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Nick Rambo would be me, and i did miss week 1, strictly a time zone issue, i got my coordinates screwed up
Well, you’re my wild card…! Looking good for a top 4 at the moment I reckon, unless you do what I do and change your blimming team every week!
Well, the transfer dealine for teams to buy and sell new players have passed, and it turned out to be an amazing day of wheeling and dealing!
The day started out with Machester City FC being bought by a consortium including the Abu Dhabi royal family who bought with them a rumoured war chest of 1 TRILLION dollars. MCFC’s manager was on the golf course when he learned of this, and probably missed his putt when he was told that he had an umlimited budget to spend, but only 12 hours to do it!
So, the Man City bods put in bidgs for the worlds finest players – Thierry Henry, Berbatov, Mario Gomez, David Villa, and of course a Mr Robson de Souza, better known as Robinho – a player who Chelsea FC had been courting all summer, and were so convinced that they were going to sign, that they had started selling Robinho shirts in the Chelsea shop!
At the same time, Spurs had agreed a £34 million fee with Man City for Dimitar Berbatov and the striker flew up to Manchester – where he was picked up not by Man City, but by Alex Ferguson in his Bentley and driven to Manchester *Uniteds* ground, where he undertook a medical, and then signed, despite Spurs mainitaining that they had not given the player permission to talk to United.
Most suprising move of the days was Tyrone Mears’ move to Marseille. To put this into context, young Tyrone plays as a not-very-amazing full back playing for Derby County in the Championship, which is one division below the Premiership. Marseille however are the largest and most successful club in France, the only French club to win the UEFA Champions League, 10 French Cup titles, 8 French Championship titles, and countless other trophies. In fact the move is so bizarre that it was reported;
“The story gained a bizarre twist when it was also reported this morning that Mears had had to climb through a window and crawl past manager Paul Jewell’s office at Derby’s training ground to collect his boots before sneaking away to meet Marseille officials.” (from the Guardian newspaper)
Either they have spotted something in Tyrone that no-one else has, or they need someone to polish all those trophies….
Unluckiest player in the transfer window was Shaun Wright-Philips. The tricky winger left Chelsea only 10 days ago as he was worried that with the impending signing of Robinho, he wouldnt get a game. So he signed for Man City, played at the weekend and scored two goals. He must have thought that his Chelsea nightmare had ended (where he made only 82 appearances in 4 years and most of them as substitute), and that he was going to be a regular on the right for Man City.
Imagine his little face when he found out that Robinho hadnt gone to Chelsea at all, but had instead signed for a British transfer record of £32 million pounds, for…..Man City. Which means that little Shaun will probably still be warming the bench this season
Anyway, here are the movers and shakers for the Premiership. You may want to transfer some of these into your team. Or not, as you see fit.
In
Blackburn (Bunn)
Everton (Fellaini, Saha, Nash)
Hull (Cousin)
Liverpool (Flora, Gulacsi, Riera)
Man City (Robinho)
Man Utd (Berbatov)
Newcastle (Gonzalez, Xisco)
Portsmouth (Belhadj)
Sunderland (McCartney)
Stoke (Higginbotham, Soares, Tonge)
Tottenham (Pavlyuchenko, Corluka, Campbell)
West Brom (Donk)out
Bolton (Dzemaili)
Fulham (Zakuani, John, Smertin)
Liverpool (Finnan, Voronin)
Man City (Corluka, Vidal)
Man Utd (Saha, Campbell)
Portsmouth (Cranie, Christophe)
Sunderland (Higginbotham)
Stoke (Parkin), Tottenham (Berbatov)
West Ham (McCartney)
Wigan (Bouaouzan, Nash, Sibierski)Those are some fine updates Mitchell
I have something of a Premiership story u might enjoy
When i was in my teens i was quite a promising striker, being touted on tv as one of Canada’s rising young stars, my strike partner on my team here was Tomasz Radzinski, who went on to play with Everton with some success, my father was a very popular midfielder who played in the Bundesliga, won the UEFA Cup, and played with legends Pele, Beckenbauer, and others during his career, i remember watching him play in a charity all star game in his later days, England vs the rest of Europe, it was a big event here with some famous names, Lato, the Golden Boot winner from Poland drew much attention, the game was 0-0 late into the 2nd half when my dad scored the only goal of the game from a free kick on English legend Peter Shilton.
While i was playing soccer i was also boxing, my friend and neighbor here was the Canadian Heavyweight Boxing Champ Mark Simmons, who represented Canada at the Olympic Games, and later played Art Lasky in the movie Cinderella Man, one of Russel Crowe’s opponents, as it turned out, his family was well connected to Huddesrsfield Town, English 1st division club, i had some offers for my services but agreed to go there with the hopes that i would spend some time there and get propped up to a Premiership club, i was the big off season signing, there was a full page article in the local newspaper, the Huddersfield Daily Examiner, i remember reading it, they were very excited about having me and i was looking forward to the move.
Just a few weeks before i was supposed to leave for training camp i was playing here trying to get as fit as i could when i got scissored from behind by 2 players going in on a breakaway and broke my ankle badly, and that was the end of my Premiership aspirations, and i never made it out there.
Sad story isn’t it, it’s too bad, i would have enjoyed performing for people who have such passion for the game, if i could go back in time and correct one regret that would be it.
Now i’m relegated to playing Fantasy Football online lol
Thats an awesome story!
I cant get anywhere near that, so instead have a video of our mayor, Boris Johnson doing his bit for international relations in an England vs Germany match from a few years ago! Priceless!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWIUp19bBoA
:tongue:
Good story Nick, sorry about the kankle!
The weather in the UK is crap so you would have hated it anyway, all you would have had to cheer you up would have been taking a bath full of money surrounded by some hot chicks…not all its cracked up to be let me tell ya! :roflmao:
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 Ah yes the fantasy football.
I’ve given you all a headstart but it’s about time I get involved!
creeping up……
After a poor start to the season the papers reported today that the manager of Dog Toffee United has made some massive changes at a cost of 16 points. The changes should see the 500 notes being transferred into the account of one M Beacon at the end of the season.
FACT.
God damn how did I miss this. I would have been all over this in a heart beat! Can’t give me the average score and hook me up? Hehe
You can still sign up! And you wont be last – Jasper has just signed Bobby Moore, Maradonna and Titus Bramble.
always thought that Titus Bramble should have stayed at Ipswich Town.
If only for the fact that their club badge is a cart-horse trapping a football.
The synergy between the two, alone, made it worthwhile!
