Fantasy Football Fixtures

Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 4 Welcome to Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 4. Now most of you will probably know that I am one half (third) of Harry and Lloyd and if you still don’t know who Harry and Lloyd are… then I can’t help you! This week I have decided to fully embrace the moniker of Dumb and Dumber as I haven’t the foggiest idea what I’m going to write and which teams I am going to suggest. The reason behind this is I have only returned from coaching ‘soccer’ in America, I haven’t seen any pre-season, I have only watched one or two Premier League games and I have barely got the chance to get on the site and chat to you lovely people. Someone tell me why I am writing this article again? Oh, that’s right I am one of the young ones who has lots of spare t...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 3 Batman & Robin, Ant & Dec, Simon & Garfunkel, Goldman & Sachs, Hale & Pace, Carragher & Neville, Morecambe & Wise, Salt & Vinegar, Laurel & Hardy….. Init & Cookie. Whenever you see this duo on Fixtures duty it usually means that someone has let us down at the last minute. And that is the case here. We are nice people though and don’t name and shame the guilty. On another completely and unrelated note we’d just like to wish AT all the best on his last minute holiday. We sincerely hope your plane doesn’t crash in a ball of flames. Most great double acts have a strange yet strong bond… Irreverent, yet distinguished, site member Raz (pretty sure he will read that as R...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 2 Welcome to Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 2 With a new season comes new challenges, new head to heads, new faces, new prospects. And VAR. In the case of the latter, that has already shaped a couple of matches, making the outcomes less predictable. Will it be an improvement or will it be another idea that gets consigned to the scrap heap? I’m sure Wolves’ Leander Dendoncker has a stronger opinion on it now than he did before the weekend, as his winner was ruled out and gifted inverted commas to became a ‘winner’. The technology has certainly split opinion since its inception, much like whether Jaffa Cakes are cakes or biscuits and whether black pudding is acceptable to have with your breakfast. Spoiler: it’s not. So, staying on the fo...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 1 It seems an age away that we watched Man City clinch the league at Brighton in May, but however you have spent your summer thus far, it’s almost time to stop the tinkering and make some firm decisions for the new season. With just days to go until the deadline bell for GW1 rings and gets the 2019/20 season underway, we kick off our usual set of weekly articles with a look at Fixtures – who is hot, who is not and an extra GW1 supplement as we snapshot each remaining team. Favourable Fixtures Liverpool – Norwich (H), Southampton (a), Arsenal (H) The fixture generator has again been kind to Liverpool as they attempt to win their first Premier League. An opening trip to Anfield on Friday evening is not the start that Norwich would have dreamed...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 38 Welcome to Fantasy Football 247 Fixtures Gameweek 38. It can’t be GW38 already? It only seems like yesterday when we were all toiling over our GW1 selection! Some of us will have had a successful season while others will be glad the season is all but over. No matter how well you did I hope everyone has enjoyed the season, as after all, it’s only a game. I moan every week, mainly to Cookie, about how I no longer enjoy FPL but every week I make my transfers. I’m sure I’ll state at some stage over the summer that I’m not going to play next season but, I will. It’s like a drug! Over the course of the season I’ve included a verse from a particular song. The reason for doing so was that I felt it best described my mood at the time or the mood of our ...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 37 Welcome to Fantasy Football 247 Fixtures Gameweek 37. I don’t write as often I would like these days (some may say that’s a good thing!), I spend the time chasing up other writers instead (they certainly won’t!) but one thing for sure is that I appreciate every single word they do write as I know what goes into writing an article. As a user of other websites I know that it’s simply ‘expected’ that the latest content / news / whatever will magically appear whenever we press that refresh button. As a fellow writer though I appreciate the time, effort and research that goes in behind the scenes to make said magic. A common theme whenever a ‘newbie’ steps forward for us is something along the lines of...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 36 Welcome to Fantasy Football 247 Fixtures Gameweek 36. Back to a sense of normality we go, with all 20 teams playing (just) once and this article is the last one that will contain all three fixtures for each team before the season is finished. No pressure, then, especially when you look back to the fantastic articles that were written by AT, Pele and Guy in the lead up to the last gameweek! With much to play for, from the perspective of us FPL managers and the actual teams in the league, there is also the classic form and fixtures to take into account when we are planning our next moves, too. Hopefully the following, which also includes a dip into the history books, gives such an insight! Good Liverpool (HUD H, NEW A, WOL H) First up in the trio...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 35 Welcome to Fantasy Football 247 Fixtures Gameweek 35. The finish line for the season is so close, and I can tell that the season is nearly over for a few reasons. First, there is just a general sense of fatigue around this point in the year. Unless your personal team is one of the two fighting for the title, you’ve probably fallen into the malaise of watching your team settle into their final (unsexy) zone of the league table. Let’s face it, watching your team fight for 8th or 9th place isn’t really ‘must see TV’. And I can also tell the season is nearly over because Spring is here. Baseball is in full swing, grass is growing and gardens are coming to life. And, as the resident Mexican here on this site, I’m also responsible for mowing many law...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 34 Welcome to Fantasy Football 247 Fixtures Gameweek 34. Firstly, I’ll pose the question: Did you have Hazard or Vardy in your team in Gameweek 32? Well done, if so – and massive congratulations if you had both and captained one of them! It’s very much the theme looking ahead as we look to match the promising players with double fixtures, ensuring others who have recently been on form aren’t chucked away with a big pile of remorse. And you don’t want that when we’re so close to the finish line. So, with wildcards being played and dozens of versions of teams flying around, I’ll just take it upon myself to remind you that there are other fixtures first; Liverpool, Man City, Man United, Spurs, Arsenal and Chelsea will all be playing in Europe before ...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 33 Welcome to Fantasy Football 247 Fixtures Gameweek 33. Well DGW32 did not go as planned so far with Hazard, Sterling and Pogba all blanking and both Chelsea and Manchester United not keeping a clean sheet but hopefully the second round of games will be a bit more profitable. This weekend sees us go from 15 games to 6 games and also a lot of people will revert back to their pre-free hit teams so hopefully there will be a bit more diversity rather than the template that had developed over the last two weeks. I will be taking you through the next three weeks with an eye on who actually plays this weekend but actually an emphasis on who to avoid over the next few weeks and why I think so. Most people will be hitting that WC, BB or TC button in the n...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 32 Keep it simple, stupid…. Welcome to Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 32. GW31 was good, wasn’t it?! Regardless, we jump straight from famine to feast, in theory anyway. GW32 is our first bumper double game-week, with no less than 10 teams having no more or less than two games to contend with. And then we have another 2 double weeks to get our heads around; GW34 being a relative mini one and GW35 being another bumper one with 8 teams involved. And we have a blank game-week in between all those with 8 teams not playing in GW33. Confused yet?! Worry not if so, we shall straighten it all out for you in the following article. Sort of… Now, we appreciate that we are catering for about 4 different audiences here; Free Hitte...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 31 Welcome to Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 31. Agreeing to write an article for Gameweek 31 is making me feel a little bit like the Birmingham City ‘fan’ who punched Jack Grealish on Sunday afternoon; a mug. As I set about planning for this article, two issues became clear early on: (1) we won’t even know the full set Gameweek 32 fixtures until after Gameweek 31 deadline, and (2) we won’t even know the full set of Gameweek 33 fixtures until after the Gameweek 31 deadline. Given that we usually look at the upcoming three gameweeks, those two issues make this article – for want of a better word – bullsh*t. Undeterred, I have tried to come up with a way of making this article useful despite its speculative foundation. As such, I have sp...[Read More]