Who are you? Who are you? Fantasy manager profiles Part 11
Here at FF247 towers we’ve often wondered what driving forces hide behind a comment or a rate my team reply, do we really know the mindset and the persona of the people we are conversing with?! To find the answers to these questions we have lured some regulars from out of their caves and got them to endure a simple Q & A session.
Hopefully this will help us to uncover whether each member can be viewed as a ‘fellow sports enthusiast’, ‘colleague’, ‘fantasy friend’, ‘internet troll’ or indeed ‘sociopath’! Let’s take a look inside the minds of our latest two ‘victims’ then and see whether, hiding behind the cute monkey gravatars, lurks a sadistic, megalomaniacal, psychotic keyboard warrior. Or just a normal guy or gal who likes to play fantasy football…
We will add a disclaimer here – we have resolved to not edit what is sent in at all. What you see is what you (we) get. All FPL rankings were correct at the time of writing too but may be far worse now! Or better.
Next up to the examination table are Demsie and Mitro .
Demsie
THE BASICS
Members name:…… Demsie
Real name:……Daddy
Occupation:…….IT Account Manager (currently recruiting new customers to all you IT Managers out there !)
Age:………..32, maybe 33, I’m never quite sure any more. Born in 82 if that helps
Country of residence:…… Angleterre
Best finish in The Barclays Premier League Fantasy Football game:……..92,220 (would have been 20k higher but decided a -24 for the last GW would enhance my enjoyment of the week. It didn’t)
Current position for the season………. 181,143
Planned finish (at the start of the season)for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015:……top 40k
Expected finish for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015:……top 41k
Tell us about yourself in less than 50 words:…… I like to cook and then eat it, and drink.. and then drink it.
FAVOURITES
Food:….. I’m a man of many tastes but I do love a good curry
Drink:….. All types of fizzy wine Prosecco / cava / champagne, or the flat stuff -White, lager in a bottle – never a can, vodka sometimes on a rainy Tuesday morning, tequila definitely, a touch of sherry perhaps at Christmas.. Absynth on occasion.. Wait there, you did mean alcohol.. right ?
Band/Type of music:…..Hip Hop, Reggae and all types of electronic dance music. I’m a DJ in what little time I have to myself !
TV Programme:…… Sport, any sport, and I must admit I do like the Great British Bake off & Masterchef
Films:……Not really my thing any more…. But Wolf of Wolf Street was amazing. The Dark Knight too and the 3rd one… Withnail and I and Top Gun!
Book/Author:…… Although not a fan of the fantasy genre per se – Game of Thrones.. I really do love that stuff
Joke………….Why are Pirates called Pirates… ? Because they Aaaaarrgggghhhh
Country visited (and state why!):…… Cuba.. Honeymoon (because it’s bloody awesome) but Greece was my favourite.. The food was just so god damn good everywhere I went…. and the Mythos. Mythos… Is that the best beer ever ?
Country would most like to visit (and state why!)………Too many to state. India maybe cos of the food, Italy – food. In fact anywhere where they do food really. Good food. Maybe I’ll just go back to Crete thinking about it.
SPORTING FAVOURITES
Sport:……Football
Sporting Team:…….Liverpool FC
Sporting moment on TV:……2005 CL Final.. Oh my god that was awesome. Nothing’s ever come close to that
Sporting moment witnessed live:…….2005 Semi Final v Chelsea at Anfield. That “You’ll never Walk Alone” at the end still send shivers down my spine http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xso4za_ynwa-champions-league-semi-final-vs-chelsea-2005_sport
Do you have any personal sporting achievements you’d like to boast about………… I’m pretty good at tennis if that counts ?
RANDOMS
Which 6 celebrities dead or alive would u have at a dinner party:……Jamie Oliver to cook and Atomic Kitten to serve. Jeeves to clean & tidy and Tommy Cooper can sit to eat with me and make me laugh.
Which 3 items would u take to a desert island (no humans allowed!):……. My decks, my music collection and a massive big sound system. (this is assuming that good food is already provided)
If you won £100 000 what would u do with it:………Go on a big holiday, give (a small bit) to charity and pay off my mortgage
The perfect afternoon would be spent:……..In the garden, sun shining, my wife, my daughter, slight breeze, cold beer, a BBQ, a few chosen friends, not too hot – maybe 22 degrees, decks are out and system is playing good tunes.. a few choice friends, laughs, comfortable seats… you get the picture
My Epitaph would read:…….Loving Father, Devoted Husband and general all round Good Egg
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Mitro
THE BASICS
Members name: Mitro
Real name: Kieran Mitrovic
Occupation: Civil Engineer
Age: 32
Country of residence: England
Best finish in The Barclays Premier League Fantasy Football game: 3994
Current position for the season 5261
Planned finish (at the start of the season)for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015:No. 1
Expected finish for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015: Top 1K
Tell us about yourself in less than 50 words: energetic, sometimes erratic 32 year old with an unhealthy obsession for my missus, son, Arsenal FC, Football, Fantasy football, Gym & my Job
FAVOURITES
Food: Mexican or a nandos
Drink: Blue Moon Beer when I’m out & Coffee in the day
Band/Type of music: The Killers – seen them live 7 times and had a few drinks with them backstage at the Manchester Academy 2005
TV Programme: Game of Thrones, The Originals (the missus makes me watch it J), Walking Dead & The Vikings
Films: Aliens, Inception, Heat & the Nolan batman trilogy
Book/Author: Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time)
Joke.- All mine are rude
Country visited (and state why!): Australia – beautiful County with so much to do
Country would most like to visit (and state why!) Canada – from what I’ve heard and saw it looks amazing – one day i will get out there with work
SPORTING FAVOURITES
Sport: Football & Tennis
Sporting Team: Arsenal
Sporting Personality: Ian Wright (met him at John Hartson’s Charity Event where I was smashed – ended up trying to kiss him telling him how much i loved him)
Sporting moment on TV: Man City winning the league with Aguero scoring the winner in the dying seconds or Liverpool’s come back against AC Milan.
Sporting moment witnessed live: When we went to the Bridge and won 5-3
Sporting venue you’d most like to visit: The Bernabeu
Do you have any personal sporting achievements you’d like to boast about. I use to run the 100m in 11.14 seconds
RANDOMS
Your celebrity look-alike is/are. Mark Strong
Which 6 celebrities dead or alive would u have at a dinner party: Dennis Bergkamp, Herbert Chapman, Arsene Wenger, Thierry Henry, Ian Wright & Rafa Nadal
Which 3 items would u take to a desert island (no humans allowed!): Satellite Phone, Sky Sports & the Internet.
If you won £100 000 what would u do with it: Pay off the mortgage, put some away for Lucas’s University fees & invest the rest in a holiday home
The perfect afternoon would be spent: with the old man down at the Tolly getting ready to head to the emirates to see the Arsenal tear it up.
My Epitaph would read: it was fun while it lasted
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Many thanks to both Demsie and Mitro for being so candid! We hope you know your two fellow ‘fantasy friends’ a little better now.
If you feel that you would like to expose your inner self then please feel free to mail us at contact@fantasyfootball247.co.uk and we shall have peakydave interrogate you! If you have already submitted one, which many have, we are publishing them in the order received and hopefully yours will be along soon.
We haven’t had a double GW this year, there can’t be one to far away.
Any thought on when we might get one?
I doubt we’ll have one before March
Afternoon all!!
How is everyone?? Thought this WC was going to be easy!! What two GK’s would you go with for the remainder of the season? Currently got in DeGea & foster.
This is currently my WC team. Your comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
I will rather go for a.Cheapie.Guzan Maybe or Krul when he returns or Pantilimon for DDG.U can do Creswell to Terry if u downgrade DDG to a 4.5m keeper
Happy New Year everyone. Not been happy for me on the FPL front. Football bloody hell. I’ve dropped in 3 GWs from the edge of the top 1K to 20K. Olivier Giroud (c). Need I say more.
That’s not all. After scoring 23 in GW20 I activated the WC. Bought and sold merrily and then realised I’d sold players I wanted to keep. I’ve lost about 1mil in the process.
But all is not lost. I can come back stronger. Here’s my WC draft. Enough saved for Rooney > Aguero when ready. Any comments would be well appreciated…..think in terms of being a good samaritan after my misfortunes!!!
Hii Swiss-i would do Bertrand to Aldernwerild to save 0.7m as u will need to Take Jovetic out when Kun returns.Jovetic to Giroud maybe.I would to Trippier to Naylor(More CS potential).Rest of the team is fine.
Is Giroud-Kane-Aguero a good striking combo for.WC
Could Pelle be a good shout with Southampton’s fixtures improving?
Kun isn’t even back yet. It’s said it will take him another week or 2. So def. not touching him.
Cheers dhruva. Good point about Aldenwerild and Trippier. I’ll check that out. Not sure I can bring myself to buy Giroud ever again. Will look at other options.
Pelle and Bony(after gw 23-24 Maybe)or 3-5-2 Or 4-4-2 Formations the only good options if not Giroud.
One FT this week. So just who to bring in for YYT?
Obvious picks Eriksen, Hazard, Mata, thinking WC not needed as close to where I need to be. Defensive injuries expecting to clear. Which way we leaning fellas. Guessing not too much difference between those three. Leaning Hazard despit double coverage
Scrub that. This side
Yyt to Hazard is a grt move.Hazard is in devastating form off late.But r u ready to double up Chelsea mids??
yeah thats the question – just not convinced with Erik returning week in week out. Mata does appeal fixtures wise…..
I’m holding on Man Utd mid coverage till Di Maria returns, I don’t think he’s far off by all accounts. I’m not a fan of doubling up on the Spuds coverage with Eriksen as I think Kane might be enough. Haz is an option but then that means treble CFC coverage which may be too much.
I’d probably wait on Di Maria’s fitness and if he can’t go or looks iffy I might take a flutter on Sterling.
Not a bad shout Andy on ADM, Sterling again hasnt done enough for me although Sunderland, Villa and WH at home all winnable. If Sterling could strike a ball properly, goalward anyway, I would be far happier – whether he scores chances presented, often self created, is still so erratic
Leicester at home should have been winnable, but…
I’m not getting a lot of bites with the Sterling love, over the Christmas period I think only Haz has had more touches of the ball in the opponents penalty area than Raheem so I’ve been a little disappointed in him myself with the returns he’s given me.
I fell into the trap myself and brought him in, but he’s not a finisher.
Sturridge returning could be good news for him (and Pool) Kop.
Andy, he could and hopefully he will but I have my doubts over Sturridge as I don’t know how he’ll find life at Liverpool now that we’re struggling.
Sturridge without Suarez is half the player – and coming back after lay off – not on my radar. Also unsure how pool will take Gerrards announcement. Will it galvanise them. I dont think so. They are losing the figurehead and that dont bode well. (Some consolation for Liverpool fans that at least Everton aint just leaderless, they are hopeless!)
I don’t think Stevie’s announcement will effect the team in the short term, it’s the long term I worry about!