Who are you? Who are you? Fantasy manager profiles Part 3
Here at FF247 towers we’ve often wondered what driving forces skulk 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 first 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…
Next up to the examination table are Elleffcee and NZ Alex.
THE BASICS
Members name:……Elleffcee.
Real name:……Elleffcee. (Ed. Really? B-Bash doesn’t automatically investigate all scousers you know 😉 ) (although maybe he should!)
Occupation:…….None.
Age:……53 / 54
Country of residence:……Good Old Blighty.
Best finish in The Barclays Premier League Fantasy Football game:……..32,457.
Current position for the season……….114,912.
Planned finish (at the start of the season)for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015:……1st.
Expected finish for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015:……To try and better 32,457.
Tell us about yourself in less than 50 words:……Typical family man who loves Liverpool FC and had a season ticket for 39 years, I like a good laugh and I need to with the characters on FF247, who are all great by the way.
FAVOURITES
Food:…..Indian but partial to a good old Beef + Yorkshire pud.
Drink:…..Lager, Champagne.
Band/Type of music:…..Black Sabbath, Stone Roses, I hate pop.
TV Programme:……Only Fools And Horses, a classic.
Films:…… Anything Funny.
Book/Author:…… None. (Ed. can’t read? :p )
Joke………….I was driving down a lane with a mate when suddenly a huge rabbit ran into the road and i ran over it, we got out of the car to check on the animal and I must admit I thought it was a goner. My mate took this container out of his pocket and sprinkled some dust on the animal, as if by magic it jumped up and proceeded to run to the top of this nearby hill then it gave us a wave, the animal then ran down the hill and up another one, at the top, it gave us another wave, then ran down that hill and up another one, and again it waved at the top. I turned to my mate and asked him what it was he sprinkled on to the animal. Hair restorer with a permanent wave was his reply.
Country visited (and state why!):….. Spain, especially Barcelona, football.
Country would most like to visit (and state why!)……… America, I would like to drive coast to coast.
SPORTING FAVOURITES
Sport:…… Erm, let me think, oh football.
Sporting Team:……. Liverpool
Sporting Personality:……. Muhammad Ali, the greatest sportsman ever, he beat the system.
Sporting moment on TV:…… Champions League Final, Istanbul 2005. I gave my ticket away as I was going on holiday the next day so couldn’t go.
Sporting moment witnessed live:……. FA Cup final 1989, Liverpool v Everton, not the score, but the way a city was united after Hillsborough.
Sporting venue you’d most like to visit:……. Soldier Field, Chicago, to watch the Bears play.
Do you have any personal sporting achievements you’d like to boast about………… No.
RANDOMS
Person you most look-alike in the celebrity world……….. None. (Ed. Oh come on, Jim Royale, surely!)
Which 6 celebrities dead or alive would u have at a dinner party:…… Ali, Ozzy Osbourne, Shankly, Pele, Mum and Dad (mum died just over 2 years ago, dad died when i was 20 months old, both celebrities to me).
Which 3 items would u take to a desert island (no humans allowed!):…….A football, television + a sky box (with connection).
If you won £100,000 what would u do with it:……… Spend it.
The perfect afternoon would be spent:…….. Watching Liverpool win, to clinch the League title again, when I do not know.
My Epitaph would read:…… A Great Guy, Sadly Missed.
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THE BASICS
Members name:…… ‘NZ Alex’, team name is ‘Owls Rule’ which they do (in possibly my eyes only)
Real name:…… Mmmmm Alex?
Occupation:……. PE teacher (AKA not a real teacher!)
Age………….35 Famous for sharing my birth day with Dominic Scott (google him)
Country of residence:…… New Zealand (but from Sheffield)
Best finish in The Barclays Premier League Fantasy Football game:…….. 10,957 in the ’10/11 season (in an odd twist, it was an improvement of just 44 places on the season before!)
Current position for the season………. 1,137 (my highest ever position)
Planned finish (at the start of the season) for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015:…… top 10,000
Expected finish for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015:…… top 100 would be nice.
Tell us about yourself in less than 50 words:…… Married farther of 1 or 2 (I’m not drunk and can’t remember, we are expecting our second any day!) Sporty guy who still plays football to a serious level (as serious as you can in NZ!) Addicted to fantasy football and travel (until kids put an abrupt stop to the second and meant my obsession with the first only increased!)
FAVOURITES
Food:….. Anything Italian
Drink:….. Anything Italian
Band/Type of music:….. Anything Italian! Jokes, their music is crap. Oasis, KoL, Mumford and Sons etc etc
TV Programme:…… Lost (hands up if you remember that!?), Benefit Street; reminds me why i left the UK! (Sorry any Brummies out their!)
Films:…… Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction
Book/Author:…… Im a big Lee Child fan, I see myself as a bit of a Jack Reacher. In my dreams anyway!
Joke…………. Knock knock…………….
Country visited (and state why!):…… This is a tricky question as I’ve traveled to over 40 countries. My wife and I did four continents in 6 months one year! Reason: we love seeing the world and different cultures. And I try to see footie matches where we travel too, so far; Spain, Bolivia, Argentina, Australia, NZ, England, France, Scotland, Thailand; I love it, my wife hates it!
Country would most like to visit (and state why!)……… Nepal. During my first visit I trekked to Everest Base Camp, next time I want to trek to the top.
SPORTING FAVOURITES
Sport:…… Football
Sporting Team:……. Sheffield Wednesday
Sporting Personality:……. Chris Waddle. Oh and David Beckham. When he talks it makes me laugh. A lot.
Sporting moment on TV:…… Wednesday going back up to the Championship
Sporting moment witnessed live:……. New Zealand V Qatar. NZ needed to win to reach the World Cup. Qatar missed a penalty (after the guy dived and winked at the crowd as he got up. Tosser!) The kiwis won 1-0.
Sporting venue you’d most like to visit:……. An Old Firm derby at either ground. Think I’d sit with the home fans though!
Do you have any personal sporting achievements you’d like to boast about………… Scoring the winning goal for my team meaning we clinched Div 1. Lets not tell anyone the ball went in off my chest as I misjudged heading it shall we?
RANDOMS
Person you most look-alike in the celebrity world……….. Apparently Peter Crouch but i’m hoping that’s just because i’m tall and skinny!? Peaky you can judge this over beers at Xmas as we plot our Doubles team’s success!
Which 6 celebrities dead or alive would u have at a dinner party:…… The Playboy Bunnies (3), David Hasselhoff, Peter Kay and a Geeky member of an Environmental Awareness Party. Shit that would be funny!
Which 3 items would u take to a desert island (no humans allowed!):……. Water, food and a fueled powerboat!!!
If you won £100,000 what would u do with it:……… Travel, travel, travel. Football. And a car.
The perfect afternoon would be spent:…….. At a football game or beers and a BBQ with mates (and live football on the tv maybe!?)
My Epitaph would read:……. Decent bloke but couldn’t head a ball to save his life!
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Many thanks to both Ellefcee and NZ Alex 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!
Thanks for reading Who are you? Who are you? Fantasy manager profiles Part 3- Fantasy Premier League 2014-15. This article was written by peakydave
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Haha, saw this article right now: http://m.sportskeeda.com/slideshow/football-8-most-frustrating-things-about-fantasy-premier-league?imgid=21841
Sorry this one: http://m.sportskeeda.com/slideshow/football-8-most-frustrating-things-about-fantasy-premier-league
Haha nice one Veer! Love the team that is 27m over budget! He has a good point about Suarez – without him you actually do now need to think about who to captain. Which makes it more fun. Costa is starting to look like nailed on captain but with Chelsea’s fixture maybe not.
ADM is looking good vs Brazil. Agüero yet to make a mark. Messi misses the penalty
That’s great. My captain’s armband stays on Angel unless anything bad happens.
Rubén – you not worried about the air miles?
Yes that does concern me, but I trust Angel to be in good shape unless he gets injured.
I hear u abhirup but the form of players in EPL should not be compared to that in international fixtures as the quality of the opposition is v different,also with regards to this game I’m sure many of the players may well be treating this as an ‘exhibition’ match and could be playing within themselves.They realise that the rigours of competitive home league fixtures and in some cases champions league fixtures around the corner might have more significance for them!
Agüero subbed off. Stays injury free fir now
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Peaky, mail send. Hope it’s ok. Random questions were a bit too random for me. So I passed. 😉
This is a joke, Gibraltar shouldn’t be allowed play international football!!
Ye I was just thinking that it just makes a joke out of the tournament like imagine what Germany will do to them if Ureland and Poland are putting 7 past them.
The Germans might as well take the night off!
Ye and Gibraltar would probably still find some way of losing!
Population
– 2012 estimate 30,001
It would be interesting to see Gibraltar Vs San Marino, they both have a population of about 30,000
I’d certainly have my money on San Marino!!