-cult-heroes-xi/attachment/steffen-freund

Week 7

Carlos Tevez. One of the most consistent points scorers when playing regular football. However, cutting the hair was a big mistake. Somebody who will rank in the Hall of Fame amongst the Beardsleys, Keowns, Chadwicks and Nevilles should use hair to mask a hidden beauty. In fact he should use a mask to mask his hidden beauty. His parents were warned by social services for constantly abusing him with the ugly stick. Carlos! No! For the sake of pitbulls everywhere grow it back!!



Its been an indifferent week with positive movements by Nick Ath and Theo and negative ones by myself. Nick with 17 points was this week's Northampton and me with -3 points was Liverpool. Talking about the scousers what happened to sportsmanship in the Sunderland game? Donald still leads the way, but its early days and he's had no injuries yet !!

In case you are wondering, the points are worked out automatically on a Sunday by a downloaded spreadsheet. I do not calculate them manually. If points are amended they are added or deducted the following week through the FFL official printable sheet. For example Ashley Cole had five points last week and then the panel totally pissed me off by awarding the assist to Drogba. Therefore John received an extra two points this week and I was deducted two. Nick Ath who bitched about his two points for Hart's assist was rewarded this week as the points were not on the printed list at the time last week.

Transfers were all in James' favour. He outbid me for Kenwyne Jones using Defoe against my Gyan. James also purchased Etherington for Valencia and Odemwingie for Rodallega.

Your Chairman

Week 6

Anybody up for this week's Geordie Messiah?

It looks like we have an early trail blazer with DP taking Team Of The Week for the second consecutive week. His score of 18 points kicks ass mainly due to the his deadly combination of Berbatov and Tevez. Theo was the only other player to reach double figures with a creditable 14. Stathis matched Donald by by retaining the lowest score of the week with four points.Things can only get better. Especially as Stathis was the only person to make a transfer this week bringing in Kalou for Ngog.

Your Chairman

FFL Week 5

Unfortunately we were not able to witness the abuse the Everton Fans had for the monkey boy. One of the songs to the tune of Bob Marley's " No Woman No Cry" was "No Coleen, No Kai".

Its disgraceful that a professional footballer of his standing can't just pull fit women because he is a world famous footballer. He had to pay!! Even Crouchie's got a top bird and he looks like Munch's "The Scream" on stilts!!

Anyway back to this weeks shenanigans. After an explosive start out of the blocks John Boy stalled big time accompanying Mr Marneros on zero points. Team of the week was Donald with 19 points. 7 out of his 11 players scored points which shows pretty strong form. I was next with 9 points and Theo third with seven. Defences suffered as all of the top four conceded goals.




Transfers
There were no conflicting transfers with every "wheeler dealer" obtaining their desired purchases. Mike got rid of Balotelli for early points scorer Dembele. Stathis is the early tinkermeister with two transfers after just three days. In comes Essien and Charlie Adams, out go Bilyaletdinov and Babbel. Theo kicks out that pikey Hunt and brings in Bulgarian gypsy Petrov. Well he doesn't want to miss out on the free pegs and lucky heather !! Finally, I took a punt on Gyan for the luckless Zamora. Early days and plenty to play for.


Your Chairman

I miss him..........................

You can have your Messi, your Villa, your Torres, your Drogba.

There's only one Ronaldo.



Scores EVERY kind of goal.

Instead I now have to sit and watch O'Shea, Park, Gibson, Owen etc etc.

End of an era (and an Empire) is nigh

FFL WEEK 1-3

Here we go again. Firstly, I'd like to say welcome back to the first ever FFL winner Johny Boy. Back where you left off, at the top of the table after week 3 with 54 points. It should be an interesting week of transfers with a number of key injuries thanks to those bloody internationals. It appears that the curse of the previous winner has struck again. Sorry Bobby Zamora. Apparently we'll all be a bit queezy when we see this one.

Your Chairman.

FFL Final scores

Sid caned it. He scored the 2nd highest total ever, with 515 points. Donald finished 2nd with a commendable 420, usually enough to win it outright.

Here's how Sid did it: Very strong midfield - Lampard scored 117 points, with Wright-Phillips, Cahill and Valencia getting in the 30s. Bargain buys in defence - Cuellar was the 2nd highest scoring centre back, with 50 points, and Insua scored 34 as a transfer. Tevez was another bargain up front (85 points) and Jagielka and Carew were good late subs. All in all, not a foot wrong.

Top 2:

FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
		Total Points
1st	Sid	515
2nd	Don	420

It was tight in the middle but I've got better things to do that work out the points for the rest of us. If anyone wants to do it I can give them the spreadsheet.

Once again, well done Sid.

Your outgoing Chairman.

FFL Week 33

	FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Sid	456
67	2nd	Don	389
##	3rd	Stathi	346
##	4th	Nick Ath	343
##	5th	Theo	341
##	6th	James	329
##	7th	Rico	308
##	8th	Mike	299
##	9th	Nick Ach	290

FFL Week 32

	FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Sid	446
72	2nd	Don	374
##	3rd	Stathi	337
##	4th	Theo	331
##	5th	Nick Ath	325
##	6th	James	317
##	7th	Rico	304
##	8th	Mike	294
##	9th	Nick Ach	286

Pot. Kettle. Black.

Are these guys taking the p*ss or what?

Ferguson complaining that Bayern Munich players surrounded the referee and bullied him into making decisions in their favour? One name - Gary Neville. And we all know there are plenty others.

Benitez complaining that he hasn't had enough money to spend on his squad? If spending over £200m isn't enough then no wonder there's a financial crisis in football.

Have a little shame gents...

FFL Week 32

Firstly, sorry for yet another delay. Actually, fuck it, I'm not sorry at all. It's a pain in the arse.

Secondly, it's been an astonishing, record-breaking week. It's your year when a defender you took a punt on bags heaps of points and doesn't play when his team gets humped. It's your year when you make 2 substitutions and they both chip in with points immediately. It's you year when Frank Lampard scores 21 (twenty-one) points in a single gameweek. It's your year when you score 55 (fifty-five) points in said gameweek. Here's how he did it:

Reina 5
Clichy 2
Insua 3
Jagielka 6
Cuellar 0 (avoiding -6)
Lampard 21
SWP 0
Cahill 3
Valencia 0
Tevez 9
Carew 6

And the table:

	FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Sid	426
82	2nd	Don	344
94	3rd	Stathi	332
##	4th	Theo	316
##	5th	Nick Ath	311
##	6th	James	298
##	7th	Mike	296
##	8th	Rico	285
##	9th	Nick Ach	268

Only 2 players within 100 points. The biggest whitewash in our short history.

Transfers:

Sid: Carew, Jagielka IN, Saha, Gallas OUT.
Stathi: Nani IN, Petrov OUT.

Your Chairman

FFL Week 30

For those of you still following this farce of a season, here's the table:

	FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Sid	366
41	2nd	Don	325
45	3rd	Stathi	321
69	4th	Theo	297
80	5th	Nick Ath	286
90	6th	Mike	276
96	7th	Rico	270
99	8th	James	267
##	9th	Nick Ach	246

I bought Clint Dempsey for Pikey Hunt and Gary Neville for Wes Brown. Fuck knows why.

Your Chairman

FFL Week 29

As things stand:

	FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Sid	361
56	2nd	Don	305
61	3rd	Stathi	300
79	4th	Theo	282
84	5th	Nick Ath	277
94	6th	Rico	267
99	7th	Mike	262
##	8th	James	255
##	9th	Nick Ach	240

One transfer to report: Mike buys Pavlychenko for Crouch. The battle of the siblings is really hotting up now.

Your Chairman

RE: Chrissy Waddle gives it to you straight...

Former England winger Chris Waddle has launched a savage attack on Theo Walcott.

According to Waddle, a pundit for BBC Radio Five Live for England's win over Egypt on Wednesday night, the Arsenal forward does not possess a football brain and hasn't developed his game since his 2006 transfer from Southampton to the Emirates.

"People keep saying he's young but Wayne Rooney understood the game at 16, 17," Waddle told The Times. "I've never seen any difference in Walcott since he was at Southampton and broke into the team at a very young age.

"I've never seen him develop. He just doesn't understand the game for me - where to be running, when to run inside a full back, when to just play a one-two. It's all off the cuff.

"I just don't think he's got a football brain and he's going to have problems. Let's be honest, good defenders would catch him offside every time. I just don't know whether he studies the game, learns the game, or what. He's at a great club where they play fantastic football week-in, week-out, and I'm just surprised he's never developed his game.

"I'm surprised Walcott was in the squad. He doesn't play a lot of football, he hasn't done anything. he hasn't done anything for a long time and I think Croatia was a one-off."


Here here Mr W, totally agree!!