Premier League Fantasy Football 2009-2010

I've set up an ILX league on the Premier League one. Here's the code:

719981-162534

I already made a team so whynot. Banking on Benty being a 25-goal striker, and Schwarzer never getting injured.

Is it a head to head league or a classic one? Maybe we should do both.

Might we do a (separate) no-trading / captain-changing one? I have enthusiasm right now, but it'll probably/definitely fade away when there's actual football to, y'know, follow.

On dis ting. Can I join the ILX league only after I've completed my squad?

I'm in. Thanks for setting this up.

Will be in at some point for "lol Scottishes/lol girl, knows nothing about our Premier League" lolz.

^^^ lol Dutch guy knowing nothing about the Premship lol here

Is it a head to head league or a classic one?

Classic. Feel free to set up a head-to-head one as well if you want.

Done, the head-to-head code is 674840-165678

One last one.

796618-165902 is my handsfree management one - no transfers, and set a week one captain to stick with all season. You can still rotate players in and out of your team, though! (This one is also good if you know nothing about football and picked your team according to vague Liverpool Won't Win predictions that spurs will be good this season)

Good work, that's the league my lads were born to finish 14th in.

Again, can I join the ILX league only after I've completed my squad? Anyone please?

I think you probably have to have a squad, but you can just fill it with random players and change them around at no cost before the season's started.

Eg my current midfield is James Milner, Martin Petrov, Matt Taylor and Niko Kranjcar

Thanks!

^^^ lol Dutch guy knowing nothing about the Premship lol here

― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre),

it's been done.

Had to be really.

le bateau ivre out.

:D

Don't worry Ailsa, I've got the lol Scottishes covered - I just looked back at my team and saw that I had a front three of Torres (yeah sure), Bent (eeeeeeh) and Vela (wtf). I think I've been smoking crack behind my back.

Can you join the hands free version without doing a second registration?

Yes you can, just did this myself

Also, Dom! <3 :-)

i joined so that covers the lol Scandi then, we'll see how long i can keep it up, five rounds in and me at the bottom of the league i usually lose interest...

lol hong kong dude etc (except obv i won this ilx league twice)

the jose mourinho self promotion award for 2009/2010 already in the bag imo

Debbie Does Gallas

loooooooooooool

Annnd in. If I'm still checking it by November, I'll consider that a success.

I'm in (classic and head to head.)

I've now changed my team name for the first time and my kit for the third. Nine days to go...

I am also in! And already starting to regret the name of my team. Really need to think of that sort of thing more in advance and write it down somewhere, whenever the moment comes I can only think of terrible things.

Can you change your name? My shit pun on Metalist Kharkiv was better in my head, and there's already a Mentalist FC there :-(

Oh, you can actually change your team name! Always assumed you couldn't. I'll still probably just be lazy and leave it though.

Liking the new 'emergency captain strategy' thing I just noticed, that's a nice addition.

I'm in

Also, Dom! <3 :-)

What's the story with this? I think I missed something a few months ago. Suddenly Dom wasn't posting any more and various people had changed their names to 'RIP Dom' or whatever. Is he banned or here under another name?

"Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino" (still the best screen name every I saw around here, forgot who by though...)

He got banned alright, but don't ask me why.

every

Gah! Injuries cutting a swathe thru my lineup - back to the drawing board. Am punting on Bendtner actually putting some of those chances away this season

I still have to make my team. I did so poorly last year... Why did I pick all those Spurs players?

haha this is their year isn't it?

Yes, this year I will do well by putting a lot of Spurs players in my fantasy league team.

It's gotta pay off sometime, right?

lol totally ignorant canadian with mildly offensive team name up in this

If you're in ignoscendi you're stuck with your team and captain now, so you might as well post them...

Mine:

Sorensen/Jaskerlining

Carragher/Toure/Corluka/Ferdinand/Cahill (latter because I got confused and thought he was the goal-scoring Australian)

Denilson/Milson/Barry/Lampard(c)/Delap

Eduardo/McCarthy/Ebanks-Blake

Jaaskelainen (Hennessey)
Lescott - Hangeland - Samba (Alexander - Ricketts)
Gerrard - Lampard - Neville - Surman - Cahill
Ebanks-Blake - Torres (Jerome)

Cech (I just rotated him in because I realised Chelsea had Hull; my strategy is to just follow them round and try to bully them all season)

Upson Cole A Hangeland (+ Bramble and Warnock, who may get shipped out if he joins Villa)

Delph A Young Arshavin Malouda (Ph*l N*ville)

Bent Carew Edders

That's for the real league, right?

Phil Neville is a midfielder now?

O, yeah.

He was last year too; like the sixth best one or something similarly sick-making.

Oh, wait, people have the same team in every league? This idea won't work then.

yeah you might as well just filter the main league down to people who haven't made any changes (which in the past you can tell when you hover the mouse over a team).

Ok, I'm in. Ludicrously, I've now joined two ILX leagues, two work leagues, and one family league. I know nowt about footy but that never stopped me being ok at championship manager. Did ok in this last year too. But still, I'm getting my excuses in early.

This year's amazing realisation: I can play it on my phone.

Jaask (Sorensen)
A Faye, A Ferdinand, Sagna (Figeuroa)
Lampard (C), Arshavin, Etherington, Kuyt, Jiminez
Berbatov, Jo (Ebanks-Blake).

Totally changed my side after getting 'Oh wait, Spurs always start shit' jitters. Putting Berbatov in seems incredibly stupid, but am going for the 'United's goals have to come from somewhere and couldn't afford Rooney' approach.

Given (Hart)
Evra, Carragher, Cahill, Faye Ab, (Carlise)
Arshavin, Lampard, Modric, Gomez, (Jarvis)
Rooney, Beattie, (Jerome)

OK, have done some tinkering. Here is Mentalist Carcrash's lineup for Saturday:

Cech
Brown - Evra - Lescott
Reo-Coker - Cattermole - Lampard (C) - Fellaini - Arshavin
Scotland - Crouch

Subs: Schwarzer, Kalvenes, Bramble, Cousin

I'll do that, Ken.

I'm in ignoscendi and have no idea what my team was because it keeps redirecting me to the home page. I remember only that Torres was my captain and Bendtner was his strike partner - got very excited about Bendtner being the bargain of the competition at 6.5m with no competition, but I forgot that Eduardo was still alive.

lol totally ignorant canadian with mildly offensive team name up in this

i hope that means will "foot hockey" m. aka THIS GUY

Two "De Boer of Babylon" squads - one for Frank and one for Ronald, eh?

although saying that greg there's no harm in starting a separate league that just does the filtering for you (plus as admin you get the satisfaction of booting off anyone who makes any changes :))

lol. I made the name in Good/awful names for fantasy football teams/five-a-side squads/sporting pub quiz teams and it was the only good one I could remember that I had thought of when I made my team. However, I guess I should have re-read the thread; have just noticed that it was also claimed by darragh on there.

Dibs on Frank.

Good chant at Celtic Park once: "one's called Ronald, one's called Frank, one missed a penalty, the other one's a wank". <3 Celtic fans.

Oh, just noticed you can change names. In my infinite free time, I will think of a new one.

Or just nick one from that thread.

Could someone kindly explain the difference between both ILX leagues? I don't think I get it. Does the second one mean you don't have to change your team in between games?

Also: is it better to make, say, Torres you captain than a Lampard or Gerrard?

I think there are two classic league and one head to head league. You're allowed to make transfers in one of the classic leagues but not in the other. In the head to head league you play a game each gameweek against another team in the league. Your score versus your opponent's score. 3 points for a win and 1 points for a draw and transfers are allowed.

Usually a goalscoring, assist making midfielder is the way to go for a captain (Lampard, Gerrard, Arshavin, and Ronaldo in years past) it depends on the fixtures.

Alternatively, if you can't afford a goalscoring, assist making midfielder like those named, a good bet on captain is a full back who'll get clean sheets and plenty assists from crosses (such as Cashley or Evra).

Have dropped out of the Ignoscenti as I am confused as to how to make changes in one version of a team & not the other. Anyway, here's my line up

Schwarzer (Sorensen)
Ferdinand Turner Richards Clichy (Hangeland)
Kuyt Arshavin Reo-Coker Pienaar (Modric)
Bendtner Drogba (Healy)

I have returned for this. I hope it will be worthwhile.

I have too. Actually, I wasn't really away, but I've never done ILEFF before.

Given, however, that I have put all my faith in Tottenham again, it evidently won't be.

i was referring to myself will. but I'm glad there's two of us!

Overall: #38

Feel this is unlikely to last.

I'm 2298th overall! From the Dutch players...

976,151st overall - comfortably mid-table

Fabregas (C) 44
on his own would be two points off the lead in the ILX league

19 massive points, with Drew Surman not even playing at all. Hmmph. But on the other hand, I finally got the right shades of pink and navy on the kit.

This would be the one season where I dont put Fabregas in my team thinking 'well, he normally starts off a little slow', and like everyone else opting for Arshavin.

Was nice for Arshavin/Eduardo and Pienaar to all combine right at the end and grab me some points.

I should have 8 points more than I do, I was absolutely certain I put Sorenson in goal. Now think I must have just closed the window rather than actually saving it. Who do I have now? Joe Hart. Come on Birmingham!

Yeah it's a bit unclear when your selection is actually saved isn't it? I haven't see a big SAVE button anywhere

If any of your outfield players play no part in the Gameweek, then the computer will try to substitute the inactive player for one of your replacements. This is done by replacing him with your highest priority substitute who actually played in the Gameweek and doesn't break the formation rules.

So if a player sits on the bench for all matches in the Gameweek, does the automatic substitution kick in?

Yep. Doesn't help me much this week, I've got 7 players with no game scheduled.

huh, why's Ignoscendi head to head? And how did I end up top of it, with Jamie nopoints Carragher in defence? Yous are rubbish.

Enjoy it while it lasts, pal - you're going down next week.

No room left in H2H I presume?

man I'm inexplicably good. Only Dom ahead of me, and I assume he's thoroughly researched which players are being distracted by their mum's cancer. Poor shmuel marm, that low of 5 points is gonna be tough to beat, mass swine flu deaths excepted.

Not that I want to mess with a good thing, but I'm still not sure how to not have transfers apply to the hands off team. Anyone?

I assume hands-off means we're stuck with sundry poor choices, like a Newcastle manager hastily appointed one day after the transfer window closes. On the upside, though, my automatic transfers did kick in last night to give me three Stoke players out of four at the back.

my Sorensen auto-sub nightmare came true, but it seems that 10 saves = $$$.

Right, I'm back from holiday and it's time to do some surgery to my team. I've binned Crouch (as 'Arry doesn't seem to want to play him) (not that that's holding Spurs back at all) and Mikkel, and brought in Bent and Hunt. I'm a bit disappointed with Arshavin - I blew nearly all my money on having him, Rooney and Torres, but he hardly got any points, despite Arsenal banging in 57 goals at Goodison last weekend.

I bought Defoe in on the logic that he would single-handedly rape Hull, but then forgot to make him captain; based on his excellent form on the opening day my vice captain became Ryan Shawcross, who got no points at all.

I have ditched Crouch and Lescott. I fear a whole season of chasing my tail, subbing in guys after they've had their one good game of the season.

Lol, I'm so very new to this league set-up, I didn't even know it was possible to bump and exchange players during season ~ like, every week! Possibilities are endless!

Woo! I've leapt up the table to fourth (admittedly before the end of the gameweek).

I knew I should have waited til after the international break to make any transfers, Arshavin's injury has left me with the bare bones squad, mind he hasn't exactly set the world on fire yet so maybe it's a good time to get shot of him.

There are only three points separating fourth to ninth spot in the battle for that final European place.

Should I sell Carragher? Liverpool seem quite ropey defensively this season and he's playing worse than usual, but I can't quite shake the fear that if I sell him they'll suddenly keep ten clean sheets in a row.

ooof what a week.

I'm still kinda amazed by how well I'm doing, especially since half of my first team is doing terribly. Darren Bent, stroke of genius. Fulham trio currently looking regrettable. Will stick with Carragher till Liverpool have conceded 60 goals.

And on that note, how do I change my team for some leagues and not others ('others' being our hands-off one)? I thought I had done it but then I noticed I had two weeks of Kranjcar in my supposedly no-changes side (don't worry - he got fewer points than my subs would've). I'm guessing that the answer is that I misunderstood somewhere and I don't.

Carragher's totally shot by the looks of it. I was going to say he looks retirable, but Hyypia hung around for ages after he started to look dodgy.

carragher has always been a slow and lumbering shambles. he's just never conceded a penalty for it before.

Am I too late to join, I've been in my works league since the start.

i don't think so.

I had a mad wildcard blitz last night, so expect everyone good's form to take a dip now.

It says it all about my midfield that the automatic sub took until yesterday to deselect Modric, and even that was only because Carrick got on in the last minute

Finally caved & played my wildcard - watch it all turn to shit this weekend

I can't believe I've scored 72 and lost my head-to-head. I am Ossie Ardiles.

haha. Torres and Bent, I could kiss yous. (There's still a chance Bridge could get negative points for me tomorrow!)

I had both Torres and Bent, but unfortunately chose Rooney (2 points) as my captain.

I was the same but forget to change my captain from Glen Johnson. Still have my three Man City players to provide me with points tonight so could yet improve on 14th in the ILX league.

gotten rid of lampard (C) in favour of benayoun, used the huge price difference to upgrade from rodallega to torres (c). you know who to blame when it all goes tits up

Top ten YO. Second highest score in the league for the week. Six goals and fuck from my strikers. If Bent hadn't dicked around with the penalties and if the own goal had been rightly credited to him, I'd have several more point an' all.

What's wrong with Carrick? He seems to only ever be a late sub these days; but he was on for the full champions league match, played well and scored. This is becoming a fantasy league problem, with Modric out I need the rest of the boys to step up a gear.

When do subs get factored in? Because Altidore didn't play, Stanislas did (my first sub) and scored. And yet I have Jozy's 0 taking me nowhere.

Won't be until after the Man City - Villa game tomorrow.

oh yeah, i forgot about that battle for 4th place (rip rafa).

hey

Glad I brought in Fabregas as my captain. 44 points, blimey.

Not so glad I chose this week to bring in Torres and put Bent on the bench.

carrick in too slow/languid for premier league shocker?

Fabregas has single handedly put me top but I shouldn't have taken out Bent for Saha this week, Vermaelen seems to be this year's must have goalscoring centre back.

I finally bit the bullet on Friday and sold Carragher and bought Vermaelen which was THE RIGHT THING TO DO. However, for the second week in a row I had Rooney (deux points) as captain.

have had lampard, then rooney then torres today as captain. i'm keeping torres as captain, cos if i'm gonna be a jinx it's as well to be liverpool, right?

Right.

one thing i have in common with rafa, i guess

Oh FFS. I score second-top again in the ignoscendi league, and this week I lose the head-to-head to 'YidArmy Foot Soldier' - who doesn't even exist.

Oh FFS, pt2: I thought I'd snatched an Owenesque late winner with the automatic subs, but they went through in the least-rewarding combination possible, and again I lose by a point.

I have no idea who my captain is going to be this week. I didn't pay attention to the internationals this week, so I didn't realise Rooney wasn't playing and left him as my captain. I think Torres would normally be his replacement, but he's not playing either.

I didn't even think about captain with Torres out. I think I've got it on form, so probably Bent? This week I'm going to have, I think, a nine man starting lineup (one of those the zero point Ashley Cole) if I'm lucky. Call it a draw, Oh Wengerpaws?

hey where's Darren Fletcher. Okay, make that eight man.

(fwiw if you like the ignoscendi idea, and know nothing about basketball, I have set up a UKer/generally ignorant fantasy basketball league - it is stripped down to the point where you just simply pick 5 players and stick with them come injury or whatever - http://basketball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/onlyfive )

No prob, I'll settle for that draw Merdeyeux :-)

Have hardly look at this thing for weeks. Last move I made was probably sell Gomes (for he seemed to be out with an injury for quite some time) and getting Foster in (Van der Sar was out at the time). Sheesh.

I'm very sorry Bateau but I think that Fulham defensive masterclass means I beat you by about 3 points. After this unlikely victory it's safe to say that I'm going to walk this, amn't I?

I'm ranked #42 out of two million overall for the month of October????

I'm not sure which it is, but you're either ranked #42 having scored 1,907,773 points, or ranked #1,907,773 having scored 42. Well done either way!

lol

I am very much the Fulham of dis ting, reassuringly bottom half but never really in trouble.

aha, right, d'oh. That's considerably less impressive but also considerably less confusing.

I was staring disaster in the face, but thanks to three automatic substitutions, a Fulham clean sheet, and the program choosing Bent for me as my replacement captain, I've managed to scrape together 50 points.

The program chose Kuyt for me, else I might've pulled off an unlikely win. Bent really was the inspired choice this year. Not Bendtner, like I chose.

Did anyone have Defoe in their team? As captain? I signed Huddlestone this week, netting myself a useful 2 points.

I saw his five goal haul and went into a bit of a cold sweat, only to find that nobody else in my main league had bothered to put him back in post-suspension either

Also spent Saturday massively angry that my decision to replace Sorensen with Cech hadn't registered, but then Sorensen got more than double Cech's total and I felt a bit jammy

Fuck not noticing that Blackburn have two games though, David Dunn's on fire

IIRC the only Spurs player I have is Essou-Okkoto who didn't keep a clean sheet and was subbed in the second half.

I've had Crouch since day one. You'd've thought one of the two strikers in a 9-1 could do better than one goal and one assist.

Praise the Lord for automatic substitutions. I've just discovered that Hunt replaced Drogba in my team and somehow picked up 18 points this week.

I scored a grand total of 6 points from Saturday's fixtures, but somehow managed to end the week on 64. If I could only work out how to stop the site allocating me Kuyt as emergency captain, and giving me Clint instead, my boys could be challenging for Europe.

you can allocate emergency captain based on form and something else, i can't remember what- it's an option on the same screen where you pick your subs.

form or value

heh as if kuyt ranks above everyone's favourite LJ doppleganger on either

I was wondering how I managed 70 points, but I guess having three players who played 180 minutes in the week will help with that. When I have an undead Torres and Modric I'll be getting that EVERY WEEK, though.

My congratulations go to Paul O'Brien, currently bottom of the ILX league but with the 3rd highest score for this week with a team featuring three Hull players, three Blackburn players, three Fulham players and two Everton players.

Done xp - now watch Dirk keep Rafa in employment.

Most annoying moment so far - Stoke bringing on Higganbotham in the last minute v Spurs, gaining my boys 1 appearance point and nixing 9 clean sheet, etc. points for his would-be sub Faye.

tbh i can't complain but having drogba as captain and fabregas as emergency captain didn't really work out this particular week, but 65 is a keeper given i had only 20 or so on saturday evening.

The Rooney Effect: up to the dizzying heights of second place.

Now first (albeit probably just until this evening). This might never happen again, so I'm going to crow while I can. Caw! Caw!

;_; forgot i took cesc out because he was injured ;_;

it'd be a good time for you to take up betting in earnest tbh

i think earnest died years ago dude

The Arsenal v Bolton game tonight better not get called off tonight. I played my wildcard for this gameweek and stuffed my team with Arsenal, Bolton and Fulham players seeking the short term benefit of their extra matches. My masterplan has already been semi-scuppered by Zamora getting crocked.

That's tonight I'm talking about, by the way, tonight.

I put Walcott in for Aaron Lennon and now I can't afford to buy him back. That even seemed stupid when I was doing it.

wowee I have a fit first XI for the first time since about week 3. Now for Torres and Bent to simultaneously have their ACLs torn off by crows.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/8440005.stm
:-(
So much for the wildcard.

y 2 brake hart for arshavin captain?

What a shower.

pretty pleased with my -1 points for this week.

Quite annoyed at getting knocked out of the 'cup' last week when there were only three matches (I think I got beaten 13-12 or some similar low-scoring nonsense). I'm still in with a shout for the ILX championship, but currently battling Pete W for the lesser champions league placings.

Quite annoyed that I still haven't remembered to put Cesc back in my starting eleven.

Pretty annoyed that my star man gets crocked on a weekly basis. Torres last week, now Clint.

I was pretty smug about my all-time best ever gameweek score of 127 until I saw that the three people above me got even more than that. Whodathunk that *other* people would have had Rooney as captain?

i'm happy enough now, thanks. no, no, i'm grand sure sit down.

i dunno why cesc wasn't my captain (instead somehow it was DARREN BENT) sigh. scored a goal at least.

now, in an awesome move, i swapped out gerrard who is injured, and put in valencia, who has no game in the upcoming gameweek.

ffs.

wekk to use the wildcard if ever there was one

as in it would be cool in canada to do so

just having a look through the no-changes results I appear to be a serious bogey side for Ismael. In our five matchups I've won four and we've drawn once, with my wins including an 84-76 and a 22-21. Sorry.

I might live to regret this, but I've sold the misfiring Arshavin (despite the fact that he's about to play Liverpool, who he famously scored four goals against last Spring) and replaced him with New God Nani (who I'm desperately hoping doesn't revert to type).

Ah, I didn't know you could view the week-by-weeks xp. Not enjoyable viewing - I've had four defeats by three points or less (plus two draws) out of 25 games. These things even themselves out over the course of the season, I'm telling myself.

Nani, you cunt!

hahaha - four Arshavin goals coming up then

signing nani was a pretty brave move tbh

The fucking fucker. It's worse than that. I actually made a double substitution: I used the money I gained on the Arshavin (did nothing, but presumably scored more than zero) for Nani (scored minus two) deal, to sell Saha (scored two) to buy Drogba (set one up).

lolz it was like me two weeks ago..

i dunno why cesc wasn't my captain (instead somehow it was DARREN BENT) sigh. scored a goal at least.
now, in an awesome move, i swapped out gerrard who is injured, and put in valencia, who has no game in the upcoming gameweek.
ffs.

this week captaincy was a choice between lamps, valencia and cesc. should have given it to d bent.

I had a disastrous gameweek the one before this one, and this week was looking even worse (after the weekend I only had two players who'd actually played), but a Darren Bent captain's hat-trick looks to have saved me.

yeah i had all of that without the bent supremacy

while not paying attention it seems that I've gone on a six game winning streak and am now six points clear in the ignoscendi league*. I'm gonna walk this, amn't I?

*all while I continue to sink towards the bottom of my other leagues...

been waiting all season for that to happen to me, you bastard - I've got yet another single-point defeat about to land on me tonight, barring a freak alignment of the planets in Stoke-Burnley this evening

lolz it was like me two weeks ago..

i dunno why cesc wasn't my captain (instead somehow it was DARREN BENT) sigh. scored a goal at least.
now, in an awesome move, i swapped out gerrard who is injured, and put in valencia, who has no game in the upcoming gameweek.
ffs.

this week captaincy was a choice between lamps, valencia and cesc. should have given it to d bent.

― The smile on my face, disguises the case, I bury the truth deep down in (ken c), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 22:46 (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fuck. right. off. sold d bent

Comedy gold, Ken

watch me forget about donovan and give him the captaincy in two week's time.

ROAR!
(That's me roaring back up the table)

Never thought Cameron Jerome and Matt Jarvis would send me clear at the top

de boer of bablylon are gonna walk this, aren't they?

I can't believe I stayed so long at or near the top, but I CAN believe my current fade and just hope to hang on to a top 5 finish.

I forgot that Liverpool hadn't played and thought my run was over, but thx Fernando, 38 points on top of the 20 the rest of my XI acquired between them will do me nicely.

Tbc when the table is updated, but I think I've pulled off a single-point win over Gerard, which would be nice because that's what you bastards have been doing to me all season. My thanks will go to Kuyty, who fell on his sword tonight and hopefully allowed Deuce or Faye to step in and take me over the threshhold.

Roar! Thanks to Drogba, Malouda and Cahill's exploits last night I picked up an astonishing 116 points from this gameweek. Would have been 123 if I hadn't dropped Fletcher to the bench for Diaby. I'm up into second, but first is still looking a bit distant.

valencia let me down- if he'd only had the decency to be injured or refuse to play, then jamie o'hara would have picked me up 12 points.

milner and young cost me too this gameweek, but in the circumstances it would be somewhat churlish to complain.

Back to the land of narrow defeats after a brief sojourn in the land of spawny victories. Midweek games never seem to work out in my favour.

I LOST BY A POINT. the dream is dead.

Bloody hell, up to 3rd, wasn't expecting that esp after I picked Rooney for 0 points

I seem to have been sabotaging my own team in recent weeks with my masterful transfer strategy that ensures I have any combination of Rooney, Drogba, Torres, Tevez and Anelka that minimizes my score due to non-appearance / not a sniff of a goal.

It's all over. I am Arsenal, always the bridesmaid, never the bride, comfortably ahead of the ghost of Passantino but still falling well behind the actual silverware.

I have strolled to victory in the no-changes league, YA DANCER. The big league is mine for the taking next year, when I remember to enter a team I'm allowed to change.

We doing this again this season?

Of course

new thread? as a foreigner, i'm not permitted to start it, or to administer the league.

and rightly so.

new thread?

All in the fullness of time. I can't face even thinking about the Premier League right now. I'm footballed out. I'd rather they delayed the start of the season until October.

can only enter one team each this year? is that new?

I have so much trouble keeping up with one team, that's probably a blessing if true!

Has anyone got around to this yet? If not I'll set up a league this afternoon...

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