Just a thought....

I was back home last week, catching up with a few people which briefly included Danny & Lee before they embark on their tour to Thailand to see Ready pops. Sweats asked me if I was going to do another Thai diary commemorating their trip. I did this before when Lee last visited Keith and I will try to rekindle the tales of complete filth, debauchery & excessive jism once they are in Lamai.

I did for my sins attend the Carling Cup game against Palarse on Wednesday and lost my voice in the progress. I have seen the Addicks play live a few times this season at both the Valley and on the small screen in my local pub here and they are looking worryingly shit. More of my rantings can of course be found at Chicago Addick.

It was the first time we had played Palarse since we went up and it was a bit naughty outside the ground although the goings on at The New Den and Stamford Bridge clearly overshadowed the small number of incidents outside the Valley. The funniest thing for me - because I know the two Barry's, Giles and John are laughing their tits off - was that our resident fat bloke pitch announcer got sacked after he made derogatory comments to our visitors before the match.

What is happening to our game? It is getting so bloody PC and it is ruining the game we love, particularly in the Premiership. Not sure if anyone saw this article but it is an excellent piece about the state of our national pastime and it is not all the bed of roses that Sky TV & Arsenal fans may think it is.

Ginger takes the biscuit

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Doyley surged into Championship contention following a week 10 score of 62 points, the week's best. Pete's Ginger (not so) Athletic jumped 8 places in the table and are hot on the heels of old adversery Ready who slipped to 3rd after being overtaken by Wenners Wannabes. Keith's TBA scored 40, 11 less than Mark who achieved his 2nd best score of the season.

The lovely Suzie Syrett was back in the top 7 too after pinging in 57. Ping Pong Yo-Yo are now 5th. Luadjemba fall back 2 places to 6th, whilst Palarce boy Barry Paull (I know your reserve team beat us) move up two places 7th after Back home fired in 44.

Galacticos FC are now 8th and Lamb to the slaughter in 10th but you have to look further down the table to 12th to see She fell over after Liz had a 'mare equalling her season's worst score.

Danny Rose, who along with Sweaty is attending the London Market recruitment drive in Koh Samui in a couple of weeks, had a fine week 10 with Sweaty will be shagging shemales knocking up 44 points and climbing a huge 8 places to 9th. Get in there Dan. And this only costs you 25 quid which will last a lot longer than you will in Thailand.

The weeks biggest climber was Rob Munden. 51 points for Johnny on my shoulder (whose Johnny Rob?) and a huge leap to 19th. Another forgotten man this season is Neil "Squire" Cryer but in week 10 the Dale Allstar moved 9 places up a tight mid table to 28th.

Barry Plummer must either be busy or he is working on a dramatic action plan to propel himself into Championship contention because he has been absent this season. However week 10 gave him an excellent 49 points and moved 2Infinity & Beyond 3 steps up the ladder.

Other climbers in week 10 were that other Palarce cnut John Tiernan's Super Eagles who rose 6 to 30th and PK's Filthy Love - there is only one kind my son. Trust me.

Big Raspberry

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Mark Dewberry collapsed back into the bottom 6 after an absence of 8 weeks after scoring the week's and season's worst weekly score of just 4 points. Defoe's Golden XI fell 5 places.

Two other managers crashed down the table each losing 11 places. Ian Kennett's Blessed are the Cheesemakers find themselves in 34th after hitting 23 points and Muddy's Happy Hammers are in 37th, this after mustering 21. Both were not bad scores in fairness and shows the tough competition and closeness of the league this season. Only a 106 points separate re-election & the top 10 which is not a lot. A number of managers have in previous season's made excellent prize winning runs from the bottom to the top in just a couple of months.

Other sides that slumped in week 10 were Hammers like coke (sorry thought that was Romanian superstars who go out with porn stars?). Muzza's boys drop to 34th after hitting 22 points - his worst score of the season - whilst his mate Oakers saw his boys, Better than 2nd, crash 5 places to 36th.

Can I get a waistcoat improved their chances of moving up the table after easily managing their best score of the campaign. Si Jenks hit 43 points and are now in 42nd, a jump of 3 places.

The worst weekly scores of the season up to week 10
1. Mark Dewberry, 4 points, week 10
2. Tim Feldbruegge, 8 points, week 6
3. Tim Feldbruegge, 9 points, week 2
3. Tim Feldbruegge, 9 points, week 1

Remember there is a cash prize for the embarrassment of 'achieving' the season's worst weekly score. Tim, you gotta do better bud I'm afraid.

My Kinda town

This is basically an average day on the news channel here in the Land of the Free:

"Welcome to today's news program. These are the local headlines. Someone got shot, a house got burnt down and there's more corruption in our City. The National news headlines are we have no flu vaccines so we are going to panic, the 2008 Presidential Election campaign starts next Wednesday, I-raq, I-raq and I-raq, Famous film star bares top of her breast at awards night - it's disgusting and I-raq. Also apparently someone was killed in Afghanistan - wherever and whoever they are?

In Sport, shock, horror as American champion athlete tests positive for taking drugs, Cubs lose, Bears lose, Bulls lose, Blackhawks would have lost but the players are on strike.

Today's weather will start in the 80's, turning colder by lunchtime with 10 inches of snow by dinner time (which of course is pretty much all day!).

And finally, the World news. Oh, there is no World news today, although according to sources close to the royal family, i.e. Fergie, Prince William farted this morning when he awoke.

Thank you and God bless America."

The amazing Mr Woo

I don't know if you have ever seen this but if you have 6 minutes to spare you will be enthralled.

Mr Woo's ball skills (not porn!)

The Road to Cardiff update

Salisbury City continue our Road to Cardiff adventure on Saturday 30th October when they play away to Slough Town. Both teams play in the Ryman Premier League. The winners will enter the 1st Round proper, which will see the teams from the Coca Cola league's 1 and 2 take part. This has been our journey so far this season:

3rd QR Weston-Super-Mare 1, Salisbury City 3
Scorers: Davis (2), Matthews. Attendance: 543

2nd QR Replay Frome Town 0, Salisbury City 3
Attendance: 665

2nd QR Salisbury City 1, Frome Town 1
Scorer: Salter. Attendance: 636

1st QR Replay Backwell United 1, Frome Town 3
Scorer: Bloomfield. Attendance: 90 (played at Clevedon Town FC)

1st QR Frome Town 2, Backwell United 2
Scorers: Hewitt, Bryne. Attendance: 191

Prelim Round Backwell United 2, Bridgewater Town 1
Attendance: 83

Extra Prelim Round Backwell United 3, Odd Down 2
Scorers: Quoi, Tilley. Attendance: 26

64 non-league sides are left in the FA Cup (for the full draw click here) and these include Maidenhead United who have played in every competition in history except one (1876-77). Amazingly they were one of the original 15 entrants in 1871 and once reached the last four but they haven’t made it to the First Round Proper since 1971.

The 4 smallest teams left in the competition in terms of league status are Flackwell Heath, Hallen, Liversedge & Coalville Town who are in the 5th step of the pyramid (the Conference is considered 1). Flackwell & Hallen play Billericay and Canvey Island respectively whilst Liversedge and Coalville play each other meaning one of them will be in the hat for the first round proper.

No AFC Wimbledon as they bowed out in the last round at home to Thurrock in front of over 3,000 people! Other teams still remaining include Carlisle United and York City who face each other, good old Accrington Stanley, Conference leaders Barnet, two back from the grave clubs in Aldershot and Newport County and my old stomping ground for a while Hornchurch, who are taking the Conference South league by storm.

My kinda town

What is it with the clamour for a flu vaccine here? Hands up whose gay enough to have one? There is a shortage here because a British company shut down USA bound shipments from Chiron Corp after some batches of the vaccine, manufactured in Liverpool, were found to be contaminated with bacteria. The decision cut the US supply of flu shots almost in half and don't we bloody know it.

There's a war going on, a presidential election, some dickhead in New York is doing his best to fuck up the insurance industry and the Baseball 'world' series is looming but no, flu vaccine gate is all over the television & newspapers.

Young healthy men & women are literally fighting old ladies to get a jab first, often lining up (us Brits call it queuing, line ups are what you get in porn films) all night for the pleasure. Now the stupid Canadians have whispered too loud that they have tonnes of the gear. So now American's are travelling over the border in their 100's to get a flu jab, obviously subject to them having a passport which 90% of the population don't have, in the first place.

I can see fights breaking out at Post Office's as Americans desperately sign up for these things called passports that allow you to see such far away places such as Mexico just so they can head to Canada to get an injection that might stop them having a runny nose.

Just a thought....

There were no scores last week owing to the World Cup Qualifers (more below). The only person who 'scored' was clearly Chelsea's Adrian Mutu whose drug habit has been outed by the media following a failed random drugs test in September. Come on, what else is a Chelsea squad player to do all day?

On this note, a little statistic from the Chelsea Website:

Scott Parker; Appearances 0 (1 sub, 480 seconds to be precise); Goals 0; Yellows 0; Reds 0. Rearrange these words - you, so, told.

By the way, if you are looking for an early Christmas Present for a loved one, then try this.

Another little statistic for you (I'm on a role). Tottenham Hotspur, who as everyone knows are a huge club, playing wonderful attacking football. It must only be a matter of time before they become European Champions. Games played 9. Goals scored 5. Cost of forward line 26m.

Take over talk is all over the news. American Investor & Tampa Bay Buccaneer's owner Malcolm Glazier increased his stake in Man Utd again today. His shareholding is now more than 27%. Irish businessmen John Magnier and JP McManus own 28.9% The fat yank needs 30% to trigger a full takeover bid. The two 'sides' have been in talks. Recently fans invaded a reserve match in protest. What next, maybe sitting down during a game?

Supporters at Southampton are uniting in an effort to displace Rupert Lowe. They are angered by the noveau footie posh bloke's treatment of Paul Sturrock and the general way manager's have come and gone through the swing door at St Mary's since he became Chairman.

A company called the Fortress Sports Fund have denied that any Russian lucre is involved in their 12.8m investment in Everton.

And a couple of kebab shop owners (rich ones mind) are considering taking Fulham over - from Harrods Food Court caviar to donar kebab with chilli sauce in one fell swoop. The Falyali brothers claimed that some £35m had been offered for the club and that negotiations were on-going.

Finally there is no truth in the rumour that the Pound Shop is considering a take over of Crystal Palace.

Road to Cardiff - Craig Davis walks away with it

The White Gods from Salisbury stormed through to the next round of the FA Cup and are just one game away from meeting football league opposition. They beat James Bird's hometown Weston-Super-Mare 3-1 on Saturday afternoon.

Weston play in a higher league but you wouldn't have believed it. Following a positive opening 18 minutes City took the lead from the penalty spot when Craig Davis was fouled. DAVIS brushed himself down and scored from the spot with ease.

Early in the 2nd half Salisbury increased their lead when DAVIS, unmarked on the far side of the penalty area, beat Northmore from Matthews' cross. Weston were reduced to 10 men on 75 minutes when McGregor was shown a straight red card for foul and abusive language to one of the referees' assistants. Tubbs then nearly made it three when he rattled the bar. Minutes later however, Davis crossed and MATTHEWS drove in.

In the dying minutes W-S-M scored a consolation after Mings was brought down and although Sawyer pushed French's penalty kick away, McKEEVER scored from the rebound, but it was all too little, too late.

Salisbury Team: to follow
MoM: Davis
Attendance: 543

We'll be running round Germany with our willies hanging out

Well, us English will be and maybe the Irish & probably the Americans but it is more likely that George W Bush will learn to speak English than the Welsh & Scots qualifying for the 2006 World Cup after the recent round of matches.

Before we go any further, a question. Mark Hughes - a highly coveted manager, the Welsh FA desperate to keep their man. What is his record - 10 competitive Internationals without a victory.

McBerti Vogts, Pilloried by anyone wearing a kilt. The tartan army desperate to get rid of the little kraut. Record - Only 4 defeats in last 15 competitve Internationals.

Sir Sven, can't keep his little Swedish winkle in his pants, accused of boring play. Record - only ever lost 2 competitive matches.

That's that cleared up then. So England sit proudly on top of their group after 4 games, a point ahead of Poland, which proved our result earlier in the season there was an excellent one. The Welsh & Northern Ireland have it all to do, the Welsh in particular were hoping that England would beat everybody and then they would beat the rest to get 2nd place. I thought the Welsh were very poor against England and the new manager, whoever it will be - Gary Speed, John Toshack, Max Boyce, Dolly the sheep - will have quite a task in getting them to the Finals.

Elsewhere in Europe, in Group 1 Finland & Romania lead the way. In two the European Champions Greece have started very slowly losing to Albania and getting only draws in their other two games.

In Group 3, Portugal are on fire. They beat Russia 7-1 on Wednesday night. Ireland, who were very impressive and should of beaten the French on Saturday lead Group 4. For once the Italians have started well in Group 5, Scotland's group. They beat Belarus 4-3 on Wednesday in an entertaining game. The Jocks have just 2 points from 3 games with Italy away next. Ta-da.

Spain have had a poor start to their qualification in Group 7. They could only draw against Bosnia-Herzegovina & Serbia Montenegro who lead the table and the Swedes lead Group 8.

In the North, Central America & Caribbean, The USA have already qualified for the next stage after going unbeaten so far.

No surprise in South America as Brazil & Argentina lead the group with Paraguay 3rd & Ecuador 4th.

Road to Cardiff - Let me introduce Salisbury City

Salisbury City have an excellent Cup history and are our latest team to follow in this season's Road to Cardiff after knocking out Frome Town in a 2nd Qualifying Round replay. They play in the Ryman Premier League and are currently 5th from bottom.

Here are some very interesting facts about The Whites:

• They play in all white, hence nickname. They are very bright these farmers.
  
• Formed in 1947.
  
• They play at the 3,740 capacity Raymond McEnhill Stadium in Old Sarum, Salisbury.
  
• Mis-teeq played there live in the summer!
  
• In case you're interested Raymond McEnhill is a "rich local businessman."
  
• They once reached the 2nd Round proper of the FA Cup in the 1959/60 season, losing at home to Newport County.
  
• More recently they played Millwall in the 1st Round in 1979. They lost 2-1 in a game switched to the Old Dell for safety reasons. They have reached the 1st Round proper on 7 other occasions, the last time was last season when they lost away at Sheff Wed 4-0.
• The manager is former Southampton Cup winner Nick Holmes who played 539 times for the Saints.
• Players to watch out for are striker Leigh Phillips, midfielder Craig Davies and experienced defender Andy Cook who played over 200 league games for Swansea, Exeter, Millwall & Portsmouth - yeh, I've never heard of him either!

Salisbury will play Weston-Super-Mare away in the 3rd Qualifying Round (2 from the 1st Round proper) on Saturday at Weston's impressive new Woodspring Stadium. Let's hope we can support a team for more than one round this time or we will have to bring back Dunston Federated Brewery.

Down Dale going up hill

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After last weeks warning that Dale Allstars were still in first gear, Neil shifted up a notch in week 8 to smash the best weekly score of 51 points and collect his first prize money of the season. Neil moved a huge 13 places up the table to 24th.

Simon Bond was the weeks 2nd best manager with a half century of points added to his total. Someone other than Arse or Man U are now in 18th, only 13 points from the top 10.

Then (about bloody time) Nobby got his act together and had his most impressive week so far, amassing 47 points and climbing to the mid mark in the table. Lets hope this is only the start for Make it a Supersize.

Robbos on Top (46), TBA (44), Goonersmoan (44), Beer Monsters (43), Sweaty will be shagging shemales (42), Ginger (not so) Athletic FC (41) and our lovable toff Greg Harris all deserve a pat on the back for very good weeks.

In fact Roffey Rejects XI were one of week 8's biggest climbers moving stealthly into 22nd from 28th after notching 41 points. Three cheers for Gregory, hurrah....

Ready and waiting

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Ready's TBA closed the gap to 5 points on leader You got more toes than us in week 8. Ready's 4th best weekly score of 44 was 7 more than Lee's. Wenners Wannabes and She fell over stayed 3rd & 4th respectively.

There were some big changes elsewhere in the top 10 though. Beer Monsters moved back up the league to 6th and in 8th now is Ginger (not so) Athletic - both managers having excellent weeks. And the one of the biggest climbers was Robbos on Top. Robbo has had a wonderful start to the season after a year or two out of the game.

Keep the faith join old friend & foe Back home in joint 9th. Francey hit 38 in week 8 and is currently one of our most consistent managers - shame that can't be said of his underwriting! Glenn Francis is the final of 4 managers who share 9th place after Lamb to the slaughter slipped 3.

Goonersmoan is back knocking on the door in 13th after a fine week, as are Sweaty will be shagging shemales who banged in a nice little 42 points.

The same can't be said of Ping Pong Yo-Yo and Tatters top tips mind, who all fall back out of early championship contention. Have no fear though the season is still not out of nappies.

Magic Turnabout for Brian

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Cheeky Americans and Idiots guide to soccer continued their improving form in week 8 and closed the gap again on Can I get a waistcoat? Tom Finney's splash and Only one 'f' in Forest swapped places in the bottom 6. James shared with Simon Jenkins the worst weekly score of 14 points.

Meanwhile the relection magnets are attached to Alan Oakley's Better than 2nd who slip 5 places to 36th and Moulsters Molesters who are place worse off in 37th.

Mark Dewberry's Defoe's golden XI continue to remain in danger after the week's 3rd worst score of 15. They are now just a place above the drop zone in 41st.

Good news for Californication who carried on their move away from danger. Chris hit his 2nd best score of the season to climb 2 to 38th. John Tiernan was another upwards mover. Super Eagles (sic) are now in 34th.

Team Challenge Trophy - This season's first look

Wonders will never cease. The Aon Casualty team's combo of Robbo & Liz lead the first produced N&R Team Challenge Trophy of the 2004/05 season with an average score of 285.50, 11 points ahead of last years winners Marsh.

The Property and Facultative Reinsurance teams of Aon follow closely in 3rd and 4th respectively. At the very bottom of the table sits Nobby and his Chicago colleagues with 185.33 points, already a 100 plus behind the leaders - Jeez!

The full table will be sent out with the latest league table early next week.

The Road to Cardiff - Salisbury too strong in replay

Our boys Frome Town bowed out of the FA Cup in front of one of the biggest crowds seen at Badgers Hill in many years with a 3-0 defeat against Ryman Premier Division side Salisbury City. Nobby & Ready will now follow Salisbury on the Road to Cardiff - our fourth side in four rounds of this season's competition. They will play away in a tough looking game against Conference South side Western-Super-Mare on October 16th in the 3rd Qualifying Round.

Frome, cheered on by a crowd 6 times bigger than their average started well with Hayter hitting the bar. However Salisbury took the lead with their first attack. Craig Davis cut in from the right and unleashed a cracking shot that was well saved by the legs of Ray Johnston. The ball went back to Davis who crossed it back into the six yard box where LEIGH PHILLIPS headed home unchallenged as the Frome defence stood watching.

It went from bad to worse after 14 minutes as MATT TUBBS ran onto a hopeful through ball before beating the challenge of Rich Lindegaard and planted the ball past Johnston before wheeling away to celebrate with the City supporters.

In the 2nd half, despite Frome having a penalty appeal turned down, Salisbury's higher standard of play started to take a toll and they rubbed salt further into the wounds in the last minute as WAYNE TURK was on hand to tuck home a rebound following a save by Johnston and send the Whites into the next round at Weston-super-Mare.

Team: R Johnston, D Preece, D Ranger (S Jarman '65), R Lindegaard, J McAlinden, N Robinson (N Dyer '65), M Peters, B Peters (T Knighton '82), M Salter, D Griffiths, J Hayter
Subs not used: L Ashton, D Evans (gk)
Attendence: 665

My kinda town

Brian Dougal invited me up to his old neck of the woods in Wisconsin last weekend to see a college American Football match. In my time here all the Yanks have ever done is bang on about how they preferred college sport to pro and I just didn't get it. After all, how many people used to watch you play football for the school on a Saturday morning?

Well it was a blast, young boys in shoulder pads & crash helmets aside, we started drinking in a car park - tailgating they call it here - at 10.30am. The crowd of which half were young ladies in tight fitting red tops were boisterous and fun and the whole town of Madison was a sea of red with the air full of the smell of hot dogs.

The game kicked off at 1pm and there was 83,000 people in the modern stadium, yes you read that right. 83,000! The atmosphere was excellent and we were stood on terraces in the student section and it was the nearest you are going to get to a real football match in Europe.

After attending professional ice hockey, baseball and basketball I can see why sports fans prefer the college game. People have much more affinity to college's for a variety of reasons than they do the franchises, because that is what pro teams are. The atmosphere in the stadiums is far similiar to our own football matches with singing and chanting whereas you'll find most pro stadiums are souless and the atmosphere's contrived with more people interested in the half time entertainment than what is going on, on the pitch.

Plus pro sportsman earn an absolute stack, have little or no affection for the teams they play for, leagues have a major drug problem which they try to sweep under the carpet and television sits above the MLB, NFL, NHL and NBA like god almighty.

Next time you are in the US, try to get to a college game. You will see and taste the difference.

Life's a beach

Ready as many of you are aware is coming back to London at Christmas and is on the look out for a job. Please keep your ears open for the boy, my suggestion of him making curry sauces for the Halal was not well received.

He is currently on what he terms a holiday with his rather young and attractive (and I assume free) girlfriend at her sister's farm somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Now if I read his text right, he said that it is a prawn farm (king prawns no doubt!) and wherever he is, the place has no shops, restaurants, bars, telephones, television or nuffin. And no one speaks English. Now I wonder what Keith, his bird and her sister do to keep themselves occupied? Lucky bastard.

The Road to Cardiff - Salter it out

A last minute super strike from leading scorer, Mark Salter, gave Frome a deserved replay against Salisbury City who play two leagues higher in the Ryman Premier Division.

Frome started the most dangerously and City's goalkeeper Hedges was by far the busier but as Frome continued to look dangerous going forward they were caught out at the back to gift Salisbury the lead, Craig Davis with a simple tap in from close range.

The second half was played out in torrential rain that was on the verge of monsoon conditions and with Frome pushing forward for an equaliser cheered on by 100 away fans in the Raymond McEnhill Stadium (I will find out who Raymond is for you because I know you won't be able to get through the week otherwise!), twice Salisbury were foiled by good defending.

But with a minute to go a hopeful ball forward was flicked on by Jon Hayter and as Glenn Howes failed to clear the ball, MARK SALTER pounced on the opportunity and let fly with a 25 yard drive that flew past Hedges and into the top corner to spark wild scenes amongst the huddled and soaking wet Frome supporters.

It was a great result for our boys and spare a thought for the Robins in the replay at Badgers Hill this Wednesday.

Team: R Johnston, D Preece, S Jarman (J McAlinden '60), R Lindegaard, J Hayter, L Ashton (J Walters '77), M Peters, B Peters, M Salter, N Dyer (T Knighton '67), D Ranger.
Subs Not Used: D Griffiths, D Evans (gk)
Attendence: 636

The Homeboys

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Barry Paull's Back home swept tothe 7th Manager of the Week award with 44 points and jumped a massive 9 places into the pink zone. 2nd best was Lets all best the Gooners who moved up 5 to 19th after scoring 43.

You got more toes than us increased their lead at the top to 12 points. Wenners Wannabes (34 points) and She fell over (25) both increased the pressure on Ready's TBA who stayed 2nd. Galacticos had a good week hitting 40. Carl has been very consistent so far this season and will be looking to hang around amongst the title challengers for the whole season after he fell away last time. Lamb to the slaughter continued their good form too scoring 35 in week 7.

The cheek of it

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Tim Feldbruegge's fantastic week 7 score of 40 points proved the beauty of fantasy league football. Tim despite struggling in the opening weeks of the season has stuck to his well thought out XI and was rewarded as Cheeky American's achieved the weeks 3rd best score and although they remain in 46th place, they have considerably narrowed the gap. Idiots guide to soccer also had their most fruitful week following some transfers and things are looking up for the Cheese heads.

Only one 'f' in Forest dropped back into the relection zone after scoing 19, which was 4 more than Hepper's, whose Herecomethewildebeests fall 4 places.

Surprise teams in the lower reaches after 7 weeks of action are Paul Kelleher's Filthy Love in 35th, they fell 4 places after another poor week. Dale Allstars are still in first gear which is a surprise after two excellent seasons.

Tom Finney's splash have occupied a bottom 6 place since the kick off and Martin will be disappointed after an doing so well last season. Slightly higher in the table, Barry Plummer is wallowing in 26th, he was 2nd in week 3. Surely that can't last for 2 Infinity & beyond. Can it?

Francey's spreadsheet paying dividends

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For the veteran N&R FL folk amongst us, you will have heard me mention Ian France's spreadsheet many times before. As a reminder, to much ire in the AIG office, Ian keeps a spreadsheet with his fantasy team and all kind of facts, figures and transfer options on it.

Despite frantically completing this each week and getting really upset when it doesn't tally or he can't get his formats right the net result of this tool is.... nada. In the past Shakey has been the tool but is all that going to change? Ian is the form manager in the league. Keep the faith have climbed 26 places in 4 weeks and are now in 10th, 2 points behind colleague and rival Barry Paull.

Another manager over achieving this season is Danny Matthews. Dan too took selecting his team way to seriously but it's paying dividends. He had a good start and Danny's geeza's have consolidated their position and are currently in 13th after another good week.

Three manager's who will be hoping to arrest a slide down the table are Brian Rutter whose Goonersmoan are in 16th, down 7 from last week. Rob's Beer Monsters are out of the top 7 for the first time since week 2, this after a terrible weekly score of 16 points and Danny Rose's Sweaty will be shagging shemales sunk to 18th after running in their worst score of the season.

My Inbox

Latest arrival in my mailbox.....

"I am sure this has been said before but it is too good to miss - Does Brian Dougal come from The Magic Roundabout?"



And of course Brian was the Snail. Your parents must have been big fans.