WELCOME TO A NEW KIND OF TENSION
Tense indeed at the top, as none of last week’s breakaway group of 3 won this weekend, so there are now only 3 points separating the top 5!
Leaders Prettier Than You faced the team for whom they’ve been a “bogey” side for so long, Claymore Athletic FC, and snuck a late draw to stay top. Neat strikes from Rooney and Malbranque gave Claymore the lead, but Rachel’s team fought back with goals from Meite and a late Aaron Hughes equaliser, to go 2 points clear. This was as a result of Champions You Know Your Boston Rock FC going up against, and being beaten by, their own “bogey” team, the Dead Parrots. Dean’s Antipodeans beat the “Sky Heroes” 3-1, with a double from Kevin Davies, to not only keep up their good run against Boston Rock (4 wins in the last 5) but also win the POTW half a million. So well done Dean (grrr…) The 3rd placed Groove Machine also lost, 3-2 to a resurgent Nil Satis who move themselves up to 6th. D’you see Paul, changing your team every week pays dividends… goals from the Big Man’s deadly strikeforce of Saha and Kanu put the Groovers in command, but Camara, Primus and a dramatic late winner from Flamini sealed the win for Paul’s team.
This meant the top 3 stay line astern, but the chasing pack are closing in, in the formidable shape of Aardvark Abacus and Fred West LGXI. Aardvark won a closely fought Bevan Derby, beating Mega Buck Bandits 1-0 with a goal from sub Obafemi Martins to close within 3 points of the pace. Fred won a crucial game against fellow pursuers San Dimas High School, a real rocking hum-dinger with 7 different scorers, including doubles from Matt Taylor and Dimitar Berbatov, in a 6-3 win, to also join the Abacus on 23 points.
At the bottom, York’s and Thommos are in danger of being cut adrift. York’s stay bottom after a 3-1 defeat by Trusted By Millions, a double from Beef’s £30 million man Jamie Carragher propelling Beef into the top half of the table. Thommos suffer a 4-0 reverse against Real Muppets, who are up to 9th.
Finally, Eleven Imaginary Boys stretch their unbeaten run to 4 games, with Prov’s 2 Nicks, Shorey and Anelka, scoring in their 2-2 draw against Final Fantasy XI. Ceri’s team drops to 10th as a result, and need to start justifying the pre-season hype again…
BIKER BOY SEEKS BIKER GIRL IN MATCHING CHAPS AND CHERRY CURL
It seems I’m not the only one who thinks Premiership players already have it too easy. Here’s Final Fantasy XI boss Ceri’s view, with an insight into another sport;
“Totally agree about lazy premiership players. Here is a week in the life of Leigh Adams, Swindon Robins' Captain
Thursday: Riding for Swindon Robins, Swindon England
Friday: Grand Prix Practice, Poland
Satuday: Grand Prix, Poland
Sunday: Riding for Leszno, Poland
Monday: Riding for Swindon Robins v Belle Vue in Manchester
Tuesday: Masarna, Sweden
Weds: Riding for Swindon Robins v Areana Essex (Purfleet)
Thurs: Swindon, Swindon Robins
Etc.”
TRANSFER NEWS
Prov does a bit of restructuring work on that leaky defence…
Player From To Fee
Lloyd Sam (M) Pool Trusted By Millions £500K
David Dunn (M) Trusted By Millions Released £2.75m
(Previously retained from relegated, therefore not eligible under the pool cooling down rule)
Andy Griffin (D) Eleven Imaginary Boys Pool £880K
David Unsworth (D) Eleven Imaginary Boys Pool £250K
Chris Powell (D) Eleven Imaginary Boys Pool £250K
Hatem Trabelsi (D) Pool Eleven Imaginary Boys £500K
David Wright (D) Pool Eleven Imaginary Boys £500K
Abel Xavier (D) Pool Eleven Imaginary Boys £500K
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 16 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 Premiership footballer had his eyebrow bitten off in a curry house car park incident in Halifax recently?
Answers to me by close of play Saturday 16 December 2006. As usual, first correct one out of the metaphorical hat gets the dosh.
Manchester City and Boston Rock youngster Micah Richards was the live TV pottymouth, saying “f***in’” live on TV in a post-match interview with Garth Crooks, following his dramatic equaliser in the Manchester City-Aston Villa FA Cup game last season. Match of the Day anchorman Gary Lineker was moved to apologise afterwards if anyone was offended. Like we’re all vicars or something, and young Richards had taught us a new word. Gosh.
By the way, BBC Radio’s Alan Green had to make similar apologies during a “606” live phone-in recently, after hastily cutting off a call from an Arsenal fan about Nicolas Anelka, who’d stuck a couple past his old club earlier that afternoon. Green had provoked the caller for an opinion on Anelka, so got one in spades when the caller said “oh, he’s just a w**ker”! Brilliant.
Anyway, I got 6 correct replies, from Rachel, Ryan, Peej, Clive, Beef and Ady. Nice easy one this then! A roll of the dice was therefore called for, and Prettier Than You came up trumps, to win the hundred grand. Well done Rachel! Baby on the way, still top; everything’s going well for the PTY boss right now…
SHORTS
· This contribution from Clive – let’s see if anyone’s on his wavelength: “Did anyone notice when Salisbury City played Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup last Sunday, the Forest Kit Man had a great idea! Faced with an identification dilemma, due to the fact that Forest had two players with the same Surname, i.e. Grant Holt and Gary Holt, he had the ingenious idea to put Grant's initial in front of his surname, i.e. G Holt. Consequently, differentiating one from the other (apparently!!!).”. Or not, as the case may be…
· It seemed that being top turned my good lady wife into a Carpenter. After last week’s table was published with Prettier Than You sitting pretty at the top, Rach was moved to give me a stirring rendition of the 70’s MOR bands’ classic “On Top Of The World”. Hope the anorexia doesn’t follow… well, not that it’s likely to, now…!
· Kudos to Manchester City’s Joey Barton from WSFFL Central. Barton was interviewed after having seven shades of you-know-what kicked out of him by overzealous Watford players in last Monday’s game (a game which Stuart Pearce compared to an old-fashioned 70’s game, and commented he’d have loved to have played in). He simply said “it’s a man’s game, you know, that’s how Watford play, you know, got to expect that, you know…” or words to that effect. None of your namby-pamby Prem divas here, we’re real men!
WSFFL RESULTS;
Week 13, W/E 9 December 2006
Aardvark Abacus 1-0 Mega Buck Bandits
Martins (3) 41,917
Claymore Athletic FC 2-2 Prettier Than You
Malbranque (1) Meite
Rooney Aaron Hughes 35,565
The Dead Parrots 3-1 You Know Your Boston Rock FC
Kevin Davies 2 (1) Defoe
Shittu 30,957
Final Fantasy XI 2-2 Eleven Imaginary Boys
MG Pedersen Anelka
Garcia Shorey 22,283
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 6-3 San Dimas High School
Matt Taylor 2 Yakubu
Gonzalez Essien
Berbatov 2 Petrov
Diouf 43,189
Real Muppets 4-0 Thommo’s Titans
Abdoulaye Faye
Ronaldo
Reina
Parnaby 23,638
22 Legged Groove Machine 2-3 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Saha (1) Primus
Kanu Camara
Flamini 75,858
York’s Returning Glory 1-3 Trusted By Millions
Dawson OG Carragher 2
Gerrard 19,528
Performance of the Week: The Dead Parrots
THE 2006/07 WSFFL LEAGUE TABLE
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As at Monday 11 December 2006
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Team
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P
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W
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D
|
L
|
F
|
A
|
Diff
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Pts
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1
|
Prettier Than You
|
13
|
8
|
2
|
3
|
23
|
16
|
7
|
26
| |
2
|
You Know Your Boston Rock FC
|
13
|
7
|
3
|
3
|
29
|
19
|
10
|
24
| |
3
|
22 Legged Groove Machine
|
13
|
7
|
3
|
3
|
21
|
14
|
7
|
24
| |
4
|
Aardvark Abacus
|
13
|
7
|
2
|
4
|
32
|
19
|
13
|
23
| |
5
|
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
|
13
|
7
|
2
|
4
|
23
|
21
|
2
|
23
| |
6
|
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
|
13
|
6
|
2
|
5
|
28
|
25
|
3
|
20
| |
7
|
San Dimas High School
|
13
|
6
|
2
|
5
|
22
|
26
|
-4
|
20
| |
8
|
Trusted By Millions
|
13
|
5
|
4
|
4
|
21
|
18
|
3
|
19
| |
9
|
Real Muppets
|
13
|
5
|
4
|
4
|
23
|
22
|
1
|
19
| |
10
|
Final Fantasy XI
|
13
|
5
|
3
|
5
|
19
|
16
|
3
|
18
| |
11
|
Claymore Athletic FC
|
13
|
5
|
2
|
6
|
31
|
26
|
5
|
17
| |
12
|
Mega Buck Bandits
|
13
|
4
|
2
|
7
|
16
|
22
|
-6
|
14
| |
13
|
The Dead Parrots
|
13
|
4
|
2
|
7
|
18
|
28
|
-10
|
14
| |
14
|
Eleven Imaginary Boys
|
13
|
3
|
4
|
6
|
13
|
19
|
-6
|
13
| |
15
|
Thommo's Titans
|
13
|
2
|
3
|
8
|
14
|
25
|
-11
|
9
| |
16
|
York's Returning Glory
|
13
|
3
|
0
|
10
|
13
|
30
|
-17
|
9
| |
TOTAL
|
208
|
84
|
40
|
84
|
346
|
346
|
0
|
292
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