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.