The Mozampiquans were league leaders by some margin, that much Boris and the Salahmon Islanders already knew. They knew also that Mozampique had beaten them in their preseason friendly match, and had since only lost twice. When the Islanders had rocked up to the Mozampique port, however, they were not aware just yet to what lengths the Mozzies were prepared to go to secure victory. As the GreenWindmill was hoisted off the boat, Boris caught sight of Az, the Mozzie boss, a tall, muscular man with a thick moustache, and his sidekick known to many as John Terry’s Dog, either because he talked a lot of balls or for his predilection to lick his own, the stories varied. Both were sporting malevolent grins, instantly alerting Boris’ suspicions and sure enough, as the Salahmon Island team made their way off the boat they heard the sirens, which became louder and louder. Before they had a chance to make a run for it, the Mozzie police had seized their luggage, slapped the entire Salahmon Island crew in handcuffs and whisked them away to the city jail. “Sabotage!”, growled Boris, as he and his brave team were all escorted to their own private cells.

The next morning, Boris woke up in his cell to the sight of dozens of scorpions pouring through the only window he had which overlooked the high street outside, hearing high pitched cackling of two men walking away. ‘So these Mozzies are cheats!’, thought Boris, but it was clear to the handsome and strong leader they had underestimated the Salahmon Islanders. Shortly after, covered in red, stinging welts, Boris made his way to breakfast to parlay with his team mates. “Bad news,” Boris announced, “they’ve impounded the GreenWindmill, and all of the fifty barrels of vintage kava we had inside.”. Knuckles was incensed, “those cowardly, cheating bunch of scumbags!”. Sune, always the calm one, piped up, “Boss, the game is tonight, if we are still locked in here the match will be forfeit”. “Don’t worry about that,” soothed Boris, “first we need to work out how to beat these bums, and I have a plan…”. “Oooh, is it 3-5-2 formation?”, asked Swanmore. “No, Swanmore, we only have 6 outfielders….”. “Two footed tackles?”, guessed rjcv177. “That goes without saying, RJ, but there’s something else we need to do. We need to fight fire with fire, boys, we are going to have to……cheat!” There followed a minutes silence while the Islanders took in what their, up until now, well respected leader had just said. Knuckles then broke the silence, “What’s the plan, Boris, we’re behind you 100%.”

One hour before kick-off, the prisoners were allowed their afternoon walk in the grounds to stretch their legs. “Boris, I still don’t understand how we are going to get out of this.”, mumbled Torreslove, “and no one has seen Lord, he’s disappeared!”. At that moment there was a commotion over by the prison gates, the guards were firing their weapons at something outside, and then suddenly there was a deafening crash, followed by a huge dust cloud. As the dust began to clear, the grounds were suddenly filled with….”Warthogs?!” cried Boris, “What the..”. “Not just ordinary Warthogs, Boss, these are homing warthogs!”, Lord exclaimed, grinning like a hyena and riding around on one of the wild animals. “Everyone hop the back of one of them and they’ll all take us back to their home!”. Minutes later the islanders were free, riding through the Mozampique streets with the wind in their hair, howling and whooping. Boris, however, was keeping his head, “Lord, we need to get to the match, not to the home of these warthogs.”. “The zoo is right next to the stadium,” grinned Lord, “and I did the other thing you asked as well.”. “Excellent work, and are the Mozzie team eating it?”, asked Boris. Lord’s smile widened into a true Cheshire cat smirk. “HAHAAAA, let’s see how strong their stomachs are!”, whooped Boris, laughing for the first time in days, as the Mozampique stadium came in to view on the horizon. Perhaps today would be one of those days that the Salahmon Islands would remember, and celebrate, for many years to come.

Meanwhile, in the Stadium cafeteria, Az was in fine fettle. “Get that lasagne down your gullets, men, the islanders are screwed and the victory is as good as ours. HA HAAA!”, he cried, raising a glass of the stolen vintage kava to his brutish, motley crew. They all downed their glasses, and, to a man and his dog, their stomachs all began to bubble audibly. As the entire Mozampique team all streaked for the toilets, Az turned his head skywards and screamed, “DAMN YOU BODEGA….”, before he too searched for an roomy empty vessel to use…..

Thanks guys. Looks like the league table is still showing last weeks positions. Good luck Kenyaya, you face us whilst we’re on a massive roll of 6 straight victories.

Manager of the week the week before, player of the week this week.
Unlucky loss for us this week though 🙁

Well done Electrue for getting into the team of the week. Let's see if the rest of Fashanu Zealand can join him this week, cos let's face it, last week was ducking shih tzu.

Messidonia lineup:

Dark9(1)
VS_10
Northfield
Ogie
MrPerfectionist
Geordienufc
AceKn1ght

Bench -
1)Trust John
2) Kanga
3) VK

Captain -
Urchin

The crowd are baying for blood, the Piques are strutting their stuff, and JTD is patrolling the pitch marking territory, but the Salahmons are unfazed. Emboldened by another inspiring pre-match sermon from Boris, and the backing of the rest of the league, the Salahs are ready for the fight.

We can't afford a bus, but our goal-line is stuffed with Boris' 'Poster of the Week' awards so our defence is secure; and we have Neymer upfront to knock em in.

We final, shattering blow to the Piques' hopes is that I will be warming the bench, and keeping an eye on the half-time oranges. The guys doing the business are;

Rjcv177(C),GreenWind£101million, Boris, Knuckles, Sune, Swannoretime and Torreslove.

Be afraid ....

Hungary Neville:

Captain: Krul Runnings

Bench: Rhinos, Korbendallas82, Real Sociopath

Anyone from Gaboniadini around?

Bolivia Giroud:

Blackbear (c)
Pundit of Punts
Epic Fail
Gnu
Doosra
Couti & the Below5th
Zygaenid

Grabbangladesh Lineup

JohnnyOrphan (c)
JK
AK
LateRisrer12
EdenHazardous
SujaySilas
The Boot

Germané Line-up

Qubit (C)
Jossy
Athletico Timbo
Irish Madridista
Emre Can Pie
Sconeaus
How I Met Your Mata

good luck balegium.. afghanistanislas bench tetsmcgee suarezista and ameenkw and captain wallybanter.

Anyone from Fashanu Zealand about?

We've gone:
PKW (c) - bench: Haggis, Bragazeti, Fir-Ma-La-Nho

Kenyaya captain and bench please? Ours is above. Cheers 🙂

Think we are struggling in this one
I have us about 49 points down before city baps which will likely increase it
Salahmond
Tino firmino Pickford jones begovic naughton
Us
Kenny x 2 klaven gomez fabianski x 3 DDG salah x3 DCL niasse

Prior to bonus points being applied the Grabbers find themselves with a comfortable lead - similar to last week. Alas similar to last week our opponents have quite a few more players to come in.

Grabbanglers (+55) – De Gea *2, Sigurdson *2, Gomez, Martial

Blindians – Calvin-Lewis *5, Jones *4, Pickford*2,
Smalling, Coutinho, Foster, Fabianski

Kenyaya + 39

Mane
DDG x 2, Jones x 2, Lukaku x 3
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Hungary Neville

Daniels, Coutinho x 3, Firmino x 2
Pickford, Fernandez

(Kenyaya Sterling x 6 and Depoirtre off the bench was the game changer)

Poch loves subbing him on for 1 minute 🙁

http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2017/12/16/dugout-discussion-saturday-44/?hc_page=29#hc_comment_17220488

Enough players involved tomorrow for the Piquey Boys to make a comeback but at half time Boris’ Salahmon Islanders are delivering the performance the league was crying out for.

You may now lavish praise 😎

Fashanu Zealand v Mbokani Faso, according to my calculations with autosubs, cancellations etc......

FNZ: DDG x 2, Lindelof x 2 (12 pts if a no show), Jones, Lukaku; Firmino x 4, Salah x 2, Coutinho; Naughton x 2, Fabianski, Ayew, Abraham

MF: 2 pts + Lingard; Mane; DCL x 4, Kenny x 2

Messidonia 297
Valencia
Firmino 2
DCL 6

Germane 285
Jones, Foster
Salah
Rooney, Pickford, Niasse, Fabianski, Carroll, Bony

A lot is hanging on DCL again. If Niasse doesn't feature Germane would gain 12 points from RLC autosub and we would get 0 from Mbemba.

This will go right down to the wire.

Bolivia Giroud + 9

DDG x 4, Jones, Rashford x 2, Young
Firmino x 3, Daniels
Niasse x 2
Fabianski
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Gaboniadini

Lukaku
Coutinho x 3, Salah, Gomez
Calvert-Lewin x 2, Kenny x 2

Afghanistanislas vs Balegium

Afghanistanislas 48 points +
3 x Firmino
2 x Gomez
Daniels
Fernandez
Jones

Balegium
6 x Coutinho
3 x DCL
2 x DDG
Kenny
Fabianski

A Coutinho blank would be very nice 🙂

Kenyaya + 16

Hungary Neville :
Pickford, Fernandez

(No sub will come in for Fernandez) Good game Kenyaya, our 3 x Cout and 2 x Firm almost won it for us. Enjoyed that but looks like you've inflicted our first loss on us in 7 games.

Assuming baps don't change and after autosubs, the tea leaves in the Salahmon Islands make the score Mozampique 414 Salahmons 469, with the following differentials to come:

Piques: Fabianski (3), Kenny (2), Calvert-Lewin (2), Niasse
Salahs: Pickford and Naughton

The fat lady is warming up.

Afghanistanislas : 22 + Fernandez
Balegium : DCL(3) + Fabianski + Kenny
DCL haul incoming... hopefully

How long is Silva out for?

Has anyone calculated bolivia giroud vs gaboniadini?
I have it bolivian behind at 479 to 482 including possible bps hits and auto subs.

Bolivia Giroud + 8

Niasse x 2 (or Loftus-Cheek and Fernandez if no show), Fabianski
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Gaboniadini

Calvert-Lewin x 2, Kenny x 2

Looks like Gaboniadini are the favourites.