Who are you? Who are you? Fantasy manager profiles Part 6
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.
Next up to the examination table are Josh721 and TJ our team-sheet guru.
Josh721
THE BASICS
Members name: Josh721
Real name: Joshua Sonnier
Occupation: College student, soccer referee
Age: 21
Country of residence: USA
Best finish in The Barclays Premier League Fantasy Football game: 36,133
Current position for the season: 250,597
Planned finish (at the start of the season)for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015: 1st. Duh.
Expected finish for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015: Top 10,000
Tell us about yourself in less than 50 words: College student obsessed with soccer, fantasy soccer, basketball, movies, country music, Superman.
FAVOURITES
Food: Italian
Drink: Probably soda.
Band/Type of music: Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, Taylor Swift. I’m a big country music fan
TV Programme: Smallville (before it ended), Parenthood, Impractical Jokers, and The Office (US version)
Films: Forrest Gump, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Rear Window
Book/Author: Ender’s Game
Joke: A horse walks into a bar and the bartender asks, “Why the long face?”
It’s bad, I know.
Country visited (and state why!): Probably Italy. I don’t remember why because I was pretty young, but it seemed pretty cool.
Country would most like to visit (and state why!): England definitely. Would love to see a soccer game there
SPORTING FAVOURITES
Sport: Soccer obviously. Followed by basketball, golf, and bowling
Sporting Team: Manchester United
Sporting Personality: Alex Morgan. I could look at her eyes all day…
Sporting moment on TV: Landon Donovan’s winning goal against Algeria at the 2010 World Cup
Sporting moment witnessed live: My local team Sacramento Republic winning the championship in their inaugural season at the end of September. Great moment.
Sporting venue you’d most like to visit: Old Trafford
Do you have any personal sporting achievements you’d like to boast about: I’ve had games over 200 in bowling on 3 separate occasions.
RANDOMS
Your celebrity look-alike is/are: I don’t even know. Apparently my smile makes me look like Tiger Woods haha.
Which 6 celebrities dead or alive would u have at a dinner party: Jesus, Alex Morgan, Taylor Swift, Ronald Reagan, Will Smith, David Beckham
Which 3 items would u take to a desert island (no humans allowed!): the Bible, a soccer ball, and The Lord of the Rings (the book)
If you won £100 000 what would u do with it: invest some, get my own car, move out, go to Europe for a few weeks, see a Man United game and go to Disneyland.
The perfect afternoon would be spent: watching a soccer game and going out to dinner with some friends
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TJ
THE BASICS
Members name: TJ
Real name: Travis
Age: 18
Country of residence: England
Best finish in The Barclays Premier League Fantasy Football game: 92929
Current position for the season: 99828
Planned finish (at the start of the season)for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015: Top 50k
Expected finish for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015: 90k
Tell us about yourself in less than 50 words: Resident line up provider. Love sport (F1, tennis, football), animals, cars and gaming. I play tennis, squash and badminton. I tweet a lot and play games like Minecraft and FIFA.
FAVOURITES
Food: Pasta!
Drink: Errr…water.
Band/Type of music: Any!
TV Programme: Top Gear and shows like The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Friends etc.
SPORTING FAVOURITES
Sport: Formula One, Tennis, Football, Golf
Sporting Team: Arsenal
Sporting moment on TV: Aguerooooooooo, Brazilian F1 race 2008
Sporting moment witnessed live: Ditto!
Sporting venue you’d most like to visit: Silverstone F1 Grand Prix
Do you have any personal sporting achievements you’d like to boast about: I’m not bad at tennis, I won a tournament a few years ago
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Many thanks to both Josh and TJ 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.
Jose says he risked Cesc, he knew he wasnt 100% but he played him a full 90 minz too… He did that on purpose so he would play for Spain… He better hpe he hasnt shot himself in the foot with that move
What is Eveyone going to do with there Southampton players after Gw 12 Selling them or Keeping them ?
I currently have Clyne, Tadic and Pelle. Plan is to get rid of Tadic for Wally. Undecided on Pelle and Clyne. May swap Clyne for Vlaar or Cresswell/Reid.
Jeet – I’ve had Clyne and Forster for a while but will bin them both before GW13. Clyne is already gone actually, Forster is next, provided no other problems arise :thumbup:
NIN – Who are you replacing Forster with ?
Hi all. Hope the weekend brought green arrows for you all! Red arrows for me but only dropped 2k places (due to my useless captaincy choices!) so not too bothered.
The next GW isn’t looking particularly good for my team:
-Moore isn’t playing anymore so I would have to go into the GW with either Chambers or Taylor playing.
-Sakho is against Baines (although I guess Baines is more for his attacking potential than he is for his clean sheets). Although Sakho could get rotated with Carroll now/benched?
-Siggy has City, although their defence is penetrable and Swansea looked good in the second half yesterday
Anyway, I’ll let you take a look at it. Feedback appreciated.
1FT, £1.2m itb
I like your side and nothing is glaringly obvious, wait and see how the internationals pan out with injuries before deciding.
I said nothing was glaringly obvious…. not captaining Aguero is very brave!
Golazo, cheers. Haha it is just left on last week’s terrible decision 😉
Hi all
What approach are you taking with regards to squad building?
The first week in December see’s the start of midweek games, schedules will be packed and bench players are going to be called into play.
When are you going to start making sure your bench is strong enough and how much are you going to invest in it?
I’ve really enjoyed these who are you articles? makes for a cracking break of the norm, thanks to all those who have taken part so far.
Cheers boys great read. Its cool to get a view of the people behind the keyboard. Thanks Peaky for putting them all together
NIN are you around?