Fantasy Football Captain Picks

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 3 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 zzzzzzzzzzzz….. After having my sleep rudely interrupted by a chicken, c0ck-a-d00dle-doing about a looming FF247 deadline, I could have been forgiven for thinking we were still awaiting the kick-off to season 2015/16. So imagine my shock when I was summonsed to select the captaincy contenders for Gameweek 3! Anyhow, I’ve resisted the temptation to defer to the “snooze” function, and I stand before you under a false pretense that this is indeed GW3… Makes you wonder why we even bothered playing from GW1. I mean, look no further than the chap who topped the GW2 rankings. While the rest of us toiled over the pre-season, Johnny-come-lately swoons in and pulls the rug from under our f...[Read More]

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 1 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 Welcome to the first captains article of the season! The Premier League has finally returned, and while many of you have probably come pretty close to a settled squad by now, you also need to select a captain to help you start off your season with a good score. Well, that’s what we are here for. Whether that’s double points or treble will depend on whether you take advantage of the new ‘Triple Captain’ chip but more on that later. So without further ado, let’s get right to it and look at the best captaincy options for Game-week 1.

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 38 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 Ah, the unpredictability of a meaningless fixture. As West Brom’s confident dismantling of the champions reminded us, teams with nothing to chase have respect for neither form nor logic. Romelu Lukaku’s hat-trick in 2012/13’s loopy 5-5 finale with Man Utd is burned permanently onto the retinas of FPL managers across the land (Most infamously, costing runner-up Kelvin Travers the title that year). There hasn’t been a goalless draw on the last day of the Premier League since Hull and Liverpool meekly closed their 2009/10 campaigns; therefore clean sheets could be at a premium, and some games may resemble a Harlem Globetrotter exhibition. All of this is great news for us, of course. In a...[Read More]

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 37 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 “One more double for the road . . . .” Two weeks and the English Fantasy Football will be over for another season. But as a famous philosopher once posed, Why Do All Good Things Come To An End?*. Fear not people, we do have the Copa America in the summer and there is bound to be a fantasy game for that. If not, I have a South American correspondent who can knock a game up for us. Mito mate, on an unrelated matter, can you drop me a line? Also some crickety thing apparently . . . *It was Nelly Furtado in fact. The last time I wrote a captains article (when I was supposed to!) I was slaughtered for selecting ten players and it was suggested by a few that I was covering my posterior somewhat. I’ll go for fewer ...[Read More]

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 32 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 Well I begin this article in a different state of mind this week, one of someone writing an article with a fair idea of what he is talking about. Well my captain didn’t totally bomb last week in other words. I backed Eden Hazard. Now, those of you expecting a follow-up to last week’s excellent captains article by Lawdogg, I’m afraid I’m going to let you down early here. The pressure is too much and that last effort was far too clever for me to compete with. Lawdogg – you clearly have too much time on your hands, you are too clever for us or you employ a fantastic team of writers you charlatan! It might be all three in fact. I also don’t rap like Cookie. No-one raps like Cookie though. I’ll rather predictably...[Read More]

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 36 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 Has it really been a month? Did I really lose the Post-It note? Did I really wait until the last minute to write this introduction? Yes, maybe, and … anyone else having a sense of deja vu? Yes, it’s only been a week since you last attempted to make sense of my gentle musings but I’m back again as what us Yanks call a “pinch hitter” in baseball. I’m the 89th minute substitution for a team winning 1-0 that’s hoping to run out the clock. And right about now I’m starting to feel less honored about being asked to fill in this week… Fill in you say? That’s right. I’m filling in for Chins, who offered to fill in for GP, before the two of them ran off...[Read More]

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 35 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 Has it really been a month? Did I really lose the Post-It note? Did I really wait until the last minute to write this introduction? Yes, maybe, and of course not! It would be incredibly irresponsible to put off writing the introduction until after you’ve received several messages wondering where this article is. And who would publicly admit to doing such a mad thing? Certainly not me. Nope. I sat down and began the laborious write and re-write process (so many empty red pens!) for this introduction shortly after submitting my last captain article. No sense in waiting until the last minute. That’s the kind of thing which produces a rambling, nonsensical opening that results in the reader abandoning the introd...[Read More]

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 34 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 Midnight, Monday April 20th. That was the deadline to register to vote for this year’s UK general election. May 7th will afford the disenchanted millions the glorious choice of choosing which corporation-funded puppet will drag a great nation further into the ecological, economic abyss; screaming promises of change from the rooftops while scheming furtively to maintain the wealthy elite’s capitalist status quo. People need a vote that counts… right? (“Right!”) A vote that affects them personally… right? (“RIGHT!”) Well, tear up that ballot paper; kick over that polling booth and cast your eyes over this week’s list of captain candidates. Your team needs Y...[Read More]

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 33 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 3 game ban for a straight red card. 10 game ban for Suarez after he racially abused Evra. 11 game ban for Di Canio after he pushed over a referee. A 20 week ban? You’d have to do something really bad for that. Surely? Nope. That’s how long my ban was from FF247 after I tipped Joey Barton in my last Captain’s article, all the way back in Gameweek 13! Honestly, you wouldn’t believe the fuss that caused! Let me take you back to that fateful day… It was just another normal Tuesday morning on FF247.co.uk. The site was buzzing. Regulars were chatting about their weekend’s points totals. Some were happy. Some were sad. Some were annoyed that they only scored 118 points. There were Monkey pictures. There were puns. ...[Read More]

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 31 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 Welcome back to the Premier League Season. It seems as if it’s been ages since a league ball was last kicked but we have finally put the international break behind us. For fantasy managers and team managers alike this is very much crunch time. The hard work put in throughout the long season can be wrecked if you fail to get it right in the run in to season’s end. Did your players make it through the break? Did they manage to make it through airport security without sustaining radiation poisoning from the screening process? Did your favourite player go broke paying the ridiculous fees associated with travel on American Airlines flights? Did Obafemi Martins’ injury ruin what would have otherwise been a great w...[Read More]

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 30 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 According to French satirist Alphonse Karr’s famous epigram, ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same’. Chelsea, reunited with Jose, are barely within sight now at the Premier League summit. Sunderland, 18 months on from ousting Di Canio, once more find themselves destabilized by restless natives and managerial upheaval. Newcastle parted with the much maligned Pardew but have, if anything, seen their fortunes deteriorate yet further. QPR, a couple of years on from being relegated by a sorry collective of journeymen and overpaid mercenaries, are… well, one gets the idea. It’s no different in the FPL world. A small, select band of weekly captain candidates have emerged...[Read More]

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 29 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 GW28 was probably the easiest Captain decision ever, hence the lack of excitement on the final day of the DGW when Harry Kane notched twice vs QPR. GW29 is very different with there not being one outstanding candidate as per last week. On paper, we assume that most of the conservative managers will lean towards the Arsenal or Man City contingent as the Gunners entertain an out of form West Ham at the Emirates, while City travel the short distance to Burnley, who seem incapable of keeping a clean sheet. So there will be obvious calls for the likes of Aguero, Alexis, Silva and Giroud, all of whom will feature in this week’s article, but this week may just be the week for a gamble, especially if you are chasing...[Read More]