Who are you? Who are you? Fantasy manager profiles
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…
First up on the chopping block are Tekno and chins and bellies.
THE BASICS
Members name: Tekno-kun
Real name: Jostein Bjørkum Andersen
Occupation: Student
Age:20
Country of residence: USA (Norwegian of birth)
Best finish in The Barclays Premier League Fantasy Football game: 47,738
Current position for the season: 382,685
Planned finish (at the start of the season) for FPL in 2014/2015: Top 20k
Expected finish for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015: Top 20k
Tell us about yourself in less than 50 words: I’m smart, rational, intellectual, independent, rebellious, eccentric, arrogant, handsome, and honest. I excel at logic and reason, but suck at emotions. I care little for conformity, preferring the eccentric and unique instead.
FAVOURITES
Food: Special Brownies
Drink: Orange juice
Band/Type of music: Gorgoroth/Norwegian black metal
TV Programme: Game of Thrones, anime
Films: This Is England, The Last Samurai, Pineapple Express
Book/Author: A Song of Ice And Fire, Nietzsche, manga
Joke: David Moyes
Country visited (and state why!): Netherlands, wanted to try their special brownies.
Country would most like to visit (and state why!): Japan, anime and manga fan so interested in Japanese culture.
SPORTING FAVOURITES
Sport: Soccer
Sporting Team: Manchester City
Sporting Personality: Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Sporting moment on TV: When Aguero scored in injury time and City won the title. Sobbed like a little girl.
Sporting moment witnessed live: Seen some PL matches and Norway’s national team. Nothing noteworthy.
Sporting venue or event you’d most like to visit: Superbowl
Do you have any personal sporting achievements you’d like to boast about: In 5th grade I scored 10 goals in one schoolday. Legend.
RANDOMS
Person you most look-alike in the celebrity world: According to a celebrity match-maker I look alike Orlando Bloom, Justin Timberlake, Leonardo Di Caprio, Adam Sandler, and Robert Duvall.
Which 6 celebrities dead or alive would u have at a dinner party: Nietzsche, Einstein, Oscar Wilde, Napoleon, Aristotle, Anton LaVey.
Which 3 items would u take to a desert island (no humans allowed!): Adult ‘Art’ magazines, Nintendo 3DS and special brownies.
If you won £100,000 what would u do with it: Buy all the video games I want, then invest and save the rest.
The perfect afternoon would be spent: High.
My Epitaph would read: What the fudge is an epitaph.
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THE BASICS
Members name: Chins and Bellies
Real name: Iain (That’s an “I” at the start, not a “L”. Honestly. Some people.)
Occupation: Currently unemployed. Finance person by trade, currently unemployed. Just moved countries and seeking work! Anyone?
Age: 35
Country of residence: USA.
Best finish in The Barclays Premier League Fantasy Football game: Somewhere in the top 5k. I don’t recall exactly. Oh ok, it was position #3,961. (I have it tattooed on my arm).
Current position for the season: 284,379.
Planned finish (at the start of the season)for FPL in 2014/2015: 1st. Obviously.
Expected finish for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015: Top 50,000 would be nice after that start.
Tell us about yourself in less than 50 words: Essex boy with Scottish roots. Father of two. Family and I moved to the US in June. Loving the American life. Tacos and American Fantasy Football are my two current favorite things.
FAVOURITES
Food: Despite the Taco references, you can’t beat Chicken and Ham pie, or a Roast Dinner.
Drink: Cold Stella Artois. Although a glass of Sancere is pretty damn good too when I’m feeling a bit more cultured.
Band/Type of music: I listen to a bit of everything from Rap to Country Music. Favorite band are Phoenix. (French Electronica-type coolness.)
TV Programme: Can’t pick one. Love list includes The Wire. Pointless. The Trip. Mysterious Cities of Gold (80’s cartoon!). Alan Partridge. 24. Breaking Bad.
Films: Office Space. Dumb and Dumber. Dragnet. NWH (Fear of a black hat). Talladega Nights. Night at the Roxbury. AnchorMan. Don’t be a menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood. Hoop dreams. White men can’t jump. Naked Gun.
Book/Author: I have all of the Andy McNab and all of the John Grishams. Love them all. But my favorite single book is ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’ by Tom Wolfe. Highly recommend you read it.
Joke: My two favorite comedians are Stewart Francis and Milton Jones. A joke from each of them: “My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance; we’ll see about that.” (Stewart Francis) And… “The worst job I ever had was as a forensicologist for the United Nations. One time I thought I’d come across the mass grave of a thousand snowmen, but it turns out it was just a field of carrots.” (Milton Jones)
Country visited (and state why!): Not very exciting, but probably Germany! Beautiful countryside, towns and villages. Cool cities. Brilliant roads. Nice people. Great food and beer.
Country would most like to visit (and state why!) Japan. Just for something completely different. And I like Fish.
SPORTING FAVOURITES
Sport: Football (Soccer), but the players nowadays make it very hard to love it as much as I used to.
Sporting Team: Arsenal, but with the same caveat as above.
Sporting Personality: Dennis Bergkamp. I was lucky enough to have a season ticket at Highbury for Bergkamps first season at Arsenal. Best player ever.
Sporting moment on TV: Ray Parlours goal in the 2002 FA Cup final win against Chelsea.
Sporting moment witnessed live: Vieira’s FA Cup winning penalty against Man Utd and last ever kick in an Arsenal shirt, or… Bergkamps first goal at Highbury.
Sporting venue / event you’d most like to visit: Seattle’s NFL stadium.
Do you have any personal sporting achievements you’d like to boast about: Sadly, no.
RANDOMS
Person you most look-alike in the celebrity world: Gary Kelly. Right back that used to play for Leeds Utd. Not exactly a celebrity but its the best I could do.
Which 6 celebrities dead or alive would u have at a dinner party: Alexander the Great, Robin Williams, Jesus, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein and Jim Carrey.
Which 3 items would u take to a desert island (no humans allowed!): A football. Fishing equipment. A boat.
If you won £100,000 what would u do with it: Buy a bigger house or invest it for the boys future. Sorry, boring.
The perfect afternoon would be spent: Having a picnic in a park on a sunny day (not too hot), playing with my boys, keeping up-to-date with the football as Arsenal put 8 past Chelsea. Mourinho getting sacked and Wenger retiring immediately after the game.
My Epitaph would read: Loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. Oldest ever debutant for Arsenal FC. First man to live to 150 years old.
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Many thanks to both Tekno and chins and bellies for being so candid! We hope you know your two fellow ‘fantasy friends’ a little better now. Next up for inspection are B-Bash and NIN…
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 interrogating you quicker than you can say ‘no really, those are my wife’s pants’.
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Got 2FT
Mangala out > Baines in
Fabregas out > Tadic in
Would you guys take a 4 PTS HIT – Ulloa out > Nasmith in ?
No!
Personally I would go Sterling > Tadic if it gives you enough case. I would be wary to shipping Cesc right now.
I usually don’t mind a -4 to get a striker in but I don’t see much difference between Ulloa & Naismith tbh, and so I would say it isn’t worth the hit
But Sterling has better fixtures I’ll plan on buying Fab in GW 10 anyway !
GW 9
Sterling (H) v HULL
Fabregas (A) v Man Utd
+1
yeah no need for a hit!!! and cesc has palace this week!!
But Sterling Has QPR this week !!!!!!
That doesnt seem worth a hit to me, JT
Thanks Guys No Hit For Me !!!
Hi all,
how would i get azpi into this team without touching top 7 or baines/clyne?
-have only managed to do it by getting a non-playing keeper/defender which I’m not too keen on
-is the best option to krul–>forster and clyne–>4.0?
help very much appreciated!!!
i don’t see a way to get Azpi into your side without making several changes – and I don’t think it would be worth it. You have 2 solid defenders in Baines & Clyne and a great 3-way rotation for your 3rd starting defender. You have a solid midfield and two class strikers with a good backup. Very strong team all around and one I think a lot of us would love to have. I wouldn’t tear it apart to get Azpi. In the long run I don’t think he’s going to score more points than Clyne anyway.
thanks law :thumbup:
Hazardeden, I’d drop one of your mids mate. One to go at present would be Sterling. Easily get Azpi then.
thanks bb, thick I am going to give sterling a go at qpr,hull then newcastle before shipping him on.. the fact that i don’t have aguero means i can have a strong midfield, which i think ill need with kun (who will hopefully get injured!!!)
Morning gentleman, (I don’t think there are any ladiessssss out there!?!) How are we all? Peaky me ol’ pal, thanks for all your effort, loved it! Great little read during these dull International breaks!
Chins, I’m very disappointed to see how different our teams are these days (FYI everyone, at one point last season due to pure coincidence Chins and I had exactly the same 15 players!)
Hello Alex! Been a while. How are you mate?
I’m on a WC for sure this break mate, so i’m sure they’ll be a LOT closer by next Gwk!! 😉
Especially given your great start! Well done on that btw!
Hello chins mate. Yer I’m well thanks and you? I loved your comment earlier about WCing because our bored, I can completely relate and has crossed my mind! How are you going this time round? How’s the big us of a? I loved your answers !
Great articles, bitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sighs, been a long f-ing 2 days. But I’m still alive. :finger:
Right back at ya. Here is my team. Am I doomed? Don’t have Kun.
Evening Raz! Not having Kun doesnt strike me as the issue mate. Pieters needs to go as he appears to have lost his place. Dummet injured, although likely to be back and Chambers is banned. I assume Falcao would go if Kun were to be signed?
Ooops, Baines is already in my squad. This is an old picture. Pieters is replaced with Baines.
who needs kun when you have costa?? don’t say i didn’t call it when aguero falls apart sometime in the next 2 weeks… 😉
team looks solid, some city coverage would be nice though, but the only options from fpl perspective are silva or aguero…possibly for sterling(although myself I’m keeping him for next 3 games)
defence is possibly a bit weak, but you have falcao, pelle and costa up top…are you a baines fan or maybe some chelsea defence??
ohh and pieters will need to go soon for me, stoke looked woeful last game!
Sorry mate, this was the old team. New team already has Baines in it. >.< Grrrrrrrrrrrr, wait I'll repost it in a second.
Ok this my REAL team. 0 Ft’s though. But it has Baines. >.<
I’m confused why people are getting rid of Sterling??? He’s averaging 5.7 points per game and sturridge has been absent for over half of them! With Sturridges imminent return and QPR,Hull then Newcastle next in the merry-go-round whats not to like????
PEOPLE ARE RETARDS! You don’t know?
Is that Gatts again Raz? Have you read the entire manga? Took me a while to get through it, but it’s the best I’ve read so far.
Hmmm yeah. Well, I don’t like reading it online and ummmm the mange is so f-ing expensive. Now you have it partially in Dutch (not far enough) and ummm they’re much further in English but that’s like 11 or 12 Euro’s per tome. I feel sort of silly if I pay that type of money for it, 40 tomes would mean I’d have to invest 400-500 Euro’s, which is like ummmm a lot of dollars. 😛
Was one of my first animes and still my fav. Though the ending sucks. It’s terrible! It’s horrific, sick! >.<
Anime series is from 1995? Lol, great lead in song. And ummm did you know they made 3 movies that took place at the same time as the anime series? ZOMG, again, the ending so terrible. Still crying.
Just watched the ending on youtube now. The manga goes on waaaaaaaay beyond that, that’s nothing more than a turning point in the manga. You have to read it Raz, aren’t you curious about what happens with Gatts and Griffith, as well as Puck, The Skull Knight, and the Berserker armor? It’s fucking long though, about 300 chapters. Suck it up and read it online.
I have Sterling and am in no rush to offload him – think he’s suffering from a slight dip in form but he’ll come good. I think people are ditching him to go Sterling > Fabregas or to fund an Aguero/Baines purchase.
plus the return of danny!!!!
Actually lawdogg hes surprisingly consistent with a goal or assist at least every other game 13,2,7,1,10,2,5 so far 😉
Evening Peaky, thanks for the hard work this week mate!
The Sterling issue seesm to have become an issue due the mad rush for Baines and Aguero. I have Sterling and as things stand have no intention of selling. I want to see him back with Sturridge to see how he gets on, plus LFC’s fixtures are kind for the next few gw’s. The thing I have been saying is that out of a midfield of Fab, ADM, Siggy and Sterling, it is the latter that would go to accomodate Baines/Kun. Liverpool currently offer little appeal in terms of FPL. Which makes me sad!
No probs B-Bash I enjoyed it! I do realise what ur saying but its becoming a self fulfilling prophecy and theres a mass hysteria feel to it! 300 000 people staggering round the streets with arms outstretched chanting ‘We must get Baines,we must get Baines’!
So I have this transfer plan. I want to sneak Welbeck into my squad without having to bin my nice attacking line. Would this be a bad move? I’m thinking of making it today. Let me know guys! I need opinions!! Cheers.
That for a hit? Good luck. HAHAHA!
Well, I’d rather take a hit than loose one of my best players. I could easily downgrade sterling, Fabregas, Di Maria, Aguero or Costa but they all seem to be on reasonable form.
Question is and will be, is it worth the hit? You don’t link your team so I can’t say. You just give 3 players and say you want to replace them. Don’t know the state of your team, how balanced it is and so on.
Three transfers, guessing you have 1 FT meaning an 8 point hit. With Welly still have to play International games, you’d freaking hit yourself in the head if it turns out he injures himself next week. >.<
I’m pretty much just trying to get rid of Ulloa. Might just get Naismith back for now. Have .2 in the bank and 2FT
Well, if it’s for a four point hit Welly has to score once more, if it’s for an eight point hit he has to score two more goals. Plus, Iva > Azpi (Azpi didn’t even start 2 games ago IIRC, unsure why). Also, ever considered Baines?
If you do make the move I would wait as long as possible. Pelle/Welly does seem to be a must. But shrugs, Naismith seems to be getting his fair share of points. I’m guessing the Ulloa hypetrain has been put to a stop?
Makeya, id take a hit for that mate! Good effort.
For all you know it’s an 8 point hit for Welly. Good effort? For real? You just want him to fail? 😛
And making it today like a week and half away from the actual game is also a big risk. Especially since England has 2 games with him in it.
Cheers Alex. Has been plaguing me this transfer. I really want welbeck after his hat trick and seeing him in his preferred position. That being said, Raz you have completely valid points. I think I’ll slowly bring welbeck in. I might try and do Ulloa to Naismith now, then after the next GW trade out Krul for a 4.0 goalie as Tottenham fixtures will be pretty smooth after city. This will free funds to get Welbeck, Azpil (he is valued under mourinho as he had a great season last season.) and I’ll also have the chance to upgrade king. Sorted
Cheers for the advise fellas!!
Makeya I wouldn’t make the sideways move of ulloa to Naismith. If you get an injury problem you’ll be stuck with him. Get welbeck in and then if his form drops off you can ditch him. Maybe do your above moves over two weeks if you don’t want a hit?