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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, 3 days ago

    I could really do without FPL

    1. MrMaverick
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      Int breaks

      Where art thou

    2. MarvelouSuccess
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      jose can do without the media circus

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

      Bye Felecia.

    4. Ayew Serious
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

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

      1. Drip Doctor
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        9 years, 3 days ago

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

    5. moz_1983
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

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

    6. bojack
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      Me too. It's worse than ampethamime addiction.

    7. jbenny1107
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      Bye

  2. Lecky Legs FC
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

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

    1. jayzico
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

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

    2. jayzico
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 3 days 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, 3 days ago

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

  4. Shultan
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

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

  5. boc610
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 3 days 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, 3 days ago

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

      1. bojack
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 3 days ago

        Yes! Robots.

      2. boc610
        • 13 Years
        9 years, 3 days 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…
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 3 days 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…
            • 9 Years
            9 years, 3 days ago

            change*

  6. itwaswritten
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

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

    1. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

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

      1. Differentiator
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 3 days ago

        I think so. Crap joke though

      2. itwaswritten
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 3 days 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, 3 days ago

          *along

        2. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 3 days ago

          Deaf Hoe would be funnier.

        3. Malcolm Tucker for England …
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          9 years, 3 days ago

          run a long what? bath? race?

    2. bojack
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      No he's finished now.

      1. itwaswritten
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 3 days ago

        Honestly, truly.

        He is OVER.

        1. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 3 days ago

          Over what?

          1. itwaswritten
            • 9 Years
            9 years, 3 days 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
              • 14 Years
              9 years, 3 days ago

              a long?

        2. Gnu
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 16 Years
          9 years, 3 days ago

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

    3. Abusive_Sgt_Daelrhos
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 3 days 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, 3 days 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, 3 days ago

      or they'll give allen the cheeky 3 BAPs 😉

  8. Smarty Pants
    • 15 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

    Vardy unlucky, not a red in my opinion

    1. Drip Doctor
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      He's a scumbag, it's deserved.

      1. Ayew Serious
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 3 days ago

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

        1. Drip Doctor
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 15 Years
          9 years, 3 days ago

          Ayew Serious? It soo does.

    2. itwaswritten
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      Overrated*

      1. Ayew Serious
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 3 days ago

        Players can be both overrated and unlucky

    3. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 3 days 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
        • 15 Years
        9 years, 3 days 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
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      Karma

  9. mcrayeps
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

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

  10. Ghost86
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

    Payet just 1 goal pleaseeeeee

  11. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

    Lanzini off Ayew on

    1. Ayew Serious
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      🙂

      1. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 3 days ago

        How are you posting from the pitch?

  12. SpiderHands
    • 16 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

    Anyone know when Mkh is back?

    1. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      Should play next game

    2. bojack
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      Boxing Day was touted by Maureen.

    3. Zlatan Time
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      Boxing day, we are mssing him already 🙁

    4. Sweetboi
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      Mou hopes Boxing Day.

    5. dhamphiir
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      Maybe next week or Boxing day

      1. Team Cruel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 3 days ago

        Next week IS boxing day.

    6. SpiderHands
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

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

  13. bojack
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

    Carlisle United top of League Two on Xmas Day 😎

    Thank you Mysterious Curle.

  14. Kryten
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

    Cmon Sunderland, stoke and Watford defence

  15. tm245
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

    Keep building match fitness, Ayew.

  16. Adz87
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 3 days 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, 3 days ago

      Run off a cliff, they say

      1. Adz87
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 3 days ago

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

    2. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      Wow. Dramatic or what?

      1. Adz87
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 3 days ago

        Annoyance/sarcasm/very dramatic, fpl at its finest

    3. boc610
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      what are you complaining about exactly?

      1. Adz87
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 3 days ago

        how much fpl rules my life, good times

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

      fyl we all say

    5. Adz87
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      Annihalation for posting about frustration haha

  17. Gamst - Up (?) the Rovers
    • 15 Years
    9 years, 3 days 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, 3 days ago

      Im with you on this.

    2. Les Bleus
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      🙂

    3. bojack
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 3 days 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
        • 15 Years
        9 years, 3 days 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, 3 days ago

    huth yellow. leicester are so cynical.

  19. tm245
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

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

    Benches will be crucial.

    1. Les Bleus
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      Of which mine is non existent 🙁

      1. tm245
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 3 days ago

        Anichebe Amat and Holebas here. Not very strong.

  20. 404_FC
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

    when the price rise tonight ?

    should i get ibra now ?

    1. Guru Mediation
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

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

  21. Grand Thibauto
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

    Sunderland goal

  22. Sailboats
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

    Leicester imploding

  23. potatoace
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 3 days 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, 3 days ago

    pva goal

  25. O Fenomeno
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

    PVA was due

  26. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

    PVA goal

  27. MarvelouSuccess
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

    PVA :O

    1. The Enlightener
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      Noice! He was one!

      1. The Enlightener
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 3 days ago

        *due

  28. Les Bleus
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

    Lolebas CS gone 🙁

  29. Kaneyonero
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

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

    1. Kaneyonero
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      Oh wait timing

  30. L'Aeroplanino
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 3 days ago

    Defoe A
    PVA G

    1. Aldwin
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 3 days ago

      i use both in my fpl team