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22 October 2010 745 comments
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Drogba or bust.

That’s pretty much what the results of our Captain’s Poll is telling us this week; Didier Drogba is set to walk away with the armband crown at a canter, and is on 57% of those polled to date. It’s a one horse race, unless of course, you fancy a gamble or find yourself forced to back another nag.

Will a french filly named Malouda be enough to tempt you his way instead? He’s currently galloping along in second place with just 12% of your vote to date; behind him in third is the new flourishing breed from Holland – Van Der Vaart’s form is good but he’s still only clocked up a modest 8% of the vote to this point.

The real long shots aren’t getting much of a look in from our betting public. The horses in question are Carlos Tevez, Nani and Ashley Cole, all straggling along at the back, with just a few punters willing to gamble their Fantasy stake money. The remainder of the runners include the likes of Dimitar Berbatov, Fernando Torres, Gareth Bale, Cesc Fabregas and Steven Gerrard – all big big names who to this point, have gathered just 7% of the vote. Conditions will surely improve for that pack in future Gameweeks, but as far as this weekend is concerned, they’re doing all they can to avoid the glue factory.

So, who are you backing? Don’t forget to go to the frontpage and place your vote and let us know all the same. Particularly if you’re one of the brave, or foolish, few who will be looking beyond the Ivorian thoroughbred.

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  1. Bobby Hundreds
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    Pfhttt, was quite looking forward to Pato in the Prem, too.

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    1. TommyK
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      • 16 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      don't worry, I'm sure citeh'll sign him... 🙁

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  2. mr messi
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    Is it worth doing Alex to Bosingwa for a 4pt hit? My other defenders are Jones, Faye, Williamson and Elmo.

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    1. HST
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      Never worth a 4 pointer for a defender.

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    2. Bobby Hundreds
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      Bosingwa will most likely be out once Alex returns. 4 points for one week seems a little extravagant.

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      1. Gaz Downright
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        • 15 Years
        15 years, 5 months ago

        ludicrous statement.. most likely be out?

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  3. cruyff81
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    i think its all down to ian holloway's rant yesterday that made rooney see sense

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    1. chris81
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      • 16 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      I'm still baffled at how he seemed to take it so personally. Also slightly worrying about his comments about owning players - as far as I'm aware slavery seems to be frowned upon these days

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      1. TommyK
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 5 months ago

        As far as I'm aware, slaves don't get payed £150,000 a week... 😀

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        1. Gaz Downright
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          • 15 Years
          15 years, 5 months ago

          this is the key point

          payed salary is the historical continuance of slavery.

          footballers are but highly payed butlers.

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    2. Jas aka The age of Ozil is …
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      i think the "stick with you cow" speech did the trick.

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    3. Seal
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      holloway for prime minister!!

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  4. Oliver Reed
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    if i had another .1m i would do konchesky>bosingwa..gutted!..

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    1. Cheggers
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      Not worth it anyway mate

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    2. IAmTheWalrus
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      im thinking of doing shawcross to simpson to allow that move

      means a 4 point hit to change defenders tho

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    3. In Like Flynn.
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      • 15 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      I would lend .1 O.R but that would be 2 transfers.

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  5. Seal
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    wouldn't it be ironic if utd now sign some 'big names' that keep rooney out of the team

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    1. Long ago I drew a walrus
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      15 years, 5 months ago

      rooney would be club hero if that happens 😀

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  6. J.A.R.V.I.S
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    Oh you're staying now are you Wayne? oh good cheers for that...

    ..and where exactly am I going to get my Fabregas cash from now?

    (back to the transfer drawing board!!)

    PS. anyone like the look of David Silva, seems in great form but
    too expensive (based on rotation risk) perhaps?

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    1. Will
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      From Torres?

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    2. IAmTheWalrus
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      for now ya, if he starts to hold down the spot then il jump on it

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  7. Drip Doctor
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    What was that AB said about Zhirkov being an oop player for the weekend, is Malouda benched!?!

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    1. Long ago I drew a walrus
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      he is an apple and is bonkers, how can u take him seriously.

      imo there is more chance of cashley being benched (zhirkov at LB) than malouda being benched (zhirkov at LM)

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      1. applebonkers
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        • 16 Years
        15 years, 5 months ago

        with ramires and lampard out i'd say it's pretty likely zhirkov will play in the middle with essien and mikel. evidence a: the match 3 days ago

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        1. applebonkers
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          • 16 Years
          15 years, 5 months ago

          --------------cech-------------
          -unibrow---ivan---terry---cole-
          ---------mikel--essien---------
          --anelka----zhirkov----malouda-
          ---------------drogba----------

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    2. applebonkers
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      • 16 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      zhirkov looks a good bet to be a one week only oop sensation.

      the most realistic threat imo is kalou coming in for either anelka or malouda. i have a funny feeling mceachran will start however pushing zhirkov into malouda's position or lb. 99 times out of 100 though my funny feeling will be wrong

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  8. chris81
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    Intending to bring in Nzogbia for Etherington this week.

    Problem is, who do I bench from midfield/forward:

    Nani, Malouda, Nzogbia, Nasri, Adam
    Tevez, Berbatov, Drogba

    Thinking Nasri - what do you guys think?

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  9. Jas aka The age of Ozil is …
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    Any news on the Chelsea starting 11, besides Drogba and Bosingwa?

    Zhirkov now a lock to start with Ramiers out?

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    1. Long ago I drew a walrus
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      cech will start in goal

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    2. TommyK
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      alex is out for sure

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  10. Long ago I drew a walrus
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    just done samba > bosingwa for a 4pt hit.

    someone convince me that i have done the right thing please

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    1. Bobby Hundreds
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      You've not. Nevermind.

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      1. Bonny Scott
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 5 months ago

        bad move

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    2. chris81
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      Samba won't play. Bosingwa will. Feel better?

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      1. Long ago I drew a walrus
        • 15 Years
        15 years, 5 months ago

        will bosingwa play 60mins?

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        1. Cheggers
          • 16 Years
          15 years, 5 months ago

          Sorry but the spirits are not communicating with me today so i cant answer ur question

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    3. IAmTheWalrus
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      i read in the paper bosingwa will score a hat trick

      confirmed

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  11. Boom!!!
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    is rooney fit for this weekend or should i take a hit and bring in tevez or torres?

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    1. Long ago I drew a walrus
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      rooney has ankle injury

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      1. Boom!!!
        • 15 Years
        15 years, 5 months ago

        is he out this weekened .......do u know the chelsea starting 11.....

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        1. Long ago I drew a walrus
          • 15 Years
          15 years, 5 months ago

          Cech
          Bosingwa Terry Ivanovic
          Essien Mikel
          Drogba

          in a 3-2-1 formation 😀
          zhirkov, kalou, anleka and malouda are likely to be the other 4.

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          1. Boom!!!
            • 15 Years
            15 years, 5 months ago

            is it worth transferring out nasri for kalou this gw or alex to zhirkov.......

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            1. Admiral Stark
              • 15 Years
              15 years, 5 months ago

              That wouldn't be a wise move

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          2. reedybob91
            • 15 Years
            15 years, 5 months ago

            hope cashley owners are reading this

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      2. IAmTheWalrus
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 5 months ago

        he had an ankle injury and was leaving

        i wudn be so matter of fact about anything anymore

        rooney has changed my outlook on life

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  12. David Davros
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    Could have been mind games afterall to take attention away from Rooney's personal life.

    Anyone thinking now may be the time to get him in? One hell of a gamble but it could be genius, Drog out Roo in, buy buy buy!

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    1. Long ago I drew a walrus
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      yeah do it this week! 😀

      (p.s. rooney is injured and drogba has wolves at home, but hey...)

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      1. David Davros
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 5 months ago

        BUY BUY BUY

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  13. Ich bin Klopp
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    Can any of you nice folk tell me if the Liverpool team has been posted yet?

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    1. Long ago I drew a walrus
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      only ancelotti posts his team a day early, and even if hodgson posted his team a day early it wouldnt matter cos they play on sunday

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      1. IAmTheWalrus
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 5 months ago

        but we ffers gey it off some lovely poster every week, who mystically knows

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      2. Ich bin Klopp
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 5 months ago

        Oh no... there is another. Strong with the team selection is he! Cant remember his name though!?!

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        1. Long ago I drew a walrus
          • 15 Years
          15 years, 5 months ago

          martin o'neill maybe? played the same team every week

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  14. FPLord
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    I need to transfer one defender out for a 4p hit to be able to field 3 defenders?

    Shall I transfer out Alex or K.Toure?

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    1. Long ago I drew a walrus
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      alex imo, he might lose his place after his return from injury, toure is more nailed on.

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      1. FPLord
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 5 months ago

        since when? City's CBs are Lescott, Kompany and Toure. Toure faces same rotation risk as Alex, me thinks

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    2. OMG
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      15 years, 5 months ago

      id go bosingwa, I rekon he will get plenty of games on the right

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      1. FPLord
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 5 months ago

        Cheers, but I think I'll go Elmo as I could do Malouda>Fabs next week without a hit.

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  15. Raccoon
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    Just run the numbers and it's a tough call between benching Yaya and Etherington, any opinions?

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    1. Cheggers
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      Bench Yaya. Maybe even sell him and get someone else

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      1. Raccoon
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 5 months ago

        Yeah, I've wanted shot of him for a while, but the Fabregas shuffle is a bit too pressing for me to get shot of him right now. I'll be looking at an Adam/Brunt/N'Zog move in a couple of weeks I imagine.

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  16. RottenTroll
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    1. Simpson + Kalou (or Essien); or
    2. Bosingwa + Brunt

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  17. pcpompey
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    how about if Rooney starts after we heard he had ankle injury and he was leaving ,...

    was gonna get rid of him but now have to re think again
    don't even know what is real or fake at UTD

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  18. mo 10 years on FFS? Join my…
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    I would love to know the odds (and back them) for rooney still to leave in the next year or so. United to have said sign so we get the money we deserve for you. thoughts?

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    1. Boom!!!
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      no as long as sir alex is there he has no chance of leaving now that he has sign a contract.....smalls clubs do that they persue players to sign a new contract so that they can get more money.........

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    2. IAmTheWalrus
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      why would rooney agree to that, prospective buyers were focusing their bids on pleasing rooney, now they would have to please manu again

      i.e there was rumours of 100 million from man city, 50 to united 50 to rooney in wages over the period of his contract, now it would be 80 to united , whatever to rooney

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  19. TommyK
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    Wow- the REALLY big breaking news story today...

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11604193

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  20. Schwarzer
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    Hey guys I think it's time for the wildcard, especially for the defence. Yay or nay?

    Hahnemann Foster
    O'Shea Shawcross Samba Van Damme Jagielka
    Arteta Malouda Etherington Petrov VdV
    Berba Drogba Carroll

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    1. Boom!!!
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      ur attack and mid is good but ur defence is very poor at the moment.....

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    2. Lovely Jubbly Lions
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      a wildcard team without tevez and a.cole is just........
      http://i56.tinypic.com/smbomg.jpg

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  21. Boom!!!
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    is beye a good option for under 4.4 defender for a couple of weeks since i need some cash to buy fab next week and luke young is out for 3-4 weeks........

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  22. Armchair Manager
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    Is kolo toure and alex both out? is it worth a 4point hit to bring in sumone?

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  23. Flog the trog
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    Anyone risking cashley?

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  24. Hughnon
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    Just reloaded my page to see if Drogba's red flag had gone. It had. The page had also captained Berbatov rather than Drogba for me, had benched Bale rather than Carroll, and had turned Drogba into a midfielder. WTF?

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/Hughnon/Drogbamidfielder.jpg

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    1. Armchair Manager
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      Quality midfield

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      1. Hughnon
        • 15 Years
        15 years, 5 months ago

        Cheers. Picked 'em up when they were still cheap..!

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        1. reedybob91
          • 15 Years
          15 years, 5 months ago

          the guy on the lefts a bit dodgy think about dropping him if i was you

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    2. Blyth Spartans
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      I remember the season before last at one point i looked at the person with the highest score that gameweeks team an it had four man utd players in it?!?!

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      1. reedybob91
        • 15 Years
        15 years, 5 months ago

        sure you wernt looking at dream team?

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        1. Blyth Spartans
          • 15 Years
          15 years, 5 months ago

          No definitely not i even got my friends to look at it to make sure i wasnt just being an idiot lol honestly that game makes more mistakes than a newcastle era titus bramble. Im figured out that one ofthe man utd players on his teams points were in fact the points of a player from a different team and a technical glitch had put the graphic of a man utd player on his team on the team of the week page i doubt he actually had four even with technical errors e.t.c i doubt they are that bad

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  25. Basicilly
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    Struggling to decide who to play between Foster and Carson?

    also between Solcido and Carroll

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  26. nz_mancity_fan
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    damn you alex looks like im dropping him fulltime as i see bos and ferrira rotating for rb and terry ivanivic and alex rotating for cb.
    therefore im going to dump alex and malauda for bosingwa and kalou allowing fabs in next week for dempsey
    if not i risk 10 players due to wilshere and kaboul warming the bench. any reason to think otherwise?

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    1. Blyth Spartans
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      Kalou is a bit parter and bosingwa may be too bad transfers mman really bad from your own understanding of the rotation situation you just described you should get cech or noone. Maybe essien.

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  27. FootballFarrago
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    Is Dorgba fit at the moment? Was he just rested for the champions league game?

    Read all about another Prem striker - you might have heard of him - goes by the name of Wayne Mark Rooney:

    http://www.footballfarrago.com/2010/10/me-foot-hurts-boss-wayne-rooney-special.html

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    1. IAmTheWalrus
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 5 months ago

      i think ur a bit mental

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      1. FootballFarrago
        • 15 Years
        15 years, 5 months ago

        thanks...did u like the article?

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  28. Flog the trog
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    Aaaaargh tevez went up again n now I can't afford him =( is anyone risking cashley this week?

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  29. Basicilly
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    2 out of

    Jones Shawx Solcido Carroll

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  30. Fabtastic
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 5 months ago

    The captain's choice really is a case of horses for courses isn't it Andy?

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