FFL Week 6

Some action at last this week, with one of the big boys finally making his presence felt. A double by Torres sees James score an impressive 21 points, moving him up to 4th, just two positions away from his recently-neglected destiny of 2nd place. His seat is being kept warm by Stathi, whose 13 for the second consecutive week promises a spirited defence of his title.

The big loser this week was Nick PC, who only managed 1 point and who slips a place to 3rd.

A few other statistics from this week:

• Top defence so far: Nick A: 41
• Top midfield: Donald: 26.
• Top forward line: Theo: 24.

The table looks like this:

	FFL 2008/09 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Nick Ath	70
11	2nd	Stathi	59
14	3rd	Nick PC	56
14	4th	James	56
21	5th	Theo	49
22	6th	Don	48
25	7th	Sid	45
25	8th	Mike	45

Transfers:

Nick Ath:
OUT: Beye (that's me Geordie-free), IN: Armand Traore (post-avalanche, hopefully).
OUT: Pedersen (or the doppelganger who poses for him these days), IN: Malbranque (ground looks good to firm for the Steed).

Mike:
OUT: Pavlychenko (about to do a Carew), IN: Robinho (until it gets cold anyway).

Your Chairman

Those who speak with forked tongue...................

This is what he says:

Wenger's Attacking Legacy

This is what he did:

2005 FA Cup Final -

Sent out a team to DEFEND and play for PENALTIES. 120 minutes and NO shots on goals. Some attacking legacy!!!!

Travel chaos in North London................

or is it???

Money and football

NASA spent £150 million and reached the outer limits of the universe.

Some Arab spends £250 million on City and can't get past Brighton!





I'll get my coat......................

FFL Week 5

It's been a subdued start to the season, with a lot of expensive players - Fabregas, Gerrard, Ronaldo, Rooney, Berbatov - being outscored by Wigan defenders, and normally dependable defences - Everton, Portsmouth - haemorrhaging goals at an alarming rate. So although there's a gap of 22 points from top to 4th already, I imagine this will all change dramatically over the next few weeks.

The biggest mover this week was Stathi, in his attempt to be the 1st to win back-to-back titles. He deserves some credit too for his 13 points this week - 10 of them came from his early substitutions: Hart (3), Denilson (5) & Ireland (2). Good buys, all of them. The David James debacle turned out to be a blessing (unless you're Mike, who I imagine has been foaming at the mouth over the last couple of weeks - losing to Liverpool, buying David James, selling John Carew, bottom of the FFL table).

Spare a thought for Sid too - Downing misses a penalty, Gerrard has a good goal disallowed, van Persie gets dropped and he's got a Portsmouth defender to top if all off. No surprise to see him score the fewest points of the season so far: -2.

The table looks like this:

	FFL 2008/09 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Nick Ath	62
7	2nd	Nick PC	55
16	3rd	Stathi	46
22	4th	Don	40
24	5th	Theo	38
25	6th	Sid	37
27	7th	Mike	35
27	8th	James	35

There were no transfers this week. Quite surprising really.

Your Chairman.

FFL Week 4

It's a relief to be back to proper football after one of those nasty, disruptive international weeks that seem to go on for a month.

There were mixed fortunes this week, with most managers either doing very well or very badly. I top scored - I was considering referring to myself in the 3rd person but then realised that it sounded ridiculous, so I'll do it like this from now on - with 14 points. Tim Cahill's return was a very pleasant surprise as was Carvalho's goal against Man City. Nick PC and Theo both scored a very respectable 13 - Nick's strong midfield (Arteta and Joe Cole) and Theo's investment in Adebayor yielding results.

Bottom of the pile this week was James, with 2. With Torres, Ashton, Ballack, Modric and Nasri all injured or off with injuries, and Alex and Dossena not playing, it's hardly surprising. Frustrating times.

So, here's the table after 4 weeks:

	FFL 2008/09 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Nick Ath	52
3	2nd	Nick PC	49
13	3rd	Sid	39
16	4th	Don	36
18	5th	James	34
19	6th	Stathi	33
20	7th	Mike	32
21	8th	Theo	31

Transfers:

Stathi made his 4th transfer of the season, buying Riera for Osman.
I made my 1st, selling Gutierrez and gambling on Walcott. Somebody had to do it.

That's all for another week folks.

Your Chairman

You cannot make it up

Typical. Only been there a few weeks!!!!!

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_4121815,00.html

I know hte story is unbelievable but the most shocking thing while reading is is still seeing the words:

'Keane', 'Liverpool', 'transfer', 'Robbie' and '£20m' in the same sentence!


I bet he scores on saturday now I have said that!

Wrong, just wrong

Robinho and his mum.

Dodgy photo IMO!

What would you do?

If you had £500billion burning a hole in your pocket,

if you had the ego to match your wealth,

if you wanted to be taken seriously,

if you knew about football,

if you wanted to be a major player in the game of football

why choose city?

A cash rich DOLLAR TRILLIONAIRE could have had any of the following:

AC Milan
Juventus
Bayern Munich
Cesspool
Real Cuntrid
Barcelona
Arsenal
Inter Milan
Ajax
Manchester United
Tottenham
Celtic
Rangers
etc, etc

why city?

Will it end in tears? Maybe. Every interview, every annoucement the new owners have talked about their new toy as an investment. If this is the case then they will a budget and a business plan.

Surely it would be easier to buy of the above and make an established clu the biggest and best, no questions asked? But where's the fun in that?

The fact that they are saying that they will bid £135m for Ronaldo and bid for everyone else shows they know fuck all about football and how it works.

Then again, egotism and narcissim can be a strong human trait and these guys just want to turn up in the West, take one of the West's playthings, be the boss and rule the football world by doing it THEIR WAY.

All in all, very interesting and extremly funny thinking how Peter Kenyon has fucked up another trasnfer. Abramovich gazumped? Ha fucking ha.

Arsenal and Liverpool will be twitching their arses a little now knowing that top four is not a certainty (given that United and Chelsea have the team to be at the top this season at least).

DIC (how appropriate!) will no doubt come in for Liverpool.
Arsenal? Seems like David Dein was right all along!

FFL Week 3

Here we go again then.

A huge week for Sid, with 20 points in the bag. Distin (5) and van Persie (6) were the main contributors. Don and I had the lowest scores, with 4 each.

That's it - short and sweet.

So, after week 3 the scores are as follows:

	FFL 2008/09 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Nick Ath	38
2	2nd	Nick PC	36
6	3rd	Don	32
6	4th	James	32
7	5th	Sid	31
9	6th	Mike	29
10	7th	Stathi	28
18	8th	Theo	20

Transfers:

TC tried to by SWP - Mike already has him (bought at auction).
Stathi bought Joe Hart (for James), Denilson (for Utaka) and Stephen Ireland (for Lennon).
Mike bought James (for Howard) and Pavlychenko (for Carew)
Nick PC bought Tevez (for Keane) and Zabaleta (for Corluka).

Your Chairman