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17 December 2016 1498 comments
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Saturday’s events continue with a quartet of three o’clock kick-offs.

From a Fantasy Football perspective, interest appears limited to Sunderland’s Stadium of Light encounter with Watford and West Ham’s meeting with Hull City at the London Stadium.

Jermain Defoe’s 25.4% ownership will have high hopes of the Black Cats’ marksman ahead of his collision with the Hornets defence.

Walter Mazzarri’s rearguard have shipped an average of two goals a game on their travels, a statistic that suggests that Defoe will have the opportunity to return to the scoresheet having blanked in his previous two Gameweek outings.

Much is expected of West Ham’s primary attacking asses – Dimitri Payet, Michail Antonio and Andy Carroll – against Hull City.

The Tigers arrive having conceded 20 goals in eight away matches, 35 overall this season – more than any other side on both counts.

Elsewhere, Swansea’s Gylfi Sigurdsson will carry the hopes of his 10.3% ownership into a Riverside Stadium meeting with Middlesbrough.

The home side shipped three goals in midweek to Liverpool, but, to that point, were resolute in defence, conceding seven goals over their seven previous outings on Teesside.

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

  1. MrMaverick
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    I could really do without FPL

    1. MrMaverick
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Int breaks

      Where art thou

    2. MarvelouSuccess
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      jose can do without the media circus

    3. Drip Doctor
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Bye Felecia.

    4. Ayew Serious
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      It's a game. You have a choice not to play

      1. Drip Doctor
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        We don't choose the FPL life, the FPL life chooses us.

    5. moz_1983
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Just like "i'm never drinking again". You can never leave!

    6. bojack
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Me too. It's worse than ampethamime addiction.

    7. jbenny1107
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Bye

  2. Lecky Legs FC
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    I'm not even contemplating of getting rid of Costa even if it is just for one game.

    1. jayzico
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      I'd lose 0.8 mill on him. Best guy i owned all season

    2. jayzico
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Sig > Lal

      I know it's too early but exact cash and adam goes up tonight, thus can't afford.

      Yeah?

  3. MarvelouSuccess
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    people picking carroll never learn. olympic stadium is a graveyard for west ham and carroll has shocking fitness concerns.

  4. Shultan
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    The 2 clean sheets I need to go of stoke & boro look the most solid! 🙁

  5. boc610
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    refereeing seems to be getting worse in the prem league every season. get the video replays in, they're clearly not up to it on their own

    1. MarvelouSuccess
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      then what will referees be there for? might as well get robots in.

      1. bojack
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        Yes! Robots.

      2. boc610
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        rugby? tennis? NFL? all have referees/umpires and it works fine. no robots needed. the human eye can only see so much in a split second. this is where the video replays are needed. Ali would have got booked, Rojo would have got a red, and vardy would still be on the pitch and all for a 1 minute look at a screen

        1. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 4 months ago

          Not exactly, hence why they "go upstairs" in rugby, cricket and have hawk eye in tennis. Goal line technology is a step forward, but it'd be difficult to completely strange the structure of a football match to give the ref video replays.

          1. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
            • 10 Years
            9 years, 4 months ago

            change*

  6. itwaswritten
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Will Def(b)o(r)e ever score again? I am... disgusted.

    1. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      What's with this Defbore? Are you trying to be funny somehow?

      1. Differentiator
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        I think so. Crap joke though

      2. itwaswritten
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        I call players names all the time. I don't really care if you find it funny or not. Now run a long.

        1. Ayew Serious
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 4 months ago

          *along

        2. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 4 months ago

          Deaf Hoe would be funnier.

        3. Malcolm Tucker for England …
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 15 Years
          9 years, 4 months ago

          run a long what? bath? race?

    2. bojack
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      No he's finished now.

      1. itwaswritten
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        Honestly, truly.

        He is OVER.

        1. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 4 months ago

          Over what?

          1. itwaswritten
            • 9 Years
            9 years, 4 months ago

            adverb
            adverb: over

            finished.
            "the match is over"
            synonyms: at an end, finished, concluded, terminated, no more, ended, extinct, gone, dead, a thing of the past, ancient history
            "the relationship is over"

            1. Malcolm Tucker for England …
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 15 Years
              9 years, 4 months ago

              a long?

        2. Gnu
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 16 Years
          9 years, 4 months ago

          Do we have to suffer this tedious, 10 year olds crud every matchday now?

    3. Abusive_Sgt_Daelrhos
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Lol everbody hatin' bruh... and only thing u did was tell a stupid joke

  7. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    If Leicester continue in this fashion, get 4 more guys sent off and lose the game 3-0 on walkover. What happens to the points? Surely they'll reset Bojan and Allen's goals?

    1. MarvelouSuccess
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      or they'll give allen the cheeky 3 BAPs 😉

  8. Smarty Pants
    • 16 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Vardy unlucky, not a red in my opinion

    1. Drip Doctor
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      He's a scumbag, it's deserved.

      1. Ayew Serious
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        That doesn't mean he deserves a red card...

        1. Drip Doctor
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 15 Years
          9 years, 4 months ago

          Ayew Serious? It soo does.

    2. itwaswritten
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Overrated*

      1. Ayew Serious
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        Players can be both overrated and unlucky

    3. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Totally unnecessary, diving in two footed. May have been given as a yellow but I can totally understand him being shown the red.

      1. Smarty Pants
        • 16 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        I don't think he even dived on purpose, Johnson clearly pushed him and he fell as a result while still trying to get the ball (which he also managed to do).

    4. Hooky
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Karma

  9. mcrayeps
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Alonso (cs) pieters and barragan looks good for another cs..

  10. Ghost86
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Payet just 1 goal pleaseeeeee

  11. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Lanzini off Ayew on

    1. Ayew Serious
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      🙂

      1. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        How are you posting from the pitch?

  12. SpiderHands
    • 16 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Anyone know when Mkh is back?

    1. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Should play next game

    2. bojack
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Boxing Day was touted by Maureen.

    3. Zlatan Time
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Boxing day, we are mssing him already 🙁

    4. Sweetboi
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Mou hopes Boxing Day.

    5. dhamphiir
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Maybe next week or Boxing day

      1. Team Cruel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        Next week IS boxing day.

    6. SpiderHands
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Thanks all, think he's coming in for Hazard.

  13. bojack
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Carlisle United top of League Two on Xmas Day 😎

    Thank you Mysterious Curle.

  14. Kryten
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Cmon Sunderland, stoke and Watford defence

  15. tm245
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Keep building match fitness, Ayew.

  16. Adz87
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Siggy's fixture proof they said, don't play Allen they said, always listen to yourself they say, there's time left they say. Fml I say.

    1. Differentiator
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Run off a cliff, they say

      1. Adz87
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        Cheers lad, great comment, if there was a comment award I'd nominate you

    2. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Wow. Dramatic or what?

      1. Adz87
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        Annoyance/sarcasm/very dramatic, fpl at its finest

    3. boc610
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      what are you complaining about exactly?

      1. Adz87
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        how much fpl rules my life, good times

    4. Malcolm Tucker for England …
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      fyl we all say

    5. Adz87
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Annihalation for posting about frustration haha

  17. Gamst - Up (?) the Rovers
    • 16 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Are there anyone else on here that isn't a giant whining douche bag? Stop bashing the refs! They have the job of supervising up to 22 illiterate douche bags and take dozens of decisions every minute. They get most right, but still they rarely get any praise. Fans are obviously biased and can't say one honest word in a heated discussion.

    Not to mention assistants! They keep their eyes on the ball, the defensive line and the attacker AT THE SAME TIME, including other tasks. THEY ARE GODS! How can they otherwise get sooo many offside calls right?

    Show some respect, grow up and help them do their job.

    1. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Im with you on this.

    2. Les Bleus
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      🙂

    3. bojack
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      So we can't judge them on they perform then?

      Pawson has completely lost control of this Stoke game.

      1. Gamst - Up (?) the Rovers
        • 16 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        Correct red card.
        Lunging in with two feet like that is dangerous play and can injure players. Hadn't the Stoke player pushed Vardy slightly, we might have seen some consequences on Diouf's leg.

        Correct penalty.
        Arm above the head like that? Come on.

        The yellow cards... looked fine every one of them.

        It's Leicester that has lost control mentally.

  18. MarvelouSuccess
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    huth yellow. leicester are so cynical.

  19. tm245
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Next three gameweeks:
    26/27/28
    30/31/1
    2/3/4

    Benches will be crucial.

    1. Les Bleus
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Of which mine is non existent 🙁

      1. tm245
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        Anichebe Amat and Holebas here. Not very strong.

  20. 404_FC
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    when the price rise tonight ?

    should i get ibra now ?

    1. Guru Mediation
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Between 1 and 2am. Wait till after the United game if you're determined to get him in today

  21. Grand Thibauto
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Sunderland goal

  22. Sailboats
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Leicester imploding

  23. potatoace
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    omg west ham are terrible.
    they give the ball away as soon as they cross the half way line.

  24. Bruno Bruno!!
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    pva goal

  25. O Fenomeno
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    PVA was due

  26. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    PVA goal

  27. MarvelouSuccess
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    PVA :O

    1. The Enlightener
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Noice! He was one!

      1. The Enlightener
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        *due

  28. Les Bleus
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Lolebas CS gone 🙁

  29. Kaneyonero
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    When it looks good on paper, the opposite seems to happen. Murphy's Lad.

    1. Kaneyonero
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Oh wait timing

  30. L'Aeroplanino
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Defoe A
    PVA G

    1. Aldwin
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      i use both in my fpl team