GW20 - Deadline Saturday 28th December 11.30 am

emilystrange · 27 Dec 2019, 11:38

Hello! Have you merried well and often? Better than Foxes of all description.

I'm just getting this in now as GW19 finishes tonight and the new one starts tomorrow. Hopefully normal service will reappear one day.

The fixtures and fittings are:

Saturday 28 December 2019

Brighton 12:30 Bournemouth Neither of these are doing well lately, so it'll probably be the best game of the day. Seagulls vs... more seagulls.
Newcastle 15:00 Everton You'd like to think Newcastle would make a comeback and Everton show off for their new manager.
Southampton 15:00 Crystal Palace Palace should win this one, right, Steve?
Watford 15:00 Aston Villa Will end up in a fight
Norwich 17:30 Spurs Who knows? Am hoping Norwich don't get too thumped
West Ham 17:30 Leicester West Ham will on the end of a backlash.
Burnley 19:45 Man Utd Utd are on a roll, and Pogba is back.

Sunday 29 December 2019

Arsenal 14:00 Chelsea I predict shenanigans. Neither will be happy with recent events.
Liverpool 16:30 Wolves The steamroller continues.
Man City 18:00 Sheffield Utd An upset? Sheffield have played beyond expectations so far.

Check your injuries and suspensions as their are a few. Alexander-Arnold (why have you not got him already?), Grealish, Martial, Ings and Alli are top 5 transfers in, whilst Abraham, Son, Mount, Pusilic and Robertson most popular to boot out. I'm off to have a look at mine.

You only have 24 hours to save your team. VAR!!!! AAAAAAAAHHHAAAAAAAAA! SAVIOUR OF THE... (insert something here. Or up VAR.)

27 Dec 2019, 11:54

I'm still stunned by Ayew's winner yesterday.

emilystrange · 27 Dec 2019, 12:35

oh ok, that is a good one

28 Dec 2019, 12:26

Has last night's game finished on amazon prime yet?

28 Dec 2019, 17:35

anyone picked Vardy this week?

Planet Dave · 28 Dec 2019, 19:17

Pista wrote:anyone picked Vardy this week?

Yes me. I fail to see what's funny about that.

(seeing as there's no emoji sticking the rods up

)

Could be worse, I was very pleased with Alexander-Arnold's work the other day, only to discover upon checking my haul that I'd apparently already long since sold him. Oopsies.

28 Dec 2019, 19:24

Planet Dave wrote:
Pista wrote:anyone picked Vardy this week?

Yes me. I fail to see what's funny about that.

Haha.
Apparently his missus (Colleen Rooney's nemesis) has just given birth which is why he's not playing.

Planet Dave · 28 Dec 2019, 19:46

Pista wrote:Apparently his missus (Colleen Rooney's nemesis) has just given birth which is why he's not playing.

Colleen Rooney is Nemesis The Warlock?

Aww your team should get bonus points if a player is missing cos he's at his new nipper's birth. Sort it FPL!

emilystrange · 28 Dec 2019, 21:43

when Spurs (lifelong team) play Norwich (team of my home for 30 years) and i'm very angry that Norwich didn't win.
VAR usage has to change, or there will be trouble at some point.

29 Dec 2019, 20:20

Been a bit VARy today hasn't it?

emilystrange · 29 Dec 2019, 20:41

emilystrange · 31 Dec 2019, 18:45

VAR won this week. All other results are null and void.

This crap will lead to relegations and manager sackings. We see those every season, but never have they been subject to men in front of a screen, miles away from the action. Disillusioned fans won't be bothering to celebrate, they won't pay to go to matches where they aren't privy to any information, they will vote with their feet and wallets. Refs won't want to take control of games where they have no autonomy and they're not allowed to see video evidence. It's past the point of picky and annoying now. Use it properly, or lose it. Clear and Obvious.

Well, some games were won and lost. Norwich drew against Spurs but should have won. Wolves were robbed of a goal. Leicester, without most of the team (only Vardy had a birth as an excuse!) shoved Pellegrini off his perch to let Moyes back in. De Bruyne and Aguero showed off, Pogba started to get his shooting eye back in when Martial let him, and Abraham scored despite being transferred out by eleventy billion people.

So, we end the year and the decade with Liverpool 13 points ahead of Leicester. Keep going, lads!

IGM are storming it still, yaaay! The tables are below - Mav hasn't checked them completely yet but the GWs wait for no one and he can tell us off later.

The Yellow Jersey is Clash Athletic's

The Big Shout Out goes to Master Chen Elf with 91

and the H2H Crown is Hollowstar FC's.

Table for H2H:

Happy New Year, everyone! Steve has the Shed open for drinks and resolutions.

31 Dec 2019, 19:08

Well played IGM.
Bit of a slaughter by all accounts

Getting the fizzy pop cooled for this evening in the shed.
You're all welcome. Unless you insist on lobbing fireworks around. You know we have a ban since the hedge incident