FFL Week 13

Well, well, well. Who’d have thought that the Lazarus of football managers, a man who has not been able to hold down a job more than two seasons since he left Chelsea in 2004, a manager who consistently fails and who single-handedly turned Greece who for 13 years been a bastion of reliability, hard work and defensive solidity into a laughing stock now tops the Premier League with Leicester. Leicester. 

 

Step forward Claudio Ranieri as you have made most look like fools who thought you were a disastrous appointment. And yet, it could still all end in tears. Notwithstanding an impressive start to the season, surely Leicester are a knee injury or two away from struggling. Can Vardy keep scoring? Will Mahrez continue to be ignored in the assists stats arguments because he doesn’t have bug eyes? Can Albrightonand Drinkwater continue their form? 

 

And so onto FFL. Like Leicester, so much depends on the form of a limited pool of players. Injuries can curtail a season quicker than you can say ACL injury and like Leicester,opportunities to bolster a squad are limited.

 

As we approach the busy Christmas period, a gap has developed at the top with yours truly taking home this week’s Jamie ‘fuck me I’m as good as Van Nistelrooy’ Vardy awardfor top score with 19.

 

James, so long the leader has been usurped and now trails by 19. James also claims this week’s Eliaquim ‘how the fuck did Pellegrini spend £32m on me?’ Mangala award for bottom scoring with -2. City’s abject defensive performance seeing the Doc leak -6 points from Sagna and the justifiably maligned Mangala in a match where my Ottamendi warmed the bench and Coutinho scored 5; an eleven point swing in one match!

 

Other big movers this week include Harry, Don and McNickwho are the only other managers to double digit score this week with 14, 13 and 11 respectively. 

 

Table:

 

 

Diff			Total Points	Defence	Midfield	Attack
	1st	Mike	159	45	63	51
19	2nd	James	140	33	63	44
35	3rd	Stathis	124	44	37	40
42	4th	Nick Ath	117	44	40	33
50	5th	Sid	109	35	56	17
50	6th	Theo	109	59	36	12
51	7th	Harry	108	23	38	47
76	8th	Don	83	1	40	42
87	9th	Nick Ach	72	12	45	15

New Team List (like the one published last week helped – see transfer news below)

 

	THEO	JAMES	DON	SID	MIKE	STATHI	Nick PC	McNick	HARRY
GK	CECH	MIGNOLET	VORM	HOWARD	DE GEA	HART	FABIANSKI	COURTOIS	STEKELENBURG
FB	CLYNE	SOARES	ZABALETA	ROSE	AZPILICUETA	DARMIAN	IVANOVIC	COLEMAN	KOLAROV
FB	BAINES	SAGNA	CRESSWELL	JOHNSON	BELLERIN	WALKER	MONREAL	CLICHY	NAUGHTON
CB	VAN DIJK	MANGALA	CAHILL	KOSCIELNY	OTTAMENDI	ZOUMA	EVANS	SMALLING	GOMEZ
CB	KOMPANY	DIER	SKRTEL	STONES	ROJO	SAKHO	GABRIEL	ALDERWEIRELD	MERTESACKER
MID	MONTERO	RAMSEY	FABREGAS	STERLING	SILVA	HAZARD	MATA	SIGURDSSON	WILLIAN
MID	CABAYE	OZIL	DEPAY	WALCOTT	COUTINHO	DE BRUYNE	MOSES	TADIC	OSCAR
MID	SINCLAIR	WIJNALDUM	FIRMINHO	TOURE	MAHREZ	CAZORLA	PEDRO	SHAQUIRI	LINGARD
MID	REDMOND	BOLASIE	PAYET	ERIKSEN	DEULOFEU	LANZINI	MANE	LAMELA	BARKLEY
STR	IGHALO	BENTEKE	VARDY	SAKHO	LUKAKU	GIROUD	BONY	SANCHEZ	KANE
STR	SON	PELLE	BERAHINO	DEENEY	A AYEW	MARTIAL	STURRIDGE	COSTA	AGUERO

 

Transfers:

 

McNick tried to buy Stathi’s Lanzini

 

Sid:

Targett OUT Rose IN

Taylor OUT Johnson IN

Gomis OUT Deeney IN

 

 

And so to next week 

 

Your (grinning) Chairman