He doesn't have ears, but he has some wicked paceDavid Bentley and Aaron Lennon are out injured. Tottenham are fighting for 4th position. They have
some superb central playmakers (Modric, Kranjcar, Palacios) and finishers up front (Crouch, Defoe,
Pavlyuchenko) but who will provide the service from the flanks?
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Cesc or Wayne - Who will you captain?
Another strange week that sees a few top
teams missing fixtures in the Premier League schedule, so let's navigate the fixture list minefield
and quickly preview the weekend from a fantasy footie perspective:
I & II: Burnley @ Arsenal: With Chelsea idle, Arsenal have a chance to take over first place
in the table this weekend if they are able to thrash the league's worst road team, Burnley, at
home.
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He's British. He's quick. He's strong. And he's in the form of his career. Nope, I'm not talking
about Wayne Rooney.
I'm talking Bobby Zamora. Yes, Zamora, of all strikers. Our former Funny Feeling Friday has never
really had the best Premier League goalscoring record (though he did score an amazing 83 times in
136 appearances for Brighton and Hove Albion in the lower leagues), and he's never had an England
National Team call up, but perhaps he deserves one.
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You don't look cool, Wayne, but you are a hell of a footballer
After a great
mid-week of Champions League action, we are back to our bread and butter this weekend - the Premier
League. Hope you guys took our advice last week and captained N'Zogbia and to those of you who were
brave enough (or crazy enough) to include Landon Donovan in your teams despite his tough match
against Chelsea as we did - congrats on the assist and Donovan's 2 bonus points.
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Nani is hitting top form
Let's preview the Premier League from a fantasy
perspective...
I. Arsenal @ Chelsea: We predicted a Big-4 away win last weekend, taking United over Arsenal
- and Wayne Rooney and company delivered. Can Cesc Fabregas and Arsenal pull together an away win
shocker at Stamford Bridge this weekend?
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Tevez is a stud, not a dud
That break seemed like it lasted forever. Boxing Day
fixtures, the New Year, then a bit of FA Cup action, some snow mixed in between, and now we're back
to the Premier League this weekend...
I. Tottenham @ Liverpool: One of these two teams most certainly will not make
the Top 4.
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The Fantasy Stuff Legends Are Made Of
For brevity's sake, I'm going to skip the
game previews and discuss
Studs and Duds as well as a predicted Gameweek 20 Best Eleven...
It's that "in between" period in the holiday season, and we all have family / extracurricular /
etc. obligations so let's go
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Pompey picked up some Saudi Oil money today as Saudi tycoon Ali al-Faraj bought 90% of the
financially stricken club from Sulaiman al-Fahim.
Al-Fahim, of Abu Dhabi, bought the club just 44 days ago - but he's out and the 40-year-old
al-Faraj is in.
So, what does this mean? Well - for starters, not much on the pitch: Pompey may have a large
arsenal of cash to use in the January transfer window - but they'll have to stick with their
hodgepodge of new signings and on-loan stars (O'Hara 4.
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Jozy Altidore Highlight Reel from The Offside Rules on Vimeo.
Just a summer transfer rumor for you to consume alongside your Confederations Cup consumption this
week - Fulham are considering bringing in US striker Jozy Altidore on loan.
Though I've never seen Altidore live, he was born in the same city (Livingston, NJ) that I attended
a few years of high school.
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Flying back to LAX yesterday, I had a layover in Chicago. I got off the plane and walked into the
United Airlines terminal - and was immediately surrounded by hundreds of travelers wearing those
goofy respiratory masks. I mean, hundreds. Women and men, young and old, all pretending to be
surgeons.
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Why waste 10M (Arshavin) on a brilliant midfielder classified as a striker when you can spend just
6.6M (Walcott) for one? Will the cheap Amr Zaki return to Wigan's starting lineup and get in on the
goals? Will the even cheaper Nicklas Bendtner put two in the back of the net to send down Boro?
A week of major fantasy question marks due to injuries, rest and rotation news is upon us.
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Mid-priced fantasy footie bargain striker Djibril Cisse was arrested early this morning after
attacking a woman outside of a strip club. The striker was arrested for assault, questioned, and
bailed pending further inquiries.
The on loan striker - who already has claim to fame as possessing one of the weakest tibias in
human anatomy history - was uncertain about his future with Sunderland despite hitting for 9
Premier League goals this term.
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Before we jump into our weekend preview and look at (I) the best match (II) the most fantasy footie
friendly encounter (III) a prediction of Premier League stud and dud performers and (IV) a weekly
best eleven, I want to make a quick mathematical point about this dreaded fantasy footie
gameweek.
Most of you are very knowledgeable fantasy Premier League managers, so you don't need me to preach
to you the importance of limiting the number of - 4 point hits you take during the course of a
fantasy season.
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Some Manchester United news for those of you who are a) United fans b) fantasy footie managers with
United ownership or c) former Wall Street employees without jobs due to the economic meltdown.
- The American insurance firm AIG has decided to end its sponsorship deal with Manchester
United.
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According to reports, Liverpool defender Daniel Agger is set for a move to AC Milan. The Danish
stud has made just nine appearances for Liverpool this campaign.
If the transfer goes through (and this looks more and more likely judging by my first-hand
translation of Danish media reports), Liverpool fans will surely question the mid-season move to
leave them with only three top class central defenders.
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