An increasingly rare report that lands at least the day before the actual matches start, does anyone have anything to say about it? Do they? Well? Right, let’s move on.
Top score this week was Keith Lambert’s The Lamb with 78 big ones. Points were spread around liberally, with Danilo, Doucoure, GroB, Salah and even goal-shy fop Lukaku chipping in. Keith’s haul saw him leap up to 7th from, I think, just outside the top ten the week previous, chapeu Keith.
At the other end of the fantasy wedge, Mark Winter’s Expecting Failure won’t have been surprised to score just 20 points. No Mahrez for Mark, at least his second highest scoring starter was his captain, but sadly his second highest scoring starter was Sterling, who scored 3. On the bench, reserve keeper Lossl scored 10 points, or 50% of the starting 11 put together. Oh dear.
At the top, after weeks of Bench Warmers FC showing the rest of us his suspicously pert behind, we have yet another new leader. Penfolds Patriots went top with 51 points, thanks in no small part to Captain Mo Salah delivering double his juicy 15 points. Dropping back to second was Gary Chapman’s GFC (C) who scored roughly the same amount of points as Trevor but had the misfortune to hand the captains armband to Sergio Aguero who delivered two times… two. Thanks for that Sergio.
Little other change in the top 10, a bit of nip and tuck, but a tawdry 28 points for Paul Hope’s English XI saw them drop two places to 8th. And my own dismal run of form saw Los Yobos clinging to the top 10 by two points. A small man in my position would point to Captain Kane missing a pen, my Palace defender being stretchered off after 20 minutes, and Marco Alonso being mysteriously dropped by a manager who appears to have seen how much cash he’ll get if he’s fired by Abramovich. And so I point to all those things.
Last and least, but with a rare ray of good news, Raymond Conley Smith’s Alasdairs Army scored a, relatively, mammoth 48 points to remind us all that he’s not finished yet. Salah and GroB providing the rump of the points.
On the actual football pitches of real life, top scorer as a player was Rambo Ramsey with useful scores also posted by newly moved Mkhitaryan and newly re-transferred from Barca Gerard Deulofeu. Interesting transfer options? Don’t ask me.
That’s your lot!
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