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Points for you Sin. Elano scored.

Wish i'd had bloody time to do some transfers, work sucks !

Thanks bluedave, AND Fabregas and Campbell got booked. Not making any positions up but the lead is closing TDH down again (thought he was gonna stomp away).

I see Sin has both Torres and Tevez in the team but in the transfers i see Tevez is replaced by Torres. missing something? and also you have chopra but cant see him coming in as well.

I've got Torres (damn Benitez's rotation policy), Tevez and Chopra. Tevez came in for the injured Ashton.

Ok then you used emergency transfers and the file does not show them, who did u swap chopra with?

He did use them, the file for some reason isnt showing the two emergency transfers, but Sin has used both.

I think at least three of us brought in Elano this weekend.

who scored United's 3. goal ferdinand or gardner (own goal)?

I've still got Chopra.

Yeah Sin, don't mean to be a downer or anything. No animosity intended at all, but really I don't look at fantasy football as a competive activity - just more of an amusement. I'll try to refrain if you'd like - or we could just introduce an 'anti-tipping' rule and that would be the end all be all.

Don't forget - those are points for me as well.

And 3 Lions has Elano... although I still make him bottom.

I expect nothing less!! I dropped Van Persie on Firday and will have Robbie Keane playing next week.

And will likely stay bottom.

If it's any consolation TDH has had a pants weekend and all his players have played: Reina 1pt, Evra 1, A Cole 0, Samba 0, Arteta 2, Ronaldo 1, Fabregas 0, Malouda 0, Pedersen 1, Tevez 5 and van Persie 0 = 11pts. Sharpe has already overtaken the lead and has an 11th player yet to play.

And the moral of the story is that you can have blinding weeks and disasterous weeks. You can get a 50pt lead and lose it in two weeks (been there, done that, several times). At this stage of the season ANYBODY can still win it. The FA Cup makes for some extraordinary differences when the Premiership teams start playing. I was 38pts ahead of Crawlie two seasons ago with about 5 weeks to run and Liverpool (who he had 5 players from... before the rule change to 3 players max.) whopped Birmingham 7-0, and suddenly he had a 30pt lead on me after a single game which he held on to win the TTFFL championship.

So, still a very long way to go.

I could see this kind of a week coming. 3-4 players were not playing and the ones which were playing, would not have given me much of an advantage, as most of the managers have them too. Newez, there goes me chance of winning my first manager of the month award. It is jinxed for me, aint it !!

3 Lions: Is the file you sent last weekend updated. Because, in case of Sin's transfers, he has not transferred Ashton out, but his table shows Chopra instead of Ashton. Has he bought back Chopra?

Sin has never dropped Chopra.

Check the transfer list page, he dropped Ashton for Tevez. I know its not showing on the Transfers page at the minute, thats just a temporary glitch. My Excel specialist is currently out of the country and will fix it on his return.

See. Blame me why don'tcha, when it was 3 Lions' Excel specialist all the bleeding time. I feel like... like... McLaren (not the ginger twat neither).

This week's prediction:

1 Ihsan's Shade 325
2 Devils FC 320
3 You Essexy Thing 307
4 Solent Gale 296
5 The Solettes 291
6 Super Brits 285
- Komland 285
- Sin City FC 285
9 Crawlies Creepers 276
10 Blue Moon FC 272
11 Expat XI 262
- Spunkalot Rapalots 262
13 Gallus FC 253
14 The Puddings 246
- Windy City Waterboys 246
16 Augustiner United 243
17 The Dog's Tackle 240
18 UnitedWeRise 238
- Wee Mun Wanderers 238
20 FC Hazza Bollah 236
21 Five Man Back Four 225

There goes my top spot. It was nice while it lasted
And now I hear 2 more of my players are injured. It looks very gloomy for my team indeed.

Here is this weeks table and as Sin correctly predicted, I'm still bottom! [img]http://www.keydeck.com/smilies/ranting2.gif[/img]

I think i may even use some of my substitutes tomorrow.

And he's looking into where 7 of my points have disappeared to.

No I'm not! [img]http://www.keydeck.com/smilies/music_whistling.gif[/img]

Makes only a difference of two points, but if I'm not mistaken, I send in my change (Hargreaves out, Petrov in) in time...

Oh bollocks. Used up all me transfers and now Evra is out for up to 4 weeks.

I'll sell ya a couple Sin for the usual brown paper parcel.

Nah! I'll ride the storm thanks. Long way to go yet, and besides Lions owes me 7 stolen points.

You gonna break Chelsea's home record for me at the weekend?

We'll do our best but it looks like they are over their post Jose wobble and are back on form again, particularly Drogba.

Where did you read it was 4 weeks?
Im up the swanny too.. all tfrs done and like you.. Evra in my squad!

I keep my sources to myself mate (shouldn't have said anything, should I?).

Cant do much about my TTFF squad, but got 2 others on the go and so need all the help i can get!

I dont think ive had a week with 11 players yet anyway..

Major transfer activity this week in the Blue Camp, 5 in and 5 out.

I'd use another source if I was you Sin... it was more like 4 days!

Evra doesn't even show on the site i use.

he's not even doubtful now.. expected to start tomorrow.

hrm. been starving for information regarding this as well. did they even bother to reveal why he had been pulled off the pitch during warmups? Did he suffer a flying shoe incident?

Calf strain sustained in the warm-up in Kiev. Yep, looks like it wasn't as serious as the MUFC website originally feared on Wednesday.

Oh bollocks, Fat Frank and Micah have a barney and yellow cards for both of them.

Told ya Evra was injured. He didn't even make the bench. Lampard has two assists so far.

3-0 to Chelski

Edit: 4-0

Turn

the

TV

off

You'll feel a lot better.

Nooooooooooooo. 5-0.

Holy shit ! 6-0, pass me the razor blades.

Is that a new arsehole you've got torn there bluedave?

Look on the bright side: poor old Lions has played 4 of his players for the weekend and he's on -1pt so far... thanks to Micah Richards.

How am I doin Sin?? Guess there was some truth in the Evra saga ..

I've got you on 22: Granqvist -1, Evra 0, Lampard 9, Ronaldo 2, Tevez 12. Rest to play and no MoTM announcements until Monday (Tevez is a good tip, as is Lampard with 3 assists).

22 points eh.. thats 23 more than Lions! I feel a surge coming on!

At this point in the season I feel it only right and proper to extend my heartfelt sympathies to Mr. Lions.

Mate, you're havin' a bloody nightmare. Sorry.

PS: Where's my 7 points?

Darn, Fabregas got booked after he scored. Meanwhile, in the latest file i can still not see Sin's 2 emergency transfers?

Right then. For the record I started the season with:

Reina, Carvalho, Evra, Lescott, Ronaldo, Pedersen, Arteta, M Taylor, Tevez, D Bent and Chopra.

I then transferred out Carvalho, Ronaldo and Bent and brought in Finnan, Lampard and Martins (3 of 7 transfers, 4 to go, plus 2 season-long emergency transfers)

Then I transferred out Martins and Tevez for Ashton and Torres (5 of 7 transfers, 2 to go, plus 2 emergencies)

Then Ashton went and got himself injured immediately (I do one of these every bloody season... The Sin Kiss of Death) and Fat Frankie was laid up injured (although as soon as I transfer him out the bastard immediately shakes off his injury and starts performing miracles - 3 assists yesterday).

So the final transfers were Pedersen and Taylor out for Elano and Petrov (final 2 transfers out of a total 7 in the transfer window up to December 31st 2007) and the 2 emergency transfers for the injured Ashton and Lampard being Ronaldo and Tevez.

Sin City FC are now therefore: Reina, Finnan, Evra, Lescott, Ronaldo, Arteta, Elano, Petrov, Torres, Tevez, Chopra, and according to The Telegraph Fantasy Football League points scoring system last week these 11 players got: Reina 1, Finnan 1, Evra 1, Lescott 0, Ronaldo 1, Arteta 2, Elano 7, Petrov 2, Torres 0, Tevez 5, Chopra 1, and in my book 1+1+1+0+1+2+7+2+0+5+1=21, which is 7 points less than I was accredited for last week.

Are we all clear now?

Week's Prediction:

1 Ihsan's Shade 378
2 Devils FC 363
3 You Essexy Thing 355
4 Solent Gale 345
5 Super Brits 330*
6 The Solettes 324
- Komland 324
8 Sin City FC 321**
9 Expat XI 316
10 Crawlies Creepers 305
11 Augustiner United 298
12 Windy City Waterboys 293
13 Spunkalot Rapalots 292
14 Blue Moon FC 289
15 Gallus FC 282
16 UnitedWeRise 279
17 The Puddings 275
18 Wee Mun Wanderers 270
- The Dog's Tackle 270
20 FC Hazza Bollah 265
21 Five Man Back Four 241

*Under investigation for being over budget
**Not including 7 missing points.