So, another week and another round of Fantasy Football has finished!
Amidst all the hype from the transfer window, Manchester City (now the worlds richest club) played Chelsea with Man Citys new signing robinho making his debut, and the Cheslea players determined to show him that he signed for the wrong club. Obviously no-one told Robinho though, as he scored from a free kick after only 16 minutes. However, it ended up how everyone expected with Chelsea running out 3-1 winners. The only bad point for Chelsea was the sending off of John Terry, which means that he will miss their trip to Man Utd.
Elsewhere in the Premiership, Man Utd are starting to look like a one man team. The Champions of Europe have been with Christiano Ronaldo so far this season, and have only 4 points from their opening 3 games, which leaves them languishing in 14th place in the league. They lost this week to Liverpool, who someone squeaked a 2-0 win, although to be fair they did need a Wes Brown own goal to help them on their way. The other goal was scored by Ryan Babel, but as he has been selected by an enormous 1.2% of the *entire* Fantasy Football game (not just our league) isnt gonna really make a dent on things. The Liverpool forwards just arent gelling – and with Torres left out this week, the responsibility was on the shoulders of Dirk Kuyt and Robbie Keane, who again is showing himself up to be a not-very-good player with an impressive goals return of 0 goals and 1 assist to impress boss rafa benitez, who must be delighted at spending 19 million GBP on him.
Keanes old team, Spurs (who *will* be delighted at picking up that money for him) found out the hard way that selling all your strikers in the Summer is rarely a good idea, by staying rooted to the bottom of the table after being beaten 2-1 by Aston Villa.
In the CAP Premier league, dark horse Booter continues his impressive rise up the table. Booter seems to be developing a psychic link – who else would have picked Defoe and Bent up front for this week? However it paid off handsomely, with the two players collecting 18 points.
Jason Gabriel consolidated his position at the top of the table with a creditable 53 points, although he will be looking over his shoulder at Ian Sims’ optimistically named ‘Arsenal’ who weighed in with the highest score of the week – a massive 73 points. Maybe I was being a bit harsh on Jermaine Defoe, as not only did Ian play him up front this week – he actually made him captain. Those double points and a hatrick from Adebayor ensured that last weeks second place ‘takeshicastle’ was pushed down to third.
At the other end of the table, Greg Walkers ‘Dragons’ still prop up the bottom, and Anthony Hodgetts ‘Eleven Men in Flight’ keep their third from bottom place. Jasper van Der Blieks scrabbletastically named ‘Zyzarzazz’ have plummeted into the second bottom place. Jasper must know something that we dont, as he played Andrei Shevchenko up front this week. Even though he has been transferred to Milan, who dont even play in the premier league….
| no1 | jason gabriel | 53 | 208 | |
| Arsenal | Ian sims | 73 | 206 | |
| taskeshicastle | Bob stein | 35 | 190 | |
| Mascarpone Utd | Tobias M | 46 | 188 | |
| Go Go Theo sideburns | josh green | 28 | 182 | |
| Manila Lovers Utd | Tony Adams | 46 | 176 | |
| aliandem | joanna gandy | 53 | 176 | |
| Priestfield Rejects | Tom Galanis | 57 | 175 | |
| Webroute Spurs | Yoni Sidi | 46 | 174 | |
| bluetoffee | nick gandy | 48 | 168 | |
| QPR 2nd XI | James Rosen | 30 | 161 | |
| The Zombies | Freddy Ng | 30 | 155 | |
| pokertorrentz | Kasper Wagner | 40 | 153 | |
| Allergis Vagyok | Mike Lancaster | 60 | 153 | |
| The Matadors | Kate Laverick | 39 | 151 | |
| Betway United | Henrik Granlund | 26 | 150 | |
| Pratts Players | Alex Pratt | 36 | 148 | |
| Melon Ball | Neil Mitchell | 51 | 147 | |
| Booter | Nick Rambo | 43 | 145 | |
| Dog Toffee FC | martyn beacon | 29 | 142 | |
| River Bowl | David Newstead | 24 | 131 | |
| Eleven Men In Flight | Anthony Hodgetts | 28 | 127 | |
| Zyzarzazz | Jasper van der Bliek | 22 | 125 | |
| Dragons | Greg Walker | 38 | 121 |