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!
Moreno sterling clyne out
Baines Henderson Ivan in
-4.
What say you ?
Get any one of Ivan and Baines… To much spent in def
+1 you don’t need both of them
What to do this week guys, any obvious changes that need making?
Anyone
Am4r77-u may want to wait until internationals are over…
To avoid injuries and stuff…
Yh I’m going to do that anyways Mate, just wondering if there was anyone I could look to buy after internationals
Am4r-ur team looks good,mate…
If no injuries – Id say keep that FT and next week do Ferd-?Wisdom & u ll be left with some cash + another FT in hand…
Wisdom for Ferdinand?
Good shout
Sterling benched!
HL – what did he say about it?
Lallana in his place…
Played well in the last 15mins of the prevoius game…thats it
..
Delph & Baines also start…
Should Delph be in front of Milner?
Watched like 10mins of the game…
Not sure I can answer the question…
Terrible news. Siggy injury. He might not play versus Holland. Which is ok, as long as he’s fit for his next EPL fixture.
Bad news…
Hope nothing serious….
What’s wrong with him Raz?
Something with his ankle. He said he doesn’t want to miss this game in his own country but he doesn’t want to take a risk. That’s good news eying next weekend.
makes my team selection easier… :/
Any Arsenal fans here?. Now Ozil is injured who will likely play?. Cazorla, or could Chamberlain be a good gamble?.
I reckon cazorla and chamberlain could rotate with each over
I’m Not an arsenal fan though
Raz and Jap Lad
Love this. Well done boys.