WAITING FOR THE CRUCIAL THREE
With one nailbiting league weekend to go, it’s down to the final 3 contenders! Yup, only 3 teams still have a chance of winning the League Title, following this weekend’s league fixtures, namely Trusted By Millions, Real Muppets and outsiders Willy Shakey. The unlucky teams to lose their title chances this weekend were current champions Mega Buck Bandits, 5-4 losers against Trusted after a thrilling but futile fightback following Trusted’s Michael Owen’s earlier hat-trick, and surprise late challengers Elland Road Big Boys, against whom Real’s Sander Westerveld and Joe Cole netted to give the Muppets a comfortable 2-0 victory. Willy Shakey remain one point off the pace, thanks to their 3-1 win over Nil Satis, with Juventus transfer target Freddie Kanoute and in-form midfielder Martijn Reuser amongst the scorers for Peej.
And thanks to a masterful stroke of planning, I mean a total fluke on the fixture register, Beef and Ryan play each other in a last-day “Winner Takes All” game! That’s right, if this game produces a winner, then that winner is the 2000/2001 WSFFL League Champion! The only way outsiders Willy Shakey can win the title is if the Trusted/ Real game ends in a draw, and Willy wins their own last-day fixture, which oddly enough is against double FA Cup winners You Know Your Boston Rock FC! Surreal!
Elsewhere, both Kylie Bumcheeks and Pacer’s gain rare wins, and Aardvark Abacus and Prettier Than You fight out a thrilling 3-3 draw, Graeme, oh bloody hell, Gary Naysmith getting a late equalizer for Rachel.
And as for POTW, Ryan keeps complaining that teams at the top never win it. So, suitably stung by this criticism, this week I’m awarding it to Trusted By Millions, for putting themselves in pole position for their first title with their win over Mega Bucks, thwarting MC’s hopes of retaining the championship in the process. Well done Beef.
I’M IN LOVE WITH MYSELF, MYSELF, MY BEAUTIFUL SELF
The winner of the April 2001 Manager of the Month award is…well, me, actually. But hold on a minute. Not only did You Know Your Boston Rock FC retain the FA Cup in April, but I was unbeaten in the league, with a 2W, 2D record. The only other unbeaten teams in the League in April were Short Straw (with a slightly lesser record of 1W, 3D), and Trusted, who I beat in the Cup Final anyway. So the £250,000 award goes to Boston Rock, and I steel myself for the boos and brickbats that are doubtless heading my way…
YOU’D BETTER SHOW ME THE MAN WHO MADE ALL OF THIS, THE IDEA
I got some approving feedback from one WSFFL manager about my Summer Fantasy League plans (thanks Peej), but nowt from the rest of you. Does this mean that I’m the brightest bulb in the shop, and you all think my ideas are great? ‘Cos let’s face it, if you guys don’t come up with anything better on the subject of Retained/ Relegated players, Summer Pool players or the AGM Auction, then that’s what we’re going to do!!
TRANSFER NEWS
Player From To Fee
Eoin Jess Kylie Bumcheeks Bradford City £500,000
Lee Carsley Kylie Bumcheeks Coventry City £500,000
Svetoslav Todorov West Ham United YKY Boston Rock FC £500,000
Stephen Hughes YKY Boston Rock FC Everton £250,000
Luke Young Claymore Athletic FC York’s Returning Glory £2,000,000
Stuart Ripley York’s Returning Glory Southampton £1,450,000
As usual, the players highlighted are subject to the pool “cooling off” period. Any managers interested in buying them can check themselves into the Marco Boogers Rest Home For Pointless And Wasteful Transfers…, erm, I mean bid for them until 8 p.m. on Monday 14 May, after which time they go into the pool proper and probably drown, er I mean become readily available.
THE FF£75,000 QUESTION
Here’s one for anyone who reads the “Ceefax” football news as avidly as I do. Trainspotter alert, then!
Current Egyptian international forward Hossam Hassan is going to be the first recipient of what?
One entry per person as usual please, to me by close of play on Sunday 20 May. Yup, you’ve got a couple of weeks to work on this one, so let’s see if anyone other than Peej gets it right!!
Manchester United knocked Leicester City off the top of the Premiership table on 14 October to begin their uninterrupted journey to the title. Ironically they did so in the best possible way, by knocking 3 goals past Leicester that afternoon at Filbert Street.
Correct guesses from Rich Smith, Peej and Clive, and lucky old Peej was odd coin out in the 3-coin toss again. That’s another £75,000 to Willy Shakey, who’s done quite well out of these 3-coin toss thingies. Well done Peej, and thanks Rich and Clive for your guesses.
SHORTS
A recat; the yo-yo man, York’s new boy Luke Young, is now back in defence. And he’d only been a midfielder for 5 minutes, so it seems… nice to see that where WSFFL leads, the world follows; the opener of the new series of “They Think It’s All Over” featured some serious pisstaking of the hideousness of one Luke Chadwick, nominated for our Ugly Bug Ball by his WSFFL manager Ryan as long ago as Newsletter 22… and a memory jogger for Paul Saleh, or anyone else who was at that particular quiz night; do y’all remember Andranik Eskandarian?…
LEAGUE RESULTS 2000/01
League Week Number: 33, W/E 5 May 2001
York's Returning Glory 0-2 Kylie Bumcheeks
(1) Savage
Hyypia 25,004
Aardvark Abacus 3-3 Prettier Than You
Harte (1) Kilbane
Hasselbaink 2 Vassell
Naysmith 38,142
Pacer's Pacesetters 1-0 Donkey Derby County
S Pearce 21,056
Elland Road Big Boys 0-2 Real Muppets
J Cole
Westerveld 47,671
Claymore Athletic FC 2-2 Viola's Pier
Carr Rowett
Campbell Quinn 26,041
22 Legged Groove Machine 2-0 Short Straw Rovers
Jensen (1)
Riggott 35,196
Mega Buck Bandits 4-5 Trusted by Millions
Hadji 2 (1) Owen 3
Holland Phillips
Goater Carragher 67,526
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 1-3 Willy Shakey
Wiltord Kanoute
Carbonari
Reuser 44,363
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 1-0 You know your Boston Rock FC
Karembeu (1) 39,761
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