Wow............

15 days that will defnine the season?

Arsenal's fixtures:

27/01 Villa (A)
31/01 United (H)
07/02 Chelsea (A)
10/02 Liverpool (H)

If Wenger buys a striker and he beds in immediately, could finally be the season where aspiration and potential turn into silverware.

Thoughts?

Ha ha ha ha.................he so funny!

Too funny.............

Things they wished they never said part #23o8734686

"We are preparing a special weightlifting plan for Gerrard's shoulders because we want him to lift a lot of trophies for Liverpool in the next few years! I am not in favour of selling him and we are building a great team around him because we want him to be the skipper who wins... the most titles in Liverpool's history."

Rafael Benitez 2005

More like his back is fucked as he has had to carry the whole team for the past decade.......................

FFL Week 16

Bloody hell. Looks like one of those Midas touch seasons for Stathi again. No sooner had the Welsh whingebag found his way onto my spreadsheet than he went out and bagged as many points in a single game as he as since October 5th. And Bellamy's burst just epitomizes the rest of Stathi's team: Ivanovic has as many assists as Steven Gerrard; Milner has as many points now as he did all of last season; ditto Lennon; Aston Villa have the tightest defence in the Premier League, with 7 clean sheets and just 14 goals conceded.

No surprise, then, that Stathi topped the scoring charts once again this week - a double week - with 35 points. He's now scored 63 points in December alone, stretching his lead at the top to 35 points. And, again, it's Sid who seems to be offering the only serious challenge, with 21 points this week and 59 in December.

The table:

	FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Stathi	216
35	2nd	Sid	181
51	3rd	Don	165
54	4th	Rico	162
57	5th	James	159
61	6th	Theo	155
62	7th	Nick Ath	154
94	8th	Nick Ach	122
99	9th	Mike	117

There was one transfer this week: Theo took a punt on KP Boateng, getting rid of Leon Osman, whose name is an anagram of Noel's moan. Now transfers don't get more festive than that, do they?

Your Chairman

FFL Week 15

That Aston Villa defence is at it again, this time at Old Trafford. Every time they keep a clean sheet, Stathi takes another giant step toward his third FFL title. In a tough week for the traditional top Premier League defences, this clean sheet proved even more valuable. Add to that a few assists from unlikely sources (two from Ivanovic and one from Nasri, the latter's first points of the season), and Stathi emerges as the manager of the week with 13 points, pulling away from the rest.

Of those suffering defences Rico came out worst, with a calamitous -5. But another decent score by Sid, with 12, sees him move into second place.

Scores (unaudited):

	FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Stathi	181
21	2nd	Sid	160
24	3rd	Rico	157
27	4th	James	154
29	5th	Nick Ath	152
30	6th	Don	151
48	7th	Theo	133
60	8th	Nick Ach	121
80	9th	Mike	101

There was one transfer to report, and it's a significant one. Stathi finally got rid of the misfiring Kenwyne Jones and took a punt on the in-form Craig Bellamy. I wonder if there'll be a 'D'oh!' moment in the Sunderland-Villa game tonight. And we all know how Bellamy loves the treatment table.

Your Chairman

FFL Week 14

I got excited for a moment this week, when I realised that Stathi had three Aston Villa players - Brad Friedel, Richard Dunne and James Milner. They've contributed 58 of his league-leading 168 points thus far this season, so the anticipation of another scandal, perhaps even a tribunal, got my balls twitching. The repercussions would be serious.

Well, as most of you probably already know, or at least realise by now, Dunne was bought at auction as a Man City player. Bollocks to that then. And bollocks to the chasing pack, with Dunne scoring 6 points and the Villa triumvirate accounting for 14 of Stathi's 15 points this week. With Fernando Torres back this week and Aaron Lennon at the top of his game, things are looking ominous for the rest of us. Sami Nasri's fecklessness and Kenwyne Jones's crapness offer us our only hope.

Or maybe it's a new challenger: Sid. With 14 points last week and a remarkable 26 this week, his mid-season charge up the table has brought him to within just 20 points of the lead. Only 3 members of his team (the normally prolific Wright-Phillips and Lampard included) failed to score at least 3 points. And with James managing double figures for the first time in three weeks, there are now six managers within 23 points of the lead; not bad for December.

The table:

	FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Stathi	168
6	2nd	Rico	162
15	3rd	Nick Ath	153
18	4th	Don	150
20	5th	Sid	148
23	6th	James	145
44	7th	Theo	124
52	8th	Nick Ach	116
63	9th	Mike	105

Theo tried to buy Stuart Downing this week, a few days after Mike had already bought him (as revealed in week 12's post). Get with the programme, Theo. You don't want to be the FFL's John Barnes, do you?

Your Chairman

FFL Week 13

With plenty of goals this weekend, it was one of those weeks in which managers either prospered greatly or suffered badly. Of those that prospered, Rico was pre-eminent, stealing the top spot from Stathi in the process of bagging 18 points. The reasons for his recent emergence are obvious: two Chelsea defenders (Chelsea have kept five clean sheets in a row), Robin van Persie and Ryan Giggs. However, the loss of van Persie is a huge one and Eduardo, Rico's other striker, looks about as useful as a trap door in a canoe.

Of those that suffered, Donald came off the worst. 28 points last week, 1 point this week. As if any further evidence of whimsical sadism on the part of the fantasy league gods were needed.

The scores:

	FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Rico	158
5	2nd	Stathi	153
9	3rd	Nick Ath	149
20	4th	Don	138
23	5th	James	135
36	6th	Sid	122
39	7th	Theo	119
51	8th	Nick Ach	107
57	9th	Mike	101

No transfers to report this week.

Roll on December.

Your Chairman.

FFL Week 12

I've had my disappointments in life - failed exams, unrequited love, living in Scotland - but nothing compares to being out for the day, coming home to discover that Spurs have put nine goals past Wigan, then logging on to BBC Sport with an enormous bulge in your pants only to find that Robbie Keane spent the entire match on the bench. Bloody international weeks.

But enough about me. Because my loss was Donald's gain, with Defoe scoring five of Tottenham's goals and contributing more than half of Donald's monumental score of 28 points this week. Malouda's 7 points are also worth a mention.

And let's not forget Stathi, who was looking like surrendering the top spot until Aaron Lennon chipped in with a goal and three assists. But for Lennon's 9 points he would've been the week's lowest scorer; that honour now passes to Theo, who only managed 4 points.

It's tight between the top five, with a gap opening between 5th and 6th. The scores:

	FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Stathi	147
7	2nd	Rico	140
10	3rd	Don	137
13	4th	Nick Ath	134
14	5th	James	133
36	6th	Theo	111
39	7th	Sid	108
45	8th	Nick Ach	102
56	9th	Mike	91

Two transfers to report this week. Mike bought the fit-again Stuart Downing for the injured Steven Pienaar, and Donald outbid Sid for Chelsea's Alex, getting rid of Jonny Evans.

Your Chairman

FFL Week 11

The FFL table is beginning to look rather like the Premier League table, with four teams beginning to pull away a little and a couple more hovering in the Europa League places. As for Mike, it's already looking like a long, hard slog.

Manager of the week, with 17 points for the second week in a row, goes to me, despite Man City's defence developing more leaks than muslin nappy. That's 44 points in 3 weeks, after managing only 22 in the previous 5. There's hope for you yet, Mike. John Terry was the main contributor, with 6 points against Man United on Sunday.

Last week's joint top scorer, Nick PC, was this week's lowest, with zero. O Fortuna, thou art wicked and capricious...

The table looks like this:

	FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Stathi	136
9	2nd	James	127
11	3rd	Rico	125
14	4th	Nick Ath	122
27	5th	Don	109
29	6th	Theo	107
33	7th	Sid	103
42	8th	Nick Ach	94
56	9th	Mike	80

No transfers to report. A boring week of friendlies coming up so back in a fortnight.

Your Chairman

FFL Week 10

Fortunes can hardly get more mixed than they did this week, with two managers sharing the top score of 17 and one propping up the rest with a single point. And even then, one of the top-scoring managers - Nick PC, who managed 17 points - would've scored 20 if he hadn't sold Deco and bought Joe Cole the previous weekend.

Two assists and a clean sheet from Sagna had much to do with Nick's score, and he is joined by me and my Man City-dependant team, also with 17 points. Don was the big loser this week, with the 1 point.

The scores are:

	FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Stathi	126
9	2nd	James	117
11	3rd	Rico	115
21	4th	Nick Ath	105
26	5th	Theo	100
27	6th	Don	99
32	7th	Nick Ach	94
36	8th	Sid	90
50	9th	Mike	76

No transfers to report this week.

Your Chairman

FFL Week 9

A dramatic, if not high scoring, week this week, with plenty of goals. Shame that most of them were scored by 'free agents' as far as we managers are concerned.

The main beneficiary of Blackburn's charity this week was Sid, with Lampard in his midfield. He was also a beneficiary of Ferdninand's apparent inability to defend any more, with Reina picking up a rare clean sheet. His total of 13 makes him manager of the week.

Alas for Mike, his catastrophic start to the season got even worse this week, with Evra and Howard conspiring to give him -1.

The scores:

	FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Stathi	117
9	2nd	James	108
11	3rd	Rico	106
19	4th	Don	98
26	5th	Theo	91
28	6th	Nick Ath	89
37	7th	Sid	80
42	8th	Nick Ach	75
54	9th	Mike	63

Predictable, there was a minor scramble for Joe Cole, with Nick PC the winner. Deco goes pack into the pool. Elsewhere, Mike bought Lucas Neill for Belletti, and Theo finally got rid of Robinho (just as he's about to come back) for Hugo Rodallega. Brave.

Your Chairman

Correction: Mike didn't buy Lucas Neill. It depended on his acquisition of Joe Cole, whom he missed out on, so both transfers are void.

FFL Week 8

Sorry chaps, busy week. It's a good job it was a crap week then, with only Theo scoring double figures, just: his score of 10 makes him manager of the week. My score of -1 makes me the loser of the week for the 4th week in 5: I've now scored 21 points since the auction.

The table:

	FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Stathi	108
8	2nd	James	100
13	3rd	Rico	95
16	4th	Don	92
23	5th	Theo	85
30	6th	Nick Ath	78
37	7th	Nick Ach	71
41	8th	Sid	67
44	9th	Mike	64

During international week, James bought Walcott for Malbranque. Nice timing. This week, Stathi outbid me for Andy Reid, getting rid of Nani. So, I end up with my 2nd choice midfielder, David Dunn, getting rid of Huddlestone.

Your Chairman

FFL Week 6

That's Theo, climbing three places up the table after scoring a gargantuan 25 points this week, 11 of them from Fabregas alone. It's even more astonishing when you consider that the next highest score of the week was 8.

As well as Theo's team performed, Sid's collapsed. His forwards did nothing to mollify his leaky defence and he ended up with -3. The rest hovered on single figures.

So, Stathi's still at the top going into the international week. Here's the table:

	FFL 2009/10 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	Stathi	106
12	2nd	Rico	94
15	3rd	James	91
23	4th	Don	83
27	5th	Nick Ath	79
31	6th	Theo	75
35	7th	Nick Ach	71
46	8th	Sid	60
49	9th	Mike	57

Just as a reminder, Mike bought Tim Howard for Robert Green last week. This week, Theo got rid of Rafael and bought Hibbert; I can't remember a defender being acquired on -4 before, so that must surely be a first. He also got rid of Osman for Fletcher, but changed his mind on Sunday night and cancelled.

Just to clarify the ruling on transfers: anything up to 8.01pm is acceptable unless a goal is scored in the 1st minute of an 8pm game. If you've got any sense though, you'll make sure it's in by 7.59pm.

Your (predictably restored) Chairman

Week 5 FFL

Short and sweet tonight..........

1 Stathi 98
2. Rico 86
3. James 85
4. Nick Ath 77
5. Don 74
6. Nick Ach 65
7. Sid 63
8. Mike 50
= Theo 50

Fernando Torres of the week (Keane may have got 4 but how good is this guy!!): STATHI with yet another 20 point haul c0urtesy of his front players netting 5 between them
Phil Brown's perm-a-tan of the week: MIKE with 0..nuff said


Transfer activity: First potential controversy of the year I'm afraid although you let me be chariman so in my humble opinion we have rules.....they are there for a reason.......so clear-cut to me. A transfer was recieved that was SENT at 20.00. and 20seconds and Nick Ath who has the transfer password can verify.............so does not count. Sorry Mike.

Week 4 FFL

Evening all.........what a game.........one that you wish had involved your own team........and one I wish I'd seen live as bloody bleeped out of the mess just before the goals started flying in!!



Got to say that pictures of SAF chatting merrily to fourth official with Hughes pissing bullets in the background are classic.......



So to FFL matters. An interesting week with 90 points scored in total (dull stat of the week!!) in keeping with the 10 per week per person theory............alas there was a significant dichotomy between the haves and the have nots this week.



1 Stathi 78
2. Rico 74
3. James 71
4. Nick Ath 59
5. Don 57
6. Nick Ach 51
7. Mike 50
8. Sid 47
9. Theo 41

Thomas Vermaelan of the week: RICO with 22, closely followed by Stathi with 20 courtesy of Defensive sloidity from Chelsea and Villa when everyone else was leaking big time.Also worth mentioing a nother excellent haul from Ryan Giggs to help Rico.

Tottenham Hotspur's CB fitness of the week: NICK ATH (again!) with a solitary point (again!) with the Manchester derby costing him -8 points. DP and myself were amongst others not far behind (2 each)

Transfer activity:
Strike while the irons hot.......or.......closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.........you decide
SAHA for YAKUBU - Sid

J

Is Wenger a comedy genius?

Nice quote:

It looks very bad," said Wenger, the Arsenal manager, after he learned that Adebayor had been charged by the Football Association with violent and improper conduct.
"You ask 100 people; 99 will say it's very bad and the hundredth will be Mark Hughes."]

I found it funny, but then Wenger also has previous and Hughes could easily retort with:

"Ask 100 people if Eduardo dived, 99 will say yes, the 100th will be Arsene Wenger"

OK, so Adebayor gets charged...................

for his celebration.What does this guy get????




















David Lemi for London Wasps v Bath at the weekend.

A bit similar to Adebayor, he was going back to a ground where he took a lot of shit as a Bristol player.

I like it.............

Do as you're told then

you fucking idiot!!!

Forlan reveals boot furore

Former Manchester United striker Diego Forlan has said that Sir Alex Ferguson let him leave Old Trafford five years ago after an argument about the length of his studs.

The Uruguay international, who scored 17 goals in 97 appearances for United, has revealed that he fell out with the veteran Scottish manager over his choice of footwear.

Forlan, who has gone on to enjoy prolific spells with Villarreal and Atletico Madrid since leaving England, said: "Ferguson wanted me to play with long studs, the interchangeable ones that suit wet pitches, but I feel more comfortable in short ones.

"I agreed to change but I didn't and, against Chelsea, I slipped in front of goal and wasted a chance.

"Afterwards, I rushed to the dressing room to change boots but Ferguson caught me. He grabbed the boots and threw them. That was my last game for United."

Week 3 FFL

Good evening fellow FFL geeks...........

Mr Pieri and Mr Winter sum up the weekend's antics.

All the more frustrating as Adebayor has every physical attribute a top striker needs (pace,power,guile,trickery,decent in the air etc.....).what he lacks is heart and class. The stamp on RvP was a shocker and hopefully he will get suitably punished and from what I heard (didn't see it as working) he did his best to do Fabregas also...

Main point is that the obviously pre-meditated response to his inevitable goal was the ONLY way he could celebrate that would propogate the complete myth (fabrigated bullshit) of the supposed relationship with the fans....he and his spin-doctors have spent weeks trying to blame the fans for his leaving AFC and culminated in the stories against the fans and ex-team mates on the eve of the game.

He came as sub from Monaco.

He was made into a top player by AW and had 1 exceptional season and suitably lauded for it.

Failed to get a move to AC Milan, got a whacking contract and was then a disgrace for most of last season..lazy and disinterested at best and in the big games anonymous.

He wasn't boo'd but we just didn't hero-worship him as he wanted..........for the above reasons

Then tried to move again to a BIG club having burnt his bridges with his colleagues and fans by agan making it clear he wanted off, and then surprised that nobody else wanted him so ended up at Citeh........So the nonsense of the fans driving him out is tosh......

So straight (almost!) to it:

1. James 69

2. Nick Ath 58

= Stathi 58

4. Don 55

5. Rico 52

6. Mike 45

7. Nick Ach 42

8. Theo 32

= Sid 32

Yossi Benayoun of the week: DONALD with a whopping 20 courtesy of the Israeli's 11 points and incredibly 3 more each for Defoe and Adebayor who continue to score in every game they play! The bottom 2 are the only others into double figures to close the gap slightly with the majority scoring 6 or less courtesy of a shocking week for the defences.............only 7 points scored in defence for all 9 teams put together (Useless stat of the week!!)

Gael Clichy of the week: NICK ATH with a solitary point courtesy of -2 in defence. and Agi's 3.......the same number as the number of goals My Clichy individually laid on a plate for Manchester City on Saturday afternoon. One-man kamikaze defending to gift them the game.

Transfer activity:

ROSICKY for WALCOTT - Mike outbids Theo who offered Osman

INSUA for FERRIRA - Sid

Donald tries to sell a CB that he wasn't sure he had for another he wasn't sure if somebody else had.............He did, but they also did so no transfer........confused??

Adebayor.................

After that incident at the weekend, Henry Winter of the Telegraph described it thus:

“sadly predictable… thick and unnecessary.”

I think that for once we can all agree.

Shame for Donald though (not too much pity though - how many points this week DP????? Sheesh) as I predict the Elephant washer's son will get a minimum 4 match ban.

Oh, andhe has now overtaken Eboue in the 'most detestable footballer in the Premier League table' but way, way behind 5 time champion Cashley Cole.

This is funny................again

Week 2 - FFL

Humble chairman bids you all a good evening.

Bugger all to report on yet another dull international break.........

Look forward to getting back to it at the weekend.

Useless stat of the week............From the records I have, I don't think anybody has won the FFL after leading on week 1.....so I'm screwed.

TRANFERS: Theo realised the folly of his ways and goes from Roly-Poly Reid to Waif'like Kranjcaer............

J

Shocking news

SLOVENIAN BANNED FOR LIFE AFTER BEING STABBED BY WAYNE ROONEY

Hmmmmmm. Not very smart are you?

AQUILANI DENIES FASCIST LINK

Liverpool's new signing claimed in an interview that:

"There are too many foreigners in the country – most of the violence and trouble you see is caused by them"

This from a man who now works in a foriegn country for a club with mostly foreigners - is this what they call irony (or is it ignorance and predjudice?????)

Not for the squeemish...........

Click on the link.

Extremely BAD injury. Even Wenger would have seen this tackle

Quality or bad taste? - YOU decide

Found this little gem (in my opinion) but there is a part that some may find of poor taste.

It's your choice and if you feel it shouldn't be here, I'll delete it.

FFL Week 1.....what goes around comes around

So let the games begin.........

My first year as reigning champion (that phrase may well become a regular feature of my weekly blatherings) and my first year as scorer on the blog so bear with me and feel free to correct any scoring inaccuracies..........my opinions however you're lumbered with!!

Firstly, self-congratulation all round on the smoothest auction yet, done and dusted in less than 4 hours.

Secondly and hence title of my blog. Couldnt help but enjoy the irony of McGeady;s sending off for a BLATANT dive and this sentence from Mowbray......... "If we hadn't had the week we've had in the media, I would suggest the referee would never have made it a sending off," said the Celtic manager.......whose fault is that then Tony!

So the early scores done post-auction yesterday which I will check at my first audit after Internationals:

1. James 63


2. Nick Ath 57


3. Stathi 49


4. Rico 46


5. Mike 39


6. Don 35


7. Nick Ach 32


8. Theo 22


9. Sid 22

Useless stat of the week..........costliest team:

1. Cech 8m


2. Evra 13.1m


3. Bosingwa 13.5m


4. Vidic 11.2m


5. Terry 11.3m


6. Arsahvin 16.5m


7. Lampard 16.7m


8. Gerrard 15.2m


9. Fabregas 15.5m


10. Rooney 18.1m


11. Torres 16.5m

Total cost is 155.6m and unsurpisingly all players from the traditional Big 4 (4 CFC / 3 Man Utd / 2 Liverpool / 2 AFC). What a team...swap big Fat Frank for Essien for a bit of bite and you're unbeatable!! Only me and Nick PC don't have any of the most expensive players. 2 each for Rico, Nick (both CB) Stathi and Mike.

Bargain bucket team....my take on worst of <0.5m>

1. Gomes


2. Ferrira


3. Rafael


4. Agger


5. Davies


6. Geovanni


7. Huddlestone


8. Modric


9. Reid


10. Yakubu


11. Tevez

Probably irrelevant but 3 of those each for Theo, Sid and Rico and 1 each for Mike & Nick.........

We shall see.............

J

Bitter, bitter man

Just let it go Arsene. You lost. Get over it. There are 35 games left.

Wenger: United approach is anti-football

This is why this man is so infuriating. Love his philosophy on football - he plays it the right way but he can NEVER be allowed to take the moral high ground on issues like this.

Ever since he sent out his team to NOT play against United in the 2005 Cup Final (120 minutes and NO shots on goal) his protestations about how the game should be played and his "anti-football" rants should be ignored.

Oh, and for the record................

Most fouls 08/09 Utd v Arse
Denilson 57
Van Persie 46
Song 44
Vidic 39
Berba 33
Fabregas 33
Diaby 31

And another thing, wasn't it the Son of a Baker who pointed out that a certain Gilberto Silva made nearly double the number of fouls before he was booked when compared to other players?

For you Mr Kaplan............

To prove your point sir.

Enjoy

LADY BOY DIVE

Has football gone MAD?

Remember the story that did the rounds regarding John Arne Riise's payslip which stated he earned something in the region of £140,000 for September (including bonuses)?






















That was a ridiculous amount of money then but check out today's story:

JOHNSON KOPS £13OK PER WEEK

Sorry I know football has gone to obscene levels of paying the top stars, but if this is true then that is quite possibly the WORST/BEST contract (depending if you are the player himself or the club) in terms of an ability/pay ratio of any player in the history of the game.

Simply grotesque amount of money. If I feel this way, how do Liverpool fans feel?

It is a shocking amount of money for any footballer to earn let alone an average to shit one!!!

I'm staggered...................

Ukraine's got talent...........

Wow!

Such loyal fans...............

So, it seems neither do those lovable rogues believe 'this is their year', or that they have 'turned the corner'

LIVERPOOL NOT SELLING OUT

But they do have form though.

What would Sky and the BBC say about the "best fans in the world, espceically on those amazing, special, European nights when the Kop is rocking and there is not a person who is not shouting themselves hoarse" if they did their research?????

FIRST HOME EUROPEAN CUP GAME AFTER WINNING IT FOR THE 3rd TIME A FEW MONTHS EARLIER
Liverpool 7 - 0 Oulu Palloseura
Game Date :: 30.09.1981
Competition :: European Cup 1st round 2nd leg Stadium :: Anfield
Spectators :: 20,789

FROM THEIR PLASTIC TREBLE SEASON
Liverpool 2 - 0 Olympiacos
Game Date :: 07.12.2000
Competition :: UEFA Cup 3rd round 2nd leg Stadium :: Anfield
Spectators :: 35,484


Liverpool 3 - 0 Fulham
Game Date :: 13.12.2000
Competition :: League Cup 5th round Stadium :: Anfield
Spectators :: 20,144


Liverpool 3 - 0 Rotherham United
Game Date :: 06.01.2001
Competition :: FA Cup 3rd round Stadium :: Anfield
Spectators :: 30,689


Liverpool 4 - 2 Manchester City
Game Date :: 18.02.2001
Competition :: FA Cup 5th round Stadium :: Anfield
Spectators :: 36,231


Liverpool 1 - 0 Dundalk
Game Date :: 28.09.1982
Competition :: European Cup 1st round 2nd leg Stadium :: Anfield
Spectators :: 12,021

TWELVE THOUSAND? Yes twelve thousand............................(and no, unemployment is NOT an excuse!)

Footballers and REAL jobs..........

With the news that forklift driver and former England interntional Neil Webb is going to auction off his 1990 FA Cup Winners medal as he is skint, it got me thinking.

1) Wouldn't it be amazing if the likes of this C**T


















had to make a living after football? Hopefully somewhere like NETTO or Costco?

2) If current footballers didn't make it as footballers, what would their 'profession' be?

Adebayor is a dead ringer for a Traffic Warden near where I live!
Vinny Jones and John Terry would be a hod carriers working for Roy Keane's bricklaying firm
Petr Cech would wash windows, assisted by Peter Crouch
Wayne Rooney would be on the dole along with Eboue.
Gerrard would be clearing pint glasses in his local boozer
Jermaine Pennant would be in jail.
Joey Barton would be in jail

any more?

Gracious Acceptance...........

I'd like to thank my friends, my family...............

Defn: Bravity

[Taken from the internet after a Google search]

Bravity - A mysterious and fundamental force of nature wherein physical consciousness is attracted to what lies beneath a bra. Attractive force under normal conditions. Repulsion is exhibited in the case of those monstrous giga-mamas. Effects can be predicted by analyzing the curvature of spacetime around the source in what is now called the general theory of strip-it-ivity.

And they say Liverpool fans are bad...

A Manchester United fan killed four people in Nigeria when he drove into Barcelona supporters after his team lost the Champions League final, police have said.

All Time Greats - Vote Now!

Simple question - you have inherited a North London all time greats squad and have to pick a starting eleven, lining up to play 4-4-2 from the following:

Seaman, Clemence

Dixon, Carr, Hughton, Sansom, O'Leary, Adams, Mabbutt, Gough

Brady, Gascoigne, Viera, Ardiles, Hoddle, Pires, Waddle, Overmars

Klinsman, Bergkamp, Henry, Lineker

To be honest of most interest is the chosen strikeforce but let's see what we get particularly from the non-North London fans....

FFL Week 36

You number one baby, thass raaaight!

It's all over folks. What a weekend - no Nasri, no Adebayor, no Alex and no Vidic, but James still manages 11 points. And Donald's reliance on Fulham's defence gets cruelly exposed on the most crucial weekend of the FFL season. So, with just the FA Cup final to go, James leads by 18 points. It looks like a new name on the Dwight Yorke Trophy this season after all. And who could begrudge him it? Hopefully, we won't hear about the Nevillegate affair of 1997 ever again.

I don't know about you folks, but it feels good to see the arse of that season waddling away. And I'm going to share with you all my plans for the summer auction: I'm going to buy Gerrard, Lampard and Ronaldo within the first 10 minutes, have a nap for a few hours, then come back to pick up my free transfers.

Oh, and the table:

	FFL 2008/09 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	James	409
18	2nd	Don	391
36	3rd	Sid	373
40	4th	Theo	369
50	5th	Mike	359
68	6th	Stathi	341
74	7th	Nick PC	335
96	8th	Nick Ath	313

Fucking stupid game.

Your Chairman

FFL Week 35

Stunning. Simply stunning. With just one week to go (and an FA Cup Final), Donald pulls to within 7 points of James with a timely 17-pointer. As James so presciently noted a couple of weeks ago, it will all come down to Fulham's defence since both leaders share key defenders in other teams but Donald has two Fulham defenders.

And there would be just one point in it had Donald bought Louis Saha last week instead of this week. Nevertheless, we'll be virtually guaranteed some drama at Wembley in two weeks' time, with Donald fielding Terry, Lampard, Yobo and Saha, and James sending out Alex and Baines.

As for the rest of us...well, only a couple of months to go until a wholesale clearout. Ah, a brand new team.

The scores:

	FFL 2008/09 LEAGUE TABLE
Diff			Total Points
	1st	James	398
7	2nd	Don	391
35	3rd	Sid	363
44	4th	Mike	354
46	5th	Theo	352
65	6th	Nick PC	333
65	7th	Stathi	333
90	8th	Nick Ath	308

Ooh, look, there's an interesting fight for 6th place!

Your Chairman