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!!

FFL Week 28

If anyone's still interested - and, judging by the transfers this week, some of us still are - here is the table:

	FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Sid	341
58	2nd	Don	283
61	3rd	Stathi	280
81	4th	Theo	260
81	5th	Nick Ath	260
88	6th	Mike	253
89	7th	Rico	252
##	8th	James	241
##	9th	Nick Ach	227

Transfers:

Stathi: Bosingwa out, Bale in.
Nick: Keane out, Bendtner in.

Donald tried to buy Hunt and Arteta. Both are gone. Try again pal.

Your Chairman

Italian Sports Presenter Laura Esposto

And we get Clare Balding!

FFL Week 27

The fight for 2nd place looks like this (midweeek points included):

			FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
		Diff			Total Points
			1st	Sid	327
		49	2nd	Don	278
		54	3rd	Stathi	273
		81	4th	Theo	246
		87	5th	Nick Ath	240
		89	6th	Rico	238
		92	7th	Mike	235
		94	8th	James	233
		##	9th	Nick Ach	212

Rico finally woke up and made four substitutions. He bought Zamora (beating off my bid with Keane in the process), Diamanti, Ferreira and Adam Johnson for van Persie, Eduardo, Ashley Cole and Geovanni respectively.

Your Chairman

FFL Week 26

	FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Sid	297
34	2nd	Stathi	263
56	3rd	Don	241
67	4th	Theo	230
69	5th	Nick Ath	228
75	6th	Rico	222
76	7th	James	221
83	8th	Mike	214
##	9th	Nick Ach	193