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FFL Week 3 ammended table

Gentlemen, I can't count. Missed some points for Nick PC

Here is the amended table - emailing spreadsheet as I write this.

FFL Week 3

Where do we start?

An incredible scoring week. Strikers scoring bundles of goals. Assists and goals from midfielders and no negatives.

Am I talking about city or United? No. DP has smashed it this week with a weekly score of 26 (twenty-six).

This mammoth haul is greater than the three week totals for all but the second placed Rico whose scoring consistency would otherwise in other years seen him top the table.

FFL is again a parallel of the real Premier League.

DP is very Manchester-like at the moment. Outscoring opponents at will. Dzeko’s 12 (twelve) points equalled Young’s 12 (twelve) points – easily the performances of the week.

Rico, like his beloved Liverpool, is looking up striving for the top but weaknesses may hinder in the long run – for Carragher in real life see Dawson (-6 points in a week)

7 (seven) points separates Sid in 8th to James in 3rd. – Like the battle for European places in real life. There have been some good performances this week; James, Sid and Stath scoring a healthy 12.

At the bottom Harry is mirroring those poor (form and in financial resources) North London giants. Smashed from pillar to post by city and United at the weekend Harry is very Arsenal and Spurs. The step up to the FFL elite is a wake-up call. Harry you remind me of Swindon Town back in 1993/4. They conceded 100 (hundred) goals, scoring only 43 (forty-three) and accumulated a paltry 30 (thirty) points. There is still a long way to go and anything can happen.............injuries, loss of form, Carroll deciding he is a footballer not a hod carrier.

Observation - I don’t recall an FFL start where there have been so many negative points scored by so many players.

Friedl: -6

Szezcncnzczmnzncyncnzyzncy: -5

Foster: -2

Kolarov: -1

Dawson: -6

Koscielny: -5

Here is this week’s table............

As for transfers. Well we’ve all been at it. Skysports News should have covered dwightyorkecuptransfers@hotmail.com.

There were 14 (fourteen) emails totalling 21 (twenty-one) bids.

Clearly the elephant washers son has his admirers as does new rent-boy Mata.

Donald

1st choice: out adel taarabat, in Mata (Chelsea)
2nd choice: out brunt, Mata (Chelsea)

Sid

K Davies for E Adebayor – null and void given Sid bid for a player who had yet to make it on the players lists.

Theo – fresh off the plane and still in the arrivals lounge sent these bids:

Zamora out, Elephant washers son in

Benayoun out, Mata in

Me

Sturridge OUT Adebayor IN (sent from the toilet)

Stathi

O Hara for Henderson
1st choice, Albrighton for Mata

2nd choice, Milner for Mata

Sid

Hibbert for Zabeletta

Rico

Out: Aaron Lennon

In: Juan Mata

Out: Phil Neville

In: Stephen Warnock

McNick

1st choice, Dzeko in, Defoe out – bidding for someone’s player!

Second choice, Adebayor in, Defoe out.

Rico – retraction and new bid.

Out: Aaron Lennon

In: Juan Mata

Out: Michael Dawson
In: Richard Dunne

Harry

B Foster out - M Schwarzer in.
J Wilshere out - J Mata in.
If Mata goes then T Cleverley as second choice.

Nick PC

Out: arshavin. In: mata
Out: tevez. In: adebayor

Sid ‘Levy’ Yanney with a transfer 1min and 9secs before the deadline. Harry and Daniel would be so proud.

Shawcross for Hughes

The upshot of all that is as follows.

Confirmed transfers

Sid

Shawcross for Hughes

Zabaletta for Hibbert

Nick PC outbids everyone for Adebayor AND Mata

(Tevez valued at 7.8 trumps Defoe 6.4, Sturridge 6.2,Davies 6.0, Zamora 5.9)

(Arshavin valued at 5.2 trumps Lennon 4.4, milner 4.4, Benayoun, Wilshire 4.2, Brunt 4.2, Taarabt 4.1, Albrighton 4.1)

Harry

Schwarzer for Foster

Cleverley for Wilshire

Rico

Dunne for Dawson

Stathi

Henderson for O’Hara

Phew........................................

Regards your gr-eight-ful chairman.

Pieri

PS

For those wanting to know why so many parentheses with numbers repeated and written as words – it just reminded me of the Grandstand style vidi-printer. You know why!!!!!

Barca v Man. city (valuations)

See below - taken from Saturday's Sun.










































Tevez £60m?
Aguero added £20m to his price in two months?
How the fuck is that one-paced midfield waster Barry worth more than Xavi?
Pique £15m versus Zabaleta £20m
Clichy £18m?
Alexis Sanchez deemed to be roughy the same calue as benchwarmer Johnson?
And how the fuck is that snidey Argie cunt Mascherano worth £37m? (and worth more than Iniesta??)

What an abomination that newspaper is.

Lazy journalistic rubbish.

Sums up the intellectual deficiency that exists in this country - biggest selling daily newspaper.

Rant over.................

Financial doping........

Wenger coined the term 'financial doping'. Claiming that there are clubs who have 'unfairly' spent beyond their means and 'bought' success.

The table below suggests otherwise. It shows for each season the club that spent the most that summer and the club that went on to be champions.

Certainly spending huge amounts makes a club COMPETITIVE but it does not guarantee success - certainly not in the Premier League.

1992-93: Blackburn £8.11m (4th); champions M.United £2.3m.
1993-94: Blackburn £8.65m (2nd); champions M.United £3.75m.
1994-95: Everton £10.9m (15th); champions Blackburn £6.8m.
1995-96: Newcastle £14.78m (2nd); champions M.United £750,000.
1996-97: Newcastle £16.5m (2nd); champions M.United £7.5m.
1997-98: Newcastle £21m (13th); champions Arsenal £16.55m.
1998-99: M.United biggest spenders with £27.75m and champions.
1999-00: Liverpool £36.3m (4th); champions M.United £10m.
2000-01: Leeds £38.45m (4th); champions M.United £7.8m.
2001-02: M.United £57m (3rd); champions Arsenal £23.25m.
2002-03: M.United biggest spenders with £33m and champions.
2003-04: Chelsea £121m (2nd); champions Arsenal £13.25m.
2004-05: Chelsea biggest spenders with £89m and champions.
2005-06: Chelsea biggest spenders with £63.4m and champions.
2006-07: Chelsea £64m; champions M.United £18.6m.
2007-08: M.United biggest spenders with £52.125m and champions.
2008-09: M. City £113m (10th); champions M.United £46.75m.
2009-10: M. City £124m (5th); champions Chelsea £23.5m.
2010-11: M. City £155m (3rd); champions M.United £27m
2011-12: M. City £84m; champions….?

Observations:

Everton 'paid' £11m for one FA Cup in '95 - who the fuck did they buy????
City paid £155m for the one FA cup in 2011.

(average) money spent per trophy 1992-2011:
MUFC - £5.73m,
LFC - £21.47m,
MCFC - £476.37m.

MUFC vs LFC net spend (1992-2011)
£183.36m vs £236.14m.
Trophies? 32-11

REVEALED: The table that shows Arsenal and Blackpool were cheated last season

Click on the link below. An interesting read. Show a league table for last season had mistakes referees made been overtunred.............

Arsenal Cheated

FFL Week Two

Shall we hand over the trophy to city now? Good grief, the hyperbole and over the top reactions generated by the media in this country are something to behold.

On the basis of two games against the might of Swansea and the inbreds of Notlob, city have been made out to the second coming. Yes, they have played well, yes they have scored goals, yes they top the league..............BUT it's week two.

On the basis of the tabloid hype shall give up on FFL and award the trophy to Rico??? Of course not. Yes he top scored with 20 this week. Yes his strikers are firing (14 points in two weeks) but it is only week two and we know it is a long haul.

It certainly has been a baptism of fire for Harold the First of Chingford. I don't know who has had the worse week, Harry or Wenger?

He again bottom scored with -1 taking his fortnights total to a measly ONE. It's tough at the top Harry. This is the Champions League of FFL not the Championship.

Elsewhere four points separate 2nd to 5th.

Here is this week's table with the added addition of a weekly score column:



(points do not include Tottenham's mauling by Fergie's Foetuses)
Transfers this week:

Two from Harry
Coleman OUT Jarvis IN
Zabaleta OUT Wilson IN

Regards

Interim Chairman no.1

Arsene........oh dear

UEFA's Financial Fair Play

If you are interested in UEFA’s FFP, here is a great website which gives you ALL the info.

http://www.ffw.com/feature/financial-fair-play-rules.aspx

You don't win anything with kids.......

What a great stat.

Since October 1937 Manchester United have featured a youth player in every game bar one!

A run of 3,516 competitive matches.

How do Sanchez and Fabregas fit in?

Article on how European champions Barcelona will integrate their latest acquisitions:

http://betting.betfair.com/international-football/spanish-football/the-barcelona-tactical-view-how-do-sanchez-and-fab-130811.html