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Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 38 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 After 38 rounds of Premier League football, this season has finally come to an end, and what a season it has been! Leicester City, a team that barely escaped relegation last season, have proven to all of us that hard work and passion can beat money, Tottenham have stepped out of the shadows of 5th place to the shadows of 2nd place instead; Arsenal will actually manage to avoid finishing 4th (unless they lose to Aston Villa – about as likely as Leicester winning the league!), Rafa Benitez made the impressive leap (fall) from Santiago Bernabéu to Tyneside; and Jurgen Klopp brought his enigmatic personality – and perhaps even a Europa League trophy – to the Kopites. Perhaps most importantly though – next season...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 35 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 A change of scenery for me this week. With no fixtures write up to be done and a capo writer harder to come by than an Irish summer, I decided to take the plunge and see what all the fuss is about. The first thought was why on earth was the blank week the one to jump in on? What an idiot. Then the happy realisation that of all the blank teams there was absolutely nothing, other than maybe Payet, of note missing from this weeks selection. Happy days. The man with glass in his hammys, one Sergio Aguero, was the shout last week with a cool hat-trick against Chelsea and a strike against Newcastle bringing in a hefty 52 points as captain in the big DGW of the season, further proving why he is one of the most fear...[Read More]

MLS DGW4 Tips – Fantasy Major League Soccer Are you still playing FMLS? Because if you are, you’re about to encounter one of the worst things about the American league – the nonsensical way in which the MLS handles international breaks. Whereas this coming weekend is a period of rest from club play for (pretty much) the entire world, the MLS still managed to schedule three matches. So 14 MLS clubs get to take the time off and not be affected by international call-ups, but 6 clubs have to navigate around reduced rosters. Makes sense right? Somehow those three matches are so crucial that they couldn’t have been delayed another week. I will say this though, in the past, the MLS would have made this weekend a proper game week – that is, they would’ve just given you unlimited ...[Read More]

Team Talk Fantasy Football Game-week 31 Welcome to GW31 and if you’ve been hiding in a cave all week then you should be informed that we return to a full set of fixtures this weekend. First up we go to Goodison Saturday lunchtime as Everton host Arsenal. Four 3pm kick offs follow as Chelsea and West Ham do battle at the Bridge, top of the table Leicester visit Palace, Watford entertain Stoke and Norwich travel to West Brom. The evening match sees Swansea demolish Villa. Sunday sees our four remaining fixtures and it’s a big derby day – Newcastle and Sunderland meet at St James’ Park while at the same time Liverpool go to Southampton. Late on and to finish our gameweek we have the Manc derby at the Etihad and Spurs look to keep up with Leicester as they host Bournemo...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Pottys Predictions Game-week 31 Well here we are gameweek 31, our season will be over before we know it and we’ll all be playing the Euros and the cricket!! But for now we have a few weeks left, so let’s enjoy the ride and now we know when the DGWs are, they’ll be plenty of fun to be had! Let’s quickly look back to last week’s competition “Two becomes one” and our winner, albeit with a late entry was good old Raziel who triple-captained Lukaku and in doing so trounced his opposition!. So well done Raz, please e-mail the site at contact@fantasyfootball247.co.uk with your address and t-shirt size. Well done! Ok, onto this weeks comp – we have a very busy Sunday with four games, two of which are high profile derbies…so let...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 31 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 Submitted for your approval: five Premier League attacking players. Each different in style, nationality and team, but nevertheless connected on the football pitch as each strives to score more than the others, all the while totally oblivious to the fact that they are merely pawns in a twisted fantasy game. This is a cruel joke on multiple levels however, for those who play the game are themselves often left dazed and confused, regretting decisions and pulling their hair out. Only a select few find solace in the arms of the fantasy gods, and there’s the rub, as Hamlet so aptly put it; the harsh reality of a points-based sub-game to a points-based sport. Five players for your perusal, but only one can b...[Read More]

Planning Ahead – DGW’s, Blanks etc… – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 “When are the double game-weeks?” “Who misses GW27?” “Why is everybody talking about GW30 in terms of some sort of FPL apocalypse?!” “When is the best time to use my chips?” “Are there any other ‘GW30’ type surprises on the way?” These are just some of the more common questions we’ve been asked recently and so we wanted to clear it all up and make it as as easy to understand as possible. It’s dead simple really. When you know the answer. That largely depends on the question though. In this case we know the questions and we know part of the answers. The rest of it is guesswork right now but here’s what we know,...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Game-week 29 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 GW29 is live! The third in a sudden rush of GW’s sees a Saturday lunchtime derby with many title aspirations on the line as Spurs host Arsenal in the first game at 12.45pm. A win for Spurs will surely see the Gunners title dreams in tatters and have Spurs fans thinking of the unthinkable. There are then a seemingly unprecedented six 3pm Saturday kick-offs, the highlight of which will surely be to see just how many Man City, and Aguero in particular, can put past Villa! Saturday evening sees Leicester go to Watford in an attempt to further their own title credentials. Sunday then begins with Liverpool visiting Palace before West Brom entertain Man United at 4pm to see the week out.

Fantasy Football FF247 Team Game-week 29 Well that went well….NOT! A total score of 28 points in GW28 may seem to some as irony, but to us at FF247 it has completely summed up our season. Rubbish. We couldn’t even beat an average of 35 and thus dropped 86k places to an overall rank of 906,635. Nothing has gone right and frankly none of us will be sad to wave this season farewell. Or piss off. GW28 in summary – this summary won’t take long, it’s painful to write and painful to read, unless you like a touch of self harm. The highlight of our score was two assists. Yep, that’s it – two assists. No goals scored, no clean sheets kept. The assisters were Payet and Mahrez. Everything else was clearly a complete disaster. Hennessey in goal conceded two at ...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 29 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 Greetings from Australia, that remote safe haven from which to hide from the ravages of fantasy footballing war, the fires of which have descended yet again to destroy the hopes, dreams and aspirations of 3.6 million soldiers who year after year continue to fall, among other things, for the propaganda propagated by the likes of FF247, whose chiefs mercilessly conscript their sacrificial lambs, and thereafter confine them to the slaughterhouse of squad selection, captaincy picks, and chips, in the process destroying some 2 million marriages, de facto relationships, and future employment prospects. And we keep coming back, like a moth to a naked flame. Addicted. Consumed. My fellow comrades, it’s been a ...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Game-week 27 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 GW27 is live! After a week’s break from FPL action due to the FA Cup. GW27 is a blank game-week for Liverpool, Man City, Everton and Newcastle due to the Capital One Cup Final on Sunday between Liverpool and City. Our game-week kicks off Saturday lunchtime as the Hammers welcome the Black Cats to the Boleyn. Five 3pm kick offs follow before the game-week is wrapped up on Sunday as Man Utd welcome Arsenal and Spurs host Swansea. Don’t forget that GW28 then begins on Tuesday and hot on it’s heels is GW29 the following Saturday. It’s a busy FPL week so don’t get caught cold!