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.
Hi guys , new to this site . I ‘m asking your advice : Keep Valencia or bring in Sakho or Austin and spend the rest of the money elsewhere?
Sorry for the uploaded image!!!!!!
Welcome to the side, Hrundi. Either Sakho or
Austin would be my preference, but if you post your whole
squad and money situation it’s easier to give a more educated answer.
Lovely pic by the way!!!
This really did make me laugh out loud!
Thoughts on my team!!!
Hari, I think the number of dream team players you have speaks for itself! Great team.
Would look to strengthen your bench over the coming few weeks with rotation soon to kick in come the midweek fixtures.
Hari, I believe Dummett doesn’t fit in or is he in charge of holding the door and carrying the bags? I have double Saints and I am contemplating dropping one after GW12 to avoid double coverage through the rougher part of their fixtures. Although some would say that the fixtures are really not that hard considering how well they are playing and the bad form of some of the so called big teams.
Literally awesome
But good to nurture your subs. Maybe switch Mannone to Krul?
i’ll doing that next week
Hey Hari this is a very strong team you have made some very good choices early on , you have had 4 hits as well TV 106.1 very good just keep an eye on form & fixtures try to improve your bench if possible one ? Are you a gamer good luck you could end up in top 100
thanks mate
Thats a crazy team !! Man ! But yeah to get into the top 1000 you got to strengthen your bench. I guess you can do that easily over the coming weeks. Watch out for Sanchez and Fabregas after intl break !
Thanks, ya i’ll be upgrading mannone and obertan to krul and Wanyama in coming weeks
So guys, how much do you think Sterling will drop over the int. break? .2? I’m bringing him in, but I don’t wanna lose .2 so I’ll wait if he’s dropping that much or more.
.2 is probably a safe assumption, it sounds about right, but many might be waiting until closer to the GW, so a possible 3rd drop on the last day or first day of the next GW could be in the cards.
Evening all what’s this with Sterling Cody who will you take out & do we assume Sturridge is back soon
Nice fixtures, nobody has him, he keeps grabbing points and Sturridge is close. I have a gut feeling. Also I’m dropping two players who aren’t getting full 90’s.
Thanks man! Gonna do Walcott -> Sterling (reverse last week’s transfer) and Naismith -> Austin. Sterling could be a nice punt for me in my league since everyone has dropped him. He keeps grabbing points.
Heres one for you bored lot :- Which two members of England’s Euro 96 squad did not play in the English Premier League at the time ? :thumbup:
Evening Elle,
Gazza would be one.
And Ince? Was he at Inter then?
Gazza + Ince are correct.
Platty?
Des Walker?
Give it up Chins Cookie already has it
Balls.
Who did Balls play for?
Themself
Evening all, apologies for not being on today, trying to do 5 days work in 3 days due to the awards bash. Anyway have a pop at this one –
Which ex-Premier League player is the only player to have won the Champions League, UEFA Cup, Premier League and FA Cup, and also been relegated from the Premier League?
Ziege ?
Nope, I don’t believe he was relegated but nice try Matt.
Isn’t Ziege is the answer to “Who scored in a Munich derby, a Merseyside derby, a Milan derby, a north London derby and a Teeside derby? ” or something like that
Yes Matt something like that!
Hey Init I would say you have to do 5 days work in 3 because you spend to much time on football sites only joking this ? Is to hard give us a clue got to be in this order Ex Chl , MU , Lpool or Villa player come on give us a clue
Ok Silver 3 of the clubs involved are Ajax, Inter and Arsenal. I won’t give you the relegation one as that gives it away.
Guess I was wrong then
Bergkamp played for those 3 clubs. Just sayin.
Kanu also played for them clubs aswell
Ooh. Is that the answer? Relegated with Pompey?
Kanu it is! The other club was Portsmouth.
Yay
Steve Finnan
No mate not him.
Anelka? Did he go down with Bolton?
Forget that. Sure he never played for Ajax or Inter!!
Crap had it to slow