EPL 2007-08 / Richmond FC Fantasy League V2- On Now

[Hellenic Tiger]

Reslults from the matches played this morning

Lucky Lucky Arsenal 2    Tottenham Hotspur 1   
Aston Villa 1  Manchester City 1
Bolton Wanderers 3 Birmingham City 0
Fulham 1 Wigan Athletic  1
Liverpool  4   Portsmouth 1
Middlesbrough  1 West Ham United 2
Reading 2   Sunderland 1

[mightytiges]

Good win by the Hammers away  . Tottenham hasn't beaten Ar_senal in something like 9 years  . What a time for Roy Keane to miss a penalty  .

[one-eyed]

Viduka got a brace for Newcastle and Cahill scored Everton's goal.

Man Utd 2 - 1 Everton
Newcastle 2 - 2 Derby
Blackburn 0 - 1 Chelsea

[Hellenic Tiger]

Arsenal on top at Christmas.
In the last 5 seasons the team on top at the end of the Calendar Year goes on to win the Championship.
Conversely only once has a team avoided the drop when they have been bottom at Christmas and that was West Bromwich Albion in 2004/05 since the Premier Leagues inception in 1992/93 so Derby have history against them from that point of view as well as trying to avoid Sunderlands record low haul of 15 points in season 2005/06. Currently they have only 7 so the next 4 months augurs for a fascinating climax at both ends of the table.

[mightytiges]

The January transfer window is going to be important for some of the clubs in the drop zone. West Ham effectively bought themselves survival last season. The bottom 5 from Birmingham down look to be where the 3 relegated clubs will come from. The last champions league spot is still up for grabs despite Liverpool being the one who should claim it. Best of all the main Aussie boys are all in top form. Fingers crossed no more injuries before the WC qualifers next year .

[one-eyed]

Overnight EPL results

Chelsea 4 - 4 Aston Villa
Sunderland 0 - 4 Man Utd
Derby 1 - 2 Liverpool
Tottenham 5 - 1 Fulham
West Ham 1 - 1 Reading
Birmingham 3 - 0 Middlesbrough
Everton 2 - 0 Bolton ................. Timmy Cahill scores again
Wigan 1 - 0 Newcastle

[mightytiges]

Never seen so many goals scored by sides down to 10-men in one night. The hammers conceded one at home  .

Man U back on top with Ar_senal held to a draw by Pompey.

[Ramps]

The Fantasy Cup has also started- the outstanding combination known as 10 Flags has easily dispatched the helpless opposition by a cool 25 points or something lol in this rounds knock out stage. 10 Flags is through to the next round. 10 Flags is now going for the double. 10 Flags intends to take the crown from Fluffs fruitcakes in the official RFC Fantasy League and also intends to undertake Global domination by winning the Global Fantasy Cup. Line up get your tickets for the official dispatchment of your third rate combos. 10 Flags is in town 

[Fluffy Tiger]

The Fantasy Cup has also started- the outstanding combination known as 10 Flags has easily dispatched the helpless opposition by a cool 25 points or something lol in this rounds knock out stage. 10 Flags is through to the next round. 10 Flags is now going for the double. 10 Flags intends to take the crown from Fluffs fruitcakes in the official RFC Fantasy League and also intends to undertake Global domination by winning the Global Fantasy Cup. Line up get your tickets for the official dispatchment of your third rate combos. 10 Flags is in town 

Glad to hear somebody is comming after me as I was begining to let my guard down. 88 is impressive but you will need to do it few times before I worry to much about lossing the title.

"Fluffy by sea" (or fruitcakes) also had a good 21 point win in R1 of the knockout stage so it will be interesting to see how far we can take it this year (R2 by 1 point last year).

Anyway thanks for drawing my attention to this league Ramps.

[one-eyed]

Overnight EPL results.

Ar_senal regained top spot after flogging the Toffees and the Hammers knocking off United.

Everton 1 - 4 Arsenal
West Ham 2 - 1 Man Utd
Chelsea 2 - 1 Newcastle
Portsmouth 0 - 1 Middlesbrough
Sunderland 3 - 1 Bolton
Tottenham 6 - 4 Reading
Wigan 1 - 2 Aston Villa
Birmingham 1 - 1 Fulham

[mightytiges]

The Hammers have always given Man U trouble at Upton Park. Punished Ronaldo for missing a penalty that would have put United two up.

[Ramps]

bloody ronaldo ... he cost me 12 points or something for my dream team, he lost 2 points for missing the penalty, a goal would have got him another 4 or something and I had him captain. Now im stranded in a major confrontation with my fantasy cup opponent, we are both on the same points going in to tomorrows games after transfers and autosubs are taken into account, he has Gerrard in Liverpool vs Man City and I have Santa Cruz and Bentley playing for Blackburn. I also had Robbie Keane miss a penalty as well.

The Idiots.

[mightytiges]

LOL Ramps. Go the mighty Irons  .

On a tragic note, RIP to the Motherwell captain in Scotland who collapsed and died on the pitch overnight. He was only 35  .

[Ramps]

to many blokes are dying on the park... somethings gotta happen, you cant have blokes falling over like flies. RIP anyway to the player and hopefully his club looks after his family.

[mightytiges]

to many blokes are dying on the park... somethings gotta happen, you cant have blokes falling over like flies. RIP anyway to the player and hopefully his club looks after his family.

I think it's just sadly for want of a better word bad luck. He could have had a weak or crook heart that no one including himself knew about. There are so many soccer games played in every country of the world. Not sure anything can be done about it unless it became compulsory for every professional footballer to have a ECG before it season.