FFL Week 23

Leicester City continue to confound the ‘experts’ as their relentless march towards an incredible and improbable first ever league title continues unabated.

 

As we enter a defining 30 days for the title challengers, so the same is true for the Dwight Yorke Cup.

 

Over the next month Arsenal’s season (and James’ receding hairline) will be tested. Leicester at home this weekend followed by Hull in the FA Cup before five days where they play Barcelona at home and United away. A week later they have the little matter of the North London Derby which for the first time in our lifetimes could be a title deciding fixture. Hectic!

City also face as daunting a run of games: Spurs at home followed by Chelsea away in the Cup. A Champions League tie against Dynamo Kjiv precedes the League Cup Final against Liverpool before March starts with Liverpool in the league. A Manchester derby is also on the horizon.

Spurs have a seemingly easy run of fixtures coming up. City away aside this weekend, a double header against Fiorentina also sees the Lillywhites host Swansea and Palace in the league before two London derbies against West Ham and ‘them’.

With so many distractions for these three, Leicester have only to concentrate on one game a week until the rest of the season. After playing Arsenal this weekend, Leicester’s next six opponents are currently 7^th place or worse. Can it REALLY happen????

 

How does this pan out for the DYC? Goals win games but defences win titles. Judging by this week’s transfers by James he may have already conceded where the Premier League title will be handed out in May!!!!

 

Two games last week yielded a bumper 30 points for your chairman which was matched by Harry. With James ‘only’ scoring 18 I’ve extended my lead at the top to 40 points.

The Jamie “Yep, I’m still here bitches” Vardy award for top score goes to McNick with 33 points, 24 of those from defence! Stathi drops from third to fifth after only scoring 18 to make the race for third look interesting – 5 poiinbts separating 3^rd to 5^th.

Sid walked away with the Simon “looks like I really am crap” Mignolet with a poor 8 points.

 

Table:

 

Diff			Total Points	Defence	Midfield	Attack
	1st	Mike	292	90	110	92
40	2nd	James	252	57	137	52
67	3rd	Harry	225	38	89	98
71	4th	Nick Ath	221	89	75	57
72	5th	Stathis	220	81	62	74
119	6th	Theo	173	90	38	43
120	7th	Sid	172	52	87	36
143	8th	Don	149	14	76	59
154	9th	Nick Ach	138	63	49	18

 

 

Transfers:

 

James:

Mangala OUT Wimmer IN

Benteke OUT Defoe IN

 

Current Teams:

 

	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	WIMMER	CAHILL	KOSCIELNY	OTTAMENDI	ZOUMA	EVANS	SMALLING	DANN
CB	KOMPANY	DIER	SKRTEL	STONES	VERTONGHEN	SAKHO	GABRIEL	ALDERWEIRELD	MERTESACKER
MID	DEMBELE	RAMSEY	FABREGAS	STERLING	SILVA	HAZARD	MATA	SIGURDSSON	WILLIAN
MID	CABAYE	OZIL	DEPAY	WALCOTT	COUTINHO	DE BRUYNE	HENDERSON	TADIC	ARNAUTOVIC
MID	TOWNSEND	WIJNALDUM	FIRMINHO	TOURE	MAHREZ	MILNER	PEDRO	SHAQUIRI	LINGARD
MID	REDMOND	OSCAR	PAYET	ERIKSEN	DEULOFEU	LANZINI	MANE	LAMELA	BARKLEY
STR	IGHALO	DEFOE	VARDY	SAKHO	LUKAKU	GIROUD	BONY	SANCHEZ	KANE
STR	AUSTIN	AFOBE	BERAHINO	DEENEY	ROONEY	MARTIAL	STURRIDGE	COSTA	AGUERO

 

 

And so to next week. 

Predictions for Super Douper Fandabidozy Sunday:

Arsenal 3-0 Leicester

Man City 2-1 Spurs

Your Chairman