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Best #FPL picks from the promoted teams – Burnley, Hull and Middlesbrough
Best #FPL picks from the promoted teams – Burnley, Hull and Middlesbrough – Fantasy Premier League 2016/17. Living in Japan I’m always fascinated by the trends that transcend the East-West cultural abyss. This stratovolcanic archipelago (thanks Wikipedia) gave the world sushi, karate and talking robots. In return it got Starbucks, the atomic bomb and Shed Seven. Well, now there&#...
Grab, Avoid or Bore Off!
Grab, Avoid or Bore off! Welcome to the opening instalment of Grab, Avoid or Bore off for the 2016-17 season. Lovely to be back with you the wonderful FPL community and guess what I have in store for all of you? The same 3 fellas who always do it…well, that was an exciting announcement. Much like Wenger, I don’t like to spend money for any new strikers, so no need to break up the 3 Ami...
New Signings – Fantasy Premier League 2016/17. Southampton
New Signings – Fantasy Premier League 2016/17. Southampton It has been another summer of turmoil down on the South coast as once more Southampton have lost a number of their key assets. Liverpool clearly felt that they did not have enough ex-Southampton players in their ranks so decided to shell out a reported £34m on Sadio Mane. Spurs splashed out £11m on midfield enforcer Victor Wanyama, w...
New Signings – Fantasy Premier League 2016/17. West Ham
New Signings – Fantasy Premier League 2016/17. West Ham What a difference a year makes! Roughly 12 months ago, some bozo on here was ribbing this lot to the max, predicting a rough season and possible relegation due to the appointment of “woeful” Slaven Bilic as head honcho in replacement of the ever sturdy Sam Allardyce. An unknown French dude was supposedly the key to Hammers s...
MLS GW20 – Tips Fantasy Major League Soccer
MLS GW20 – Tips Fantasy Major League Soccer This weeks deadline is Fri 22nd July 11.00PM EDT. That’s American time – add 5 hours here in the UK to make it Sat at 4.00AM Well, it’s finally happened. The FPL game has opened up and you can already feel the apathy towards the MLS game gaining momentum. I get it, no judgements here. Who doesn’t want to finally get their hands on a shi...
FPL launch 2016/17 – New Rules and Player Pricelist
FPL launch 2016/17 – New Rules and Player Pricelist Finally it is live! FPL is back, life as we know it will not be the same for the next 10 months! At first glance there seems little change to last season – budget and squad size is naturally the same and the four chips remain in place, including the two wildcards – one to be used in the first half of the season, the other to be used in the ...
New Signings – Fantasy Premier League 2016/17. Liverpool
New Signings – Fantasy Premier League 2016/17. Liverpool Jurgen Klopp rolled into Anfield last October on a wave of optimism and because of the work he’s previously done with Mainz & Dortmund that air of optimism still exists around Anfield. He brought Liverpool to two finals last season but lost both and has a win % of slightly over 44%. After finishing 8th last season lesser managers m...
Fantasy Premier League Set Piece Takers 2018-19
Fantasy Premier League Set Piece Takers 2018-19 Please find below the FF247 Set Piece Takers List for 2018/19. This list is a guide that we hope will help you select players that have the potential to bring in goals and crucial assist points. The table is based on information gathered from last season’s games, Opta stats, pre-season friendlies and FF247 community input. The article itself is archi...
New Signings – Fantasy Premier League 2016/17. Manchester United
New Signings – Fantasy Premier League 2016/17. Manchester United Life is set to become more interesting for Man United fans. The dismal reign of LVG saw the Dutchman and the United fans finally put out of their misery, just hours after the club secured the FA Cup victory over Palace. The worst kept secret was confirmed when Jose Mourinho was announced as the new manager of the Reds and he ha...
MLS GW16 – Tips Fantasy Major League Soccer
MLS GW16 – Tips Fantasy Major League Soccer This weeks deadline is Sat 2nd July at 1am GMT. (So Friday night basically!) Before we get into this week’s MLS issues, let’s take a brief look back at some of the craziness that happened to us during DGW15. First of all, we had four teams on a double (LA, NYRB, PHI, RSL), and we thought very highly of the prospects for those four teams. But when y...
Euro 2016 Fantasy Football Live Match Chat – The Knockout Phase
Euro 2016 Fantasy Football Live Match Chat – The Knockout Phase Just as the UK votes on a possible Brexit, the group stages at Euro 2016 have been completed with some unfortunates already on their way home, while all the Home Nations secured to Remain for a while longer as England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland all qualified for the round of 16. You will notice a few ch...
MLS GW17 – Tips Fantasy Major League Soccer
MLS GW17 – Tips Fantasy Major League Soccer This weeks deadline is Sat 9th July at 1am GMT. (So Friday night going into Saturday morning basically for our UK users) As of the writing of this article, the New England v. NYC game has yet to go off to close out the previous round. But does it really matter at this point? Chances are that somebody you need from the last game of Round 16 may get ...
