Who are you? Who are you? Fantasy manager profiles Part 4
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 Bryan Munich and Raziel.
THE BASICS
Members name: Bryan Munich
Real name: Bryan Cooper
Occupation: Inglish teecher
Country of residence: Japan. The land of the rising pun.
Best finish in The Barclays Premier League Fantasy Football game: 17k
Current position for the season: 58,115
Planned finish (at the start of the season) for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015: Just to beat my personal best.
Expected finish for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015: 9,834
Tell us about yourself in less than 50 words:
Past: Guitarist in a signed band in the late 90’s. Fell into multimedia. As you do.
Present: Helping Japanese junior high school students to hate studying English less.
Future: Hope to one day record my own album and release it on iTunes. If I ever find the time.
FAVOURITES
Food: Pizza.
Drink: Red wine.
Band/Type of music: Stone Roses, Blur, Fall Out Boy, Ed Sheeran, Weezer, The Vaccines…
TV Programmes: Match of the Day, Prison Break, Gotham, Breaking Bad, Loose Women.
Films: Shawshank Redemption, Star Wars, Spinal Tap, Vanilla Sky, 2001: Space Odyssey.
Book/Author: The Republic (Plato)
Joke: Anything by Tim Vine. “You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said ‘Parking Fine.’ So that was nice.”
Country visited (and state why!): Pakistan. Not the safest two weeks of my life, but it was an exhilarating experience to be there. Japan was a cakewalk after that.
Country would most like to visit (and state why!): Brazil. Lençóis Maranhenses looks magical.
SPORTING FAVOURITES
Sport: Football and F1.
Sporting Team: Sheffield Wednesday.
Sporting Personality: Daley Thompson.
Sporting moment on TV: Mo Farah’s gold at the London Olympics.
Sporting moment witnessed live: Seeing the Owls clinch promotion against Hartlepool in the League One Playoff Final at the Millennium Stadium in 2005. Also loved seeing Jenson Button win at Suzuka a couple of years ago.
Sporting venue you’d most like to visit: Wembley!
Do you have any personal sporting achievements you’d like to boast about?: Won from seventh on the grid at a mate’s go-karting get together.
RANDOMS
Your celebrity look-alike is/are: Bruce Willis and Andy Parsons.
Which 6 celebrities dead or alive would u have at a dinner party?: Alesha Dixon, Cheryl Cole, Alicia Keys, Ola Jordan, Vanessa White and Stevie Wonder.
Which 3 items would u take to a desert island? (no humans allowed!): A blender, fridge, TV and means of electricity. Oh crap, that’s four. OK, just the first three.
Why do you think you’re really, really popular with everyone? I think it’s because I’m honest, witty and very charming, but most of all because I’m modest.
If you won £100 000 what would u do with it?: Give a generous amount to my mum. Use the rest to go travelling.
The perfect afternoon would be spent: Filling in a questionnaire.
My Epitaph would read: That was the life of Bryan. A very naughty boy.
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THE BASICS
Members name: Raziel
Real name: Raziel Redeemer and Destroyer
Occupation: Ape Whisperer
Age: 11 (in monkey years)
Country of residence: Raz’s beautiful country
Best finish in The Barclays Premier League Fantasy Football game: 54123 (first season, could’ve been much better but I took a 20 point hit in the last GW…)
Current position for the season: 2154
Planned finish (at the start of the season)for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015: 1
Expected finish for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015: 1
Tell us about yourself in less than 50 words: Misunderstood
FAVOURITES
Food: Boerenkool met Worst
Drink: met mate
Band/Type of music: 60’s (Elvis, Everly Brothers), 70’s (Aretha Franklin, Beach Boys, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Creedence Clearwater Revival, CSN&Y, Kinks and so on), 80’s, 90’s, Dance, HipHop (mostly old school: Cypress Hill, Tupac, Wu-Tang Clan, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, NWA, A Tribe Called Quest, Rakim, Run DMC, Naughty By Nature, Mob Deep, Nas, Beastie Boys, De La Soul, Snoop, Dr.Dre, Das EFX, Ice Cube, EPMD and so on. From modern days only Immortal Technique, Cunninlynguists), Rock. HELL YEAH! And I play the guitar myself (Cash/Animals/RollingStones/Beatles/SnowPatrol/Metalica/Oasis etc.).
TV Programme: Berserk, Bleach, Carnivale, Dexter, Eureka, Game of Thrones, Hannibal, Homeland, Hunter X Hunter, Luther, Naruto Shippuuden, Nikita (HELL YEAH, forgot all about it, tnx for that), One Piece, Orphan Black, Sons of Anarchy, The Big Bang Theory, True Blood, True Detective, V, Wire in the blood. Most of those not finished.
Films: American History X, Alien 1 & 2, Black Cat White Cat, Butterfly Effect, Chronicle, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, Kickass 1, Life Of Pi, Ruby Sparks (for with lady friend ;)), Side Effects, Stardust, The Green Mile, The Godfather, The Matrix, The Shawshank Redemption, Star Wars (Ep. 4-6), Se7en, Total Recall (first one)
Book/Author: Dan Brown, David Baldacci, JK Rowling, Markus Heitz, Philip Pullman etc.
Joke: I’m a serious guy
Country visited (and state why!): France! It’s all about flexibility.
Country would most like to visit (and state why!): Japan! I’m an Otaku! BAKA! Raz’s idea of Japan
SPORTING FAVOURITES
Sport: Football, MMA
Sporting Team: Ajax (though nowadays all the Dutch teams should be supported in Europe).
Sporting moment on TV: Van Basten 1988: Van Basten
Sporting moment witnessed live: Dutch Mickey Mouse League games/Holland friendly’s.
Sporting venue you’d most like to visit: Stadium named after me
Do you have any personal sporting achievements you’d like to boast about: Scored a hattrick as a defender. CLASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RANDOMS
I don’t do randoms.
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Many thanks to both Bryan and Raziel 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!
Many thanks to Bry and Raz! Great read and insight lads, thank you. Raz not sure we needed every band, TV show and movie you’ve ever watched or heard though!
Oi. Music is freaking important. And all the series/movies I mentioned are class!!!!!!!!!!!!! Figured it might help someone. Shouldn’t have mentioned all the hiphop I used to listen to though (especially since hiphop is more a thing of the past for me, lol). However, just shows you I’m a multimedia encyclopedia.
And the fact I dare to admit I’ve read the complete Harry Potter series makes me masculine at the same time.
Sighs, anyway. Dave sort of gave me a time limit and before I left home tonight I only had 20 minutes left to do the job. Hope it doesn’t suck too much. >.<
Seems you guys can’t linke my youtube vids.
Oi, genius. Even when not intended I stir shit up on this website. My entire piece is delated. HAHAHA! This gon be good!
Only kidding Raz, no idea what the time limit was about – I told him they will run until the end of the season and to relax!
Yeah the links are baffling me and I really didn’t want to turn a 20 job into an hours long one so they’ll have to stay as they are for this evening. Would help if our IT guy Rich was about but he’s not been about for a good while now. Months in fact! I’ll see if he can fix overnight.
Who’s Rich?
You could just delete everything after Wu-Tang (@ Hiphop). Be glad I was out of time because initially I was planning on giving all the artists/groups I liked of the 80’s/90’s, all Dance acts (and which events you should visit), rock (which groups and which events you should visit). Without music/movies I’d probably wouldn’t see the point of having a pc at home and I would have never found out about this site and FPL.
Owwww. Dave told me we had till the end of the week. Got the mail this morning but read it just after dinner tonight. I read: ”If u could back to me ASAP that would be brill. So not to create an overkill situation they will be drip fed onto the site during quieter times in the season so please be patient!” ——————–) Bryan is an Inglish teacher, did I misread that or what? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Comprehensive reading Raz. Sighs. Anyway. I felt the timelimit, transfer deadline. It’s like doing your wildcard team in 20 minutes! Kind of the way I felt when I created my Champions League Fantasy Team. HAHAHA.
Brys dry wit mate! He’s an English Teacher in Japan. ‘Inglish Teecher’. #irony 😉
Eh… did I spell it wrong?
Screw him, I’ve done it I think?! The links work on my PC anyway but not on my phone for some reason.
Awesome job Innit. That’s not my idea of Japan, lol. I just like the word BAKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m an Otaku! Baka! Means I’m an Anime/Manga nerd! IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lol mate sorry, I had to fill the link blind without seeing the vid first!
Thanks lads.
Bry…Ed Sheeran? Really?!!!
It was a toss up between him and Bucks Fizz.
Great stuff Bry and Random Raz, or the doggie twins as I now know you as, with your go-karting and defensive prowess illustrates.
Sorry, I don’t understand half of what you just said. Doggie twins? Go-Karting? See? My piece sucked.
Stop making me feel so self conscious Cookie. Aaarghh. You guys actually messed with my head. First there was this time limit, after that there was the pressure of putting my in the crazy category. I think I need another drink.
Lol – the go-karting was Bry you nutter. He came from well back, or from behind, in his race! As did you with your hat trick from the back. Sighs.
Right!!!!!!!!!!! Been sort of busy with my own piece since I’m so self-conscious I only just now took the time to read Bry’s piece. Worrying about the wrong shit again. It says simple Q and A and I’m stressing I did it all wrong. Just like I always think I get the language all wrong and misunderstand shit people write. Which in this case, I did. >..<
Relax Raz, it’s only a bit of fun mate!
Late here, bed calls – laters
Raz it reads great mate. Fair to say your English is a touch better than my Dutch!
Cool Cookie, good night.
Oi, Innit, could you add to van Basten it was the final goal that won us the European Championship? Not only was it a beauty it was the most important goal in our history. In those days we actually played football people liked. 😉
Watching the Dutch yesterday was depressing. Really don’t like what Hiddink is doing at the moment, I think he’s too old and has been too greedy the past few decades, lost his touch. Same with RvP. he’s acting like a primadonna while doing nothing good for the Dutch, EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Apart from the first game @ WC vs Spain he never shows magic at the important stages.
Also, I don’t think all Japanese people are idiots! Maybe instead of the Baka link give them the this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHkYseNZce4 (————– First anime I watched which initially increased my interest in Japan/Japanese Culture and made me an Otaku (anime fan). And the song is sooooooooooooo fun, the English is so bad. Perfect example of Japanse band singing poor ”Inglish”.
Raz, growing up Van Basten wasn’t favourite player and is still one of the best to me. Zidane takes the overall crown to be fair!
I’ll leave your Japan hating vid as is for now and see what Bry says 😉
He’s not my fav player (rarely I like the personality of a football player). Cruyff is the best Dutch player of all time. Van Basten might be the best Dutch striker of all time though. Too bad dude got injured and had to stop at his peak.
On that note, van Basten temp. stopped as manager. He can’t take the pressure. Panic attacks… kind of sad. His health was at stake. They called it stress but it sounded like panic attacks.
Anyway, off for bed. Oyasumi nasai. Take care.
Raziel
I’ve had the pleasure to see the Wu Tang Clan 5 times now.
When in Las Vegas I caught them doing an acoustic set in the Circus Circus Hotel
So what’s your favourite Wu track?
Potty
The entire 1993 album (at least that was the year it was released in my country I think). Enter The Wu-Tang. It’s a classic. It’s the OK Computer equivalent of Hiphop. The first album is usually the best with most artists/groups.
Raziel, we are music Soulmate’s xxxxx
For me……”Cash Still Rules” is the biz bro.
But my best is “Gravel Pit” and due to my job this track haunts me.
Buddy…catch the Wu Tang if you can at any cost possible.
Potty
Can’t say it’s the best it does refer to the thing I can’t live without though. HAHAHA! Just like Music.
Yeah I know, missed them last time they were here. They are awesome live. Best mate was actually there and messaged me like: “Dude, I’m at Wu, great memories, lol”. I was like, wtf why didn’t you get me a ticket then?
Potty, I will sew your azzhole shut and keep feeding you and feeding you…. :hippo:
WoW, Everly Brothers! Wake up a little Susie, Raz! Wake her arse up.
Don’t forget: ”Cathy’s Clown, Dream, Let It Be Me, ByeBye Love”. The list goes on and on and on. The 50’s/60’s has been the foundation of everything we here now. ZOMG, even forgot to mention The Who, TOMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Grew up with music, can’t help it. 😉
Bry, I feel like I didn’t know you at all. Hey, I bet having Vanna White in your Inglish class could come in handy. I was a bit disappointed with your Vanilla Sky answer. I feel like we have a disconnect there. Might have to find a new best friend.
Lol, that was actually one of the worse movies I’ve seen. Though, I might’ve been stoned. >.<
It was the Victor Moses of movies. Absolute :poop:
You guys have got me worried that I meant the Minority Report now. It was a long, long time ago. I’m gonna have to watch them both again. One of them was great. Honest.