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Hamstring Fears For Fabregas. Walcott Out of Carling Final

23 February 2011 802 comments
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Arsene Wenger has confirmed that his skipper Cesc Fabregas sustained a hamstring injury in tonight’s 1-0 win over Stoke. The Arsenal boss has stated that Fabregas will be assessed on Thursday, prior to Sunday’s Carling Cup Final with Birmingham.

The fear is that Fabregas has suffered a recurrence of a hamstring injury, sustained back in November that kept him sidelined for a number of weeks. Wenger had this to say in his post-match comments…

“It is of course a concern that he is injured but it can happen unfortunately. He was very upset, I am as well, but it is not his fault and it is not my fault, it is part of sport. It’s strange that it happened early in the game but we have to face it.”

Theo Walcott is also a major worry for Wenger. The flying winger was stretchered from the field on 71 minutes tonight. Wenger has confirmed that Walcott has suffered an ankle strain and has already ruled him out of Sunday’s final.

Looking beyond Sunday, Fantasy Managers need to consider the likelihood that Fabregas will play a part in Arsenal’s next league game against Sunderland at the Emirates. That match falls just three days before the second leg of the Champions League tie with Barcelona. It therefore seems very unlikely that Fabregas will be risked against the Black Cats given the apparent fragility of the Arsenal’s skipper’s hamstrings.

With Robin Van Persie also nursing a hamstring problem, there’s every chance that Arsenal could go into the Sunderland fixture without arguably their two key attacking players. Wenger has confirmed that Van Persie’s fitness will be assessed on Friday ahead of Sunday’s final.

Fantasy Managers currently sitting on Fabregas and/or Van Persie are faced with a blank fixture in the forthcoming gameweek and must now make a decision whether to risk benching and holding the Arsenal pair, with the hope that they will play some part in gameweek 29.

Right now we’re dealing only in pure speculation but, it has to be said, the chances of Fabregas and possibly Van Persie facing Sunderland, look fairly remote.

We await more information from Mr Wenger.

Mark Mark created the beast. He's now looking to tame it.

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  1. Smarty Pants
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    Rankings recalculated.
    Down 22 places in comparison to yesterday. That's ok, was expecting more damage from Nani's 10 pointer kicking in and Arsenal's defense.

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  2. J0E
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    • 16 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    Just dropped 46 places, smallest change I've ever had I think.

    Five players out, two free subs....looking like Sat morning is Fabs and Adam out for Cahill and A Young o'clock for me. Rooney can go fiddle with his Fanni for all I care. He's not setting foot in my team.

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    1. Twisted Saltergater
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      • 16 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      Got A Young and Cahill in a few weeks ago in preparation for this period (and they both played Blackpool in consecutive weeks) and apart from Young's fine DGW, they've done diddly squat! Now everyone is going to have them I won't be so chuffed if they do well, lol.

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  3. disparate dan - a reasonabl…
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    15 years, 2 months ago

    up from 44k to 28k

    chuffed

    especially as i was 176k at new years

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    1. Attila the Bum
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      15 years, 2 months ago

      Just posted to MnL, I'm up 157,000 places in the last four weeks - really pleased with that!

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      1. Marknlard
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        15 years, 2 months ago

        Up 600k places since GW23, so the Most Improved Player award that gets handed to the fat crap kid is heading my way.

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        1. Attila the Bum
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          • 15 Years
          15 years, 2 months ago

          😆
          Must be time for Beaker to make his re-appearance then?

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          1. Marknlard
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            15 years, 2 months ago

            It could be, I'm impressed you remember that!

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            1. Attila the Bum
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              15 years, 2 months ago

              I remember everything MnL. Everything.

              *apart from anything useful........
              oh and what happened prior to waking up with a dead stripper.

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        2. sy
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          15 years, 2 months ago

          Thats some big points in the past few weeks, two 100+ scores impressive.

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          1. Marknlard
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            15 years, 2 months ago

            Ta but I couldn't have done it without the second wildcard.

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        3. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
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          • 16 Years
          15 years, 2 months ago

          730k for me, Mnl ... 😉

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          1. Marknlard
            • 16 Years
            15 years, 2 months ago

            Just pipped! Go on then fatty, you have the award.

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            1. Marknlard
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              15 years, 2 months ago

              And good work for turning it around. Nice feeling!

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              1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
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                • 16 Years
                15 years, 2 months ago

                Cheers, Mnl! 🙂

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            2. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
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              • 16 Years
              15 years, 2 months ago

              Oh, thank you so much!!! I must thank my parents, my uncles and my aunts, Tom Cobbleigh an'all ... 😉

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          2. Oliver Reed
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            15 years, 2 months ago

            ive gone from 650k to 140k, but can see me dropping down to 500k after next week. im going mental with the hits and no one can stop me 🙂

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            1. Marknlard
              • 16 Years
              15 years, 2 months ago

              You really do love them hits.

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            2. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
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              15 years, 2 months ago

              Hold it!!! Well done Oliver! 😀

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      2. disparate dan - a reasonabl…
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        15 years, 2 months ago

        i like to think we're just kicking ass, rather than there are a lot of people losing interest in the fpl!!

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        1. Marknlard
          • 16 Years
          15 years, 2 months ago

          Shut it, you. Don't burst the bubble.

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          1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
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            15 years, 2 months ago

            Quite. 😀

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          2. disparate dan - a reasonabl…
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            15 years, 2 months ago

            i'm not!!

            i was taking the positive stance!!

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            1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
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              15 years, 2 months ago

              We know, really ... 😉

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  4. Rick James
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    15 years, 2 months ago

    RVP out for Rooney worth a 4 pointer?

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    1. Will
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      15 years, 2 months ago

      Probably

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    2. sy
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      15 years, 2 months ago

      Depends if you can field 11 without the hit, as if you cant Rooney playing 60 mins + in both games will nullify the 4 point hit.

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      1. Rick James
        • 15 Years
        15 years, 2 months ago

        I can field 11 if Cahill plays.
        Will have a front line with Odem in it though.
        The only thing with taking a 4 pointer to take out RVP is it actually costs you 8 points if you had a trade planned for next week as well as bringing RVP back in.
        The other trade would be a double game week player so it might all cancel out!

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  5. ArcticJunkie
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    15 years, 2 months ago

    I'll settle for 88 points this week. What's the plan with Adam? I'm thinking of Adam > Cahill, but heard a few comments on here and elsewhere that Cahill maybe a doubt.

    Gordon
    Coleman Kolarov Vidic Huth
    (Adam) Nani(C) Brunt Barton
    Berbatov Tevez

    Foster Odemwingie Djourou (Fabregas)

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  6. Twisted Saltergater
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    • 16 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    Can anyone see a midfielder that will get me 4+ points next week? I have A Young, Cahill and Nani.

    Tempted to just bring in a keeper for Stockdale and play 10 as there'll be plenty of teams taking points hits.

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    1. Dalek
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      Raul

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      1. Twisted Saltergater
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        • 16 Years
        15 years, 2 months ago

        Yeah, possibly. Surely that boat has sailed though and is now re-entering the harbour!

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  7. Dalek
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    ranked 4,230th this week with 113 - I'm chuffed 😛 even better that a 4 point hit is the worst I'll have to do next week

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  8. Waldaz
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    Anyone a bit happy of these blank gameweeks/suspensions etc.? Teams are gonna be slightly different now.

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  9. Super-Hans
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    Green arrow! 1616th place! Yahoo!

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    1. "The Special One"
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      goin well... got 9 this week! 1 free, looks like a hit!

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  10. SaintMatt
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    Broke the 100 mark for the first time! Thank you Matthew Etherington's Jaw! 😀

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  11. Onwards
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    Who do you reckon the best 3 midfielders are for the next 3 gws? Price no object.

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    1. Babytigrrr
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      • 16 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      Nani, Cahill, Barton

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      1. Onwards
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 2 months ago

        I've got Nani and Barton but I'm not convinced by Cahill. Even if he's not injured, he is knackered.

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        1. Babytigrrr
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          15 years, 2 months ago

          Very slim pickings atm

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          1. Onwards
            • 16 Years
            15 years, 2 months ago

            Definitely. I'm even considering Fellaini!

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  12. Syd.
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    15 years, 2 months ago

    How much will Tevez rise and RVP fall over the next 2 GWs?

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  13. matiakez
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    I've got to see Johan Djourou is turning into my favourite FPL player, none of my rivals have him 😀

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    1. ArcticJunkie
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      +1 🙂

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  14. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    Both Rooney and Tevez goin up tonight! Really annoyed that my hand is being forced with Tevez before he plays tomorrow. Idiots. 🙁

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    1. Syd.
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      Same here... It's only 0.1 so I might just wait and see

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  15. Dalek
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    21 Get Defoe Kuyt Jed Alexander 116 1636
    21 Scalachis Allstars patrick Tyrrell 116 1636
    23 Bash FC Vanessa Naveed 116 1636

    Numbers on the left show the world rankings...what were the odds of that?

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    1. Marknlard
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      Hope they've had identical teams for the entire season.

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  16. DOCLES
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    Okay so i have two free transfers this week, I'm playing my wildcard.
    Will i have two free next week?

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    1. Waldaz
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      no

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    2. Boom!!!
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      no.

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      1. DOCLES
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 2 months ago

        thanks guys!

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  17. ArcticJunkie
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    Damn, what a bummer. I'm 0.1 off Adam > Cahill transfer 🙁

    Fabregas > Cahill would free up plenty of funds to do the transfer. That would mean either benching Adam or taking a 4 point hit to bring in a replacement for him. What are your thoughts on this gents?

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    1. Shipstontrev
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      15 years, 2 months ago

      How about Adam to Arteta, Everton have to get a penalty sometime. Silva has 2 good fixtures FUL WIG.

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  18. HuttonDressedasLahm
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    15 years, 2 months ago

    Didnt see the game onight...how was Rooney..honestly??

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    1. Shipstontrev
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      Stuck out on the left, hardly got a touch all game.

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  19. SuperDorrans
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    15 years, 2 months ago

    Going to keep Fabregas I think if he's back for next game.

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    1. ArcticJunkie
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      Are you planning on bringing in Cahill SuperDorrans?

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      1. SuperDorrans
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 2 months ago

        Already have him...

        Have a midfield of Fabs, Cahill, Nani, Brunt & Adam at present.

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        1. HuttonDressedasLahm
          • 16 Years
          15 years, 2 months ago

          Ah the game against Cattermole 3 days before a trip to Barca...hmmmm

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          1. SuperDorrans
            • 16 Years
            15 years, 2 months ago

            Oops, for some reason thought the game against Barca was next Tuesday before the Sunderland match.

            Suppose I'm going to get rid then but I want him back for when they come to us.

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  20. ssetem
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    dunno who to get out of rooney or berba??

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  21. "The Special One"
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    Up 24k...!!

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  22. Attila the Bum
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    • 15 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    I'm going to hold my hands up here - I was sceptical of the second wildcard idea, hated it at the beginning..........
    But to be fair it appears to have saved my season, I love you second wildcard I really do. 😥

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    1. Drip Doctor
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      • 15 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      I still don't like it. Coming up to January, teams were starting to look a lot different. Now everyone has pretty much the same team with a few differentials.

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      1. Attila the Bum
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        • 15 Years
        15 years, 2 months ago

        Everyone on here maybe, still different enough to a good few rivals. Well for me anyway, I honestly don't give much of a toss if everyone's side here is identical it's the private league that matters! 🙂

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  23. Dalek
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    15 years, 2 months ago

    Next weeks team:

    Myhill
    JE - Vidic - Carragher - Baines
    Meireles - Nani (C) - Cahill
    Best - Tevez - Campbell

    SUBS: Szczensy - RJ - Fabregas - Adam

    If Cahill's injured I'll only field 10 men, but it aint then end of the world.

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    1. TorresMagic™
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      • 16 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      Why do you have Jonny Evans?

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      1. Shipstontrev
        • 16 Years
        15 years, 2 months ago

        Jose Enrique surely?

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        1. TorresMagic™
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          • 16 Years
          15 years, 2 months ago

          😉

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    2. TorresMagic™
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      • 16 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      You need to fix that link Dalek.

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  24. Drip Doctor
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    Right chaps, this is the team im looking at for GW28

    Huth Kolarov Kelly Coleman
    Nani Silva Arteta Young
    Odem Tevez

    Would you lose Odem for Berba for a hit?

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    1. Locarno
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      I'd get a keeper...

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      1. Drip Doctor
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        • 15 Years
        15 years, 2 months ago

        Oh, it's Harper.

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        1. Locarno
          • 15 Years
          15 years, 2 months ago

          I wouldn't. So many of us are scrabbling to get 10 or 11 on the field, it seems daft to take a hit to get rid of a starting player.

          Cue nine goals from Berbasloth.

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  25. SuperDorrans
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    Adam > Silva
    Brunt > Barton

    4 point hit? Going to keep Fabregas if he's fit for Sunderland.

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  26. Oliver Reed
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    top 4 must have players for next week!?!?!!

    heads are going to roll 😉

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  27. batman
    • 16 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    Can anyone pls tell me who got the BP's...ARS v STO...

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    1. Clarkie
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      Wilshere nasri arshavin

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    2. Shipstontrev
      • 16 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      Wilshere 3 Nasri 2 Arshavin 1

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  28. TorresMagic™
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    • 16 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    Millionaire Club safety score is 62. Pretty sure noone will be getting knocked out this week.

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  29. SaintMatt
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    I wouldn't mate. Berbatov might not play against Chelsea and I can see Odemwingie coming good when we all get him out, Stoke away isn't really the worst fixture in the world.

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    1. SaintMatt
      • 15 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      Reply fail. Meant to be for Chamakh That.

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  30. disparate dan - a reasonabl…
    • 15 Years
    15 years, 2 months ago

    rvp to roonhog

    done.

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    1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
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      • 16 Years
      15 years, 2 months ago

      Father-in-Law: Defoe to Rooney, done!

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      1. Locarno
        • 15 Years
        15 years, 2 months ago

        Wow. He likes out-of-form players, your missus's dad.

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        1. Shipstontrev
          • 16 Years
          15 years, 2 months ago

          +1 Has he got Elmander as well?

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