British fantasy football league

Week 1 MoTMs (according to this morning's Telegraph):

Steven Gerrard
Kasper Schmeichel
Obafemi Martins
Tyrone Mears
Roque Santa Cruz
Leon Osman
Paul McShane
Robin van Persie
Michael Essien
Marcus Hahnemann

No, I didn't.

My team is:
GK
P Robinson TOT
Def
D Agger LIV
J Riise LIV
J O'Shea MUN
Mid
F Lampard CHE
H Kewell LIV
A Luque NEW
F Ljungberg WHM
Str
S Yakubu MID
D Healy FUL
D Berbatov TOT

Anyone know why Kewell didn't play? I thought he was no longer injured.

Guess I'm using my 1st sub. Rooney's out for 6 to 8 weeks with a hairline fracture. Bugger!

Got all the teams in now. Just putting the finishing touches to the excel sheet before I send it out.

And yep, I'll be transferring Rooney also!!

Thinking philosophically, it wasn't that bad a weekend for me. No injuries. By this time last season I had to make two transfers for injuries to Riise and Kitson. Bloody glad I didn't pick Kitson this year. Out on a straight red 37 seconds after coming on as a sub.

I included Barton , completely forgot about his injury

For all those making transfers, the cut off this week is Friday at 5pm for the change to take place next Wednesday the 22nd. Any received after 5pm Friday, will go through on the 29th.

Also, I'm off this Wednesday through to next Monday, so I wont be able to send the first weeks file till then. I'll send the new and improved excel file* to everyone now, so you can see what changes have been made to the sheet and also to see everyones teams.

*Thanks to Joliet Jake there for making my life easier.

Great... have to make two transfers, plus my 3-6-1 idea now is pretty fucked... ah well... let's see...

Seriously - Is Kewell fit??

He's not listed as injured, you're problem is that because he has been out for so long, Benitez has tended to make plans without Kewell. He will get games as Liverpool, like Chelsea favour a rotation policy.

OK - cheers.

I thought even if not playing, he'd certainly be on the bench...which he wasn't

Peter Crouch didnt even make the bench at weekend.

Thanks for the .xls sheet Mr. Lions. Although very early in the season, here's Week 1's prediction:

1 Wee Mun Wanderers 36
2 Blue Moon FC 35
2 Crawlies Creepers 35
4 Devils FC 31
5 The Puddings 29
5 Komland 29
7 Five Man Back Four 28
8 Ihsan's Shade 26
9 Expat XI 23
9 The Dog's Tackle 23
11 FC Hazza Bollah 21
12 Gallus FC 20
13 The Solettes 19
13 Sin City FC 19
13 UnitedWeRise 19
16 Windy City Waterboys 18
17 You Essexy Thing 17
18 Spunkalot Rapalots 16
18 Super Brits 16
20 Solent Gale 14
21 Augustiner United 12

And here is my team:

E van der Sar MUN £3.6m
S Campbell POR £3.5m
D Agger LIV £4.2m
I Ingimarsson REA £3.3m
S Distin POR £3.6m
C Fabregas ARS £4.2m
A Lennon TOT £4.0m
Geovanni MAN £3.8m
S Gerrard LIV £5.0m
D Drogba CHE £7.6m
D Berbatov TOT £7.2m

Just watched te Arsenel v Fulham game. Cannot agree on Van Persie as MotM, Tony Warner should have been given it. Dont know what they are basing teir decisions on at the Telegraph?

I think if Fulham had won they would have given it to Warner. Usually they tend to give it to anyone from the winning team. Given the fact that he was a reserve keeper, who came to know 10mins before the match that he was going to play, he did an excellent job.

Lescott scored

Spurs 1 - Everton 3 HT

Goals : Gardner (Spurs), Lescott, Osman, Stubbs (Everton)

Another dissapointing game for Tottenham

Spurs 1 - Everton 3 Full time

Goals : Gardner (Spurs), Lescott, Osman, Stubbs (Everton)

Amazing. Jimbo (a Spurs sufferer fan) can take consolation that he scored more points in this single game than he did in all the weekend's games put together. Ihsan's Shade go top.

What a fucking crazy night!

Great night for me.

Goals to Healy and Lampard, partial clean sheet to O'Shea.

Plus Ronaldo, who everyone but me seems to have, got sent off...How long is he suspended for now? Brilliant

Without tomorrow's MoTMs I reckon you're up to 6th Hazza.

Crawlie is the only other manager without Ronaldo.

Fuckin Ref FUCKIN Cunt

I dont have him as well as far as i remember

You're right sharpe, you don't.

Tues/Weds MoTMs (TBC):

Leo Osman
Paul Scholes
Didier Drogba
Alexei Smertin
Michael Johnson
Antoine Sibierski
Nyron Nosworthy

Chopra and Drogba made my day .

After last night's debaclé I get this:

1 Ihsan's Shade 61
2 Blue Moon FC 60
3 Crawlies Creepers 54
4 Sin City FC 45
5 Wee Mun Wanderers 41
5 FC Hazza Bollah 41
7 Super Brits 39
8 Gallus FC 37
8 The Puddings 37
10 The Solettes 34
11 You Essexy Thing 32
11 Komland 32
11 Devils FC 32
14 UnitedWeRise 31
15 Expat XI 30
16 Augustiner United 29
17 Windy City Waterboys 28
17 Spunkalot Rapalots 28
19 Five Man Back Four 27
20 Solent Gale 22
21 The Dog's Tackle 20

I have one question about transfers. Is it enough to send 3 lions a PM or should i post it here as well?

Based on last year, a PM is enough.

Isn't it a tad early for a transfer frenzy?

Which websites do you follow for match squads? I am using eurosport and premier leauge official website but both of them are miserable to deliver list of players and details of games. Any idea?

BBC Sport online.

I was considering making some transfers, but I don't actually have any injuries in my team. If I transfer Ronaldo out it won't take effect until next Wednedsay anyway, by which time he'll only miss two games because the first missed game is already passed, and two games don't make a season. What I have learnt from the past two seasons is not to go chopping and changing and using up my transfers too quickly. Last year I stormed into a Christmas lead of over 50 points and did it with 10 men (Marlon King was 'carried' injured for the best part of two whole months). I've always wondered how much better I would have done by the end of the season if I had still had a transfer available and could have scored with an eleventh man. Sod's Law has proved conclusively that as soon as you transfer out the one you believe is underachieving, the bastard will go and stick in a hat-trick as soon as he's out of your team. Happened to me twice.

Thanks Sin. I am moving Barton out as he is injured (back in September) and dont know if he will make the team when he is back. Also i am considering to sell Tuncay as he did not perform well in the first 2 games and Boro is now buying Mido. But i will wait some more before that.

You can be sure Barton will make the team but it's the time out per season due to disciplinary problems that will count. Last season he was still worthwhile as he got lots of MOTM's in a shit team and also took the penalties.
This season? Dunno.

Wise words, Sin. It pained me to do it, but I did submit 2 transfers today. Berbatov's news forced my hand. I don't know what I was thinking putting a Spurs player on my team to begin with.

Keeping my powder dry for the moment.

I have had loads of transfers from everyone. Looking forward to doing those on Tuesday...

@Sin & Bluedave - Will you guys be watching the game on Sunday?

Unlikely I can get out after the two events I'm doing tomorrow. I'll have to listen to it on MUFC radio.

You got my transfers then?

Bad day for me today, except Boro won. anyone watching games tomorrow in a pub?

No transfer requests from me, not time to panic yet.

Yup i'll be in Molly Malones to see the game tomorrow.

What the fuck is goin on in the Derby !!! Lucky Lucky @#$!@ !!!

Not good. Chelsea and Liverpool's odds on winning the Premiership have undoubtedly just shortened. I reckon there are a few dark horses this season, including Newcastle, The Arse (who we'd hoped were going to have a shite season) and, dare I say it, City by current form.

I reckon the problem will sort itself as new players style of play begins to be understood, and they in turn understand the old player's play. Nani and Hargreaves need more time, and Tevez has pretty much been thrown into the starting line-up unknown to his team mates due to Rooney's and Saha's injuries. If we're fielding Fraizer Campbell in such a big match from the youth team, it shows we've got limitations in attack. Then you've got a host of injuries in addition to strikers: Anderson, (our influential captain) Neville, Fangzhuo, Foster (who I rate very highly) and Ji-Sung. Then we've got Ronaldo's stupid red card and three match ban.

I still say we're in with a shout though. It's a long season, and my bet is that both Liverpool and Chelsea will have slip-ups purely because I predict this will be a far more competitive season than the last few, with as many as six clubs with a shot at the title.

From a neutral's perspective, I'd love to see that many clubs in the mix toward the end of the season.

Then you have to remember with the African Cup of Nations, a lot of teams will loose core players, particularly Chelski, with Drogba.

All in all, things appear to be going swimmingly.

I must say Hargreaves looked pretty good yesterday. The tenacity in his tackling was the one thing we were missing in the previous seasons. Tevez was also looking pretty sharp and Nani was wasteful. The football was excellent. We hit the post, missed the goal by a couple of inches 3-4 times. It just seemed to be one of those days. But Chelsea Liverpool draw was the best result we could havehoped for.

And ya, Lehmans second howler in as many matches did lift my spirits up a lil bit

Weekend MoTMs:

John Utaka
Emile Heskey
Martin Lausen
Stephen Hunt
Mark Noble
Andrew Davies
Steed Malbranque
Richard Dunne
Steven Gerrard
Robin van Persie

looks like whoever scores get the MoM. Did not Malbranque get injured around 30th minute?

Richard Dunne got the MOTM? Ermm shome mishtake methinks, oder??