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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ...
Euro 2016 Fantasy Football Live Match Chat – The Group Stages And we’re very nearly there. Just a bit of last minute tinkering before it all begins and another summer of wondering when England will be home will be over in about a week or so! We’ve opened the discussion a bit early so feel free to post up those last minute Rate My Teams and post any questions you have on any of th...
MLS GW15 – Tips Fantasy Major League Soccer This week gets back to ‘normal’ in a sense. We have four DGW teams to choose from and the week starts on Wednesday (7pm ET). Enjoy this week while you can. We have a couple of DGW selections next week – and then we have to try to play the standard game for a while without a boost of double-match action. And if this last round is any indicatio...
Fantasy Football Pottys Euro 2016 League Hi everyone and as you read this the big kick-off will not be far away and I for one cannot wait and I feel my present team is the one I’ll roll with come Friday when the France vs Romania game gets us underway. But I’ve only gone and bloody well lost the draft, anyway of what I can recall I had Ferdinand as captain which means I’m ready. ...