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Fantasy Premier League 2016-17 Pre-Season Round up Hellllllooooooooo FPL’ers! We’re back. It is that time of the year again when we begin to look ahead to how our 20 Premier League teams are preparing for this the most potentially cash-laden, superstar-fuelled, world class manager-jewelled season in history. FPL will again afford us the chance to back our favourite players (which is of course price-dependent – but that’s for another article) but we need to know that they will be playing in a position worth having them, that they are in form, and more exciting perhaps, where the next bargain of the ‘Alli, Mahrez, Payet, Vardy’ ilk are to be found. And so to assist us along the way this article is intended as a pre-season scrap book where we intend to reco...[Read More]

Best #FPL picks from the promoted teams – Burnley, Hull and Middlesbrough – Fantasy Premier League 2016/17. Living in Japan I’m always fascinated by the trends that transcend the East-West cultural abyss. This stratovolcanic archipelago (thanks Wikipedia) gave the world sushi, karate and talking robots. In return it got Starbucks, the atomic bomb and Shed Seven. Well, now there’s a new Japanese phenomenon zombifying the mass populous. In ‘Pokemon Go’, armed only with a smartphone, you must physically navigate real-life streets, trespass private fields and probably traverse active volcanoes to grab virtual Pokemon characters. Unexpected add-ons include game-players falling down open manholes, ambling through moving traffic and being lured into abandoned c...[Read More]

MLS GW18 / 19 – Tips Fantasy Major League Soccer This weeks deadline is Wed 13th July 7.00PM EDT. That’s American time – add 5 hours here in the UK! This article is a day late, and that lateness is doubly bad because GW18 will kick off around a day after this article is posted, and GW19 will kick off just two days after that. But here’s the deal, I was sick yesterday. Honestly, I never thought that people who claimed that they caught a flu in the summer were telling the truth – but I caught the flu in the middle of July. But seeing as how I am one of the eternal optimists that this world has ever known, there are a few positives that I’ve taken out of my experience. First of all, cold/flu medication is much cheaper in the summertime, so aside from burning a day of v...[Read More]

MLS GW14 – Tips Fantasy Major League Soccer Surprise everybody, MLS is back this weekend. Right in the middle of all of the other truly great international competitions going on, we have a round of MLS action that will, by and large, go by unnoticed. Now this isn’t so much a criticism of the MLS schedule and their methodology of trying to compete for TV viewers against better footballing options (though I have made that criticism in other forums) – but this is rather a call to action for those savvy enough to realize that they have an opportunity here to gain ground in the MLS league while other players are focused on other things. Maybe your Euro fantasy team is already in the dumpster (I captained Greizmann right off the bat and could never wake up early enough to switch my c...[Read More]

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]