TIRED OF LISTENING TO GOSSIP, GOSSIP AND COMPLAINTS
Further to my e-mail rant on Saturday, I found out that the Chelsea-Newcastle game was apparently called off due to “fixture congestion”. Oh dearie dearie me, we wouldn’t want to overwork the poor dears, now would we?
I’m sorry, really I am, but things like this just increase my disillusionment in today’s Premiership. These people are phenomenally highly paid athletes, and the suggestion that they can’t manage to play more than 2 games a week is becoming increasingly ludicrous. If they think they’ve got it hard, they should try professional baseball; baseball players play a total of 163 games a season, with potentially another 19 if they’re successful in post-season play, plus up to 40 pre-season “Spring Training” games. They play every day between April and October, sometimes twice a day, in games that last 3 to 4 hours on average, possibly up to 6 plus hours. And the poor Premiership divas can’t last more than 90 minutes a week? Give me strength!
SCHOOL’S OUT EARLY AND SOON WE’LL BE LEARNING
San Dimas High School propel themselves back into title contention after inflicting previous leaders You Know Your Boston Rock FC’s 2nd defeat of the season. An Andy Reid strike settled a close game in favour of the High School, who move to within 5 points of the lead in 5th, and win the POTW half a million in the process. So well done Peej (grrr)…
The Big News of course, is that now we have a lady manager at the top of the table! So much for Mike Newell’s comments that women can’t hack it in football… yup, Prettier Than You seized their chance with a 4-1 win over Mega Buck Bandits to go top. A double from Craig Bellamy, a McCulloch own goal and a late one from sub James Vaughan saw Rachel’s team to an easy win, to top the table for the first time ever. Well done girl!
Boston Rock stay 2nd, one point behind, and ahead of the Groove Machine, 1-0 winners over bottom club Yorks with a Saha strike, on goal difference only. 4 points back sit Aardvark Abacus, who also slipped up this weekend, losing 4-2 to Claymore Athletic FC. Level on points with the Abacus are San Dimas, and also Fred West LGXI, who drew 2-2 with the Dead Parrots thanks to a Matt Taylor double.
York’s stay bottom, but are level on points with Thommos Titans, who drop to 15th after a 1-0 defeat by Eleven Imaginary Boys, who jump to 13th in the process.
Elsewhere, Nil Satis go nap on Trusted By Millions, winning 5-2 thanks in main to a Gilberto Silva double. They jump up one place and go above their weekend opponents in the process. Also moving up one are Real Muppets, who won 2-0 over Final Fantasy, a Darren Fletcher header securing the win for Ryan who goes up to 10th.
SPEND YOUR MONEY SO FRIVOLOUSLY, WHY DON’T YOU SAVE IT FOR THE CHILDREN
Not much comment from the WSFFL managership about my “Big Buys” article last week. However I liked Peej’s response so much, I thought I’d print it pretty much in full, so here’s the wit and wisdom of the San Dimas manager;
“Berbatov: looks a good player. If only Jol could decide who his best front two were.
Shevchenko: World Cup hangover or lost it? I’ll tend to the former but I’m not convinced.
Tevez: haven’t seen much of him. But who has? And will we before he’s shipped out?
Rosicky: I’d have gone to £15m so it looks like I’ve dodged a bullet. He can’t stay this bad surely.
Martins: hard to say. He’s in a poor team (not the Abacus!)
Ballack: really looks like the wrong-shaped piece in Chelsea’s midfield jigsaw.
Kuyt: might have bagged a few but I don’t see him as a permanent fixture in the top scorers list.
Paletta: looked a crazy buy on auction night. Looks worse now!
Anelka: will probably go mad before the end of the season and walk out.
Boulahrouz: panic buy by Chelsea before they landed Cole.
But what do I know? I have a long list of failed “big money” buys. I forget exact amounts but the likes of Veron £8m, Kezman £15m, Riedle £7m, Joachim £7m for starters! There must be more! It doesn’t bode well for Essien, Petrov, Scharner or Walcott. But it's early days – isn’t it?”
Thanks for that Peej. I don’t know, your “big wastes of money” didn’t do so bad against me this weekend…
TRANSFER NEWS
After the return of Sutton to “The Sky Heroes”, Sheriff jumps in for yet another Boston Rock old boy…
Player From To Fee
Keith Gillespie (M) Pool YKY Boston Rock FC £500K
Carlton Cole (A) YKY Boston Rock FC Pool £2m
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 9 December 2006, after which time they go into the pool proper and are readily available. All bids to me please.
THE FF£100,000 QUESTION
Which young Premiership prospect celebrated his first post-match TV interview, last season, by saying “f***in’” live on BBC TV?
In case you’re not sure what’s under the asterisks, it’s the well-known slang term for fornication, which rhymes with “trucking”. Somebody was a baaaad boy…
Answers to me by close of play Saturday 9 December 2006. As usual, first correct one out of the metaphorical hat gets the dosh.
Arsene Wenger used the Miss World analogy when discussing Jose Antonio Reyes and his attempts to move to Spain in the August transfer window. Professor Yaffle was commenting on the fact that although Reyes seemed to want to move, no leading Spanish club had actually made a bid. Until deadline day, that is, when Reyes got the move he’d been jonesin’ for all Summer, and created a WSFFL administrative headache in the process!
Correct replies from Ryan and Clive. Claymore caps a fine weekend by winning the hundred grand. Well done Clive!
A wrong guess from Peej, who went for “the FA’s courting of Big Phil Scolari”. Like your logic Peej, but wrong.
SHORTS
· Forgot to mention this amongst last week’s busy “Shorts” section (perhaps I should have called it “Longs”), but what the hell does David James think he looks like?? This new hairstyle, the latest in a long line of aberrations, makes him look like Clark Kent without the glasses. And no, by that I don’t mean Superman…
WSFFL RESULTS;
Week 12, W/E 2 December 2006
Claymore Athletic FC 4-2 Aardvark Abacus
Ingimarsson (2) Kuyt
Ooijer Doyle
Osman
Valente 32,968
The Dead Parrots 2-2 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
Tuore Matt Taylor 2
Neill 23,556
Eleven Imaginary Boys 1-0 Thommo’s Titans
Shorey (2) 20,042
Final Fantasy XI 0-2 Real Muppets
(1) Agger
Fletcher 31,238
Prettier Than You 4-1 Mega Buck Bandits
Bellamy 2 (2) McCarthy
McCulloch (OG)
Vaughan 35,915
Trusted By Millions 2-5 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Barry (1) Gilberto Silva 2
Angel O’Shea
Lescott
Yobo 27,368
York’s Returning Glory 0-1 22 Legged Groove Machine
(1) Saha 22,089
You Know Your Boston Rock FC 0-1 San Dimas High School
(1) Andy Reid 60,155
Performance of the Week: San Dimas High School
THE 2006/07 WSFFL LEAGUE TABLE
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As at Monday 4 December 2006
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Team
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P
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W
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D
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L
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F
|
A
|
Diff
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Pts
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1
|
Prettier Than You
|
12
|
8
|
1
|
3
|
21
|
14
|
7
|
25
| |
2
|
You Know Your Boston Rock FC
|
12
|
7
|
3
|
2
|
28
|
16
|
12
|
24
| |
3
|
22 Legged Groove Machine
|
12
|
7
|
3
|
2
|
19
|
11
|
8
|
24
| |
4
|
Aardvark Abacus
|
12
|
6
|
2
|
4
|
31
|
19
|
12
|
20
| |
5
|
San Dimas High School
|
12
|
6
|
2
|
4
|
19
|
20
|
-1
|
20
| |
6
|
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
|
12
|
6
|
2
|
4
|
17
|
18
|
-1
|
20
| |
7
|
Final Fantasy XI
|
12
|
5
|
2
|
5
|
17
|
14
|
3
|
17
| |
8
|
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
|
12
|
5
|
2
|
5
|
25
|
23
|
2
|
17
| |
9
|
Claymore Athletic FC
|
12
|
5
|
1
|
6
|
29
|
24
|
5
|
16
| |
10
|
Trusted By Millions
|
12
|
4
|
4
|
4
|
18
|
17
|
1
|
16
| |
11
|
Real Muppets
|
12
|
4
|
4
|
4
|
19
|
22
|
-3
|
16
| |
12
|
Mega Buck Bandits
|
12
|
4
|
2
|
6
|
16
|
21
|
-5
|
14
| |
13
|
Eleven Imaginary Boys
|
12
|
3
|
3
|
6
|
11
|
17
|
-6
|
12
| |
14
|
The Dead Parrots
|
12
|
3
|
2
|
7
|
15
|
27
|
-12
|
11
| |
15
|
Thommo's Titans
|
12
|
2
|
3
|
7
|
14
|
21
|
-7
|
9
| |
16
|
York's Returning Glory
|
12
|
3
|
0
|
9
|
12
|
27
|
-15
|
9
| |
TOTAL
|
192
|
78
|
36
|
78
|
311
|
311
|
0
|
270
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