Another week of Fantasy Footie over and I have finally cracked.
Unable to resist the temptation, and being like a fat hairy Claudio Ranieri, I have played my wildcard. Fortified by a couple of shandies, it seemed like a good idea to make wholesale changes of my team. Including adding Carlton Cole for some reason…
But enough about me. The big news this week was Arsenals humbling at the hands of tough tackling Hull City. This was obviously a suprise result – so much so that 9.2% of all Fantasy Team managers transferred in Giovanni after seeing his wonder strike.
In the CAP Premiership there were some *very* high scores this week with 7 teams scoring 60 or more points. This was mainly down to either the 2 goals finally scored by Torres of Liverpool, or the goal and assist by Ronaldo of Man United. And if you had them in your team and made one of them Captain then you were laughing.
Top of the league this week is Ian Sims’ ‘Arsenal’ with 301 points overall opening up a gap at the top of a mighty 8 points from Jason Gabriels ‘No.1’ team. Who are number 2. Josh Greens ‘Go Go Theos Sideburns move up from 5th to make up the top 3.
At the other end of the table ,Jasper Van Der Blieks ‘Zyzarzazz’, are showing us how easy it is by fielding a team of 10 ten men – yes, Jasper still has Shevchenko in his team 
(that might be why you are bottom, son)and despite an amazing score of 61 points from ‘Eleven Men in Flight’, Anthony Hodgetts team stayed where they were.
It appears that Martyn Beacon was feeling lonely in midtable obscurity and so has slipped down to 3rd from bottom just so that he can talked about. The beautifully named ‘Dog Toffee FC’ picked up 48 points this week with 38% of those points coming from Amr Zaki who is looking like the bargain of the season. If only we had all bought him in week one eh? (Like what I did….)
Biggest mover of the week was Alex Pratts ‘Pratts Players’ who shot up 5 places from 17th to 12th – who has somehow managed to shoehorn in Torres, Ronaldo and Lampard into his team despite them being worth 37.3 million – which is nearly 40% of the entire squad budget. Still they seem to be doing the business, so the big man done good as they say in football circles.
So, onto the league standings, and as discussed over the last few week, I am going to adjust the scores for Nick Rambos ‘Booter’ and Nick Hazlems ‘Hazo’s Heroes’.
Nick R joined in Week 2, so he will get one weeks average score added to make up the missed week, and Nick H joined last week so he gets 4 weeks average score added to make up for weeks 1-4 that he missed. the average score we are using is 37 points based on the average for gameweek 5.
1 Arsenal Ian sims 66 301
2 no1 jason gabriel 60 293
3 Go Go Theo sideburns josh green 62 286
4 taskeshicastle Bob stein 46 275
5 Mascarpone Utd Tobias M 35 266
6 Manila Lovers Utd Tony Adams 52 265
7 Booter Nick Rambo 57 261*
8 Webroute Spurs Yoni Sidi 60 259
9 Betway United Henrik Granlund 57 258
10 The Matadors Kate Laverick 43 255
11 QPR 2nd XI James Rosen 57 254
12 Priestfield Rejects Tom Galanis 58 252
13 Pratts Players Alex Pratt 68 249
14 aliandem joanna gandy 52 247
15 bluetoffee nick gandy 48 247
16 pokertorrentz Kasper Wagner 48 240
17 Allergis Vagyok Mike Lancaster 54 238
18 Melon Ball Neil Mitchell 47 236
18 Dragons Greg Walker 56 232
20 Hazo’s Heroes Nick Haslem 41 232*
21 The Zombies Freddy Ng 52 228
22 River Bowl David Newstead 67 226
23 Dog Toffee FC martyn beacon 48 221
24 Eleven Men In Flight Anthony Hodgetts 61 206
25 Zyzarzazz Jasper van der Bliek 28 183