You know it's your year when:
- one of your key players looks like he's fucked his hamstring in mideweek but he miraculously appears in the starting line-up 3 days later.
- your striker scores against your own team and you still win (forthwith known as a 'double 3-pointer' unless anyone can think of anything better).
- your defender doesn't play when his team concedes two goals.
- every single player is contributing and starting every match.
You know it's not your year when:
- you break the record for the lowest score, every single week.
- you buy a defender after he's kept 5 clean sheets in a row and he starts conceding immediately.
- you blow half your budget on the best striker in the world, playing for the best team in the Premiership, and he can't kick a ball straight.
- your full-back just returns from injury, gets injured before half-time and his team goes on to keep a clean sheet.
- you've scored 28 points after 7 weeks and you're already 67 points behind.
A tale of two managers, gentlemen. One is top, the other is bottom.
So, to business. Theo top scores (and how he needed it) with a fairly modest 12, but he's the only player to get into double figures in a frankly pathetic week. No guesses who bottom scored with -1. The table:
1st James 95
2nd Sid 89
3rd Nick Ath 71
4th Mike 68
5th Donald 65
6th Nick Ach 64
7th Theo 52
8th Rico 42
9th Steve 38
10th Stathi 28
Rico went transfer crazy, getting rid of Solano for Speed, Davies for Kanu and Harewood for Baros. Yes, Milan Baros. Maybe he knows something that no one else, including Martin O'Neill, knows.
Also, Nick PC beat your humble blogger and de facto Chairman to Abdullah Meite, getting rid of Silvestre (valued at £4.7m) - no competition for Ooijer (£3.6m) who I am thoroughly bored with. Ooijer bored, in fact (for the benefit of those who missed the gag at the auction).
That's all folks.
4 comments:
Well done James. Get the Champagne out. About bloody time too............
Well done Sid its yours........
Seriously though, although the first 2-3 of Mr Assasins points were beyond my control, I did have a litle to do with the latter. As seen on auction day, every page of my bumph had MUST PLAY in capital letters on it in case I forgot my decided mantra for the year amidst the auction adrenaline!
Long long way to go.........
And the Simon Osbourne award for Pal Lydersenesquely poor purchases is now between Rico for Baros and still my personal favourite of James Milner on auction day by Might Mouse.
Isn't it about time we put together a Hall of Shame? Every year we talk about a penalty/forfeit for the wooden spooner but as far as I am aware nothing has ever come of it. As a member of the Original FFL Players Committes and also the FFL Winners Cabinet I propose a motion to (a) formally issue a historic Hall of Shame and (b) introduce a penalty for the bottom placed player. I need a seconder and a third vote to get the motion carried. Gentlemen?
Hall of shame gets my vote.
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