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@3Lions - I found the issue. On the "Transfer List" sheet, there are some transfers with effective dates of December 2008 instead of December 2007 (No doubt they were entered in January, so Excel used 2008 as the default year). Once these transfer dates are fixed, everything should work out. The change will impact 4 teams: Ihsan's Shade goes to 716 points, Devils FC goes to 674, The Puddings goes to 658, Blue Moon FC stays at 632.

I already am 632 though?

@BD - I've edited my original post to reflect that. Your transfer in of Gabbidon hasn't netted you any points yet despite the error.

Drogba is on the field!

And Oldham are 1-nil up against Everton. 3 Lions must be in multiple orgasm spasm.

what happens after a draw?

A replay.

another tottenham-readign game?

Yep. Jimbo has both The Berb and Hunt. He's now eeked out a stupid lead today.

I'll need to speak to Ken, but I think a few transfers didn't happen for me just before Xmas (Keane doesn't seem to have ever left my squad, and I wanted him out for the duration of his suspension and replaced by Adebayor as I had transfers spare)...doubt that will impact the table much though, but might mean a couple of extra points for me - I'll mail Ken on Monday to get it sorted.

Happy New Year all - and well done Oldham!

S'funny, but the last two seasons it was me in the lead by about 50pts at this stage of the season. It gets hard to hold on from now on Jimbo. At least you seem to have the form goalscorer... and you get a bleedin' replay with him against a team that together have already scored seventeen thousand, four hundred and twenty nine goals so far this season.

Well done Lions indeed. I can just picture the cheesy grin all over his chops right now. Do you think they could get all the way to the semi-final to be knocked out by... ?

I know Sin, I know - I'm not counting my chickens until May. Berbatov has turned out to be a good pick though - damn near dropped him a few months back.

S'funny again mate, but it was me being the only one to have originally picked The Berb last season and him having a blinding Chrimbo what put me so far out in front at that point. Note to self: Bring in Berbatov for the Chrimbo games next season.

does anybody have a link for MoMs of FA games?

They normally aren't announced until Monday. However, these are the MoTMs from The Sunday Telegraph where they affect a Premiership team that had players Toytown managers had picked. Beware, they ain't always the same as what the Telegraph Fantasy Footie people pick:

Martin Rowlands (QPR)
Stephen Quinn (Sheff Utd)
Fabio Rochemback (Middlesbrough)
Jay Tabb (Coventry)
David James (Portsmouth)
Kelvin Lomax (Oldham)
Adam Federici (Reading)
No indication as of yet for the West Ham v City game, but the Telegraph report is talking up Martin Petrov.

Un-ferkin-believeable!!!

What the hell are Liverpool playing at? They'll be out of all competitions pretty damn quickly the way Benny is using rotactics to rotivate his players. Who is he trying to confuse? Because they've got one of, if not the best ferkin' squad in the Premership and they can't seem to organise it. I'm not complaining mind.

He even changed the goalkeeper, that is weird

football managers with facial hair is so 70s!

I've fixed those transfers now. EDIT: Actually, here is the updated file including the weekends FA Cup games.

And to clarify, I was wrong - I didn't fetch anybody in to replace Keane. D'oh!

According to 3Lions previos post, my 2 transfers should be effective from the FA cup games. Hence for last weeks mid week games, my old transfers should have been effective. So those 10 points which are missing from my main table, should still be added me thinks !!

Are you sweating yet Sin?

Wenger's Lovechild FC ™

Rule says transfers before friday take effect from Wednesday. So lets say i buy in a guy that will play in FA cup. I will get the points if his game is on Wednesday but not if his game is on Tuesday, right?. I feel like all this FA cup thing is not fair. Extra games just because they had a draw.

That's the beauty of the FA Cup getting involved. From now on in it gets a bit rollercoaster. Same rules for everybody man.

Nope. Too early.

Septic Mancs FC ™

Can't believe a ' massive ' team like mine are near the relegation spots.

Whereas mine, which I drew out of a hat, is at the top. It's a crazy, crazy, topsy turvy world in which we live in... Live and Let Die etc.

I don't think your "Berbatov propelled" engine will last long though

How is this possible? I see Tottenham is playing Chelsea on Monday and then against Reading on Tuesday for FA replay? Why would they do such a fixture instead of moving the Chelsea game to Saturday for example?

Chelsea game IS on Saturday AFAIK.
EDIT: According to BBC it's Saturday, 3pm.

Thx, i was looking on Eurosport.

MoMs so far:

Gael Clichy
Juliano Belletti
Steven Gerrard
Dean Ashton
Marcus Bent
John Carew
Mikel Arteta

and possibly Ronaldo ?

I think you'll find that the MoTMs might be a little different when the Telegraph adjudicatipeeps do their adjudicatithingie that they do. Nothing is official until Monday.

oops, did not know that, but they update the fantasy football scores daily (at least they claim so)

Ronaldo hat-trick. this guy is not human. 6-0, now we know why Redknap did not accept the offer

"Well Brian, I'm well chuffed. You could see after the four Christmas games that the leaders were running away with it [The Championship], what with Berbatov on fire. But that performance from United today and especially Ronaldo and Tevez, well, I think we've seen that this championship is far from over yet." - Sin

ronaldo got 20 and tevez got 15

Kieran Richardson supershow for Sunderland, anyone got him?

Nope, but plenty have James, Campbell, Distin and Hreidarsson.

My prediction for top 4: Assuming no transfers

You Essexy Thing = 846
Solent Gale=821
Ihsan's Shade= 814
Sin City FC=806

Nice. Only I have me on 802 and no transfers.

Am i still outside the relegation zone?

Yep, and you gained a place on the fast diving Crawlie.

This week's prediction (Tuesday and Wednesday games this week are on next week's score):

1 You Essexy Thing 846
2 Solent Gale 821
3 Ihsan's Shade 814
4 Sin City FC 802
5 Spunkalot Rapalots 794
6 Komland 784
7 The Solettes 753
8 Devils FC 748
9 Super Brits 744
10 Gallus FC 736
11 Augustiner United 733
12 Expat XI 730
13 Five Man Back Four 721
14 The Puddings 718
15 Wee Mun Wanderers 717
16 Blue Moon FC 712
17 Crawlies Creepers 706
18 FC Hazza Bollah 636
19 Windy City Waterboys 617
20 UnitedWeRise 592
21 The Dog's Tackle 585

If we look at the top 6, 5 of them have Ronaldo. This means Ronaldo's performance will no longer be effective on the top instead players like Berbatov, Fabregas, Gerrard, Tevez, Anelka and Adebayor will be key and niche selections like Torres,SWP and Keane will be very important.

Who doesn't have Ronaldo? You won't win anything without Ronaldo - a bit like the real Premiership in fact.

Team in second ain't got Ronaldo.

No, I'm not talking about The Arse.

Since we are not getting updates as frequently to follow who is transfering who, i suggest that everyone post here their ins and outs every friday. That would help us to follow latest squads. What say you?

Every Friday AFTER the deadline is no problem by me.

Right. I am even OK before the wednesday they will be effective. So here are my two transfers that will be effective from this Wednesday :

Out

M Arteta
K Toure

In

D. Kitson
Alex

OK then. Effective this Wednesday I have Finnan and Arteta out and Campbell and Ballack in, leaving me with 4 more transfers to the end of the season.