Heartland

We're back! Does that count as a winter break? Christmas is now very officially over, along with FA Cup runs for several PL lovelies.
I think we're all in one piece. Except for Ibra. And Mane, Ozil, Walcott, Antonio, Bellerin, Benteke... Still, Coutinho is back, Rose on the rise and Giroud's beard is channelling his Zen, or summat. Defoe and Lukaku had a pretty fine showing last GW, so maybe they can keep it going.

What IGM need to do is not just keep it going, but get our va-va-voom back! Let's look at the tables:



How can this be? and the H2H, whilst better, is still tight.




so, a rallying cry to everyone but especially IGM - tinker now, keep an eye on the transfer window for Wildcard spending, and watch out for black cats named after pesto ingredients.

Forza IGM, and F.A.B!

Thunderbirds are go!

Some juicy fixtures this week.
Watford v Middlesbrough looks like a stormer!

I wonder who's got Mike Dean this week. It'll be a blood bath

The Watford game will be quite emotional

emilystrange wrote:The Watford game will be quite emotional

Aye. RIP Mr Taylor

I must say, despite having joined late and only wanting to see what the fantasy footie was all about i am thoroughly enjoying it. Thanks to all those, who organise and take apart, for making it happen and for making it fun. Come on Gothic Rangers

David Luiz spotted out for a run this morning

Damn this winter slog, have my squad have gone yellow or red, somewhat hampering attempts to freshen it up. So, fingers crossed for Ibra cos I've no-one on the bench worthy of the name (soz scouse-teletubby there's no way on god's green earth you're getting picked this w/e), and good luck IGM, apologies from the mist-enshrouded Toluca Lake for managing the lowest score last GW, oops.

Keeping an eye on the latest footy news & saw this

Hallo!....It's from TalkSport. It's for you. ......Wait a second please. It's Abi from TalkSport

Costa's not doing himself favours, is he?

I can understand Costa, I've been offered £1 a month to join a Chinese Fantasy League, the money is so tempting.

At least Costa will be able to fall back on his good looks if the proposed move goes the way of the pear.

Allez les rouges.

His agent's in China & apparently Tianjin Quanjian are lining up an £80m deal

They should take a look at Payet. They'd only need to better the 30 quid Marseille are set to offer for him.

Wet Ham expecting trouble this afternoon so they have beefed up security..........for Payet's picture

........... and West Ham paid Payet a "loyalty" bonus of jusy ove a million, bet they feel stupid.

GOD wrote:........... and West Ham paid Payet a "loyalty" bonus of jusy ove a million, bet they feel stupid.

They'd be even more stupid to let him go I think. They aren't exactly awash with midfielders of that quality

A nice Alonso double for me.
Can't fail with someone called Alonso

...unless they're driving a McClaren

My full back "scored" a massive -3 points.

GOD wrote:My full back "scored" a massive -3 points.

I'm searching for OG in the team lists. He seemed to do really well this week

I traded OG for Costa, brilliant.

At first I thought you meant Olivier Giroud ... .. .

i got nearly as many points just out of the Spurs game than I got the whole GW last week
Mind you, it was the week Alli stopped scoring, once I made him captain.
4 still to play, so am expecting at least another 4 points :p

I thought I was doing quite well until I just looked at the table.

My table is a cardboard box with an old curtain on top

GOD wrote:My table is a cardboard box with an old curtain on top

I've seen the photos.
Speaking of photos, this is the Liverpool kit being unloaded from the bus earlier today

As a huge Liverpudlian why do I feel that we lost today's game one each! So annoying!!!!!!