Author: FF247
Reading can rebuild after narrowly avoiding the drop
Reading can rebuild after narrowly avoiding the drop It’s been a strange year for Reading fans in the Championship. Next season will mark a decade since they were last relegated from the Premier League and in all honesty, they’ve never really convinced anyone that they could genuinely orchestrate a plot back to the top flight, condemned to Championship mediocrity after another underwhelming season...
FF247 Site Team Double Gameweek 37
FF247 Site Team Double Gameweek 37 Welcome to FF247 Site Team Double Gameweek 37 And now the end is (almost) near… well by the time you come to read this, it is only one calendar week from being done for another season. We have two gameweeks left and if you remember, our third from home was our much anticipated Bench Boost week. We scored 117 points overall which was a cool 38 points above the ave...
Fencing as an Olympic sport
Fencing as an Olympic sport The history of the origin of fencing About three thousand years ago, in Egypt, on the occasion of the victory over the Libyans, Pharaoh Ramses III organized a kind of fencing tournament. In the Middle Ages, only the aristocracy could engage in this discipline. Simple inhabitants and peasants could only be fencing on sticks, sometimes upholstered in iron or on halberds. ...
Tips for Newcomers to Fantasy Football
Tips for Newcomers to Fantasy Football Fantasy football can be a lot of fun, but it’s also challenging. And as with all things with a dimension of difficulty, that can make getting to grips with things slightly more complicated than newcomers would like. Plenty of people enthusiastically sign up to play fantasy football, only to give up several weeks into the season because things aren’t going as ...
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 37
Fantasy Football Captain Picks Gameweek 37 So…. how did your DGW36 Captain do?! If it was Salah, the answer is ‘not very well’ (*insert own expletives). If it was, perhaps, Kane or Nketiah who were given the armband, then the answer is probably ‘alright’. If it was a Son the answer is probably ‘yep, I’ll take that’. If it was a KDB, well, then the an...
Harry and Lloyd’s Fantasy Predictions DGW37
Harry and Lloyd’s Fantasy Predictions DGW37 Welcome to Harry and Lloyd’s Fantasy Predictions DGW37. We are at the penultimate gameweek of the season. Squeaky bum time for some teams. Teams fighting for the title, teams fighting for their Premier League survival and then some teams already on the beach! We don’t have the excitement of relegation here in the H&L offices but we...
FPL Live Match Chat DGW36
FPL Live Match Chat DGW36 Welcome to FPL Live Match Chat DGW36 We have 16 games in total this week spanning from Saturday until Thursday with (televised) games on 5 of the next 6 days with only Monday left to take a breather (aka a quick run to the supermarket to replen on crisps and beer, and maybe also say a quick hello to the family, maybe…). We have some strange game times too with Saturday be...
FF247 Site Team & Predicted Line Ups Double Gameweek 36
FF247 Site Team & Predicted Line Ups Double Gameweek 36 Welcome to FF247 Site Team & Predicted Line Ups Double Gameweek 36 Shopping on page 2… We’re afraid to report that it was another below-par week for your FF247 Site Team in Gameweek 35. We have been treading water these past few weeks and we’re out of form and exactly the WRONG time. We approach Double Gameweek 36 at 141...
Fantasy Football Captain Picks DGW36
Fantasy Football Captain Picks DGW36 Welcome to Fantasy Football Captain Picks DGW36 We’ve got just three gameweeks to go, and this week in particular is a big one! Whether it’s the last throw of the dice as you bring out the big guns in the free hit, or you’ve been working your way to this one with the bench boost chip in mind, some leagues could be won or lost on the back of ho...
Fantasy Football Tips DGW36
Fantasy Football Tips DGW36 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips DGW36 We, ladies and gentlemen, are at the business end of the season! We head into the next gameweek and it’s a big ‘un. A double gameweek for nearly everyone and we only have three to go including this one so as I introduce to you a run down of the fancied players per position from our brilliant band of writers, I forewarn ...
Harry and Lloyd’s Fantasy Predictions DGW36
Harry and Lloyd’s Fantasy Predictions DGW36 Welcome to Harry and Lloyd’s Fantasy Predictions DGW36. We have the biggest double game week of the season and in terms of predictions this is the kind of week that could make or break the title race, squeaky bum time! We have 3 week’s worth of results so lets get to it! GW33 Sweetbluetoffee took top spot in GW33 with a whopping 17pts, ...
FPL Live Match Chat Gameweek 35
FPL Live Match Chat Gameweek 35 Welcome to FPL Live Match Chat Gameweek 35 A normal GW! 10 games, 20 teams, all playing once, begins on a Saturday and ends on a Monday and gives us space to breathe before the following one. Back to the halycon days of normality, although something catastrophic will probably happen before or during it all no doubt to disrupt our false sense of norm. In theory then ...
