Kick off

The fantasy league season started for me on early Saturday morning, sorting through 54 entries and putting them into some semblance of order with a massive hangover. I was back in London this weekend and got horribly hammered Friday night and stayed at a friends place, who had tracing paper for curtains, so waking up with a cracking headache, jetlag and having to turn my laptop on hopefully proves to you that this N&R FL malarkey is not all as gamourous as you lot probably make out.

This season we will run two divisions, based on last season’s final places. All new entrants will have to start at the bottom and work their way up. We have 27 entries in Div 1 and 27 in Div 2, and we expect there will be a certain coming together of the best scoring sides at some time in the season, so we get the ultimate best manager.

There will also be the Nobby & Ready Team Challenge Trophy and 11 teams will contest that to have the honour of having a tacky trophy on their desks, engraved by the blind cobbler two blocks from where I live.

Of course we will have a weekly winner, i.e. the manager who hits the week’s best score over the two divisions and plenty of other goodies that Keith and I will dream up over the course of the next 9 months.

If can find the time I might resurrect the N&R Questionnaire, if only to get Rob Munden’s response to some rather embarrassing questions.

A big welcome back to the familiar names, some of which have been with us for 10 years and a warm welcome to a host of new faces this year, some actually quite attractive, but some quite ugly.

For those of you new to the most sought after insurance (and select hangers-on) fantasy league on the planet, it is on here, http://www.nobbyandready.blogspot.com/ that you will find all the news, stories and utter bollocks that this season’s N&R FL will bring.

Weekly scores will come out weekly, no shit Sherlock, or depending on how busy or drunk I am.

Every manager can make 12 transfers at any time, with no restrictions on how many players you can have from one club, just a maximum team value of 50million quid and a formation of either a 4-4-2 or a 4-4-3. The weekly deadline is Tuesday at 5pm GMT.

Just to help you lot of amateurs, and to prevent Ready and I sweeping up, on the right hand column of this web page you will find all kind of helpful links. Go on click on a few. Oh, and the top one is all about my rock star life as a Charlton fan and expatriated insurance broker living in Chicago, just in case you can’t sleep at night wondering what the heck I am up to.

That just leaves me to wish good luck to you all. Amongst other things this is a way for me to keep in touch with some old and new friends in London and the US, so please make it as interactive as possible. We have had over 5,000 visits to the blog, so please feel free to comment and I am such a girl when it comes to gossip, so don’t forget to include me on an email or just drop me a line once and a while.

Take care and enjoy the rest of the summer.
Nobby & Ready