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New Fantasy Premier League Transfers 2018/19 – Richarlison and James Maddison
New Fantasy Premier League Transfers 2018/19 Richarlison and James Maddison Hello and welcome to New Fantasy Premier League Transfers 2018/19 Richarlison and James Maddison. We continue our look at new Premier League transfers by focusing on two promising mid-priced attacking midfielders, namely Everton’s Richarlison and Leicester’s James Maddison. Richarlison you will likely remember from his time at Watford last season while you may not know so much about James Maddison unless you followed the Championship. Both midfielders are priced at 6.5mln and would appear to offer good value for money. They both also have the advantage of starting the season at their new clubs with decent looking fixtures. Richarlison Everton FPL price: 6.5mln Many of us hold fond memories of early seas...[Read More]
MLS Tips Fantasy Major League Soccer GW23-Fall Season
After a few postponements, the Spring season is now finally over and we will be entering the Fall season starting this week. Despite the many delayed kick-offs (due to freaky summer weather conditions) we witnessed another exciting round with 51 goals scored, including two hat tricks. Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored his first MLS hat trick and his ex-Manchester United team-mate Wayne Rooney scored his first MLS goal. Elsewhere, Bradley Wright-Phillips netted his 100th goal and became the fastest player to score a century in MLS history. https://twitter.com/MLS/status/1023781778308378625 Gameweek 22 Review The second edition of El Trafico finished in a similar fashion to the first. LAFC were 2-0 up until the 82nd minute when the Galaxy came back, this time to draw the game. Vancouver demolished M...[Read More]
New Fantasy Premier League Transfers 2018/19 – Liverpool Edition
New Fantasy Premier League Transfers 2018/19 Liverpool Edition Hello and welcome to New Fantasy Premier League Transfers 2018/19 Liverpool Edition! This is our year! Only joking I’m too much of a realist to get swept up in that stuff and I’m sure fellow Red and resident pessimist Kop would agree with me on that. Even though I do not feel as optimistic as the majority of fans, it seems that other fans from teams around the league are getting involved in and really feel Liverpool have made a great push to challenge defending Champions Man City. Liverpool have looked at some key areas of their team and improved immensely. They have spent £164 million this summer on improving weak spots which could prove money well spent if Alisson, Fabinho, Keita and Shaqiri hit the ground running. With this ...[Read More]
New Fantasy Premier League Transfers 2018/19 – Riyad Mahrez and Ben Foster
New Fantasy Premier League Transfers 2018/19 – Riyad Mahrez and Ben Foster Welcome to New Fantasy Premier League Transfers 2018/19 – Riyad Mahrez and Ben Foster. Two familiar faces and yet their transfers create uncertainties that must not be ignored. Well, I guess Foster’s could be but I just do what I am told. Mahrez’s £60m move is an indicator of his quality and whilst Ben Foster joins Watford for a relatively tiny £4m, his guaranteed route into a once solid West Brom backline will be fondly remembered by many a fantasy manager. Pre-empting that many of you are here to read about Mahrez, I have put him first. Riyad Mahrez Manchester City FPL Price: £9.0m I just love watching Mahrez play. Do not worry though, this article won’t take a weird ‘Rosco turn’...[Read More]
Fantasy Premier League Promoted Teams Analysis FPL 2018/19 Cardiff City
Fantasy Premier League Promoted Teams Analysis FPL 2018/19 Cardiff City We start our look at the promoted teams with a trip across the Severn Bridge to Cardiff. Neil Warnock’s men finished second behind Wolves in last season’s Championship which sees them return to the top flight for the first time since their relegation in 2014. The Bluebirds kept 19 clean sheets in 46 games last term, with 11 of those coming at home where they won 16 out of 23 matches, losing just three. The Welshies scored 69 goals with only midfielder Callum Paterson reaching double figures. Junior Hoilett and Kenneth Zohore both scored 9, while interestingly defender Sean Morrison scored an impressive 7 goals. Fixtures The fixture computer has handed Cardiff a straightforward looking introduction into the Premier Leag...[Read More]
Barry and Paul’s World Cup Predictions – The Results
Barry and Paul’s World Cup Predictions – The Results Sadly like the World Cup, Barry and Paul’s will be pulling down our shutters as we bring our summer competition to a close. Fear not though, we’ll be back soon with our regular FPL predictions competition in plenty time for the start of the Premier League season, you can even win T-Shirts in that one, and sometimes we actually post them to you! Sometimes when life gets tough, quitting seems so easy. When you think you’ve done it all, motivation can seem in short supply. I know a man who faced that very dilemma. This time last year, one of our very own sat in his south coast home and made the decision to quit FPL. He was good at it, but the pleasure of taking all his mates money season after season was no longer enough; who ne...[Read More]
Barry and Paul’s World Cup Predictions Game 7
Barry and Paul’s World Cup Predictions Game 7 (Final) Welcome to Barry and Paul’s World Cup Predictions World Cup Final. It appears after all that, football shall not be making its way home. Given that Scotland is in reality the true birthplace of ‘soccer’ as we know it, that’s no great surprise, in which case football will probably never be going home. 😉 On to the winners! The scores keep dropping but that’s to be expected with a maximum 11pts on offer. As it was nobody got close to that score. Mahelmy came the ‘closest’ though; 4pts was enough to claim top spot this week. Second place with 2pts was current league leader Horse, stretching his lead at the top to 6pts, for Horse the real prize may just be coming home. Winner – Mahelmy – 4pts 2nd – Horse – 2pts The Overall ...[Read More]
World Cup 1st Group Phase Live Match Chat
World Cup 1st Group Phase Live Match Chat Welcome to World Cup 1st Group Phase Live Match Chat. The long four year wait is over and so is the tinkering for the first set of matches. We hope that you are happy with the 15 players you ended up with, but even if you decided against playing the fantasy version we still encourage you to partake in the chat below. We are sure there will be plenty to discuss that doesn’t always involve whether you should get assist points for a shot that was blocked or your striker really did touch the ball a la Kane before it went in. Predictor games, brackets, bets on the golden boot are all welcomed here. And yeah, even old school footy chat for those that who are just watching the games for fun and just want to talk about the Joga Bonito. So that you ha...[Read More]
MLS GW15 Tips Fantasy Major League Soccer
MLS GW15 Tips Fantasy Major League Soccer Another big and exciting double gameweek is behind us, with a bumper crop of 45 goals scored in it. That brought big scores for the managers who picked the right players. We witnessed Joseph Martinez equal the MLS record with his fifth hat trick (in a mere 34 games it must be said, compared to 55 and 124 for the other joint record holders). We also saw bad boy Zlatan return from punishment to score a brace. NEW FF247 MLS LEAGUE For anyone who missed it we have decided to start up a fresh FF247 MLS league beginning in GW13. Please feel free to join in. As a quirk of the new MLS rules they have split their season in two. The first part expires in GW17. You will then automatically be entered in to our league again for the second half of the season. It...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 38
Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 38 Welcome to Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 38. The usual purpose of this article is to try and give a heads up as to which teams may be worth jumping on and which ones may be worth avoiding in the weeks ahead. The obvious problem this week is that there are no longer any ‘weeks ahead’! We are at the final hurdle. As such we could have been forgiven for simply saying “what’s the point” and leaving it at that but that’s not our style. In for a penny, in for a pound and all that, we’ve decided to give you a quick rundown on all 10 remaining fixtures as we see them. But in all honesty that’s not the real point of the article. The real point is to say thanks to all those who have written a F...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek 29
Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek 29 Welcome to Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek 29. We start the gameweek Saturday lunchtime but don’t get your hopes up. It’s Burnley vs Everton as Croaky Sean battles Big Sam in a defence-off. Feel free to wake up for the 3pm kick offs – there are five matches with Leicester hosting Bournemouth, Southampton facing Stoke, Huddersfield go to Wembley to tame the Spurs, West Ham go to Swansea and Pardew looks for a win as the Baggies travel to Watford. The early evening match sees Rafa return to Anfield. Sunday sees two matches – first up Brighton get to have a go at the Arsenal defence before the match of the weekend takes place at the Etihad as Man City host Chelsea. Monday night sees the end of the game-week as Pala...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 29
Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 29 Welcome to Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 29. Gameweek 28 may not officially be finished until Thursday when Arsenal have to endure playing Man City for the second time in the space of a week but if Arsenal ‘play’ like they did in the Carabao Cup Final then I think we can safely start looking towards Gameweek 29. With only 2 more GWs until the first blanks of the season some of us will be looking at making the most of the blank but also out of the weeks prior. As long as you can bring in the key options for GW31 you should be fine but don’t forget there are 12 other teams in the league… or at least 5-6 other teams we would actually want players from. The fixture tracker below should help you plan for the weeks ahead. Not only for GW...[Read More]
