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.