FFL 2007 / 08 Week 3

Right, that’s it. I hereby resign the chairmanship for next season. Every year I do this I am languishing near the bottom. Getting tedious now and its only week three! For crying out loud none of my three forwards have played yet (Ronaldo, Eduardo and Yakubu). Is there something in having players with a vowel as the last letter in their name????

McNick retains his top spot with a credible 11 points and in the process retaining the accepted 10 points a week scoring rate to be a contender.

Both Theo and Rico close the gap at the top with a thumping 15 points each to gain the Rafa “I promise he is the missing piece of the jigsaw Mr. Chairman and this year we will win the title and no his name is not Djibril Cisse” Benitez award for manager of the week. Rico was thankful for Nani’s goal and Ferdinand’s clean sheet while Theo got 7 points from defence.

James made up for a poor two weeks with 14 with Anelka bringing instant dividends after his transfer.

Don, grateful that Nicky Shorey didn’t play against Wigan, still finished pointless (that’s without a point not you Don being meaningless or inane!!!) to win this week’s Sammy “why did I become a manager” Lee award.

Here is the table:

Diff			Total Points
	1st	Nick Ath	39
3	2nd	Theo	36
3	3rd	Stathi	36
4	4th	Rico	35
9	5th	Nick PC	30
19	6th	Mike	20
24	7th	James	15
26	8th	Sid	13
34	9th	Don	5

On the transfer front, there was a three-way battle for the services of “I’m staying, I’m going, I’m staying ‘cos I got a pay rise but I’m probably off in the summer” Berbatov.

Nick PC tried to offload Bianchi (£5.9m) but was usurped by my attempt to get rid of Eduardo (£6.8m). However the winner of the tussle was Sid who decided that Shevchenko (£7.1m) was surplus to requirements.

Sid predictably got Belletti having got rid of Ferreira.

Nick PC did manage to make one transfer bringing in Diouf for Ljungberg.

That’s it for this week.