Gameweek 6: Fantasy Football Preview
So, we face our winter of discontent. It’s not like we haven’t been warned. They do say that all the Hollywood movies and TV shows are secretly designed to prepare us for the future. We know what to...
View ArticleFantasy Football Gameweek 7: Chelsea, Leeds and Watford?
Written by @NiallHawthorne I’ve been amused this week by the contrast between Britain and Ireland in relation to the supposed ‘post-pandemic new normal’. In Ireland they were told they’re likely to get...
View ArticleFantasy Football Preview – Gameweek 8: Arsenal, Spurs and West Ham
Written by @NiallHawthorne Yet another international break draws to a close and we can all get back to the real business of FPL, free from these ridiculous breaks to our fantasy football rhythm...
View ArticleFantasy Football Preview: Gameweek 9 – Chelsea, Palace, Wolves and Mo Salah
Farewell Steve Bruce, we hardly knew thee. Actually, that’s bobbins, we know thee only too well. 1,000 games? Man dear, that’s one hell of an achievement for him, and I couldn’t damn him with more...
View ArticleFantasy Football Gameweek 10: Just one Cornet goal!. Give it to me!
Written by @NiallHawthorne It’s that time of the year again when ‘Wintertime’ begins. The Premier League will no doubt unveil it’s ‘Winter Ball’, which is never blue, even though it feels like it...
View ArticleFantasy Football Preview – Gameweek 11
Written by @niallhawthorne This week we’ve seen the majority of world leaders descend on Glasgow to have a chat about, well, saving the planet. David Attenborough scolded them all like children, and in...
View ArticleFantasy Football – Gameweek Preview – Palace, West Ham and Liverpool
After a full fortnight of petty squabbles, promising signs that evaporated into empty promises and prominent figures making themselves look very, very silly, we can now say goodbye to COP26, pretend...
View ArticleFantasy Football – Gameweek 13 Preview
Written by Mr. @NiallHawthorn It’s finally happened. After three years of a frankly bewildering myopia from Manchester United fans, Manchester United ex-players and Manchester United Executives, the...
View ArticleFantasy Football: Gameweek Preview 14 & 15
Written by Niall Hawthorne Hoo Boy is it getting busy! Just your twenty premier league matches between Tuesday and next Monday for us to wrangle with. Therefore, I’m taking the prudent/lazy/efficient...
View ArticleFantasy Football Preview: Gameweek 17 (I Think??)
FPL is currently like being in the ring with Katie Taylor. You’re getting pummelled by punches left, right and centre and there’s very little you can do about it. Every time you think you can come up...
View ArticleFantasy Football Gameweek 18: Will it? Wont it? Who Knows?
Written by Niall Hawthorne On the small off-chance that any football actually happens this weekend, I’m going to give you some tips. This hasn’t taken long, there are only five matches still due to...
View ArticleFantasy Football Preview: Gameweek 20
As we hurtle headlong through the most chaotic, stressful and controversial FPL Christmas period in history, I would like us all to take a step back and realise what’s really important at this time of...
View ArticleFantasy Football Preview: Gameweek 20
As we hurtle headlong through the most chaotic, stressful and controversial FPL Christmas period in history, I would like us all to take a step back and realise what’s really important at this time of...
View ArticleFantasy Football Preview: Gameweek 20
As we hurtle headlong through the most chaotic, stressful and controversial FPL Christmas period in history, I would like us all to take a step back and realise what’s really important at this time of...
View ArticleGameweek 21 Preview: Bonus Double Gameweek
Written by @ Niall Hawthorne This is supposed to be a game of skill. A game where you see who is going to play, you see who is not going to play, you select the best players you feel will deliver the...
View ArticleFantasy Football Preview: Gameweek 22
As we reach the end of the longest double game week in the history of the human race, we head into another double game week where eight teams are supposed to play twice. I say supposed to as there’s a...
View ArticleFantasy Premier League: Gameweek 23
Written by @ Mr Niall Hawthorne If FPL teams are picked but FPL teams don’t play, does the tree make a sound of one hand clapping? This season feels like one of those theoretical conundrums with no...
View ArticleFantasy Football Preview: Gameweek 24
Written by Mr. Niall Hawthorne Now that AFCON, the winter break and the FA Cup are out of the way, we can concentrate on six glorious uninterrupted weeks of pure FPL mayhem, as Double Gameweeks...
View ArticleFantasy Football Preview: Gameweek 25
written by Mr. Niall Hawthorne I’m not saying that the world is a confusing place right now, but if my casual glance at the news today is right, then Russia is about to win gold at the Winter Olympics...
View ArticleFantasy Football – Gameweek 26 Preview
Glory Be! A Double Gameweek! Written by Niall Hawthorne The unique event in a season where you scour the Burnley squad because you actually want to put one or two of them into your team! How random!...
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