Who are you? Who are you? Fantasy manager profiles Part 13
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. FPL ranks were correct at the time of sending as well so may be much worse by now! Or better…
Next up to the examination table are Chopper2540 and Kop Warrior.
chopper
THE BASICS
Members name:……Chopper2540
Real name:……Lionel
Occupation:…….International Porn Star
Age:………..34
Country of residence:……UK
Best finish in The Barclays Premier League Fantasy Football game:……..43k
Current position for the season……….143k
Planned finish (at the start of the season)for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015:……40k
Expected finish for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015:……50k
Tell us about yourself in less than 50 words:……I am a man. I don’t own a van. I never met my gran. My best mate is Dan. I have a slight tan. Im no Peter Pan but more like Superman.
FAVOURITES
Food:…..Curry curry
Drink:…..Shattoo Noof (aldi version)
Band/Type of music:…..What is music these days? Rhianna publicly
TV Programme:……South Park
Films:……Jaws
Book/Author:..What are books these days?
Joke…I got a new next door neighbour. He’s half American half Iraqi….He’s his own worst enemy! (dont wee yourself)
Country visited (and state why!):… Capetown South Africa – My home land
Country would most like to visit (and state why!…Brazil. To see Brazilians. And Brazilian people!
SPORTING FAVOURITES
Sport:……Footy
Sporting Team:…….Sheff Utd
Sporting Personality:…….Mito. Altho he’s neither sport nor personality
Sporting moment on TV:……Paul Scholes willy popping out
Sporting moment witnessed live:…….The midget in the crowd at the Arsenal match last season
Sporting venue you’d most like to visit:…….Nou Camp
Do you have any personal sporting achievements you’d like to boast about…………Ive recently started Golf. Played my 3rd round of 18 hole and got a Birdie! Hopefully the mrs will let me have a shot on her 2 holed course! It should be good as theres not much rough!
RANDOMS
Your celebrity look-alike is/are…Arnold of Different Strokes. I used to have his chops when I was a kid and people used to stop me in the street hence my nickname. Incidently I hope I dont die of multiple anurisms. Cos that would be ‘different strokes’
Which 3 items would u take to a desert island (no humans allowed!):..a boat a goat and that vibrating duck from 24hrs in police custody
If you won £100 000 what would u do with it:………Double it in a week!
The perfect afternoon would be spent:…Having no females around and plenty of footy
My Epitaph would read:…’He was a good man…..never knew what an epitaph was though’
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Kop Warrior
THE BASICS
Members name: Kop Warrior
Real name: Ken Lyons
Occupation: Human Resources
Age: 34 going on 70!
Country of residence: Ireland
Best finish in The Barclays Premier League Fantasy Football game: 1,229th
Current position for the season: 29,096th
Planned finish (at the start of the season) for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015: To better last season’s final position of 34,060th
Expected finish for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015: Hopefully better than 34,060th
Tell us about yourself in less than 50 words: Passionate sports fan. I’m extremely laid back, some would say horizontal! I’ve got quite a dark sense of humour although some might just say I’m a grumpy old man!
FAVOURITES
Food: Tapas
Drink: IPAs or a good red wine, preferably a Malbec or Rioja
Band/Type of music: Anything with a modern folky vibe to it, two of my particular favourites would be Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver. I do still listen to a bit of disco from time to time, nothing cheesy though! I’m talking tracks that are influenced by Motown, I’d loved to have gone clubbing in New York in the late 70s or early 80s.
TV Programme: The Sopranos / The Wire / The West Wing / Love/Hate
Films: The Great Escape / The Commitments / Trainspotting
Book/Author: Anything by Frederick Forsyth, Nelson DeMille & Leon Uris, with particular favourites being The Charm School & Exodus
Joke: My memory isn’t what it used to be and I’ve never been one for remembering jokes. I’m a massive Only Fools and Horses fan, a show which has provided us with some of the great one-liners. One of my favourites is:
Del: We had Denzil in goal, we had Monkey-Harris left back, we had… camaraderie. Trigger: Was that the Italian boy?
Country visited (and state why!): Canada. I spent 5 nights camping in the Canadian wilderness a number of years ago with two mates. We had plenty of beer but little else!
Country would most like to visit (and state why!) Peru. I’d love to visit Machu Picchu
SPORTING FAVOURITES
Sport: Football closely followed by nearly every other sport. I would like to point out that I cannot abide hurling, it shouldn’t even be considered a sport!
Sporting Team: Liverpool
Sporting Personality: Robbie Fowler
Sporting moment on TV: 2005 Champions League final
Sporting moment witnessed live: 2011 Heineken Cup final. Leinster were down 22-6 at half-time and came back to win 33-22. I’m not even a Leinster fan but it was an amazing comeback and a great weekend in Cardiff.
Sporting venue you’d most like to visit: The MCG for the Boxing Day test, ideally the ashes.
Do you have any personal sporting achievements you’d like to boast about: No!
RANDOMS
Your celebrity look-alike is/are: I don’t have one!
Which 6 celebrities dead or alive would u have at a dinner party: Bill Shankly, Bob Baisley, Kenny Daglish, Matt Busby, Alex Ferguson & Brian Clough.
Which 3 items would u take to a desert island (no humans allowed!): My iPod, a supply of IPAs and a TV with a sky box.
If you won £100 000 what would u do with it: Put enough aside to pay for my daughters and any future kids education. I’d probably spend what was left on holidays.
The perfect afternoon would be spent: In a good beer garden on a sunny day with friends and family.
My Epitaph would read: Take it easy…I did!!
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Many thanks to both Chopper and Kop Warrior 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.
Thoughts on this latest wildcard effort ?? Still tinkering,cant really make my mind up on 3rd striker.Kane had the form but seems to be playing in the hole while Giroud has deffo got the fixtures ? Puncheon could swap to Elia after 3 weeks if he looks the real deal.
I like it Brooky. Given the big difference in price that 3rd ones a crucial shout. Giroud should score well with that lot around him. His stats have been good and he’s scored consistently when he’s played. Good fixtures ahead too.
I think you’ll get similar returns from the likes of Kane/Defoe as you will from Giroud.
JWP, Johnson & Baird in for Chadli, Puncheon, Wasilewski.
Use the money to upgrade Bellerin.
Cheers for the input guys.Sorry for the late reply.Not really struck by Sunderlands attacking potential despite the change of formation style of play and Spurs do have a few tricky fixtures plus Kanes new role if he keeps it is my thinking but will probably have a few more tinkers.In fact there is no probably involved !!!
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Dead simple A or B?
A all day long, for me :thumbup:
Agreed. Definitely A.
Excellent, thanks both. It evolves almost hourly this WC team
Once it’s going in the right direction! It is. I really like team A. Buying Defoe is an idea that is beginning to grow on me, i must say.
init – WC v86.0?
I see a load of love for Puncheon, but I have one question – will his game time be under threat when Bolasie and Jedinak return from ACON & Asia Cup? I know Jedinak is not like-for-like but will still come back into the team you would think?
I’m sure if Punch’s form continues he’ll be hard to dislodge, but it’s just a thought….
Sunderland……”They’ve scored just 19 as well which is the second worst”…. Defoe and Johnson? You sure? Not overkill?
Cookie that’s kind of the fundamental question, hence the ”
Dead simple A or B?”
B then for me – I like a punt on either Defoe or AJ, but think both is too much, personally.
If I went B I could still do Elia to JWP and get a 2nd keeper I guess. How come Chadli wasn’t in the squad last night, I’ve not heard anything?
His father died very suddenly so he is back in Morocco.
Ah ok cheers, poor lad, very sad to hear.
Morning lads.
Cookie – Could their lack of goals be attributed to their lack of a decent striker? Fletcher is pretty injury prone and very one dimensional. Wickham, nah, not a proper CF, for me. Graham, possibly the worst striker in Premiership history? Altidore? Their striker selection makes for some painful reading, eh?
I fancy Jermaine to fire them up the league, or at least out of the immediate danger zone.
Morning NIN, yeah I think that could certainly be a lot of it – though I still remain to be convinced that they are a team that can suddenly turn themselves into a free scoring team. But even if they can…and let’s face it, one would think an improvement of some description, should happen.
Just not sure Defoe & Johnson is a punt too far……I could be completely wrong.
B!!
Yeah, having both is certainly risky. Could be good to have them for the next 3 or 4 and see how they get on. He is a very good striker. You got a plan for this GW, or just waiting for the cup games to finish?
On Sunderland… sure we might expect to see them score a few more with Defoe but they are 3rd bottom for big chances created over the season and 2nd bottom for goal attempts inside the box. Doubling up on their attack is way too much imo…
Hi NIN, will see how I look after the Cup games – may look to do something with either Pog or Vokes…have 2fts and I think the starting XI is, on paper, ok…….famous last words!!
Haha! Hopefully not 😉 Shame about Pocognoli. Pulis must not fancy him at all. What do you think of Dwight Gayle for a few GW’s mate? Looks to be coming into some form and Pardew has started him in the last two. Possible short term gem at 5m maybe?
He’s defo cheap NIN and while he is starting then he joins that list of very tempting budget strikers…..alongside Kane, Austin, Ings, Sakho when he returns etc…..
…I guess the same applies re my concern for Puncheon. What happens to the make up of the team and personnel when Bolasie and Jedinak return?
Good point! I’m not sure what will happen when those two are back in the fold. I guess Zaha would make way for Bolasie and maybe McArthur for Jedinak?
Who knows NIN. Pardew has said he will restart Zaha’s career….what a bellend (both of them), which means he’s going to play him??
So, I honestly don’t know – but best case it heightens the risk of rotation.
He did? Oh dear. That doesn’t bode well.
is Henderson a good fourth mid
Half decent, but Liverpool’s fixtures are bad so i wouldn’t go there.
Feeling good about this team for the near future! Thoughts?
Pancho, if you’re on your WC then use it to bring in Krul for Hamer so you have 2 goalies who rotate well through to the end of the season. Once you’ve played your WC you’ll have only one FT per GW and you won’t want to be wasting one of them on a goalie.
Also, you’re a bit too heavy in defence if you can’t find room for Bertrand and Terry next GW – they’re both at home to teams who didn’t score this GW. I’d downgrade Baines and upgrade Bojan and/or Boyd as well as fixing the goalie problem.
Pancho – Unnecessarily beefed defence here, i think. I would bin Baines and Monreal for budget defenders, get a 2nd GK like gkw already pointed out, and leave funds in the bank for Giroud -> Aguero next GW. Aguero = essential after this GW.
I got Aguero right after he was back playing and he scored me three points in two game weeks. I plan on bringing him in once Yaya is back but was planning on holding off on him until then. I agree on the defense a little, but I figure I can have 3 solid options for the rest of the season. I’m kind of on the “Raz-wagon” with Pants in goal. He seems to score 3 as a minimum, which I can live with. A bit frustrating playing the CS guessing game :/
Wildcard or save till next week?!
Hacko you’ve certainly got enough in there to put a decent 11 out this week and you have a benching issue already between Austin, Silva and Downing as I see it. I’d probably leave it assuming they all come through the FA Cup ok.
Thanks innit, that’s my thinking as well. Thinking of bringing in giroud this week for Austin and then wildcard next week. Things can change a lot in a few weeks!!
They certainly can, I think that would be an excellent move this week.
What about Downing -> ADM? He’s been back now for a few weeks and could break out in a big way at home against LEI!