Hey Guys

Hope everyone had a merry Xmas and Happy new year and wish everyone who is invovled or knows people involved in the QLD floods all the best.

What a busy time the English Premier League is over Christmas, 4 league games over the space of 9 days very hectic. Man Utd still are heading the back with a good Xmas period where they gained 10 points out of a possible 12 and are still undefeated through 20 games. Cross town rivals Manchester City are 2 points back having played 2 extra games. With the new trasnfer window open Man City have splashed the cash and bought Edin Dzeko from Wolfsburg for 27m pound, also have loaned out Wayne Bridge to West Ham for the rest of the season, they to took 10 points out of a possible 12. Arsenal sit 3rd another 2 points back on Man City with a game in hand having picked up 8 points in their last 4 games. Spurs occupy 4th meerly thanks to Chelseas great decline, although the Blues did win 7-0 against Ipswich the same team that beat the Gunners at home Thursday morning in the Carling cup. Sunderland are the big movers currently sitting in 6th. Other notable teams have Newcastle sitting 8th only 2 points away from sitting in the european positions. Blackpool just under them in 9th after being predicted to be worse then Derby County when they only scored 11 points in the prem a few season back. Liverpool currently only 4 point above the drop zone and sitting in 13th position and have recently signed Kenny Dalgleish. His first game in charge was a 1-0 loss to Man U in the Fa cup and now a 2-1 loss to Blackpool. not a very good start. The Villains are currently struggling bad and although they rescued a point in a 3-3 draw against Chelsea, which so far is my match of the season they are sitting in the relegation zone. 2 points seperate the bottom 7 teams so will have a very intersting relegation battle as well as title race.

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Team P GD PTS
Full Barclays Premier League table
1 Man Utd 20 24 44
2 Man City 22 17 42
3 Arsenal 21 20 40
4 Tottenham 21 6 36
5 Chelsea 21 17 35
6 Sunderland 22 3 33
7 Bolton 22 5 30
8 Newcastle 21 3 28
9 Blackpool 20 -4 28
10 Blackburn 22 -6 28
11 Stoke 21 0 27
12 Everton 21 -2 25
13 Liverpool 21 -4 25
14 Fulham 21 -2 22
15 Birmingham 20 -5 22
16 West Brom 21 -13 22
17 Wolves 21 -13 21
18 Aston Villa 21 -15 21
19 Wigan 21 -15 21
20 West Ham 22 -16 20


Gameweek 23 captain Material

Tevez - Man city at home against a weak Wolves team, be wary of the impact Dzeko could have though.

Fabregas/ Nasri - Gunners wont be happy after losing to Ipswich midweek against West Ham could quite possibly rack up a cricket score.

Man utd/Spurs - Risky one here, can see this being high scoring, so if you want a risk Nani, VDV, Berbatov, Bale could all be an option.

Malouda/Drogba/Lampard - Chelsea have been in very poor form of late but should easily account for Blackburn at home, the 3 i have mentioned have all done bugger all lately so beware.

Key players status

Carrol - Stil a few weeks away

Sagna - will miss 1 PL game due to red card in last match

Paul Robinson - wont play but should have him on the bench as playing Chelsea

Scott Dann - out for 3 weeks maybe more with a hammy

Ashley Young - Suspended

David Silva - likely to play this week

Fabianski - 50/50

Fa cup/League cup results and fixtures

Currently up to the semi finals in the Carling cup and the 4 teams left are Arsenal, Ipswich, West Ham and Birmingham. In the first Semi final West Ham hosted Birmingham and won 2-1. Ipswich hosted Arsenal in the other tie and currently take a 1-0 lead into the second leg.

Arsenal 1-1 Leeds
Burton Albion 2-1 Middlesbrough
Blackburn 1-0 QPR
Brighton 3-1 Portsmouth
Bristol City 0-3 Sheff Wed
Bolton 2-0 York
Burnley 4-2 Port Vale
Coventry 2-1 Crystal Palace
Fulham 6-2 Peterborough
Huddersfield 2-0 Dover
Hull City 2-3 Wigan
Millwall 1-4 Birmingham
Norwich 0-1 Leyton Orient
Preston 1-2 Nottingham Forest
Reading 1-0 West Brom
Scunthorpe 1-5 Everton
Sheffield United 1-3 Aston Villa
Southampton 2-0 Blackpool
Stevenage 3-1 Newcastle
Stoke 1-1 Cardiff
Sunderland 1-2 Notts County
Swansea 4-0 Colchester
Torquay 1-0 Carlisle
Watford 4-1 Hartlepool
West Ham 2-0 Barnsley
Leicester City 2-2 Man City
Chelsea 7-0 Ipswich
Man Utd 1-0 Liverpool
Tottenham 3-0 Charlton

4th round draw

Torquay v Crawley Town
Watford v Brighton
Bolton v Wigan
Arsenal or Leeds v Huddersfield
Fulham v Tottenham
Everton v Chelsea
Southampton v Manchester United
Swansea v Leyton Orient
Burnley v Burton
Birmingham v Coventry
Doncaster Rovers or Wolves v Stoke or Cardiff
Notts County v Leicester or Man City
Stevenage v Reading
Aston Villa v Blackburn Rovers
West Ham v Nottingham Forest
Sheffield Wednesday v Hereford
Ties to be played over the weekend of 29 and 30 January

The Usual
TS FPL Leagues
Classic: http://fantasy.premierleague.com/M/table.mc?id=12154
H2H: http://fantasy.premierleague.com/M/table.mc?id=12169
H2H#2: http://fantasy.premierleague.com/M/table.mc?id=84040
TS.net H2H: http://fantasy.premierleague.com/M/table.mc?id=116683
FF.uk: http://fantasy.premierleague.com/M/table.mc?id=25276
TS IKTS Leagues
TS: http://iknowthescore.premierleague.com/minileagues/view.htm?id=20221
FF.uk: http://iknowthescore.premierleague.com/minileagues/view.htm?id=13944
Handy websites
general – www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/
forum – http://www.fanfooty.co.uk/ (no relation to oz site)
news – http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/archive/1
injuries – http://www.physioroom.com/news/english_premier_league/epl_injury_table.php
salary predictor – http://www.fiso.co.uk/crackthecode.php
game reviews – www.zonalmarking.net/
Rises/ slides – www.totalfpl.com