‘That gobshite again! Is he never off the air!‘ So said Father Jack (from the series Father Ted) about Father Dougal, but he could equally have been referring to me and the frequency of these bloody gameweek reports. Or he could have been talking about Gary Lineker controversially fronting today’s World Cup Draw. Ooh, bit of politics.
Anyway, let’s just get this unpleasantness over with shall we, there’s another round of matches tomorrow after all.
So who top scored this week? Not one of the usual suspects, this week it was James Griffith and the underachievers. And what a top score it was too. In a week where the league average was 47 points, James scored nearly double, 90 points! Impressive stuff. It’s the midfield that stands out, James having 3 of the weeks star performers. De Bruyne, Mane and Salah have all had their moments this season (Salah in particular who is the leagues star performer) but Ashley Young bagging 15 points must have been a particular delight. Nice work from Pickford at the back too, just one of the 18 goalkeepers in the Premiership better than England’s number 1 Joe Hart who let in 4 against Everton.
An honourable mention goes to Matt Hope’s Don’t Watch That FC who have stealthily crept into 4th place, scoring a creditable 59 points (2nd best behind James was Gary Young’s Always Next Year whose very good 69 points was still a whopping 21 points less).
The Underachievers score was enough to steal November’s MOTM award at the death from Keith Lambert’s The Lamb. Congrats James, commiserations Keith. And who’s that sneaking into November’s Top 10 Managers? It’s Pats Alcantera and the Cheeky Boys! I mean Nice Boys.
‘Give over. Really?? England’s best keeper? Oh bless you.’
So, at the top, Tom Ashman’s Bench Warmers FC remain in top spot but a meagre 40 points mean’t they are now just 10 points ahead of Gary Chapman’s GFC (C) in second and my own Los Yobos who dropped to 3rd, a point behind my uglier, meaner, slightly fascist cousin. He hates kids too. And dogs. Just saying. Matt Hope sneaking to 4th means The Lamb are now in 5th, joint on points with Lambeth Lightweights. Worth pointing out just 20 points separates the top 6. What? It wasn’t worth pointing out? Suit yourself.
At the bottom it was more leapfrogging with Rosbroch overtaking Raised by Wolves yet again. Alison Breakwell scoried just 28 this week, just 3 more than the lowest score of the week, 25 points from Erik Lambert’s Muddy’s Men Utd. Chin up all of you, we’re not even half way through the season yet! What do you mean that hasn’t cheered you up? No pleasing some people.
Finally, I did a tiny amount of research into the top 10 teams and there’s a breakdown of the most popular performers below.
I thank you!
Mo Salah: 8
Harry Kane: 7
Dave De Gea: 6
Leroy Sane: 5
Baby Jesus: 4
Lukaku, Morata, Richarlison, GroB: 3
Fray Bentos 