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28 December 2014 2842 comments
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Here we go again, then. Less than 48 hours after Gameweek 18 got underway, the next round of fixtures is already thrust upon us – with only a handful of official news updates yesterday, though, we are mainly left to assess the lay of the land after Friday’s fixtures.

Phil Jagielka (hamstring) and Tim Howard (calf) are both likely to miss Everton’s trip to Newcastle after the pair was forced off with injuries in the home loss to Stoke. Kevin Mirallas and John Stones will be assessed after the duo sustained knocks in Friday’s 1-0 defeat. Mo Besic is hoping to shrug off an illness in time, though Steven Naismith is set to serve a one-match ban after topping off the Suspension Tightrope.

Olivier Giroud serves the first of a three-match ban as Arsenal head to West Ham this afternoon after his Boxing Day dismissal at home to QPR. Laurent Koscielny “has a chance” of making the match, though Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain “has an ever smaller chance” after missing Friday’s match with a groin problem.

Marouane Fellaini is ruled out of Man United’s trip to Spurs with a broken rib, whilst Adnan Januzaj is set miss out through illness. United are awaiting scans on the pelvic problem that forced Angel Di Maria out of Friday’s win over Newcastle. Judging by Ashley Young’s Instagram account, it seems Luke Shaw is back in the squad for the trip to White Hart Lane.

Gabby Agbonlahor will miss Aston Villa’s home encounter with Sunderland due to suspension. The forward earned his fifth yellow of the season away to Swansea and will serve a one-match ban.

Mark Hughes will check on Bojan (back) and Phil Bardsley (calf) ahead of the derby visit of West Brom, whilst Ryan Shawcross is expected to start despite picking up a head knock at Everton.

Fraizer Campbell is a doubt as managerless Palace travel to London neighbours QPR just 24 hours after the dismissal of Neil Warnock. The forward limped off just after the break in Friday’s home loss to Southampton.

Leicester’s Jamie Vardy is also unavailable after earning his fifth caution of the campaign in Gameweek 18, whilst Andy King has been ruled out with the knock that forced him off against Spurs.

Brad Jones is likely to miss Liverpool’s home clash with Swansea after being forced off with a thigh injury in the first-half of Friday’s win at Burnley. Simon Mignolet is set to return to the starting XI after being dropped due to poor form in recent weeks.

Stevan Jovetic and Vincent Kompany could return for City’s home clash with Burnley, according to reports. The former has stepped up his recovery from another hamstring problem and was an unused sub in Friday’s win at West Brom.

Andrew Robertson is a doubt for Hull due to a hamstring problem. James Chester misses the visit of Leicester through suspension, whilst Jake Livermore returns after serving a similar one-match ban.

Carl Jenkinson is unavailable to face parent club Arsenal at Upton Park later today, whilst Sam Allardyce still has doubts over James Tomkins’ ongoing hamstring problem.

All this and more has now been updated in the Team News section ahead of this morning’s deadline. Keep an eye on our official Twitter Stream as breaking news unfolds.

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  1. FPL Blow-In
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    • 13 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Ahh my finger is over the trigger for Yun to Kolorov -4!!! Confirm??

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    1. ILOVEBAPS
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Yolo

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      1. ILOVEBAPS
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 2 months ago

        But don't blame me if it goes tits up!

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    2. Blonde Faith
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      11 years, 2 months ago

      If you've got the cash, I'd have Zab instead but yeah, if any defender is worth it ATM, he is

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      1. FPL Blow-In
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        • 13 Years
        11 years, 2 months ago

        I have Zab also

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        1. Blonde Faith
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 2 months ago

          That makes it less attractive – how confident are you of a city CS? Your risk goes up, and one of them has to get at least 6pts to make it worthwhile. I'm not sure it is 🙁

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    3. mojoindojo
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Go for it. I have both Zab and Kolorov

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    4. FPL Blow-In
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      • 13 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      I done it transfer made.... PANIC!

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      1. ILOVEBAPS
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 2 months ago

        Best of luck! I admit I have thought about Clichy > Kolo for a hit too but not sure one rotation issue is worth another.

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        1. FPL Blow-In
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          • 13 Years
          11 years, 2 months ago

          Cheers best of luck to you too

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  2. Blonde Faith
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    So I have Clichy, Janmaat, Wisdom, Chester, Yun at the back. The last two are out, Clichy is a strong rotation risk. Got 3.2m in the bank +1FT so it's either:

    A) Yun > Skrtel or Terry
    B) same as (A) but also do Clichy > Zabaleta for a hit

    Already got 3 City, so doubling-up not an option, and I'm mindful of the old adage re taking hits for defenders... I'm open to better suggestions for (A) tho.

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    1. Belli2007
      • 15 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Yun to Terry

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    2. mojoindojo
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      A with terry

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    3. Blonde Faith
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      11 years, 2 months ago

      Thanks guys, I'm liking the Terry move 🙂

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  3. zencro 42
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    11 years, 2 months ago

    Jags to Kolarov... done!

    Goal and assist incoming

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    1. mojoindojo
      • 12 Years
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      Along with cs

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  4. Mumm-Ra
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    11 years, 2 months ago

    Andy Carroll up front v Arsenal. Balls out.

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  5. Mohit20
    • 11 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    good to go??

    foster
    azpi janmaat zaba
    silva sanchez yaya (c) downing
    costa austin (vc) kane

    krul* siggi chester* yun

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  6. Belli2007
    • 15 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Which to bench out of

    A Hazard
    B Kane
    C Downing

    ?? Very difficult

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    1. ILOVEBAPS
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Downing but Haz if you don't trust his away record.

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      1. Belli2007
        • 15 Years
        11 years, 2 months ago

        I have contemplate Haz, always risky benching a pen taker though so currently have Downing benched.

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  7. v0lt026
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    11 years, 2 months ago

    Is it madness to bring Kompany in now?

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    1. zencro 42
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      11 years, 2 months ago

      Yes, seeing as he's injured atm

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  8. threeputt
    • 16 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    none of the above

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    1. Blonde Faith
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      aww.. not even oneputt?

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    2. Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      spoil your vote

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  9. Mumm-Ra
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Bench Siggi or Mirallas?

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    1. OPTA FPL
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Kevin

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  10. Mohit20
    • 11 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    yaya silva or austin for the captain??

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    1. mojoindojo
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Silva

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  11. gatherjunk
    • 11 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Start Pants (AVL A) or Fabianski (Liv A)

    Bad defence vs bad attack and good attack vs good defence basically.

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    1. Belli2007
      • 15 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      pants

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  12. ratski
    • 15 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    What would you do....
    A. No hit. Siggy and Baines out. Silva and Hutton in.
    B. Hit. Rvp, siggy and Davies out. Zab, silva and Kane in.

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    1. mojoindojo
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      A.

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      1. ratski
        • 15 Years
        11 years, 2 months ago

        I'm chasing and think I should take a gamble but I know rvp will punish me!

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        1. Belli2007
          • 15 Years
          11 years, 2 months ago

          A

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  13. Matt
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Ok let's try this a different way. I'm not captaining Austin.

    Would you captain Zabaleta or Costa?

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    1. Scoredelario
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      • 15 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      No

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      1. Defcons are for Kinnear
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 2 months ago

        This

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    2. Defcons are for Kinnear
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Costa to Austin (c)
      Problem solved

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    3. mojoindojo
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Zabaleta

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  14. Scoredelario
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Wenger is at risk of ruining Chambers' career IMO.

    His confidence must be destroyed, because he has been played too much, too early.

    He was much better off at Southampton without the limelight

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    1. gatherjunk
      • 11 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      :S

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  15. Blue Gaffer
    • 16 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Downing-------->Silva -4 y or n? Already got Yaya

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  16. JaydenLFC87
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Is it right in thinking that both Silva and Austin should score high today, Austin has more time on the pitch though with silva coming off around 60mins, does this make Charlie the better option??

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    1. ILOVEBAPS
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      The question of the GW. No one knows.
      And what about Jovetic getting some minutes too?

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  17. Defcons are for Kinnear
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Austin (c). And that's the bottom line

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    1. Matt
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      I can't do it. Not against Palace

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      1. Defcons are for Kinnear
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 2 months ago

        When in doubt captain the forward
        don't captain defs

        just following a couple of FPL rules

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      2. 1314
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 2 months ago

        austin scored 3 against WBA , whose away defense seemed much better

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    2. Scoredelario
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Opinions are being affected by the recency of his hattrick when many had regretted not captaining him. kind of like everyone thought Costa would score a hattrick when he was I doubt, because..... Well..... he scored a hattrick when he was an injury doubt.

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      1. tokara
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 2 months ago

        U koe what will happen when the herb places the C him

        Like the C on kun lol

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      2. Defcons are for Kinnear
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 2 months ago

        That's fine but you were supposed to reply coz stone cold said so 🙂

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  18. OPTA FPL
    • 14 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Why the feck people keep asking again and again: Yaya Austin or Silva captain
    There is a captain poll with 20k people voted in homepage, also that question is repost at least 10 times per page in last 1 hour, people cannot read???!!!

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    1. OPTA FPL
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      *reposted

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    2. Defcons are for Kinnear
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Well if they can write I'd assume they can read

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    3. LMFAO
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Because they are useless at FPL and need help of course.

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      1. chrisdale98
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 2 months ago

        Says the person that made an account on a website that helps people at fpl

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        1. Defcons are for Kinnear
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 2 months ago

          😆

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    4. ILOVEBAPS
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Have an up vote good sir.

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    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Austin will blank likely. He's my captain though, never scored a point for me .This is his 3rd Gameweek in my team!

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  20. Eye of the Schweinsteiger
    • 11 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Does Sterling(c) sound mad??

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    1. Scoredelario
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      • 15 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Yeah, It's hard to pronounce

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      1. Marty McFly
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 2 months ago

        Haha

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      2. Eye of the Schweinsteiger
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 2 months ago

        Yep that way too!

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    2. Pilko's Pump Pants
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Depends on your other options and how desperately you need a differential

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      1. Eye of the Schweinsteiger
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 2 months ago

        Badly need a differential

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        1. Pilko's Pump Pants
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 2 months ago

          I brought him in this week but I'm giving the armband to Silva, he's worth a punt if you're playing catchup

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    3. Marty McFly
      • 13 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      It's a decent punt for this week. Depends on your rank really. Even not as a captain he is a good differential amongst the higher players.

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  21. Shrimp On The Barb
    • 11 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Someone please reply xD
    Play Eriksen and Kane or
    Downing and Kane?
    Ty

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    1. KLOPPTOMANIA
      • 16 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Eriksen Kane probs, toughie

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    2. Pilko's Pump Pants
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Whenever possible I would prefer to avoid double Spuds

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      1. fishnil
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 2 months ago

        This!

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  22. chrisdale98
    • 11 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Clichy ---> Zabaleta -4?

    Plan is to go the opposite way the game after

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    1. KLOPPTOMANIA
      • 16 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Noop

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    2. fishnil
      • 11 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      If you think this is the only transfer you need. Go ahead.

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  23. KLOPPTOMANIA
    • 16 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    GTG?

    Guzan
    Baines, Hutton, Zabs
    Hazard, Sanchez, Downing, Silva
    Costa, Bony, Austin

    (Chambers, Dummet, Boyd)

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  24. Scoredelario
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Note to all. If you change your team now, you may well make a huge mistake

    And you may equally make a season defining correct decision.

    😉

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    1. Defcons are for Kinnear
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Or you could not do nothing wrong

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    2. mojoindojo
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Very helpful and decisive advice 😀

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      1. Scoredelario
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        11 years, 2 months ago

        I'm trying to cause a little bit of chaos haha

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  25. box of horses
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Chambers or wisdom? Fear Chambers could come on for 1 point if he stays benched. Or was his appearance last game solely due to the giroud red card?

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    1. Eye of the Schweinsteiger
      • 11 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Wisdom is safer both ways

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  26. WoodsyOwl
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    a) Play Hutton and no hit
    b) Siggy to Mata or Sterling (-4) and bench Hutton

    Thoughts?

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  27. ILOVEBAPS
    • 13 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Damn u all! Putting doubt in my mind!

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    1. Scoredelario
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      Or maybe it is good. Or maybe not

      But maybe?

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  28. FPL Daniel
    • 16 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Snowwwwwwwwwwwwwww it is snowing outside. Yeaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh

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    1. threeputt
      • 16 Years
      11 years, 2 months ago

      where dat ?

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  29. threeputt
    • 16 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    if only the early match was city burnley, transfer choices or what !

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  30. Venom Snake
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 2 months ago

    Okay everyone, put all your energy into RvP blanking. Thanks!

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