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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]
The Sportsman’s Perfect 10 Competition – Win £10k! GW26
The Sportsman’s Perfect 10 Competition – Win £10k! GW26 Stop what you’re doing, follow this link, predict the outcome of 10 matches and subsequently you’ll be in with the chance of winning wads of cash in The Sportsman’s Perfect 10. It takes a matter of seconds, and the best part is, it will cost you absolutely nothing! This week the matches have been plucked from both the Premier League and Championship, with our predictions listed below. Good luck! Bournemouth v Stoke Bournemouth are on cloud nine after conjuring up a stunning 3-0 win at Chelsea. Who saw that one coming? Eddie Howe’s men are now unbeaten in six matches since Christmas, and they’ll be expected to edge past Stoke on home soil. The Potters are so far unbeaten under boss Paul Lambert (W1 D1), but we’re back...[Read More]
The Man City Dilemma
The Man City Dilemma We all know we have to own them, but it can be infuriating as heck. Do you want to pay top money for KDB and then watch his less expensive mates outscore him? Do you want Sterling and Sane and then have to deal with them being benched while KDB starts? Jesus is the guy up top, until Kun is, until both are, until Jesus is again, until Kun is again… and so on and so on. Perhaps we should avoid them and not have to worry about all that rotation? Yeah, that’s not going to work, because five of the City boys we are fixing to talk about are in the top 15 in FPL points and the one missing out, Jesus, is only 4 points from also being in that illustrious club. Perhaps if we dive into some of their stats and minutes played we will get a clearer picture or perhaps we ...[Read More]
FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team Gameweek 7
FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team Gameweek 7 Welcome to the FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team Gameweek 7. I’ve got another confession to make, I’m your fool… Hi. My name is Adam (init). And I seem to be addicted to screwing up the Site Team! I seem to have a monumental issue with pressing CONFIRM when it comes to the site team! “Oooops” was how I introduced this weeks thorny issue… Fortunately the guys know by now what that may mean. And yes they are all guys, not folk… *Sighs It happened again. It happens a lot. I have no idea why. I seem to have a blind spot when it comes to the site team and I know not why. To quote Kop – “You’re so meticulous with everything else” To quote Cookie – “We’re like a Carry On ...[Read More]
