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13 November 2010 1928 comments
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The Gameweek gets underway at Villa Park, where United arrive to test Gerard Houllier’s young, injury ravaged side.

The team news finds Patrice Evra fit and in at left-back, with Wes Brown at right-back for the injured Rafael; interestingly he is preferred to John O’Shea who remains benched. Further forward, Nani and Ji-Sung Park take the flanks with Javier Hernandez returning to partner Dimitar Berbatov up front. Despite the recent injuries and illness, it’s a strong United lineup.

As for Villa, their lineup includes yet another youngster as Houllier continues to struggle with injuries, with Jonathan Hogg, who has just one appearance for the club, coming in for the injured Ciaran Clark alongside Barry Bannan in midfield. The headline from their camp however is that Gabby Agbonlahor returns to the forward line, ousting an unfortunate Nathan Delfouneso to the bench.

Things get underway in just under half an hour and as usual, we’ve opened our Dugout Discussion chatroom to cover this game and today’s other kick-offs. Share your Gameweek highs and lows with other Fantasy Managers right here.

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

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  1. AP
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    15 years, 1 month ago

    This is how it feels to be Citeh: Boooooooooooo 😀

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    1. RoysBrotherJohnson- Irish p…
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      they are shite arent they

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    2. jamsiep
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      AP, let's put our differences from earlier aside, and lol together at Shitty! 😀

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      1. AP
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        Ohhh the damage was done by you sir, roll on the chelsea game 🙂

        Still, ok. lol

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      2. TommyK
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
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        +1- who cares about rivalries when you can laugh at those mugs in (light) blue! 😛

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    3. Alex Hunter
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      +100

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  2. Back on the horse
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    Decision to capt drogs can;t work out any worse than Tevez who I was thinking about.

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    1. Gargamel
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      He'll make you proud. Both my rivals went with Tevez(C) and I have Cashley left so this might turn out to be a nice week even without Bale

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  3. The Bale-out
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    Toure and Hart strike again!

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  4. Churchill
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    Taxi for Mancini?

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    1. Syd.
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      much prefer a firing squad lol

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      1. Flycroft
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        haha

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  5. Cormac_LFC
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    I have 57points on 1 of my Fantasy accounts with Torres , Tevez and Drogba to play .

    On the other I have 33 with Soto , Skrtel , Alex , Arteta , Anelka and Drogba (c) to play .

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    1. AP
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      Interesting, thanks.

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    2. Fray Bentos
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      oh

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      1. Pigvig
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        15 years, 1 month ago

        I have a pack of Bombay mix kicking around somewhere

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    3. TommyK
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      thanks for the information, I'll carefully note it down on my list of things I don't give a shit about.... 😉

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    4. dave_the_bear
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      Alex? Someone hasnt done there research...

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  6. Alex Hunter
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    and of course yet again, i bench elmander when he scores but play him when he does fack all. i've had him since gw 2 or 3 and have maybe benefited 10 pts. from him.

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    1. More Cowbell
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      You've gotta play him against 2nd bottom of the league who haven't kept a clean sheet all season though...comeon.

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      1. Alex Hunter
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        over carroll and drogs who are both at home? i thought adam would have had a better chance of putting up pts. against last place hammers though. plus there was the potential illness issue. even though he's first off the bench, no way he comes on now. most likely not to play would be elmo out of my lot and due to formation he wouldn't get in.

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  7. Jas aka The age of Ozil is …
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    Wow, this game week has turned out to be even worse than last game week...somehow

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  8. Drip Doctor
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    Hart, kolarov, simpson, bale, n'zog, carroll, this would have been a great day if I didn't captain tevez!
    !

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    1. Waldaz
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      Carroll?

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  9. Firetick
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    37 points with 5 players to go and 9 points in the bench. A decent day

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    1. Firetick
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      I mean 33

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  10. Locarno
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    Captaincy failure with Piquionne, but 40 pts with Drogba/Malouda/Fabs/Arteta/Jags still to come.

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    1. H Dog
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      I captained Parker so also feeling your pain. Hopefully Parker gets 3 bonus and piq gets 2 😉

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  11. Fred
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    Teves is a CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNT!!!!!

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    1. Chris Finch - squeal piggy …
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      +1000000000

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    2. jamsiep
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      Noice. If you use extra letters you can get away with swearing..

      FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

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      1. TommyK
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        Excellent.... 😀

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    3. Oliver Reed
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      lol

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  12. Chris Finch - squeal piggy …
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    Thanks Scott Carson, thanks a lot. But at least I had Robinson on the bench. Elsewhere Nani, Odemwingie, Tevez and Park do nothing. Excellent week.

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    1. RoysBrotherJohnson- Irish p…
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      absolute, stinker

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  13. andy85wsm
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    With the 3 BPs that Bale will get he has outscored the 6 of my Saturday players (including my captain Tevez) so far. My main rival has him. FML.

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    1. Flycroft
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      sympathy from me. i also captained tevez. could do with drogba doing very little tomorrow as pretty much everybody else in my minileague has him captained!

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      1. Stat virgin
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        15 years, 1 month ago

        Yep, need a big no show from Drogba tomorrow

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        1. GREENDREAMS11
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          yes carlo. give the drog a rest

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  14. H Dog
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    Massive thank you to hattrick for convincing me to get foley over stearman

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  15. PFOR
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    Awful day in terms of FPL. Average score will be high also because of Bale, Hart, VDV.

    Red arrow.

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    1. jamsiep
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      Awful day for Utd too.

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      1. TommyK
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        you just don't know when to quit...

        You're blatant WUMming is becoming highly amusing....

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        1. TommyK
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
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          *you're = your, obviously

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      2. PFOR
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        Disgusting performance. Yet once again they put on a late show. Better than losing I suppose, but still unacceptable.

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      3. Alex Hunter
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        could have been much worse. villa away was never going to be easy and honestly after playing like shiite it's a good sign that we can still get a result.

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  16. Feanor
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    Can't get in to check, but it sounds like my captain VdV had 2 assists, and I got rid of Bale weeks ago so I can't complain too much about him finally coming good.

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  17. Flycroft
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    thank god for foley

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    1. Twisted Saltergater
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      Turned out nice again 🙂

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  18. dave_the_bear
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    Foster, Toure and Elmander youve all done the business boys. Petrov and Carroll yer useless twats...

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  19. Duckbill
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    My prediction of mancini not lasting the season might just come true. Still say his alot like rafa. The sooner he goes the better for man city.

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  20. unoaime
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    I gambled and put Bale as captain. AND i have Foster and Ridgewell. Finally a decent gameweek!

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    1. Barney Stinson
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      I'll send you a high-five in the mail. Nob.

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      1. unoaime
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        That's not very nice =[

        I had two terrible gameweeks previously if it makes you feel any better.

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        1. Barney Stinson
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          We all did. So, no. It does not. At all.

          Haha, I'm just messing, well done mate!

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    2. Flycroft
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      fair play! well done with bale. surprised you played foster and ridgewell- certainly a gamble which played off...

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      1. Flycroft
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        paid* off

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  21. rasher
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    bringing in stearman over foley -1

    keeping faith with bale +1

    can't get over stearman though so unlucky

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  22. shiner__
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    who assisted the givet goal... only just caught it as I was changing channels... samba knockdown?

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  23. Waldaz
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    Hex hex hex on Arteta. (F*ck f*ck f*ck me.)

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    1. jamsiep
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      Jeez, that's truly horrible luck!

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      1. Waldaz
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        To be fair I made a bad choice, but he failed me so many times lately... C*ap.

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        1. jamsiep
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          It's only because your front 8 are so good. It's annoying when you effectively get punished like that.... The guy top of my mini league has Scott Dann playing this weekend because his defence so bad, and he's lucked out big time. Very annoying.

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    2. RoysBrotherJohnson- Irish p…
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      if arteta doenst do his usual game raise for the big teams tomorrow, i may delete my team in a murderous rage, and after theat, ill delete dome random members of the public.

      You never know waldez, drogs might get a rest

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    3. PFOR
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      What?

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  24. jamsiep
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    Nice to see that the most overrated manager and the most overrated player in the country are inspiring West Ham to 20th.

    This is my weekly anti-Grant post. They won't stop until Wet Spam are out of the relegation zone, or Grant is sacked.

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    1. Gargamel
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      Who is the player then? Because I was contemplating my weekly anti-Silva post, but perhaps it will be too much and I'll save it for next week.

      (He's shit)

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      1. jamsiep
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        Scott Parker.

        After every single West Ham game you hear how brilliant he is, but the fact is that Wet Spam were terrible last season and are even worse this season. If he was so brilliant in the middle of midfield then they wouldn't struggle so badly. He's a classic example of the media loving a player who appears to put a lot of effort in and makes the odd big tackle.

        The goals that he has scored this season are just aberration.

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        1. TommyK
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
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          "He’s a classic example of the media loving a player who appears to put a lot of effort in and makes the odd big tackle."

          John Terry much? 😀

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          1. jamsiep
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            John Terry is another example, yes. Still, Parker takes the biscuit.

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            1. TommyK
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              gerrard at the world cup was also a pretty good example.....

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        2. Gargamel
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          Oh I see. Fair enough, I've not watched West Ham much this season or last to be honest. I thought he was all right at the Emirates a few weeks ago at least.

          I remember Chelsea players saying Grant's training methods were 30 years old or something like that when he first took over.

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          1. jamsiep
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            Amazing how he gets such an easy time from the English media when his record at English clubs is so poor. Guarantee that if any other foreign manager had done the same then they would have got a battering from the media.

            Chelsea - no trophies, nuff said. Several pathetic draws at home cost us the league when it was there for the taking that season. And the Champions League run was more down to the relative ease of the fixtures. Fenerbache, Olympiakos, Liverpool and then Utd.

            Portsmouth - finished 20th, even without the points deduction, with a team that proved it's competence in reaching the FA cup final and giving Chelsea a fairly tough game. Amazing that Grant was widely praised for the FA Cup run, when, in my eyes, all it proved was that he had a decent side to work with and should have done much better in the league.

            West Ham - need I say anything?

            I don't understand at all the reason why the media gives him such an easy time, but there must be some reason.

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    2. TommyK
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      I have to admit, you're winning me over on this one...

      Perhaps he's more of a cup competition manager? 😉

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      1. The Decline of an Era
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        a FM11 star he is

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        1. Gargamel
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
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          Yeah West Ham are bloody world beaters in that game. Lost to them again last night, Obinna scoring twice in overtime to keep me in the relegation battle.

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  25. andy85wsm
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    Now my decision is how much to knee jerk.

    Points hits, 16? 20?

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  26. Duckbill
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    wished we had news of players injury come deadline, missed out on boateng and elmander points. Cant afford to be bold just yet.

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  27. RoysBrotherJohnson- Irish p…
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    i just put money on scotland at 20/1 for a laugh. Im on the edge of an abyss after today, but i haven't atually fallen in yet. Im eager to see what rock bottom looks like, i'll bring my matches.

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    1. Voronin
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      Thanks for the life story. WHO GIVES A FUUCK.

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  28. Hakuho FPL
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    Foley, i'm a boss!

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  29. Scratch
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    15 years, 1 month ago

    Everyone sells Chamakh --> Scores twice
    Everyone sells Bale --> Scores twice

    Berbatov for a brace next week it is then.

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    1. Duckbill
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      you just might be on to something there, they playing wigan of all teams.

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  30. john29
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    Ok time to WC! Hu are the essentials?

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    1. Scratch
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      VDV, Nani, Chelsea defender.

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      1. TommyK
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
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        VDV is debateable with spurs' fixture....

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      2. Flycroft
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        read chelsea defender as ashley cole. kolarov could be nice too.

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