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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!

Fantasy Football FF247 Team Game-week 27 “Strange and rare green arrows reported over FF247 HQ” was the headline on the front of Monday’s newspapers. Yes we beat the average, we rose in the rankings and after a brief but brutal management reshuffle we are on the way up. 59 points was the total this week compared to an offical average of just 41pts. That’s a massive beat by anyone’s standards, especially ours. It has taken us up to 829,435 in the rankings (from 997,243) – ok, still not a great ranking overall, but we’re heading in the right direction. Honest! GW26 in summary – We’ll pass over our 1pt masterclass from Hennessey in goal – he is cheap, his manager is nasty, what can we expect from such an unfortunate lad? Our defence did us...[Read More]

Team Talk Fantasy Football Game-week 27 Welcome to GW27 – we hope you’re feeling refreshed, relaxed and ready after last weekend’s FA Cup action which has at least provided more clarity for GW30 and beyond. We kick off this week down in the East End as Big Sam returns to West Ham with his Black Cats. Five 3pm matches follow with leaders Leicester hosting Norwich, Chelsea going to Southampton, Stoke looking to boost their goal difference vs Villa, Watford welcome Bournemouth and West Brom do battle with Palace. Sunday sees Man Utd ‘entertain’ Arsenal and Swansea go to Spurs. The Capital One Cup Final follows between Liverpool and Man City which means a blank game-week for those two as well as Newcastle and Everton. Let’s Go Around the Grounds to catch up ...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Pottys Predictions Game-week 27 It seems so long ago now GW26, and it may be a distant memory, but it will long be remembered for the man himself Potty finally being well enough to return to the boards. It was heart warming to see him and we all wish him well in his battle and we hope to see him more regularly. Straight down to business then and last week saw joint winners as both Ceci and rushikhanvilkar correctly predicted one result (as did many others) but it went down to the tie-breaker for total goals scored and both were ultimately wrong but both were jointly ‘nearest the pin’ with 16 predicted against an actual of 19. Step forward and congratulations to both winners then, please e-mail the site at contact@fantasyfootball247.co.uk to claim your FF247 t-s...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Game-week 27 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 “Well, it’s Tips, Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it, not as we know it; it’s tips, Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it, Captain”. If you somehow missed our guide to DGW’s and blanks last week then we forgive you as many took a well earned FPL break, but you may need to catch up if you did so, as we are about to enter a period of unprecedented uncertainty and only those armed with the necessary info will emerge unscathed. Here it is https://fantasyfootball247.co.uk/planning-ahead-dgws-blanks-etc/ If you don’t then pretty soon you can expect to hear “It’s worse than that, he’s dead, Jim, dead, Jim, dead, Jim; It’s worse than that, he’...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 26 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 The last time yours truly constructed a Captains article was back in Game-week 12. So back by popular demand then I can only imagine. On that occasion I selected five players. Well six really, but I wasn’t going for the ten which I have in the past which was pioneering in my book but posterior-covering to my bosses at FF247. The five players performed like this: Kevin De Bruyne – blanked, showed poor subsequent form and is now out for the foreseeable future. Philippe Coutinho – scored 10 points and is also currently injured. Dmitri Payet – blanked and then got injured and although now back, is not producing the big numbers. Graziano Pelle – blanked unsurprisingly and has now only just begun his first m...[Read More]

Fantasy Football FF247 Team Game-week 26 ‘You’re s**t and you know you are, you’re s**t and you know are’ was heard echoing around the streets near to the FF247 offices as we arrived for work on Monday morning. Who was singing it? We’re not sure, but we have our suspicions! As you’ve probably guessed or in all likelihood you’ve come to assume at this stage we got our customary red arrow, our 13th of the season. GW25 saw us pick up 58pts which gave us a GW ranking of 1,758,718. The good news is that we’re still inside the top 1m with an OR of 997,243. Things are bad when we consider that to be good news! GW25 in summary – It was s**t, that about sums it up. You want the gory details? Ok so, but it ain’t pretty! Wayne ‘I no longer know how to keep a clean sheet’ Hennessy conceded after just ...[Read More]