It’s been another goal-fest this last week with Mr Rooney in particular on absolute fire.

15 people in the top 20 have moved up places, with the biggest points coming from Rawlings (129), Robinson (127) and Williams (126) – with Robinson also the highest climber (up 28 spots), Laesser (up 24), Cerys (up 24) and Radford (up 22). With the Premiership battle tighter than Simon Cowells eye-wateringly chest high trousers, it’s no wonder that only 200 points now seperates 40th place Emma G and 1st place Tom J. Game on people, game on.

Although this is serious stuff – and the stakes are abnormally high – with eternal wealth and glory awaiting our winners – just remember it’s all irrelephant really…

Harsh but fair this week,

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Again, it’s been a bit of a wait for this update as the International games got in the way – but the weekend saw normal service restored to the Premiership.

A late goal from Agbonlahor gave Villa a win away at Birmingham, whilst Fulham came from behind to beat Evertons early lead through Cahill. Diouf oponed the scoring for Blackburn during their 3 – 1 win over Wolves, whilst Benayoun fired off a hatrick during Liverpools 4 – 0 win over Burnley.

A six goal feast between Man City and Arsenal saw the likes of Van Persie, Bellamy, Adebyor and Wright-Phillips all score. A last minute goal from Cahill sealed a first win for Bolton away at Portsmouth, who still need to get off the mark.

Chelsea came from behind and needed a 4th minute of extra time goal from Malouda to continue their unbeaten start to the season. Spurs meanwhile lost their first of the season to Man U with an early bicycle kick goal from Defoe cancelled out by goals from Giggs, Anderson and Rooney. Wigan beat West Ham with Rodallega the only scorer.

In our league, (other than me) Tim Radford also had a good week with 72 points and up 43 places, as did Joanne Sheen, Dan Jones and Nathan Davies. Unfortunately this week saw two negative points movers in the form of Craig Robson and Adrian Till. Dark times indeed for these two managers.

In terms of positions, Chris Rawlings also had a good week, up 51 places – as did Jamie Keddle up 39 places. But for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction and this week it was was Dave Heylings down 34 places who suffered the most.

It’s also time for everyone to pay… I don’t want everyone handing me five pound notes all over the place – as these never seem to make it to the bank – so instead can I ask that everyone do a quick transfer to me online. Details are:

Sort Code: 40 08 28
Account Number: 514 174 28
Please add your name in the reference so I know its from you and then I’ll mark you off.

I’ve also had a huge amount of feedback regarding transfers. And so here is how it’s going to work. As with previous seasons, each team will be allowed 4 transfers – which can be made at the end of any month – with effect from the start of the next. So feel free to start sending any transfer requests in and they will come in from the start of October.

Cheers

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I realised three important things over the holidays:

1) There is no limit to the amount of turkey you can eat – you just need to understand the importance of comfortable clothing and how to push through the meat sweats
2) Santa does exist but he works for Amazon and is an Express Delivery legend
3) Depsite doing nothing more energetic than lifting a pint glass for two weeks – you just never feel refreshed when you come back to work in January

Anyway on to the more serious matter of the December update – which with 6 players now having broken through the 1000 points mark is a bit of a humdinger let me tell you. As mentioned before, December ran up until the 4th Jan and includes both League and Cup games. It is perhaps best summed up though this months prizes…

:: Most Points Prize goes to Andrew Ford with 290 points. He was closely followed by Stu Farr (283) and Jo Garcia (275).
:: Most Positions Prize was shared by Alun Prytherch and Stu Farr, up 42 places each. Again Jo came in next on 37 places.
:: Fun Comp 1 Winner was Neil Quirk who had the closest guess with 200.2 pounds. Yes – I’m carrying a little holiday weight.
:: Fun Comp 2 Winner was Lee Kokbun who was chosen from all the correct riddle answers. Only Wizbit is better.
:: Pot Lucker League 1 was Stacey Brean
:: Pot Lucker League 2 was Stefan Griffiths
:: Pot Lucker League 3 was Chris Lloyd
:: Biggest Faller prize was shared by Dave Heylings and Chris Rawlings, both down 40 places each this month

Transfers will go in before the next update – although there were surprisingly few – I guess everyone’s waiting to see how the “real life” transfer window pans out.

The next update will also include two new fun competitions.

Smooth.
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Well this update includes last weekend’s games and a host of mid-week European action – plus all the transfers (237 have now been used!!!) – so it’s quite fankly off the hook, outside the box, and just a little bit wacky!!! Throw in the American elections and you could say this week will define a generation.

Much like Obama’s great victory, Spurs continue their rise with wins over Liverpool in the League and a 4 nill pounding of Dinamo Zagreb in Europe with 3 goals from Mr Darren Bent. However in the same way that Sarah Palin displayed a dubious grasp of geography when she didn’t know Africa was a continent (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/palin-didnt-know-africa-i_n_141653.html) – it would seem too that Andy Edwards panicked when he transferred out Bent and brought in Chopra, or when Eddie Stirling got carried away and tried to make 6 transfers and bring in Bramble twice!!

In the same way that Joe Biden was Obama’s running mate, it seems that Scally has risen to the challenge – now sitting in 3rd place – and that Lyonsy has connected with the people – with both his teams unbelieavably in the top 10. Drama? You’d better believe it!!!

Representing the swing states of Ohio and Pennsylvania – we have phenomenal rises from Jack Rawlings (up 42 places) and Paul Ruijs (up 36 places) – whilst the unfortunate loser this week (aka McCain) is Kevin Allfrey (down 24 places).

Halloweens’s gone, Bonfire Night is gone, only Christmas to look forward to but on a more cheery note it has now been proven mathematically that vampires do not exist. (http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/061025_vampire_debunk.html).

Sleep easy people.

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p.s. Winners of last months fun games to be announced Monday – along with this months challenges. Stay tuned.

A good weekend of sport with Hamilton winning the Chinese Grand Prize, Murrary taking his second Masters title and Tottenham continuing to show the kind of form you would normally need a pooper-scooper for. I’m sure any of us could be paid millions of pounds to lose 8 games on the trot but they did it with style on Sunday and had two players sent off and another knocked unconcious – leaving the pitch with an oxygen mask. Not only that – the injury was suffered during a collision with his own goalie. I just made £500 on that – thank you You’ve Been Framed.

Anyway it was an entertaining event elsewhere with Aresenal netting 3, Liverpool 3, Man U 4 and Chelsea 5 with goals from the likes of Kalou, Lampard, Rooney, Ronaldo, Berbatov, Kuyt, Van Persie and Walcott.

In our League – Sibley, Bickel and Edgerley all step up into the top 10 – with Alex, Stacey, Ricky, Rawlings and Dean all clocking up some 25+ position climbs whilst Lloydy did indeed “Dance with the devil in the pale moonlight” and came off worse – down 20 places.

In fairness though, football isn’t for everyone – so perhaps you should try watching or take part in one of the UK’s 10 weirdest sports – including wife carrying, cheese rolling and chess boxing. To learn more, please check out: http://www.weirdlevel.com/2008/10/10-weirdest-sports.html – I think you’ll agree there’s something for all tastes. Mine’s edam.

Game on.

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Remember: the two fun competitions are underway for the month so go online and leave your suggestions. You’ve got to be in it to win it. No limit on entries. It’s all for fun.