BUILDING UP MY PROBLEMS TO THE SIZE OF A COW
Following this weekend, Beef’s Trusted By Millions are now the only team with a 100% winning record this season – their 4-2 win over lowly York’s Returning Glory put them 2 points clear, as James Milner and Hernan Crespo got on the scoresheet for Beef’s lot. Up to second go the Dead Parrots, who maintain their unbeaten start to the season by beating the other previous 100%-ers, You Know Your Boston Rock FC, 1-0 thanks to a Marlon Harewood strike. “The Sky Heroes” slip to 4th as a result of this reverse from their bogey team. Up into 3rd, however, are new boys Eleven Imaginary Boys – despite Prov’s recent recruitment drive, it was 3 old guys, namely Hyypia, Van Der Sar and Shearer, on the scoresheet in their 3-1 win over Final Fantasy XI.
Two other powerhouses slipped ominously into gear this weekend as well. Fred West overcame fancied San Dimas 2-1, with Babayaro and Robben goals (taking the load off Fred’s strikers for once), and Aardvark Abacus registered their first win of the campaign with a predictably easy 4-0 win over big brother Dave’s Mega Buck Bandits in the Bevan Derby.
Champions Claymore Athletic FC met their bogey team this weekend and were probably happy with the result – Michael Owen scored on his debut for Clive’s team, but Charles N’Zogbia rescued a point for Prettier Than You in their 1-1 draw.
Yorks’, losers to leaders Trusted this weekend, are now rock bottom with nul points, the only team yet to score a point this season. Off the mark this weekend were the 22 Legged Groove Machine, whose new strikeforce of Silva and Rasiak fired blanks in their 0-0 draw with Nil Satis. Also Real Muppets, whose 3-0 win over Thommo’s Titans, thanks to Reina, Ashley Cole and Abdoulaye Faye, gave Ryan his first points of the season and also the POTW half a mill. Well done Ryan!
Better fortunes in the Cup this weekend though for both Boston Rock and San Dimas. In the PCMT First Round replays, “the Sky Heroes” eased past Mega Buck Bandits with a 2-0 win, and San Dimas compounded Yorks’ woes with a 3-2 victory.
Following those replays, the Paul Cartmell Memorial Trophy Quarter Final draw was made and is as follows;
Aardvark Abacus v Eleven Imaginary Boys
The Dead Parrots v 22 Legged Groove Machine
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI v Trusted By Millions
San Dimas High School v You Know Your Boston Rock FC
Four very interesting ties – how will fast-starting Eleven Imaginary Boys fare in the Cup against traditional powerhouses Aardvark? Will the Groovers defy the odds and claim another big scalp, this time the 2nd placed Parrots? Will leaders Trusted be able to shut out Fred’s strikeforce of Drogba and Van Nistelrooy? Will San Dimas gain revenge for their defeat in last year’s final by knocking out holders Boston Rock?
I can’t wait! Ties will be played on the weekend of 29th October 2005, and will be the only fixtures that weekend.
TRANSFER NEWS
The transfer window may be shut in the Premiership, but here in the WSFFL it’s still wide open and busy busy busy!
Player From To Fee
Wilfred Bouma (D) 48 hour rule YKY Boston Rock FC £5.75m
Michael Chopra (A) YKY Boston Rock FC Pool £250K
Dario Silva (A) Pool 22 Legged Groove Machine £500K
Szilard Nemeth (A) 22 Legged Groove Machine Pool £250K
Mark Gonzalez (M) Fred West LGXI Released £500K
(transfer not completed due to work permit issues, so full refund given to Fred)
Lassana Diarra (M) Pool Fred West LGXI £500K
Goran Bunjevcevic (D) Eleven Imaginary Boys Pool £250K
Wayne Bridge (D) Pool Cooling Down Eleven Imaginary Boys £5.5m
Josemi (D) Pool Cooling Down Mega Buck Bandits £850K
Quinton Fortune (M) Mega Buck Bandits Pool £250K
Linvoy Primus (D) Pool Cooling Down Nil Satis Nisi Optimum £500K
Stephen Wright (D) Pool Cooling Down Nil Satis Nisi Optimum £500K
Brian Priske (D) Pool Nil Satis Nisi Optimum £500K
Philippe Christanval (D) Pool Final Fantasy XI £500K
Vratisav Gresko (D) Pool Final Fantasy XI £500K
Steven Caldwell (D) Final Fantasy XI Pool £250K
Neil Mellor (A) Final Fantasy XI Pool £250K
Don’t forget that the players highlighted are now subject to the pool “cooling off” period, Any managers interested in buying them can bid until close of play Saturday 24 September 2005, after which time they go into the pool proper and are readily available. All bids to me please.
THE FF£100,000 QUESTION
A guest one from Ceri this week.
3 pairs of brothers were separated in this Summer’s league transfers, name all of them.
Answers to Ceri by close of play Saturday 24 September 2005. As usual, first correct one out of the metaphorical hat gets the dosh – Ceri, please let me know on Sunday who that is (if anyone). If no-one gets it right, Ceri gets to keep the hundred grand!
Liverpool, France and Real Muppets striker Djibril Cisse is the Lord of the Manor of Frodsham. Cisse inherited the title when he bought a house in Frodsham for £2m. The previous owner Raymond Longster sold the title along with the estate. The title goes back to the times of the Domesday book.
I got correct answers, from Pete, Beef, Ryan, David, Ceri, Rachel, and Rich. Bit easy, this one then…The £100,000 goes to Real Muppets, first one out of the hat. A good weekend for the Muppets in the finance stakes!! Well done to Ryan, and commiseration’s to the rest. And no, Rich, giving me loads of info as part of your answer does NOT give you an advantage in the cash draw!!!
One wrong guess from Peej (who went for Diouf, after debating it was either Diouf or Cisse. Other one, Peej!)
SHORTS
· Spot the dumbass dept - in my haste to get the last newsletter out, I forgot to write in the score of the Final Fantasy XI vs. Eleven Imaginary Boys fixture! I would hope that the 4 scorers listed underneath EIB and none under FFXI meant that you bright people out there picked up on it having finished 0-4 - that and the fact I mentioned the score in the weekend report as well...
· I also made a couple of errors in the categorisation of transferred players – Damien Johnson (dumped into the pool by FFXI) is a midfielder, not a defender; and new 22LGM recruit Lee Young-Pyo is a defender, and certainly not a forward…
· And while we’re at it, did anyone notice in the “Transfers” section of last week’s newsletter, that I referred to PSV Eindhoven as PVC Eindhoven? I have to say, that one was deliberate...!
WSFFL RESULTS;
WSFFL Paul Cartmell Memorial Cup First Round Replays
W/E 17 September 2005
Mega Buck Bandits 0-2 You Know Your Boston Rock FC
Ferreira
Rio Ferdinand 19,319
York’s Returning Glory 2-3 San Dimas High School
Gera Terry
Boa Morte Boumsong
Yakubu 16,641
WSFFL RESULTS;
Week 3, W/E 17 September 2005
Eleven Imaginary Boys 3-1 Final Fantasy XI
Van Der Sar Jarosik
Hyypia
Shearer 38,121
Mega Buck Bandits 0-4 Aardvark Abacus
Cech
Gallas
Riise
Lauren 21,907
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0-0 22 Legged Groove Machine
(1) 27,111
Prettier Than You 1-1 Claymore Athletic FC
N’Zogbia (1) Owen 31,657
San Dimas High School 1-2 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
Yakubu (2) Babayaro
Robben 33,686
Thommo’s Titans 0-3 Real Muppets
Reina
Ashley Cole
Abdoulaye Faye 20,725
Trusted By Millions 4-2 York’s Returning Glory
Carragher Gera
Milner Boa Morte
Ben Haim
Crespo 43,137
You Know Your Boston Rock FC 0-1 The Dead Parrots
(2) Harewood 44,917
Performance of the Week: Real Muppets
THE WSFFL LEAGUE TABLE, Season 2005/06
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As at 20 September 2005
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Team
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P
|
W
|
D
|
L
|
F
|
A
|
Diff
|
Pts
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1
|
Trusted By Millions
|
3
|
3
|
0
|
0
|
8
|
4
|
4
|
9
| |
2
|
The Dead Parrots
|
3
|
2
|
1
|
0
|
6
|
0
|
6
|
7
| |
3
|
Eleven Imaginary Boys
|
3
|
2
|
1
|
0
|
7
|
2
|
5
|
7
| |
4
|
You Know Your Boston Rock FC
|
3
|
2
|
0
|
1
|
9
|
2
|
7
|
6
| |
5
|
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
|
3
|
2
|
0
|
1
|
9
|
3
|
6
|
6
| |
6
|
Claymore Athletic FC
|
3
|
1
|
2
|
0
|
4
|
2
|
2
|
5
| |
7
|
Aardvark Abacus
|
3
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
6
|
5
|
1
|
4
| |
8
|
San Dimas High School
|
3
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
4
|
3
|
1
|
4
| |
9
|
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
|
3
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
4
|
6
|
-2
|
4
| |
10
|
Prettier Than You
|
3
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
3
|
7
|
-4
|
4
| |
11
|
Real Muppets
|
3
|
1
|
0
|
2
|
4
|
4
|
0
|
3
| |
12
|
Thommo's Titans
|
3
|
1
|
0
|
2
|
2
|
6
|
-4
|
3
| |
13
|
Mega Buck Bandits
|
3
|
0
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
5
|
-4
|
2
| |
14
|
Final Fantasy XI
|
3
|
0
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
8
|
-5
|
1
| |
15
|
22 Legged Groove Machine
|
3
|
0
|
1
|
2
|
0
|
8
|
-8
|
1
| |
16
|
York's Returning Glory
|
3
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
3
|
8
|
-5
|
0
| |
TOTAL
|
48
|
18
|
12
|
18
|
73
|
73
|
0
|
66
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