Wake up you footy fans!!!

[Fishfinger king]

Nice that we've reached the May table positions before the year is out. It was only a matter of time.

Indeed.

[Otis Westinghouse]

A cool 38 points for that one player! You may even move off bottom spot at this rate, JM!

Arse's result was insult added to injury. What were Everton up to in the second half? A day of two nightmare second halves from my point of view. Roll on 2008.

[PlaythingOrPet]

With only Petrov to play for me today it's a poor week all round looking at the average score. Obviously not many people captained Berb.

[Otis Westinghouse]

I'll settle for some Petrov points if it means Liverpool lose!

Now come on Friedel, what about a clean sheet for once?

RIP Phil O'Donnell.

[Jackson Monk]

A cool 38 points for that one player! You may even move off bottom spot at this rate, JM!

Arse's result was insult added to injury. What were Everton up to in the second half? A day of two nightmare second halves from my point of view. Roll on 2008.

I can't figure out what's gone wrong this year in my FFL side. I've bought badly....obviously...and kept faith for too lonf with others. Drogba, Lampard, Terry and Owen have at various times been disastrous investments. Its interesting that I'm mid table in my other league...EC Fans clearly make good managers!

[invisible Pole]

As for my team, it's not that I've bought badly, but almost always one or two gameweeks too late (except for Ronaldo).
Plus unlucky moves like sitting Nicky Butt on the bench exactly when he scores 8 points.

I don't care if Friedel lets in a few goals today as long as Bentley scores a hat-trick.

[so lacklustre]

I put Upson on the bench this week against the mighty Manu and he scored and got Motm.

[Otis Westinghouse]

That's the best bit of football news I've heard all weekend!

IP: we're both happy - Friedel got 5 points for the penalty save, so 7 in total, and Bentley did nicely too.

Plenty of rotation at the top of the league, with WSS currently top by a point.

[PlaythingOrPet]

Oh my gawd. Brown is resting and Cahill is injured...I'm not going to have 11 men playing at this rate. PleaseletAnelkaplayPleaseletAnelkaplay...

[Otis Westinghouse]

At home to Derby, but maybe contemplating his return to London and never to play in the white shirt again...

Looked at pundit on FF today, and they recommended Sol Campbell, who I've had all season. They said he might just get his first goal of the season. I thought 'not bleedin' likely' and made him second sub, and of course the inevitable happened.

MU were in total control in the first half, yet sat on that 1-0. They were lucky not to get punished. Arsenal sounded much more convincing, damn them. Roll on the African Nations! Hodgson had a great first half, and then Fulham capitulated.

[PlaythingOrPet]

So he's definitely off then?

Brown played for 7 minutes AND was yellow carded. What a waste of space. At least Laursen automatically came in for Cahill, but my benched Flamini has replaced Bentley who doesn't even play until tomorrow. Hmmm, very strange.

[Who Shot Sam?]

I'd forgotten all about the New Year's games and was surprised to hear that Fulham-Chelsea had already ended when I got in the car this morning to drive north from Atlantic City. My wife let me listen to games on Sirius all the way to Connecticut - Arsenal-West Ham first (zzzzzzzz....), then the more interesting Villa-Spurs game.

I'm shocked that Chelsea are not further off the pace given the poor quality of the football they've been playing. Just barely scraping by at the moment, held together with duct tape and chicken wire. Sounds like Anelka may well be on his way and that would be nice. Maybe someone at the back as well to shore up the defending. What a bizarre season.

[Otis Westinghouse]

but my benched Flamini has replaced Bentley who doesn't even play until tomorrow. Hmmm, very strange.

So it temporarily shows subs as playing as a temporary supposition that the players not yet playing will not play? That would explain why my son's team showed W Ham players as playing when I had put them on the bench for him (in his New Year's sleepover absence). I thought I'd cocked up. Then again, my Bolton defender is still there with 0 when Sol, with his, , 12 points is still on the bench - so I don't quite get it. Maybe because he was second sub and there's no unplayed forward for my first sub Benjani to replace. I'm sure it hasn't done this in the past.

[so lacklustre]

SAF slags Manure supporters http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 167508.stm (after Tevez story)

[Otis Westinghouse]

Amusing that he was up among the fans and decided to slag them off as he couldn't shout at the players! They commented on the radio on how quiet it was. I think it's not uncommon at OT. Too many prawn sandwiches, etc. It wasn't the case when I was there, there was lots of heartwarming noise, especially in honour of King Eric, who was visiting for the Christmas do. It's a bit lame that he decides to point the finger at the fan for the underperformance of MU. We got the three points, but we could easily have lost two of them.

Newcastle lose again. Damn, that means Man City win. 6 points from Bolton's Meite and no goals from Anelka. Cool. Coolest of all, apart from Wigan equalising, Friedel saves another penalty and keeps a clean sheet. 11. Almost makes up for my Campbell cock-up.

[Who Shot Sam?]

Plucky little Wigan walk away from Anfield with a point. Wow, didn't expect that!

[Otis Westinghouse]

Man Shitty 4th, Liverpool 5th.

[Otis Westinghouse]

Tevez redefines playing a dummy:

[invisible Pole]

Plucky little Wigan walk away from Anfield with a point. Wow, didn't expect that!

Neither did I, but it got me 6 points for Kirkland and 8 points for Bramble. Brilliant !

[mood swung]

Friedel saves another penalty and keeps a clean sheet.

That's Mr. Friedel to you.

[Otis Westinghouse]

Especially after getting me 13 points!

[so lacklustre]

I'm also pleased with Friedel's penalty save as along with Bolton's last minute winner it helped get my fixed odds footie bet up. I had Arsenal, Chelsea, Villa, Everton, Blackburn & Bolton all to win, and will be collecting a cool £210. Well handy at this time of year.

[Otis Westinghouse]

Nice one - hats off. Bit better £s per min ratio than the £5 I'll get at work for being Manager of the Month, but then I do get the honour of the plaque, for the first time in an obscenely long time.

[Otis Westinghouse]

Capello is looking forward to having a 'close working relationship with Pearce'. Even when he's become utterly fluent in English, he'll still only understand one word in 10 from Psycho! Every time I see Capello I have a good feeling. I like that serious expression, and the way he reminds me of Lou Reed. I like the fact that he went to tiny Kenilworth Road to see 2 of his squad in action. I like the fact that Wayne came on to show his new national taskmaster what his presence on the pitch can do to a game.

If Tottenham can scrape a win over Reading, we'll see you at Old Trafford!

Anelka not going to Chelsea?

[mood swung]

I hope he's happy now.



will be traded to NYRB for the Mathis ham sandwich and some olives (via the Chivas-to-Gals DP slot trade) and a 4th round draft pick.

you read it here first.


A girl can dream. I'm pretty sure a girl named Debbie said it was free.