The Champions League sob stories

Breaking news8888888The N&R Champions League Final Scores - 13th to 26th
In 13th and just 5 points short of a cash prize was Jason Syrett's Gunner Bag It. Soozie's older brother improved on last season as he did throughout this campaign. Never once featuring in the top 12 others will be more downhearted that they didn't collect a prize. Namely one Henry Williams, a smartly dressed young Villa fan at Chartis who spent 31 weeks mixing it with the hoi polloi in the upper echelons but Aston Globetrotters couldn't dig it and all out of transfers they fell back to 14th place.

15th was yours truly Bermuda Addick, which is actually pretty good for me. A marked improvement on past years, if only I could completely dedicate all my time to blogging, fantasy football, drinking and eating then.... Oh what's that? Oh, I do....

Rather embarrassingly in my shadow was Lamb to the slaughter, who found a superb burst of form for around 16 weeks in the middle of the season. Actually Glenn was top for 5 weeks (longer than Ready) but despite 4 transfers in his closet, he fell steeply away in early April never to recover. 17th was Harry Houdini who showed early promise. 3rd in week 7, Tim also never used all of his transfer options and will be left with what onlys.

In 18th came previous champion and one of the pre-season favourites Pk's Mexican Banana Split. A slight lift in week 15 gave us all false hope but Paul's season never exploded into life. I blame Gemma. In Tatters proved again how consistent Nige can be but he will be hoping to climb to the next step on the ladder next time out.

Another ex-champ Godders looked like reinventing the good old days during the winter months when he reached 2nd place in week 25 but Godders@mobileemail.vodafone.net went backwards from there unfortunately. However his career has gone forwards and we look for a strong challenge next season from one of our first ever managers.

In 21st finished the real Special One. Ben went out on his own this season and had a relatively good season but he will be looking for more luck in the tranfer market next time. 22nd was probably one of the most relieved men in the league! Normally to relieve himself Rob needs to be watched, but that's another story. No stop it, To Elland Back are relieved because finally Dirty Leeds are out of the cesspit that is the 3rd Division. Well done again mate and better luck for the next N&R season.

Davor, my favourite Serbian gypsy was our 6th and final manager who had the pleasure of being top of the N&R FL at one time this season. W Wallace Boys sat tall (very tall) and pretty (not so pretty) on top of all 59 managers for 4 weeks in November and December, but firstly Dav struggled when most of his players left for the African Nations and he didn't react quick enough and then by the end of January he was jettisoned out of the top 12 and could not find a way back.

Arsene Wenger and Danny Rose have something in common. No, not little boys. Yes, they are both trophy-less again! Arsene Knows last real title challenge was way back in 2003/04. Come on Dan, now you have Godders doing all of your work for you there will be no excuses next season!

Chris' Student Ninja had a decent season and won a tenner for making the penultimate place so I'm not going to knock him. Not as good as mine or Ready's (better than Hilary's and Rob's) but his school report will read "can do better." And finally FFC 4Ever. What an incredible season for Steve's Fulham eh? In fact at one point I thought we had a young Woy Hodgson on our hands as Steve excelled himself around Christmas. 96 points he scored in week 20 and was then 3rd. Steve made transfers but sadly he couldn't match Hodgson's achievements, but does he care? Probably not.